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NEGRO CAPTURE SI AFT y. jtjsr ' | "Citizen" Josh Ashley L< Enraged Citizens Ca |: Traveling Miles O Greenville, Oct 10.?In the depths of a forest six miles north of Greenville an armed mob of 25 men, headed by "Citizen" Josh Ashley, of Honea Path, a member of Anderson county's legislative delegation, overpowered Deputy Sheriff Van B. Martin, of Anderson county, and Sheriff J. Perry Poole, of Greenville county, this afternoon and took from their I custody ope Willis Jackson, a 17year-old negro, charged with criminally assaulting the 11-year-old daughter of a prominent citizen of Honea Path at 7:30 o'clock this morning. The trembling negro was placed in the car in which Ashley and four other men rode and followed by a train of several automobiles from Anderson and Greenville counties loaded with determined men and bristling with shotguns and rifles, the. ring leaders turned in their fury and started toward Honea Path. Promises were made the sheriffs that the negro would be carried back to the scene of his crime and the "older heads" of* the town consulted as to what should be done with him. Sensational Man Chase. The capture of the alleged rapist concluded ,one of the most sensational man chases this section of the county has ever known. About noon to-day Sheriff Poole received word from the Anderson sheriff that he had sent a negro to Greenville for safe keeping an<J asked that the prisoner be confined in the county jail. Sheriff Poole secured an automobile at once and went to meet the parties bringing the negro to Greenville. Shortly after he left a < telephone call to his office from Piedmont c+otckri that the automobile con ' ittVUV DM*WV? w?wv ?- WW ? _ T ||te/ taining the negro had just passed there and that about ten machines, jjfefV? containing the mob, were in close jp-g* . ' * ; pursuit and were not more than 10 ||Jv' minutes behind. Reached Greenville Jail. At 5 o'clock the Anderson automo, bfle dashed through the streets of Greenville and up to the county jafil Bpfe' door. At the jail Sheriff Poole retey' \ ceived a telephone message from Sheriff King at Anderson to spirit - ' the negro on to Spartanburg. A fe&/' change of automobiles was quickly made at the jail and thq flight to Sly' Spartanburg taken up. Within 10 minutes after the automobile bearing the negro had departed a big Anderson touring car, containing John Ashley and four other |p:~; 'men, steamed through Main street "Citizen" Josh Ashley clutched a ifc;.' Winchester rifle in his hands and eagerly inquired where the negro had & ? > been taken. Upon being told that the party had proceeded to Spartanburg, the. word of command was given and antnmnhilps dashed on ui) the Ivv . street. Within five minutes another Anderson car steamed into the city, closely followed by another machine, ' and the mud-bespattered occupants, upon being readily informed by Greenville citizens what way the negro had been carried applied the power to their machines and dashed ahead. Mob Divided to Continue Chase. At Greenville the mob' divided, some taking one road to Spartanburg and some- another, and others took to the Laurens road, thinking, perhaps, that the officers would spirit the negro to Fountain Inn or some station on the Charleston & Western iv'T". narniimi railway and place him aboard a train for Columbia. Within an hour after the negro I f had been hurried through Greenville the lad who drove the machine reappeared* in the city, together with members of the local police force who had accompanied the Anderson deputies when they left for Spartan* burg. This led many to believe that the negro had been taken from the |v > car when a few miles out of Greenville and concealed in the woods. Within a few minutes after the lad reappeared in Greenville, the car bearing Josh Ashley and his party !?V rolled in sight. The pursuers had j failed to overtake the party who had the negro and were evidently on their way back to Anderson. ijvyK Contni^c Phanffeur. 1UVM VU^VUAVky Upon learning of the lad who drove the automobile being in the city, Ashley instituted a search for him. The lad was chased into a rear of a drug store where, despite the efforts of police to protect him, Ashley and his crowd laid hands on him. The j lad was placed in Ashley's machine j and carried back toward Spartan-1 burg. According to Sheriff Poole upon his Teturn from the flight, Ashley and his crowd forced this lad to reveal the ? whereabouts of the deputies and the negro. When seen to-night by your j correspondent Sheriff Poole said: ' ' x> ER MAD CHASE. ed Men in Automobiles, ipture Victim After ver Muddy Roads "The automobile in which we left Greenville was making such poor headway over the muddy roads tnai Deputy Sheriff Martin and I, fearing that we would he overtaken by the mob, decided to get out of the machine and hide in the woods. We told the boy to drive the automobile back to Greenville by a circuitous route and tell no one where he had put us out. Martin and I had gone about two miles from the place where we left the machine and were concealed in a thick body of woods when we heard the shouts of the pursuers. Within a few minutes we were overtaken. Josh Ashley was the first man I saw. He grabbed the negro and we had a sharp tussle over him. Within a second some 25 or 30 men had collected about Martin and'myself, and we saw there was no use shedding any blood. They took the -natr-m from 11c hut nromised that they would not harm him. They said they would carry the negro back to Honea Path and consult the 'older heads' of the town as to what was best to do." SPARTANBURG SHERIFF ACTIVE. A Went With Party to Help Officers, but Arrived Too Late. Spartanburg, Oct. 10.?Sheriff Jim White of this county returned at 10 o'clock to-night from Taylors, where he went hoping to meet Sheriff Poole of Greenville county and aid htm in bringing the negro, Willis Jackson, charged with criminal assault upon a little girl at Honea Path this morn ing, to the jail in this city. The sheriff arrived at Taylors about an hour after the negro had been taken from Sheriff Poole in the woods near that place by a mob headed by "Citizen" Josh Ashley, of Honea Path. He was traveling in a fast car and had Sheriff Poole continued on toward Spartanburg instead of deserting his machine and taking to the woods with his pris oner, he believes they -would nave been able to land the negro in Spartanburg safely. Receiving Sheriff King's message from Anderson, Sheriff White left here at 4 o'clock and arrived in Duncan shortly before five. There he stopped to communicate with Greenville, thinking he should have met Sheriff Poole before reaching that point. The Greenville authorities Tin Ucht. nn the officer's movements other than that he had left the city headed toward Spartanburg. This word carried the Spartanburg officers on to Greer, where again they stopped to make inquiry and learned that Sheriff Poole had been surorunded in the woods near Taylors. They hurried on to Taylors but arrived too late. The mob was well on the way back to Anderson county. Sheriff White had in his party three cars and had arranged to have the fast car proceed with the prisoner while the other cars would be employed in blocking the way of the pursuers. HAD NEGRO IN^lNDERSON JAIL. Sheriff Had Barricaded the Place Before Spiriting Prisoner Away. Anderson. Oct. 10.?About 9:30 o'clock this morning Willis Jackson, the negro who had been rushed here from Honea Path, was lodged in jail. A telephone message from Honea Path stated that the angry mob was increasing rapidly, and that it was likely the crowd would come to Anderson to storm the jail. Sheriff King then barricaded the jail, calling in his deputy sheriff and several policemen who were armed with Winchester rifles. Sheriff King then hit upon the plan of spiriting the negro away, and in Dr. W. F. Ashmore's automobile, in charge of Deputy Sheriff Martin and Policeman Holland, the negro was dispatched to Greenville. The car carrying the negro left Anderson 10 'AX /->'/->! CL L JL U "X KJ V Twenty minutes after the negro had been spirited away more than 100 heavily armed men arrived in the city. Some came on the trolley car, some in automobiles and the others on the train. They gathered together, proceeded toward the county jail. They were then told that the prisoner had been placed in an automobile and that he was then on his way to Greenville. The mob was evidently greatly disappointed on being outwitted, but under the leadership of "Citizen" Josh Ashley, who had arrived in a large automobile, they mobilized again,, boarded automobiles and started in pursuit. The officers had departed 20 minutes in advance. There were a \ * * . ' % dozen or more automobiles occupied by the infuriated crowd. Mobs Gained on Officers. The distance from Anderson to Greenville is 37 miles, and the roads are heavy and muddy on account of a hard rain last night. At Piedmont, 22 miles from Anderson, the mob had gained eight minutes on the officers, being only 12 minutes behind. The officers passed Piedmont at 1:04 o'clock, and arrived at Greenville at 1:50 o'clock. The first car of the mob arrived in that city just five minutes later, but at that time the prisoner was on his way to Spartanburg. Sheriff King had telephoned to Sheriff Poole at Greenville, and the latter had in readiness a large automobile. A transfer from the old machine was made in a twinkling of an eye and the big car then started for Spartanburg, 40 miles distant. The little girl is in a critical condition. She displayed an unusual amount of nerve, however in looking at the three negroes brought before her for identification. Girl's Father Was Away. The father of the lass is engaged in business in Georgia, and was away from home at the time. He was telegraphed for and will probably arrive at Honea Path to-morrow. The mother of the little girl is dead, having been accidentally shot by her husband several years ago. The girl lived with her step-mother. Before # it was learned at Honea Path that an angry mob was id pursuit of the negro, Mayor Sullivan telphoned to Gov. Blease asking for a special term of court to try the negro. At that time the negro was in jail, and the governor stated that h? would order the special term on the request of Solicitor Bonham. A FOREST RANGER HERO. Incident of the Big Fires of 1910. in Idaho Told by Overton W. Price. Overton W. Price, vice-president of the National Conservation association, whose book, "The Land We Live In," appears this fall, tells this story of a heroic forest ranger: "The summer of 1910," he says, "by reason of great drought and unusually high winds was the worst for forest fires that the West has ever known. In Montana, Idaho and Oregon the danger was greatest. "On the Coeur d'Alene national forest in northern Idaho Ranger Pulaski had under him forty men, who after many hours of hard work had got a big ftre practically under control. Suddenly the wind strengthened until it blew a gale. It immedi At. _ ately became a question or saving me lives of the men. The fire fighters were in a deep forest many miles from a railroad and far from any clearing. "Pulaski onemembered that within a mile of where they were working there was an abandoned mine shaft running back about forty feet into the hillside. He rushed his men to the shaft as quickly as possible, and told them as they passed through their camp to cat?h up their blankets as they ran. The shaft reached Pulaski huinried his men into it, and packed like sardines they filled it up. Pulaski placed himself at the opening, across which he stretched a blanket "Within a few minutes after the men were in the shaft the fire came. The blanket at the opening caught and Pulaski jerked it away and hung up another, which caught in its turn. The blanket caught again and again, and each time Pulaski replaced it; until toward the last he held the blanket across the .opening with his bare hands. "The shaft grew hotter and hotter and the smoke and fumes grew thicker and thicker until the men's sufferings were almost beyond human endurance. They began to break for the opening. Pulaski, whose strength was great, like his courage, for a while forced them back. Seeing that * ,J VA riTrftrnnTn oro/1 QTtrl 110 WUU1U BUU11 UC uicipvuviwi iww that his men would Tush to their certain death, he drew his revolver and said that he would kill the first man who broke away. "In perhaps twenty minutes the worst of the fire passed by. Five of the men in the shaft were dead from suffocation; the thirty-five others were alive. Pulaski was blinded and seriously burned upon the hands and arms. It was three months before his sight was partially restored. Had not his heroism and presence of mind been what they were, he would have lost all of his men instead of five. That is the kind of men there are in the forest service." The Herald costs $1.50 the year. Coal&Lumber * - - mm All kinds always on hand PROMPT DELIVERY BAMBERG BUILDERS SUPPLY CO. L. B. FOWLER, Manager 'Phone 33L ^ Bamberg, C. > / -"-V - '* < I* I! * I Some i * < ? t? ;; A* :: In our HABl *: lines. Our li] :: eluding the lai W T.TPPAPV T ?? JJAJVAUnM A Ji :! AET SQUAI ;? If you don't 1 anyway. We I? will sell chei ** ARCH" line 5: selves. Whei 11 the PRINCES |! ed a fresh shi] ;: very reasonati H GLASS left, :! Come and in: ? would consid* ji1 buy or not. < ? & i * ;; 11 We Give the Merci jc. o. A* fThe Hardware and Furniture M .a- .a. . SK II Pearlstine Store IrvE I From 3:30 to 6 p. n nr 1 I we are snow everybody s We cordially this theatre, that can poss 1 Rpmpmhpr Wi |p IIVUIVII1VVI II ' j THE P1AI IAdmi: sni ill CRUSHED IX WATER WHEEL. Little Girl Meets Horrible Death at Landrum. Spartanburg, Oct. 14.?Ella Bishop, aged 10 years, daughter of William Bishop, a well known citizen of Landrum, was caught in the cog wheels of J. B. Page's water mill Wednesday and crushed to death. The little girl went to the mill with her father Wednesday afternoon, to watch him grind corn. After filling the hopper, Mr. Bishop ( started the mill. His little girl, who was standing by, was caught in the cogs of the water wheel and instantly killed. Read The Herald and get the best, at $1.50 per year. It's worth it. > " '* ' " *> r? g? a-il? ;I? "T- ::? !; 'thing D 3WARE, FURNITURE and ae of FURNITURE is of the test patterns in DRESSERS,! ABLES, CHAIRS, etc. Con IES, CARPETS, RUGS and buy we would be glad to sho' r* i < A mililirici nave a fine lot 01 mamuio ip. We also handle the "I of BED SPRINGS. They si 1 in need of a GOOD RANG] 3S. The best on earth. We ha pment of BICYCLES which v ile price. We haye only a few and we are selling these at ( vestigate them before they i ;r it a privilege to show you hants Purple Trading Stamps. SIMP an. ?* .'ft 'ft ifliftift 1 ?f If f* t77i?TJTTJ7ij7TJ7 TPTS*TM ?i?Hi stH M. A t / KYI . ' * / a. and Frc dng some Great eems to be i invite ladies an i No picture w ibly offend any * e Change Picturi (V With the Violin, * ^ Attachment is W ssion 5c an ND GET TF Stole from Blind Man. Honea Path, Oct. 14.?M. C. Jackson, a negro, -who has been in the employ of R. G. Owens, a farmer who lives three miles in the country, was arraigned to-day before Justice Wilson on a charge of stealing cotton from the field. Mr. Owens is a blind man. The cotton had been sold - ' * - and a part 01 tne muuey ucyuoiwu in one of the local banks. The negro had also taken a mule with which to haul the cotton. For the latter charge he was tried, found guilty and sentenced to the roads for OA aottc? rvr? tn nav n fino of SoO. On I uv uajij i/A w i?v ? ?? ~ T the charge of stealing the cotton, the case was sent up to the circuit court. Attend the unveiling next Thursday, j oing! || 1 i i m < i VI CROCKERY i verv best, in- i i BEDSTEADS, Q le and see our 9 * MATTINGS. > * #J| w them to you ? % RES which we *P iOYAL MON- / 9 -JB leak for them- ' * V & -1 E, don't forget * j ^ tve just receive I ?e will sell at a * pieces of CUT 1 r? JUT PRICES. , ? ire gone. We X f i, wnexner you :: % } I. M Call For Them. J [ ,l| flONsf { Bamberg, S. C. J EATERl . Moye, Jr., Mgr. |j v affl ffifl ? , m j )AY|; ?m 7;30 to 11 p. m. m Pictures and I [ i ivell pleased. S I d children to 1 I ill be shown I S # ^ | ;s Every Day I . Mandolin, and Fhde I orth Hearing.'//.'/.' I oijjj Tract of Timber on Mti Mitchell * Brings $857,000. Asheville, N. C., Oct. 14.?An 8, 000 acre tract of spruce timber on the slopes of Mt. Mitchell changed hands to-day when S. Montgomery . ifl Smith, of this city, F. A. jjrew^ry, ? and Marcus L. Foster, of Massachu-" setts, sold it to Campbell and Dickey, jj| of Virginia. The consideration was j*B $857,000. It is stated that the pur- f-W chasers will employ over 300 men in cutting and sawing the timber and : will build a 16 miles narrow guage Ik railroad. I Attend the unveiling next Thursday. J| The Blackville correspondent of ; the Columbia State is evidently a close reader of The Bamberg ?- ' , ' * '<&