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ONE IS KILLED, 5 INJURED.
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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next, being November 1, 1915, at
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S. C., the following real estate, both
tracts being situated in said county
and State:
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aii tnat iraci or iana, containing
One Hundred and Twenty-three
acres, more or less, and bounded on
the North by lands of Mrs. J. P.
O'Quinn; on the East by lands of
Mrs. Laura Bessinger; on the South
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ALSO
All that tract of land, containing
one hundred and fifty acres, more or
less, and bounded on the North by
lands of Martin Hunter; on the East
by lands of Mary B. Stokes; on the
South by lands of Jacob I. Rentz;
and on the West by margin of Lemon
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Master.
Dated Oct. 11, 1915..
CITATION NOTICE.
The State of South Carolina?
County of Bamberg?By Geo. P. Harmon,
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Whereas, B. T. Zeigler hath
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These are therefore to cite and
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