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I..V ~ ONE IS KILLED, 5 INJURED. (Continued from page 1, column 5.) committee, said: "In th? midst of the shooting. Chief Cantwell dashed into the room with a drawn pistol and when he got into the room he pfc raised it and I believe fired." Mayor Grace, it is said, had been - ' * - ? ?j tt ? ? r> vtrji "out 01 tne CJiy, auu. neuxy r. ?vniliams, alderman, directed, as mayor pro tem, the police dispositions for dispersing the mob that had been attracted by the shooting. The mayor appeared within about 20 minutes. Knife and Pistol. Joseph A. Black, chairman of the city Democratic executive committee, is positive that the first shot was fired in the ante-room. "On seeing pistols flourished there," he said, "I hurried to the telephone to notify Sheriff Martin of the trouble. Some man, quite an old man, cut at me 'with a knife. I dodged and he slightly wounded my left arm." Capt. | Black said he then appealed to Police Pp Sergeant Quinn to restore order, but t the sergeant's reply was to draw a Hte revolver on him. "Some man in the crowd called out, 'Here is the , I'll get him,' and he threw his pistol up at Ife > me. Thinking I was in for a shot, T 'instinctivelv put my arm before I by face. At this moment a shot was fired from the direction from which .this man was coming. Then I saw the young newspaper man (Sidney J. Cohen) on the floor at my feet. "I pulled away;and at that time some one else was yelling, 'There goes the ? V- we want.' I saw Chief Cantwell at the window with a pistol in his hand as though he were going to shoot some one who was bending over at the window. I cannot say whether he shot or not. I have made it a rule to go unarmed ' all the time I have been serving as chairman of the executive committee. J am a strong 'Hyde supporter ?every chairman is a strong supporter of one side or the other?but I have dealt fairly with both sides. Some of the best men in the city are on toy committee and though dissension developed early, we could have got on pretty well if it had not been for trouble from the outside." Can't Tell of Start. "Who or what started the shooting I do not know and I cannot say I saw ^anybody actually shoot anybody else," said Nath. B. Barnwell, a member of the committee. Mr. Barnwell has served severals terms in the low Ier house of the general assembly as ' ;> a member from Charleston. He is a h lawyer. "A commotion started in the ante-room," Mr. Barnwell said, "and from where I was sitting it looked as though a fight was going on'. I heard Goldman's name menP tioned. I heard a pistol shot in the ante-room and the crowd came breaking into the committee room, Y "The only map I recognized was v W. E. Wingate,.who had been standing in the doorway and who came in at the head of the crowd. The policeman in the doorway was swept . Aside. As the crowTd surged in the I shooting started, a regular fusillade, * apparently from several pistols. Ip Li the midst of the shooting Chief Cant"Well dashed into the room with pistol ? drawn, and when hb got inside he 3 raised it and, I believe, fired, although the scuffle of peenle trying to get out prevents me from being ; positive as to this. I did not see Mr. i;. Cohen shot and did not know until afterward that he was shot. I was v unarmed. When I left several men j were on the floor. I recognized among I$C them only W. E. Wingate. mere :i:.1 were in the building amply sufficient policemen to prevent any disorder, I;/",but when the shooting started they - were conspicuously absent frbm the - committee room. jfe . "I had suggested to the chairman cr tliat it would expedite matters to ??' have the witnesses in the ante-room and he told the police that he want-. ed,no one allowed in the committee ^ room except the members of the com'inittee and the attorneys and no one 8|p?v ' in tne outer room except witnesses. I then went with Capt. Black and |j?^ assisted in breaking the seals and gll'- opening the door into the committee ||fc* room. When the door had been opened the crowd came in, including committeemen, policemen and others. Capt, Black repeated his instructions, | ? but up to the time of the rioting there were still in the room some ^persons who had not been gotten out. v All of the policemen except two had - left the room and .these two Capt. .Black had directed to stand in the door and keep guard, but the other was near the window and the crowd was penned up against the door." Grace Men Passed. W. B. Hogan, a special deputy ohorifP pcenrted from the* HvHa head quarters to the committee rooms nine citizens whose votes had been challenged. He was stopped at the door \ by the policemen on watch there. "Only Grace men were passed," the deputy asserted: "I saw Wingate, Frank Hogan and others allowed to enter. Chief Cantwell called out to the men (the challenged Hyde voters), 'Come in, you cowards, don't be. scared to come in.' I heard several I pistol 6hots in the room. I, saw a ' .. - P : j$%' * . . '' ' *.* ;'-^v' ?' '*V man come sliding down a pole. When he got to the bottom Policeman Quinn and several other police officers took hold of him and clubbed him. I asked who the man was and wa.s told it was Max Goldman. "George Rentiers took hold of Goldman to protect him from the policemen. Rentiers said, 'Don't strike the manj but the police raised their clubs. I interfered and Policeman Dawson abused me, but I drew my pistol and showed him my authority as a deputy. Goldman was pretty badly beaten and was bleeding about / %. 1-* no /I 9 9 I lie? 11VJUU Goldman's troubles seem to have started before he left the committee rooms, from which he departed by way of a window, a balcony and a telephone pole. One of the Hyde watchers, John J. Healv, said he was standing in the doorway between the two rooms and ordered everybody out except committeemen. "Rentiers came out," Healy said, "with Max Goldman behind him. Willie O'Brien started to strike Goldman and Rentiers told him he was too small for him to strike." G. Simms McDowell "saw a man jump from one of the windows, hug a pole and slide down." "Just as soon as he struck the ground." Mr. McDowell said, "I saw a policeman in uniform beat him with his club on the head several times." Saw the Clubbing. G. Jeff McEfowell, general agent for the Southern States Life Insurance company?a former resident of Columbia?was also a witness to the clubbing of Goldman by policemen. "I saw Goldman come out of the window, without his hat," Mr. McDowell said. "He jumped from the veranda to a telephone pole and came Hnwn to rhp strppt Tri a fpw spnrmds there was a large crowd of policemen holding their hands and clubs in the air in a position to catch him as he came down. Several policemen club.bed Mr. Goldman unmercifully. It was the most disgraceful manhandling of a citizen I have ever seen. He was clubbed and jerked about and carried off by the policemen." Still another eye-witness to the mishandling of Goldman was the rector of St. Luke's Episcopal church, the Rev. Louis G. Wood. Standing at King and George streets^ Mr. Wood heard the shooting up-stairs. "Immediately afterward," he said, "one man, in escaping, climbed down a telephone pole. Before he reached the ground he was seized, and, I am informed, badly beaten. The crowd was so dense and the confusion so great that I could not see the man when he was on the ground, but I saw a club raised whilAie was being pulled from the pole, as if to strike him." John McCrady, a , civil engineer, I who was in attendance on the meeting' as a witness, / also beheld the Goldman incident. "I saw Max Goldman standing on the little balcony," Mr. McCradv said. "Soon afterward I saw him climbing down a telephone pole. Before he reached the bottom he was seized by two policemen. He was severely beaten over the head with a club and was bleeding freely." George Rentiers, who had shielded Goldman from O'Brien in the committee room, was taken outside under < arrest and reached the street in time to* see Goldman clubbed. "I saw Maxy Goldman climbing down a pole," he said. "I saw a policeman knock him in the head with his club as he came down." Rentiers declares O'Brien attempted an assault on Gpldman several nights ago in King street. Carried to Station. Goldman was bundled into a patrol wagon and taken away under arrest, but was released after giving bail and having his scalp wounds dressed. A wild clangor of fire bells gave numbers of Charlestonians their first intimation that the half expected riot had occurred. Somebody in the excitement turned in an alarm. Harry L. Wilenski, one of the men *' * ? A _ J 1 injured, was reappoinieu uy ivxayui Grace only the night before the riot to the position of meter inspector, a sinecure he had held for a year and which it is understood on all sides was in part a reward for political services. W. E. Wingate, "Big Wingate," has been for some time regarded as an unofficial bodyguard to the mayor. "I can't be positive haw many shots were fired in the committee rpom," said J. Waties Waring. He was present at the hearing to represent certain challenged voters. He said that there 'was a heavy movement of the i^en in the ante-room to the committee room. He did not know who fired the shots. Conrad Stender, a member of the executive committee, described the fight as follows: "I was in the hall at the meeting of the executive committee when the shooting started. It started in the hallway and apparently a shot was fired into the committee room. Im mediately there was great confusion, several shots and presently a fusillade of shots. Almost immediately I saw a man named Brothers, who is (Continued on page 6, column 1.) ? MASTER S SALE. State of South Carolina?Bamberg County?Common Pleas. . By virtue of a decree of the said court in the case of 'Mrs. M. S. Copeland, vs. Mrs. Annie G. Behre, et al., I will sell at public sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, during the legal hours of sale on salesday in November next, being November 1, 1915, at the Court House door at Bamberg, S. 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