The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, August 22, 1906, Image 1
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VOL. XXIX.
WALTERBORO, S. C., AUGUST 22, iqo6.
NO. 5
CROWD LYNCHES
iNEGRO BRUTE.
For
Governor Fiends in Vain
Legal Thai. &
fjjwnwood, 0.. Augugt
/
Within bear:ng distance of the
liroekt? home, where Miss Jennie
fsarfnl
negw seemr anxious enough
and he eat on the ground
to wait
it was
L> rfChur* are Determined
V<^|en Governor Heywunh- J?rrjvx;d
at the !3.ocks home the’e wa»*at hard work to keep from ahoct-
rea«iv a crowd oi fifty or more there. t ; .cg him, but the wait continued.
The store m which the outage wa* Crowds camu up, some from (liven-
attem}»t*Hi was o;>en aud across the- * wcod and some from the neighbor~
roa*i was the neat cottage m whiuk ; hood, and most of them with guns
Mif? Jennie brooita lay. Thete w*;r»., and piitolf. Then- appeared to be
I women folk shout- Governor liey-1 no hope to aaro the name’s life.
which will be a great benefit to this
section.
Our old friend J ButcheA Wil
liam!; and Mrs L f! S}iell wefelintted
in the tionda of wedlock last week
Hev J K Sojourner prtormed the
ceremon y.
ctli^u of Charleston, S C. # lea^inir to
mourn her lost h* r beloved busbaud atNl
her affectionate so«l devoted ctuirimi,
six aoa« and three daughters. She wa*
truly a noble woman, and will he nd***!
by many ouhride the family circle, xrh«r
were the recipieuU of her many kiad-
neseee ansparinglv and generooety be-
Tae crowd would listen to nothing
Brooks laj sn/feriDg fron^ a fsarfu. j wart j nimself sm. his miation
wound, which he bad mfllicted, ^o^|kjown. He was cordially received. Negro ^i^caer l > niys
Pans, the negro who on luca ay at- bat was frankly told that there waa-j While Bob Davis was Rittir.g on
!: J ‘' - T;i '' r - u - r hei» 00 yoptbiy chance for hi'M to save ' the ground awaiting his fate he was
was Ijn hed about bah ^fter 7 the nea’ro shonld he prove to l*e the i asked abogt the crime. H? admitted
jciook tiiisevemug. The negro had j i: j e weu i about in tiio jtbat be had be*u in the ftore and
irst bfon identified by Alias Brooks,
ind the governor of the Mute of
3outh Carolina had made a futile
vppcal x the- uetermined n.en who
vere leaders in tne lyuckng to allow )
he law to take us course.
yiA lynching was sc deienr, or-
Itvlyai.d matUr of-fact n*) afla.r of
he kind as xiuld he wnagmod. Of '.
:*)inst- it was cold-blooded, nnlnwlbl
•an evivlencc of the savage that is in
i«nk:ud.
Ths Crims PevlewwJ.
The deed for which Bob Ihivis to-
ight paid the penalty witn bis liie
^as committed Tuesday afternoon.
Ie wwot to the store of J i* Brooks,
lie father of Miss Jennie Brooks,
be was waiting on some customers,
v (atber being away from home, j
l* iixjnirad if her father were about,
nd, upon being advised that he was
ot, he left the store, returning
resently and pretending to purchase
ims goods. Finally he staled that
swished to buy some meat, which
as in the rear of* the small store,
vs Brooks came forward to wait
pen him, and then it was that he
ssed at her “It is yon that 1 want,
>t meat!” and grappled her.
Mias Brooks. is a sturdy young
Mnan, and she made a brave tight
r kfe and honor. Twice the brutal
gro slushed her with the meat
dfe sad then, thinking to end the
liter, be made a third lunge at her
roat The girl was wounded, bat
warned, and Davis ran. The pass-
l of a gentleman at the moment
j alarmed him. Miss Brooks
t,
ggered out of the building and
l in a faint She had saved her
aor, but almost at the cost of her
l There is a pool of blood yet at
i scene of the encounter and the
mg lady’s clothing tells the story
:he terrible ordeal through which
passed,
1 The Fiend Is Captured.
i\\ this occurred Tuesday in the
noon, Almost as if by magic the
'S of the outrage spread, and,a
Trained lot of neighbors started
nd Davis and punish him. The
ng woman was in a desperate con*
qh, but the worst is now over and
is on the road to recovery.
11 day Tuesday the men searched;
1 followed every trail, and heeded
y suggestion. Tuesday night Uioy
ted, Wednesday the crowd grewi
the searching parties scattered
ay and all night They searched
nps and houses and never did the
siaoasn, They meant to catch
negro, and they meant to kill
rand that is the whole story.
18 bonn the hunt kept up with*
Lbatementi and then it was re
ed, thirteen or fourteen miles
(torn the little store in the
/shall section, where Bob Davis,
ipted/his crime and his murder,
ill Brooks saw a head close up
st a log. The body was prostrate
id with cane, but the bead
id. Brooks and John Williams
it the negro, " * ’*
crowd, b-.i goi
encouragement The n»»-n were UKff
with pietch and guns ready to kill.
Th< j y Korc not men* boys on a lark,
tv\*. m**n v,- th gray hairs and deter-
micaUon. T'hey cairn; with their
coats ojT and a deep ser vengeance.
Ooverror Heyward wag asked into
no sign of nelp or that he had oeen cut with the meat
knife- His hand;was lacerated, lie.
however, tried to {mplicate some one
else, and said that he took the knife
away from Mi2s Brooks and that he
had not attempted to criminally as
sault her He did not talk distinctly,
but ra f Jier mumbled his word and
very little could kk gotten out of him.
While he was sitting listening to
the questions he asked for a cigarette
and he puffed it with pleasure A
colored minister, the Hev J C Goode,
pastci of Macedonia Baptist Church,
asked if he might pray for the negro,
too, wanted j Consent was given, and, as he work-
! od Lis way through the determined
He
the house to get a bit*; to eat-
suggeated that the taw take its
course. The women folk Hashed tnat
* o
they would act as men if need be.
Governor Heyward thought he might
get. J i*ett blocks, the father oi the
young whman, and a sturdy ,raa:», {*..
help bhn: but no, he,
the negro ourued.
I children's children, her relatives aud
friends who were many She had a
short time muce passed tbe allotted
period of life, the hi blit *1 three scorn
and ten. h*»r husband hevirp passed the
farther limit of four w^jre years. Hrr
mortal remains wore laid to rest in Live
Oak Cemetery with those who have
gone before, a spot hallowed to many
by its associations with their departed
ones who repose there in its sarr»y*
shades. The immortal spirit lias left
it's earthly tenement “An winged ft*
flight to those celestial realms where it
shall flourish in immortal youth auhnrt
amidst the war of elements.” “Shota
not dead; (as die poet boa-tifullv says)
Who lives in heaths the leaves behind.'•
“What hallows ground were monneH)
and missed
The Nefro Identified ■ 0
It looked bopeiett from the- my
Btart. Finally tiie cavalcade ctim-. up
to the honee with a burly negro utd.
The crowd had grown. The in ws
had spread and from far and near
came men with their firearms Men
from Greenweed, from above and
below Greenwood, and even from Ab
beville, were there. How many guna
ware there, Heaven only knows. At
least £00, and-counting pistols, twice
that number, and perhaps more.
Four men literally dragged David
Into the room to snow him to Alias
Brooks. The crowd was so thick
that it was difficult to get him iiito
the house,'hnuliy he t was taken into
the room and Miss Brooks identified
him beyond question. Bhe had no
doubt about his identification, and be
was easily recognizable. Davis was
then taken b&ck by his captors to the
buggy in whicii he was brought.
Governor Heyward was asking that
the negro be turned over to the of
ficers of the law.
Some boards were put across the
fence at a corner and Governor Hey
ward placed thereon that he might
be heard. He pleadeft'with the mob
to allow the law to take its course
and thus save this disgrace to the
State. But his eloquence and logic
did not avail.
Crowd Take Negro Away.
Over in the other corner of the
fence the crowd with the negro, was
getting impatient, and while Gover
nor Heyward was talking they drove
away
Heyward begged that the people turn
the negro over to Gapt Evans in
whom all had the # greatest confidence,
and let him have a trial. On towards
the woods the captors led their victim
and those around Governor Hey-
Foiiocs are quiet around here: the | * ,OWto ^* She lived a qaiet home lif e
. . , t • ! devoted to her hnKbaud, children aM
only questions that art* being agitated I * 1
tn any extent Dispensarf and
Stock law— the Utter mostly.
1 vi as glad to see the ajt published
in your paper two weeks ago as juu-sed
by the last legislature allowing the
people to vote cn the qreation. 1
think it will be well for voters to
look into this matter well beiore they
cast their ballots. In the first place
there must lie a fence bu|U all round
such territory as votes to be exempted
f’-om the operation of the general siock
Jaw. Bard fence mubt be euifioient-
)y tight, high and strong to prevent
all stock that are liable to be taken
up under the general stock law Uoui
depreuatiug on adjoining territory,
uud it will be only u law just so long
as this penitentiary wall ia kept to a
perfect standard from one end tc .the
ether. These are the questions: How
will tms ieno-i «'or wall) be built?
And who is tc be benefited by it?
If it can be built by volunteer sub-
scnpiiop all right and go'id, but if
by taxation then I tay stop uud con
sider for we hear on everv hand that
our taxes are already too high. 1 lor
one say they are plenty high tfnd then
we are living in an age of progress,
enlightenment and civilization. Just
the idea of cutting ourselves off from
the progressive world is enough with
in itself to make any man, who has
the' best interest of his county at
heart, scorn the idea; and again,
who are to be benefited if the vefers
were silly enought to build such a
fence I assure you it is noi to the
intereet of the farm .T aud lacdo vner
and they constitute the muss of our
population. Then it must be the
insignificant batch of stock racers
that will be benefited, and tne idea is
absurd to think about making the
already down-trodden farmer build
fence for the independent stockraiser^
and the land owner, give him *!i ot
hit; land except that which he
can build a wall aronnd. I say we
cannot afford to give our stockraiserA
, crowd up to the victim, all uncovered
their heads. That was a spontune*
out tribute to God, With uncovered
heuda. that vast throng, intent on
killing a i>oor negro, listened to] the
colored man’s prayers, during the
long wait there were repeated sugges
tions of- burning the negro and of
mutilating „ him before killing
him. Finally Capt Evans, who had
been working to save the negro lor
trial and who had been on the hunt
for days, got the consent of the crowd
that they would do no burning or
mutilating.
At Last the Negro U Killed.
Two men tied a rope on Davis’
arms and he war pulled up about two
lengths of his body in a pine trie
about a quarter of a mile from the
home. He kicked and squirmed, and
then his legs were fastened. With
his face to the anxious crowd, he was
given a moment or two to say some
thing, and then at the drop of a hat
a thousand bullets were fired into his
body. Hundreds and hundreds of
halls pierced his body and then after . . . . , , , ,
the fU.t lusilliu-Je men asked to be '>"5' *"<* P rl ’ lle « the V '' or ' 1
allowed to take shots and in the final
round up his head was literally, shot
to a pulp, aud with the brain oozing
down over his head.
With the sun fast sinking over the
hills, the thousands or more who had
witnessed the miserable affair went
home. At the first volley the smoke
obscured the hanging body; but the
firing kept up, then the smoke lower
ed and the shooting continued.
with their victim. Governoi ) ^ lfe ' rL wa * li0 hurrahing, no drink
ing, no cheering,
premeditated.
It was quiet and
Prof Tyler, of Amherst Collegp, aa'd
recenily: “A m&u can live comfortably
without hiaius: no man ever existed
witboiii a digestive system. The dyspep-
14c has neither faith, hope or charity.”
ward realizing the utter hopelessness Dty by day people realize tiM> importance
and it was not
tefore he was tied and under
i started * for the scene of his
for identification. • .» >
of his mission, urged him to get down,
which he reluctantly did.
Father Wants Davis Burned.
The crowd quickly followed the
negro. He was taken down to the
first clomp cf trees, below the home
bf J Pett Brooks and there a halt
was made. It looks as if the execu
tion would be swift, but .Mr Brook*,
the father of the young girl, rode up
and begged that the crowd wait a
while. He said that many who bad
been on the three days’ hunt had not
yel arrived, and to wait on them. He
then begged that the crini^ be wiped
scoundrel. ,ri
out by burning the
The
ot canag tor their digestion; realize tbo
need of tbe ass of a little corrective after
oveazung. A corrective like Kwiol For
Dyspepsia. It digests what yon eat. Sold
by J M Klein.
A Few Dots Hers Wad There.*
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Editor Press and Standard:, As I
have not seen any thing from this
section for qaifew while 1 thought 1
would give yen a few dote. ;||Rt |
Our farmers are very blue over the
crop prospect: We have , bad too
much rain. I don't think we can
rnafce.inote than sixty per emtofau
average crop. » .
any material prosperity to our county,
but drive it away in a drove qf cattle
to other sections. One stockman
can manage tec thousand acres of
land with his cattle on it and doesn't
have any hired help. Let us have
stock law and put a hundred fanners
on the ten thousand acres of land.
Then we will have prosperity, and a
cultured people in the near future.
Let us on the day of election vote
to become a part of the enlightened
world and take the general ftcck law
before we build a wall around our
community. Stock law doesn’t Uke
anything from any man that he
worked for, it only makes every cue
take care of his own. j
On the other band if wc cut our
selves off we vote a hardship on the
masaett for the special benefit of a
few stockmen, yea; and is it honest or
just tor us knowingly to vote dollars
oqt of our neighbors pocket to go
jnto ours? Think tbo matter over well
and remember the golden rule. “Do
onto others as you would that they
should uo to you ” _ A Voter.
la
Departed this life on Moudsy evening,
July the 2Srd liTJC, at thio fiuuiij rust-
deque in WaJt#rl»oro. S. C.. SJmflxrribri
t. (J.over in tbe sevyaty fir»t year of
sizz.?*£z;i£r
» OJCC *'n.1ge .croe. (be hduto l; r er , D.V.U*, i. iwU keo ia acd
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Tbe litw tepoae ai|*i love h&i kisaed,
Bnt where'e their memoriee maneion- la
it iu yon church yard bovrere*
No! in oumelvee their acui exist n part
of oori.”
Her life wa* a happy one, hrr death
wae peaesful though sadden. 8be
passed away ‘‘as to a night’s ropost*. lika
flowers at set of sau.” 13.
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LUt of Managers for Primary
tioa.
The fcilowing are the managers at.
the vanoo spoils for the democratic pri
mary electioa to beheld Any. kb, ISM:
Ashton—T G U Broxtoa, D M Vaco.
M M Key ,
- Adame Ran—W T Sanders, H D
Dodu, T W Umtin.
r Belfb—J E Hndsou, Willie M Bryan.
B A Hern.lon.
Berea—W A Smith, .) M Strickland.
Asbury Linder.
Cottageville—-T 8 Ackerman, H L*
Ackerman, T M Reevee.
Colleton—J T Garris, Jasper Strick
land, J S Padgett.
Doctor’s Greek—J F Fender, B R
Griflin, B C Sanders.
Green Pond—0 F Thomas, OII Boyo
ton, J S Welch.
Hendersonville—W W Speights, Jos
klarvin.Jr,A H Herndon.
Hudson’s Mill—C J Brelaad, W W
Bryan, II M Benton.
Horse Pen—C L Langdole. C F Kogor,
Lncias Linder.
Hickory HU1-S G Chaplin, J |£
Wood, H J Perry.
Tacksonfioro-S M Crosby, H B Hiotl.
O B S Price. * *
Lodge—H W Carter. F W Stanley,
Robert Hiley. .
Maple Caue - W M Jaqoes. M B Hiott.
J A Willis.
Petite—T E Benton, W W Walker, B
E Jones. i
Peoples—C L Lovelace, J M Craven,
W B Sanls.
Rice Patch—H H Rems, O W Camp
bell. PL Polk. ,
Rave lie 1—John Martin, J D Alto: an,
R W Chaplin.
Ritter—Lee Ritter, Ben Carter, Ji,
Cervry Thomas.
Ruffin—W J Brabham, J W Smyley,
J M Crosby.
Smoaks—W B Km oak, Juia*- R Rlshe:,
l/«c F Berry.
Sniders- J E Harper, J W Oataiuge*-,
II P rimer.
Sidney-GW Garris, J E Kinsey, J
8 Jordan.
Tiger Creek—G R B Linder,.* H'
Beech, P Warren. ■'
t Wfdterb*>ro—E P Henderson, E B
Webb, CDCAdams.
Warren’s X Roods—Mgees Bitts, D JR
Posted James Hoggett.
Wiggins—Dr Sisk, A F Riohordsoo, J
L Rickman.
Wolf Greek—L U Print, P W CHera.
dob, J S Bnchaoan. ^
WiUiaiqs—H B Williams, A J % SteaA>
ly, Charles Crosby. <*
Voting’s Island—K D Smoak, P T
Towles, 1 W Garter.
Why does tbe son barn? Why does *.
-mnsqiitostinf? Why do we feel. «i».
happy in the Good Old Samm
Answer; we don’t. We ase DeWl
Witch Hssel fielve, and '
donTf
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