Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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REPRESENT ATI VI KILLS MR. P Sheriff Raborn, of Aiken Prisoner Safely in Ja ence Said to be C Aiken, Sept. 29.?The removal J through a strategic ruse of Hugh' Long from Wagener about 1 o'clock this morning cancelled the call from Sheriff Raborn to Gov. Blease for a j company of militia to cope with the ; riotous and threatening crowd which ! had gathered last night with the j avowed intention of lynching him for shooting Mr. Pickens Gunter yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock; and has; served in a degree to alleviate the : troblous conditions existing in the little town since the occurrence of i t the tragedy. However, it was necescarv this mornins for several rural policemen and deputies to return to Wagener to control the situation,; which the local police officers com- j plained that they were helpless and wholly unable to regulate. Sheriff's Clever Ruse. The ruse whereby Representitive- j elect Long was safely escorted through the cordon of armed and angry men surrounding the house is-} this: Sheriff Raborn, by word and action, created the impression that cognizant of the determination to prevent the safe removal of Long and I realizing that an effort to do so meant possibly the lynching of Long tv and the killing of officers, he was j temporarily resigned to the situation, j He and his officers therewith pre- i pared to guard the house of Long's; concealment during the night, and to await such developments as daylight would bring forth, formulating their actions in accordance therewith. Two of the ruling spirits of the tvitvaiJtpniTip'- r>rou*d were then tempo rarily enticed away from the vicinity, j Reasonably satisfied in their own1 minds that, from the appearance of things, no further effort to take Long into custody would be made that i night, the crowd relaxed their vigilance to a degree sufficient for Ru- 1 ral Policeman Samuels to enter the j house and secure Long and spirit j him away to an adjacent and shaded L cotton patch, where Rural Policeman S. E. Holly awaited to take charge of' him. Then carefully chosing their! way, the twro men, Holly and Long, by a circuitous route, walked toward Aiken, beginning their journey between 12 and 1 o'clock and continu-j ing on foot for thirteen miles, wrhen they managed to press into service a conveyance, which brought them the j remaining twelve miles to Aikep. The "Feint Guard." They arrived here this morning about 7 o'clock, Long being immediately lodged in jail. In the mean- j time Rural Policeman Samuels returned to the house, and he, with Sheriff Raborn and the deputy news-1 paper man, established a "feint! guard" around the house, keeping alive the prevailing impression that Long remained barricaded in the: house and the officers intended to j guard their man until daylight. Not1 until daybreak this morning was the I actual condition revealed to the dis- j comfited men, and Long was then i safely behind the bars of the Aiken county jail. The noisy demonstrations which had marked the earlier part of the night's proceedings waned from midnight on, but minor depredations,! assuming the form of mere malicious mischief, were slyly perpetrated under cover of darkness throughout the j night. General Shooting. Some time during the night one or more malcontents shattered every pane of plate glass in the front of j Hugh Long's newspaper establish-1 ment. Long is editor of the Wagener-Edisto News. Further, about midnight, two shots from a shotgun were fired in the direction of the officers' automobile, whieh stpod in front of the besieged residence. However, the missies wasted themselves on the roof of a nearby house, hav- i ing done no damage. These shots were fired simply in a spirit of brava-1 do and to annoy the officers. With- J out surtouts the officers sat about or j patrolled the front of. the house in a j cold, biting drizzle of rain, and day-1 break was hailed with a sigh of relief by the benumbed guards. The: officers left the house about 6:30 [ o'clock this morning, going up-town i and giving out the intelligence . of; Long's removal, the knowledge being calmly received without any unseem- \ ly demonstration. Gunter's Relatives A n ested. Dr. O. B. Portwood and .Mr. Hayes Gunter, a relative of the wounded man, were arrested upon a warrant sworn out before .Magistrate Garvin by a Wagener citizen, charging them with being accessories to the affair. They were brought to Aiken to-day by the sheriff and his posse, who arrived here at 10:20 o'clock, only to find awaiting them another call from i \ ? LONG I ICKENS GUNTER I , Eludes Mob and Lands; > il.?Political Differ- * ause of Shooting. ' Wagener for police protection. Port- * wood and. Hayes were lodged in jail with Long and the rural policemen t returned to Wagener. However, re ports received here at 5:30 o'clock 1 this afternoon from that vicinity " state that all is quiet. For a while it was feared in Aiken 1 / - f by a few that a mob would come from Wagener and endeavor to retake 1 Long, but this is a very remote possibility, and certainly improbable. Physicians hold out absolutely no hope for the wounded man and de- t clare that it is only a matter of time c before he will succumb to his a wounds. Seven physicians and two 1 trained nurses have been attendant upon him. a Little Chance of Recovery. The trained nurses and three phy- T sicians came from Columbia last c night about 1:30 o'clock. An examination of the wound disclosed that 1 the bullet had not passed from the r body but had lodged in the bladder, * ranging in such a course that at least seventeen distinct and separate per- ^ forations were made in the intestines 1 of the lower bowels. An operation * was performed, but the physicians a state that his recovery is a physical imopssibility. Dissolution is liable 0 to occur at any moment now. ~ In addition to Solicitor R. L. Gunt- w er, friends of the wounded man have r retained the legal services of the d .Messrs. Hendersons for the prosecu- t tion. It is understood that Messrs. Q Croft & Croft have been engaged by Mr. Long. Dr. Portwood and Mr. Gunter in- e tend to appeal for bond here this t week before Judge John S. Wilson, ^ who is presiding over court here. It ^ is not known what Mr. Long will do ^ in this connection, but there is a like- r lihood that he will also ask for bond p unless counsel and friends advise v otherwise. a Report of Shooting. p Mr. Long prefers not to discuss his t case with newspaper men, but he is 0 reported to have given the following t epitomized version of the affair. He h was tanding near the scene of the o trouble reading a newspaper when t Mr. Pickens Gunter accosted him in e hostile terms, and before he?Long r, ?realized what was happening he c had been knocked or thrown, possibly v a combination of the two, to the j ground, his assailant on the top of e him, whereupon he drew his pistol j] and fired once, the shot missing; he t fired a second shot with his 38-cali- n hrp rovnlvpr as Gunter endeavored to t deprive him of the deadly instru- f ment, and this was the fatal shot, j, Mr. Long appears to bear up well un- y der the trying conditions, but of t course the harassments to which he s has been subjected by political ene- l mies since his nomination to the y house of representatives are begin- p ning to tell upon him, as he is in a a somewhat nervous condition. p The details of the shooting of y Gunter are not obtainable, but it Is y said that Long was accosted by p Gunter on the streets here. The c meeting resulted in an altercation, p and it is said, while Long was upon y the ground, attacked by Gunter, he t fired the shot or shots which have t doubtless given a death wound to c his assailant. t All witnesses appear to agree that a two shots were fired. The first miss- n ed, the second found its mark, pene- y trating at the left and lower position i of the abdomen. The weapon used s was a 3S-calibre revolver. v Barricaded in House. t Long then hastened from the I 1 ? ^ ~ kin Artm V* /"Vll O Q _ SCeiie, IIU L gUIIIg tU Ill? <J *? ix ixv/ixow, ^ but to that of a neighbor, where he l barricaded himself. Of the twelve or more persons interviewed on the matter all agree in g venturing the opinion that the dif- r ference between the two men arose s from a peculiar and strained political f situation, which has been existing in j this county particularly in this sec- t tion for some time. Briefly: Two } men from Wagener, Hugh Long and c J. C. Hester Busbee, were in the race s for the} house of representatives. The lir.es were closely drawn in this immediate vicinity. The factionalism was bitter and personalities were in- c dulged in indiscriminately. The elec- \ tion of Long in the second primary s fanned the hatred to an unbelievable f degree and Long was sent numerous j mesages wherein his life was threat-j ened in the event that he should re-! ( turn to Wagener. his home. But up- i col the election in the third primary t of last Tuesday of Mr. Busbee, Long, c feeling himself then safe, ventured to c leturn, and this afternoon the trouble f was precipitated. I Sheriff Raboru was wired at c Aiken of the trouble and was to r come to Wagener at once. He, ac- t XEGKO KILLED IX WRECK. southern Hailway Train Xo. 14 I)e railed Xear Home, Ga. Rome, Ga., Sept. 2n.?One per son was fatally injured, three se iously hurt and several other slightly injured, when Southern Rail ,vay passenger train Xo. 14, boun< rom Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla. ,vas derailed at Plainville, 12 mile lorth of here to-night. Two da; caches, one Pullman, baggage ca md express car were thrown fron he traick. The youth fatally injured was i lcgro passenger. The three othe seriously injured include a whit )assenger, a negro woman and W. D 3earden, baggagemaster on thi rain. The injured have not yet beei dentified. A Moving Forest in Wales. A strange story of a moving wooi lear Llandaff was told at a meeting >f the district council several dayi igo by one of the members (Mr. Wil iam Hopkins.) The wood, he said, was situated 01 i steep slope and was gradually mov ng toward the road at the foot. Th< vood is quite 400 yards long, anc onsists of stately elm trees. It ha< 'left its moorings," he said, and wai noving bodily toward the Llanvithyi oad. A cut had been left at th< op, which was f ill of water. Some of the trees were cominj [own bodily, while others were lean ng in all directions. The wood hac teen moving now eight or nine days nd it was some little distance fron he road but was in danger of coming in to it.?London Chronicle. ompanied by Rural Policemen Sam lels and Holley and a newspapei nan who was sworn in as a specia leputy, hastily left Aiken in an au omobile, arriving here about 9:1( 'clock. An Uugly Situation. When the posse arrived there the: ncountered a condition with whicl hey were absolutely unable to cope Numerous groups of dissatisfied peo ile stood murmuring. At interval: irearms would be discharged and the nore timid onlookers scurried foi daces of shelter.. The local police rere unable to abolish this nuisance nd the officers from Aiken were ap iarently resigned to their lesser o: he two evils. The threat wa: penly made that if he is taken fron he house in which he has concealec limself he would be taken from the 'fficers and shot to pieces. It has een sworn that Long will be lynch d. The officers were equally deter ained that such shall not be the ase if it lay within their power tc rard off the threatened trouble lowever, riot was momentarily look, d for. It was stated, and to Sher ff Raborn in the form of a 'warning hat every road leading out of Wage er had been blocked with logs anc hat stated pickets'lined the road tc rustrate an effort to remove the.be sagured man. Coming as anothei o^nincr tn tho TIACCO TVP Q P Til TT) (TP ff r CLI LllLlf-y tU ixxv jj/wuw ?* vhe effect that in the shadows anc hrubbery around the house ol .ong's securement were armed me: who intended to shoot if he was irought forth. No show of resist ,nce was offered to any one enterng the house and all of the possi were permitted so to do. For hours ir. Long sat near a door with ? Daded revolver in his hand and a Win hester rifle at his side, swearing tc rotect himself. He expressed ? willingness, even a desire, to go wit! he officers if he was assured pro ection from the violence of the irowds. Sheriff Raborn was tolc hat all were friendly toward hin nd his posse, but that any move nent to escort Long from the towr would be met with armed resistance 'he sheriff made more than one peech to groups of men, but the: were non-commital and continuec heir spirit of determination. Sherif taborn wired Gov. Blease for a com lany of militia. The telegram fol ows: Militia Called For. "Governor Cole Blease, Columbia !. C.?Hugh Long has shot promi tent citizen here, result of lone tanding political factionalism, anc eeling against Long runs high, lm vo-rvm-L*^ him alnnp sine* jajosauic; tv iviiwiv ****** hey declare that they will lyncl lim. Rush company of troops her< in special train. Don't delay, to df o may create serious trouble. "T. P. RABORX, 'Sheriff Aiken County.' Long made no statement last nigh ither than he had it to do. Tin mounded man lies at his nome in i ei;ious condition. A midnight trait rom Columbia brought a party o hysicians and nurses. Long is mayor of Wagener; .Mr iunter one of its most prominent cit zens and business men. Hence tin rouble is deeply deplored and it is lifficult to determine the ultimate mtcome of the whole regretable at air. At 1 o'clock last night Sherif taborn reversed his decision ant ancelled his order for troops, anc nade his successful attempt to brin? he prisoner to Aiken. 1 Life Saver I ~! H a ^etter *rom branch- || s! 11 ^an<^' ^2L> Mrs. Bliza- || -1 p? beth Chapman says: "I |l 2 &j suffered from womanly Bag . 13 troubles nearly five years, gg 5 H All the doctors in the coun- ||| v ?| ty did me no good. I took m r || Cardui, and now I am en- 11 1 H we^* * *ee* a Hi j|| new woman. Cardui saved || 1 fi| my life! All who suffer m v H from womanly trouble gl| 3 Q should give Cardui a trial" B ; ICARDUI ! 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