The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, July 08, 1903, Image 1
^ 7 BATES BURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 8,10O8. "" " NO 23
AN ASSASSIN DIES.
Ihe People rf Norway Hangs the
Doer of a Dastardly Crime.
AN OLD SOLDIER ASSASSINATED
m ?
A Horrible Scene ut a Supper Tattle, i
Which Worked I lie People
('(> to Fever Heat ami
DoBpofite. I
As was predicted the people of Nor- |
W way avenged the brutal assassination 1
I of Mr. John T. Phillips, an old Con- I
W federate soldier, early Wednesday J
morning by lynching Charles Evans, a ,
mulatto negro who along with his i
brother, Jim KVans, are known all I
over the community as two had men.
In addit ion In t.lm Ivnohlnir t l,?
citizens of the place agreed that it i
was only ri^ht and proper to teach a i
lesson to several negroes who came 1
within the environments of the village
armed and threatening, and they took
tliem out just before Kvans was lynch?d
and severely i>eat them. Mr. Ilan- !,
dolpli Smith, who was sent to the I
? scene of the trouble to report the at- :
fair for the Slate says "whatever may '
be the merits or demerits of lynch law '
there perhaps never was an instance
before where the circumstances came j1
so near justiilyiiik the crime." ; J
1.1 KK A STOKIEI) HllMAM K.
i I
The whole tragic incident is more!
like the chapter from a romance of
some feudal time than a pane from .
life in the twentieth century. The old j
soldier who is fatally wounded and ,
cannot live through tiie nip'ht, accord-' ,
injj to liis physician, is utterly hlame- .
less of having injured t he negroes in |
auy w;iy and says ho lias personally i.
done nothing to excite their ire. The
trouble dates back to last Saturday |
morning, June 27, and, as is usual in ,
such cases, started over a comparative- j |
iy small matter. The negroes in the ,
vicinity of Norway have been very tri- ,
lling and impertinent for some time |
past. Many of them have positively ,
refused to work in the fields and the ,
crops have suffered not a little in con- 1
sequence. So on Saturday as above ,
^ stated when Lorenzo Williams, a no- |
growith a had reputation, swore at |
Addie Phillips, a son of John T. Phil- j
. Jlu,s, Phillips spoke to some of his ,
friends and they ali agreed that this j
was going a trifle too far, and advised (
him to whip the negro. This the t
Phillips boy, with the aid of his broth- ,
er, "Judge" Phillips, attempted to do. N
They secured a buggy whip and sum- (
moned the negro to them. Then they t
proceeded to give him what every- |
body in the community said that he ,
deserved?a thrashing. The two j
Evans negroes are friends of the Williams
negro. When they learned that
he was to bo punished they followed I;
him to the scene of act ion. When the 11
elder Phillips boy began to lay on the <
lash they protested, and the Phillips i
boys warned them away, telling them ;
that unless they minded their business i
they would get into trouble them- i
selves. The negroes surlily took their i
departure, and nothing was seen of i
them on the following day, Sunday, by l
the white people of the village. Some i
of the negsoes who are inclined to l>e I
loyal to their employes, however, say t
that both of the Evans negroes came I
back to the outskirts-of the town on (
Saturday evcuing, and openly made 1
threats against the whole Phillips i
family, women and children included, i
How these threats wore carried out is
the after story.
"educated neokoes,'' these.
The Evans negroes were l>oth educated.
They could not only read and
write but it is said had a knowledge
of literature and read a number of
northern newspapers. The Phillips
family and the other residents of Norway
paid no attention to the threats.
In fact it seems that they simply regarded
them as threats and no attention
was paid to them. Everybody
in the village now regrets that the
proper respect was not paid to these
threats. The Phillips house is a mod- I
est home about a half mile from the
railroad and on the outskirts of the i
village. At the south side is a big
cotton patch, skirted by woods and
so situated that any one approaching
across the Held can readily Ik; seen
from the dining room of the Phillips
home. It was not \et dark a few
minutes before 8 o'clock on Monday 1
evening, when many of the people
about the village were at supper, that
a shot rang out in the village. When
the smoke clared away two figures, 1
evidently those of negroes, were seen 1
running across the big cotton Held, '
and cries of help were heard from the 1
Phillips home.
scene ok oiiasti.y cici.mk.
The Itev. I). II. Crosland, whose
home is just next to the Phillips
limine, wan tiiv mnu uuc u? Kt't ti# tiu*
stricken family. There a scene inet
Ills eyes that was tinged with a horror
that the community had never
known. The aged Mr. Phillips was
half leaning, half reclining on the arm
of his y-year-old son, Lee. The supper
table, which had just been spread,
was literally covered with the blood
of the old soldier who had served
through the Civil war only to die at
the hands of a negro. Through the
window pane of the porch window,
happened to he down, there were 11
bullet holes that told ttie story of how
heavily charged the gun had been,
which aroused the whole village arid
brought them to the scene. Five of
these shots had entered the back of !
Mr. Phillips, two in the head, one at (
" v > , _ ,
top of the spinal column :?nl one under
each shoulder. Another shot
grazed the top of Kuby Phillips' head,
wounding her painfully but not dangerously.
and another wounded the
wrist of another daughter, Miss Magijio
Phillips, aliout 19 years old.
IIKit UABY IN IIKK ARMS.
Mrs. Phillips was sitting at the
head of the table with her baby in
her arms. The whole table was covered
with pools of blood and the faraiwere
for the most part panic stricken.
There were two notable exceptions.
There was not a sigh of emotion about
the child Lee and as lie supported his
father he expressed the opinion that
?ne of the Evans negroes had committed
the crime. The child. Kuby,
who was wounded, surprised the people
who quickly assembled at the
tiouse, by her actions, and it was
found after some investigation that
die was running about the house trying
to tindan old pistol that she might
kill, as she said, her father's slayer.
Mrs. Phillips was in such a condition
if nervous prostiation that the entire
village sat up to nurse and care for
tier and try and save her husband who,
it seems, was the greatest favoiite in
the town, and much respected because
if his valiant service during the war.
A MAN OK IKON.
Dr. C. II. Abels, who was called in
to examine the wounds of the old sol- i
lier, said that lie could live but a lew !
hours and when night came Tuesday
ind the old man was st ill alive no one
iou'd understand it. The doctor said
that it was simiy his wonderful constitution
that had kept liini alive, and i
that, beyond the peradventure of U|
doubt he. would die before morning.
That lie had lived as long as lie had,
the physician said, was one of the
most remarkable things that he had
;ver encountered in his practice but
it the same time pointed out that the
Id man had a constitution second to
none that he had ever known. To
liear out this statement Dr. Ahels 1
pointed to tile arm dangling at Mr.
Phillips' side. It was almost shot
iway at the battle of Deep Water,
Va., and lias since hung practically '
I?y the skin, every connection with j
the bone below the shoulder having 1
Ln en severed. Then again, said the |
magnificent physique of the old man
was illustrated by his family which
lias numbered two wives and lit chll- j
iren. 13 of wlnc.u are living. All this |
was known to the village people and j
the farmers for miles around, and
they watched and waited around the J
wrl lit' t 111! (kill in I ii Itimiitir u.fQiaet I
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lope that in some miraculous way his
ife would be spared. It was first
varm weather that the county has *
CllOWij this year and the h.?use was
ipeti so that any one in the village
;ould come and no at will and witless
the death struggle of the veteran v
vho lay dying by the hand of a nais- ?
reant, negro. There may have been
.bought of otlier tilings through tlie (.
ong, long dreary watch of Monday
light but there was no action.
r
W1IKKK1S TIIK MUKDKUKK?" ?
It, was on Tuesday morning, when i
ill hope of Mr. Phillips' life was given 1
ip that the leading men began to e
-onsider the advisability of trying to v
iseertatn the name of the assassin c
in assassin of a character that made *
he whole community reek with lior- or.
Then the Phillips boys and otii- '
rs began to put two and two together I
lud two together and recall that they 1
lad heard that Kvans had licen mak- s
ng threats. It was lironglit to mind t
hat the two negro brothers had made f
die threats and that they had not i
icon seen about the place since Saturlay.
Iiupiiries were made and it was :
earned that they had lioth been seen ; t
lear the dam across the railroad from d
Llie village, armed with two guns. A c
prominent eit izen of the town sent to 1
liambcrg and got some bloodhounds 1
Lliat l>el ng to the chaingang there. I
They were put oil what was supposed d
to be the trail but the ground was so 'J
iry that they could do nothing. Kur- iC
ther inquiries were made and tlie con- i u
Session was forced out of a negro that j i
:ie had seen tlie two black despera- i I
Iocs hiding behind the dam with their c
;uns. The men who obtained this \
confession are two of t lie most prom- v
nent citizens in the whole communi- i f
Ly and their word could not tie gain- j t
said. But every one wanted to make c
aire and nothing was said in public s
lecause it was known that the young ?
'aimers in the vicinity were angry,
ind not inclined to wait for the slow
process of the law Several of them j ^
finally determined to net evidence I j
themselves, and they went to the 11
I'hillips house and bewail to pry i |
iround the premises for some clues L
that would lead them to make arrests. t
A VKKV LK A 1)1 NO CI.I'K. I
The very dry ground that had ;
thrown the houndsotT the scent helped j
the young fanners. Near the 1'hil- t
lips house they found the tracks of ,
two negroes negroes presumably for :.
the reason that all of the race living |
in the Immediate vicinity, even to I j
the educated Kvans brothers wore a L
peculiar shoe that was tiought at out' ' (
store in the village. They followed j
these tracks across the cotton field |
and on to the dam. There other (
tracks were found, leading across the ,
road and over the cotton field a .
nearer way to Lite I'hillips household, j
Coupled with the story of the man ,
who had seen the Kvans hoys hiding (
I tell ind the dam with their guns this I
was deemed sutlicient evidence to ar- i
rest Charles, the other ^brother hav- ,
lug disappeared. He was token with- ,
out great ditliculty not far from his .
home and the spirit of bfagadocio (
with which lie denied his guilt did as ,
much to arouse suspicion as the tell |
tale tracks across the fields. Further
inquhics developed the fact that, it .
was only a half an hour before the
tragedy tliat the Kvans's were seen 1
hiding lichind the dam.
TUK KIKND JAILKl) AT LAST.
Chas. Evans was lodged in the guard
louse early Tues3ay morning and the
lews began to spread around the
neighborhood. The crime was not distorted.
not exaggerated, ministers and
ither prominent citizens said Tuesday
Lhat farmers and others said little or
nothing about the trouble they have
jeen experiencing with the negros To
fears past. They did not cvi n ml
the fact that when two white inpn attempted
to justly punish a negro who
lad been impertinent beyond question,
they were interfered with by two of
the very worst characters in the whole
territory roundabout. They simply
wanted to know.
It was not long after Evans was
safely placed in the guard house,
which is simply a wooden building entirely
insecure, that the people from
ill the country about began to arrive
r number. They were quiet and orlerly
and all they asked what was to
jc done. When they learned that
Kvans was jailed thcy'all agreed that
t was best to leave the "man to tlie
aw" and they began to send out
icoiits to tind the other brother. He
?uld not 1m; found and telegrams were
?ent to all the stations in the
leighborhood, and even the trains on
lie Seaboard were searched as the}
massed in tlie hope of finding .lim
Kvans who was at tirst thought to' be
die ringleader. All efforts were futile.
the tiironokd inch eases.
This made the crowds of farmers
md villagers anxious. The populaiion
of tlie town is but over 200 and it
xiasts the I act that there lias not
m?en a drunken man within its borders
vithin three years, but the throng inTeased
to over ;">oo, and every hour
mmght in more strangers, for runners
tbout the country had carried the
lews that tlie negroes were arming
lie mse Ives and were about to make
urther trouble. As the farmers caiue
u with their shotguns and rifles slung '
icross their shoulders, they laughed j
it the idea of the negroes making |
uore trouble and said that tney would
lot leave the place until "the law had
aken its course." The time, they
aid, for negro impertinence to cease
lad come and they wondered whether
?r not there would tie any trouble if
hey hauled Kvans out of tlie jail and
wung nun up 10 a nearuy tree, nut
ilder heads cautioned tlie heated
outlis aud told tliem that they were
ill law abiding citizens and that any
ash act would bring down censure on
,heir heads. Tlie farmers with guns
istened to the wise counsel and they
vere kept away from the Phillips
lome, where it was known that tlie
offerings of the wounded man would
urther ineense them.
A MKS8AGK OKTKSOLKNCE.
All went well until about 11 o'clock,
vhen a negro courier came into town
ind said that if the farmers wanted
'a man they could come down to the
(Utskirts of the town and get one."
lad the proverbial bombshell exploded
in the midst of tlie crowd it could
lot have created a greater sensation
ban this impertinent message, addng
insult to tlie already great injury.
The counsel of the older men prevailid
again, however, and tlie hot heads
vere persuaded upon to remain in the
cut re of the village and protect tlie
vomen and children while some lf> or
!rt of the town's oldest anil best eitlens
went out to meet the negroes who
md sent the impertinent message.
1'hey were soon in their midst. rl he
ight of the armed white men coming
oward them with their determined
aces and glistening arms seemed for a
noment to awe them.
THREATENING ATTITUDE SHOWN.
Tlie negroes bore a threatening atti,ude
at tirst, but when they saw tlie
leterminatlon written in every line
it their adversaries faces most of them
ay down their arms when they were
ilddcn to do so. Three, John Felder,
Jlysses Johnson and Pink Hartwell,
lid not have the good sense to do this.
mey snowca tight and the men rushid
up hi them and took their guns
iway from them after no little ditliulty.
Had it not been for the num>er
of the whites they would have unloubtedly
had diihculty with Johnson
vho not only declined to give up his
pin hut resisted when it was taken
rom him. The three negroes who had
this daring were promptly marched
iff to the guard lit.use, where they
vere place in separate rooms under
.trong guard.
Hl.ool) on TIIK MOON.
Ihit. this incl.it ut had served to more I
{really incite the anger of every one \
issemhled in the the village ami even
,he most prominent inen in the town |
jegan to shake their heads and wonler
what was coining next. The afteriooh
and the early part of tlie night
Kissed under st ress of the greatest excitement
in the whole community.
VIen who know the populace like a
Mi' k say tli it it is only the Providence
if Hod that kept the life of the
von tided Philips hanging by a thread
ill day. Had lie died there is hut
ittle doubt hut that there would have !
?een a race war, for negroes, who;
teemed to have no prudence under the 1
premises, continued to arrive in town
n numbers and It was known that
many of them were armed with pisLois.
When it was seen tliat they had
weapons they were promptly disarmed
ind told tliat unless they kept the
peace they would he dealt with In a
way that would furnish a lesson for all
Lhcir kind for a long time to come.
This salutary advice had its effect
with some and with others it had
none. In the late evening there were
many sullen negro faces about the
place and the crowd was much iniXinsed
when it was rumored about j
the village tliat some of the negroes
had gotten together at the planing
mill a short distance from the town
and passed resolutions tliat no lynching
bee he permitted.
Continued on page 4.
GAVE HIMSELF UP. |
A Mau Convicted of Killing His
Brother Admitted to Prison
STRANGE STORY OF THE CRIME.
INiickney \V. Hullo (.Ives Himself I'p
A I'u* i Supreme Court Has
Denied llis Motion for
New Trial.
The State says l'inckne.v W. Ihitto,
convicted of having taken the life of
ills brother. E. Worth Ilutto, came to
Columbia Tuesday and entered nnon a
servitude of three years in the State,
prison. Tile brand of Cain is upon his
brow, but with an earnestness whicli
is impressive he begins ids life as a
convict witli the declaration that he
is innocent. His curious story is perhaps
without a parallel, and if it t>o
true, as every evidence indicates, he
has been sinned against rather than
being the sinner.
According to the story of Pinckucy,
or "l'luin* 11utto, as lie was a called
by his neighbors, Worth Hutto was a
dangerous man and had been getting
into a good many serap s. Indeed lie 1
had made way with what, little prop- (
erty he had had, and "Plum" Hutto :
had given him work in a wheelwright's |
shop at Norway. Hut. Worth Hutto
kept up his driiking and other misconduct
to such an extent that the older
brother was forced to discharge him
at the end of a year's employment. j
IN A OANGKUOPS MOOI). j
The very next day Worth Hutto i
went to Livingston, the nearest dispensary
town, and after nightfall came
back to Norway in a very dangerous
mood, Going to the home of his older j
brother he abused him terribly and
"J'luin" Hutto with the assistance of
his grown son, S. J. Hutto, got the
Isid brother out. of the house. The
latter brought a shot gun with him, it
seems, and left it on the portcli, for as ;
soon as lie got out of the house he tired
the shot gun by the window of Pinckncy
Hutto's house. The latter, after
he had placed iiis wife on the right
way of the Seaboard Air Line railroad,
nntlt liv; .lUtlUCll IU |/l 1 11IV SHU VVUUIU
be sate from the wild ratine of the
young brother, went in search of the
town marshal.
When Pinckney 11utto and the marshal
arrived, the latter went to the
home of Worth iiutto about 50 yards
Xrom the home of the olderi.h'-othcr.
In response to the calls ol' the lmirshal.
Worth 11 utto appeared in the
doorway with nis double-barrelled shot
gun. He was heard to exclaim, 4,I
will get those fellows now," and thereupon
tired, Pinckney IIutto, fearing
that the marshal would be killed,
threw up his right hand in a gesture
of imprecation to his brother.
PISCKNKV IIUTTO WOUNDED.
The gun was tired just at that moment
and one barrel was emptied Into
Pinckney Ilutto's right hand, 18 small
shot taking elleet. The latter was
standing at his own gate considerably ;
in the rear of the town marshal who!
disappeared from the scene altout that
time. The crazed brother advanced !
with bis shot gun and tired again. \
The second shot struck Pinckney llut- j
to fairly in the breast but on account j
of the distance and on account of the 1
t hickness of his vest, none of the shot j
entered his l>ody. ;
Still advancing threateningly, '
Worth iiutto made, another attempt
to take his brother's life, emptying
both barrels of his gun at short range, !
but the older brother escaped further
hurt than the disabling of his right!
hand.
A TRAGIC SCKNK.
It WJIS a tragic scene. The older
brother is now 51 years old, and was i
at that time Hearing 50, a man quiet i t
almost to gentleness with a repu- 1
tation for being peaceable and law- | c
abiding and law-fearing citizen. lie;
is small and frail and disabled as lie j
was no match for his brother, a Her-: t
cules in strength, towering ( feet 4 1
and weighing 240 pounds, one of the
most reckless and most powerful men j 1
in that whole country. ! i
Almost at the feet of the two broth- t
ers lay the wife of the wounded man, 1
groveling in the snow in her anguish '
and mingling her screams with the ?
convulsive wailing of her terrified lit- i1
tie one who just a moment before had '
been held in the father's arms with '
its head under his coat to shut out the
noise and the sight of the encounter *
v hlcli had been expected between the I
the town marshal and tlie younger <
brother. '
It was amid such scenes of excite- 1
ment that the fatal shot was tired. (
Up to tliis point llutto's narrative is
indeed convincing. Hut as to thecll- i
max of the situation lie speaks rather
evasively, declaring each time that he |
is questioned that iie is innocent, :
and, being innocent, that he will suf- !
fer an uurigliteous condemnation.
.
THK KATAl< SIIOT.
He declares tliat his hrother, having } i
exhausted his supply of gun shells,
reached in his right front trousers
pocket for ids revolver. There was
some delay in getting the weapon out
and the latter was accidentally discharged,
the tire from the pistol indicating
that it had been pointed in the
direction taken by the fatal bullet.
1 lutto declares that he thought to
himself at the time that if his brother
had not wounded himself he had come i
very near it. The bullet went in near I
the right side of the abdomen and
ranged across, perforating some of the
intestines. When this shot was tired,
| Worth Hutto got Ids pistol out of his
i
pocket and in a half iistiess way as if
lie were hurt discharged another hail
it his brother. With that lie went on
toward his own home, and Pinekney
llutto expected him to return witli
more ammunition, until the town marshal
came up and arrested Pinekney
'or having shot his brother.
HAD A l'I8TOL 1IIM8KLK.
There was one point in the narrative
upon which lictild notspeak with
freedom, and that was in regard to
lis having a pistol himself, lie adnits
that the prosecution pointed out
that there was no powder burn on his
irother's clothing at the place where
.he ball entered and he states that he
lid indeed have a pistol and that lie
Ired it once to frighten his brother,
mt that lie did not point it at Worth
llutto, for had he cared* to do so he
sould have shot every button off of
lis coat. Piuckney llutto was not in
.he habit of carrying a pistol, and
.his weapon is one which iiis son had
aid on the mantel after having come
n from the farm that afternoon.
When the excitement started Pinckley
llutto slipped the revolver inu
lis pocket, but lie asserts stoutly that
,he fatal bullet did not come from his
listol.
t'ONVICTKD AND 8KNTKNCKD. I
His brother lingered a day or so i
onger, but never seemed to regain I
lossession of Iiis mental faculties, for 1
le was full of opiates all of the time,
'inekney Hutto and iiis son were ar- I
ested, charged with having killed I
Worth llutto. The young man was i
icqwittod, but i'inckney HutU), al- i
.bough represented by Senator Hay- i
or, was convicted and sentenced to ' |
erve three years in the penitentiary. <
I'he appeal to the supreme court was ?
verruitMi aim liutto, seeing in Tim j l
itate a notice of t he action of the! I
upreme court, came to Columbia at r
he same time writing to SlieritT 1
>ukes of <>ran^ burg that he was i <
soming. As yet his commitment pa- i
ters have not been received, but Supt. |
iriillth has admitted liutto to the
>tate prison. i
"Plum" liutto speaks with sorrow : <
if his dead brother, and there arc I
ertain episodes in the life of the de- i
eased which were meutioned not
vith ill feeling, hut merely to show
vital tolerance had been exhibited by
he man who is now to wear the liv- 1
iry of crime while other men more 1
iriminal in deed and in thought have
net witlt a more kindly fate. A prom- 1
nent Columbia uiercliant who once 1
ived in that section slates tliat the 1
leceased Itad the reputation of having '
teen a dangerous man, while the condeled
brother w as known as a man of '
teace and an industrious citizen.
IAVKD Ills tntoTIIKH KllOM DISOKACK.
Iff ail 1*11 Uioiners in hi
.he Itomely way in which lie expresses
,heir dilference in physical appearince.
Pinckney liutto is small and
lender, with a kind blue eye and with
l quiet and pleasant air. lie dc:1ares
shamefacedly that on one oceaion
he saved his lirotlier from disgrace
at Denmaik, when he had been
onvlcted of hog stealing. The elder i
rother paid the line and paid the fee i
if the lawyer, who was very much ;
iut raged by llutto's action after the i
rial and would have shot Worth lluto,
perhaps, except fur the iutcrvenion
(if the older brother.
Another instance lie relates with
ome show of sorrow and shame is
hat his brother sent outrageous inesagcs
to the post mater at Norway,
dr. Brooks, who had sent a hill to <
iVorth I lotto tor small purchases out
if his store. Ilis older brother found j
.his out one day when lie went to
weep some shavings off of the work j
Hindi of the deceased. A pistol fell '
>ut of the shavings upon the il<K>r.
I'he older brother eluded the younger 1
or having the revolver lying around :
11 that fashion, and t lie latter replied i
vitli a menace that i'incknev Ilwttoj
lad better replace the pistol and the !'
havings as he had found them. 1 Ie :
ihcn declared defiantly that he was
-eady for the man Brooks. In ?rder
aj settle the trouble, Pinekney Ilutto
laid the bill and had the matter 1
i ropped.- i1
HKOOKD MAUSllAI. Nor TO SHOOT.
lie declares fulhermore that on 1
,hat fatal December night wlien he
eft liis wife sitting in the snow be- 1
iide the Seaboard Air Line and went
n search of the town marshal to ar- j
est 1110 brother who had cursed so |
jutrageously in his home and has tired ,
lis shot gun threateningly under his
,ery window, with these exciting ciraimstances
harassing liis mind lie'
vent to the otlicer of the town and I
jegged 11iin not to hurt the younger!
jrother.
I pou arriving in the city, Hutlol
ailed upon (?ov. i ley ward. Mr. \Y. ! '. I
Kurtick and other well known citizens
>f Columbia with whom lie had previous
acquaintance or to w hom lie had
letters ol introduction.
II AL> MET IIKFOKK.
When lie stepped upon the poreli of
I he guard room of the State prison
Tuesday afternoon he was greeted
pleasantly by Capt. 1>. .1. Criflith, the
superintendent. "Well, Captain, 1
have come to accept your invitation,
but not in the manner 1 had expected,"
said 11 nt t< . recalling an Invitation
extended by Capt. tiritllth a year or
so UK" when the latter was down In,
thai section and stopped over night at
the hotel at Norway kept by llutto.
"1 thought 1 might run up to Columbia
some time and thought 1 might
come and take a look at the penit.cn-1
tiary," said llutto, "but I never
thought I would come to this." He 1
was treated with every kindness and
consideration l>v Capt. (iritlitli and
Capt. Adams, tlic captain of the penitentiary
guard, and the convicted man
commences his sentence with the re- 1
assuring words that three years is a
short sentence compared with some
and that three years will get by in a
hurry.
"I can't do very much work," he
said apologetically, "for lam 51 years
old and have nob done much hard work
lately anyway." It is indeed a sad
plight in which he finds himself, for
at home lie works about 15 or 18
hands on his farm in addition to other
laborers, lie lias the air of a man of
atTairs and family whose name he
l>ears Is well known in Aiken and
Karnwell counties. 11utto enters the
prison with a stronger iiope than a
great many men have in facing the
same future. For the judgd gave him
a very light sentence, indicating that
there was a great deal of evidence in
ids favor, and he says that at the proper
time he can produce a petition
for pardon signed by leading men of
(iraugeburg county who have already
expressed to him their belief in his
innocence.
SAKKTY OK UIS FAMILY.
In one particular lie was very much *
wor "ed ?that is in regard to the safe- ^
ty of his family. It will be recalled
that The State Tuesday printed a 1
story of the terrible homicide at Nor- <
way. Mr. John T. Phillips was shot 1
in the hack of the tiead and instantly (
killed wliilc at supper Mondav nivht
11 ulto left Norwav in Hit* afternoon j
before the: terrible tragedy and knows ! s
none of the details but lie is very
idncli a fleeted, for he fears an upris- s
log of the negroes and Ins wife is out s
in tlie country. t
Last Sat urday and Sunday a negro ,
had said to him that "a strong wind r
is coining out or the east," by which a
metaphor llutto thinks the negro ,
meant to convey the idea that the ^
negroes would rise up and avenge the j
public chastisement given a negro by |
inenf Mr. 1'hillip.v sons who had been
:ursed outrageously by the negro and
had at the tirst opportunity whipped
the negro on thr streets of Norway.
Fhe elder Mr. Phillips, who was a
Confederate soldier and disabled in
me arm; threw a rock at one of the
negroes and this is supposed tb be his
part of the revenge.
Mr. llutto has an idea who committed
the dastardly crime hut he
Joes not o:iro to express liiinseif at
Lliis distance from the crime, for he
might he in error.
White Man Pound Dead.
The Columbia State says Coroner
GJreen deputi/.edvMagistrate Davis of
Lbe upper part of the county to hold
Hie inquest over the body of the white
man found dead beside the Southern
railway track Tuesday. As yet the
grave of this poor fellow will be markid
"unknown," for there was nothing
to give a clue to his identity. He had
parts of cotton mill machinery in his
pocket and evidently was a mill operative.
liut decomposition had been so
rapid that, except for his hair, It
would have rnx>n impossible to tell
whether he was a white man or a neirrn
Thnrn cuoc nnt
p,*w. ^ uviu Ttaa uvuiiii^ iu muicatU 1
the cause of death, whether sunstroke *
or whether he had been "beating" his (
way un a train and had fallen off. I
They,Cheated.
The Charleston county board of j
education lias thrown out the examination
papers of thirty negro men
and women who sought to be teach- 1
ers in the pulilic schools because, as 5
the board alleges, the applicants '
"cheated" iu the preparation of their <
papers. The examination was held 1
May 22nd and the board has just an- (
nounced that ccrtiticates will be re- <
fused to thirty of the thirty-five ap- {
plicants for the reason assigned. '<
County Superintendent of Education '
Miligau said that he saw the irregu- ?
larities being practiced and warned '
the applicants that their papers would 1
be thrown out if they did not desist. 1
Hut this warning had no effect. '
Knight hood Still in Flower.
Chivalry still lives, and its home i
is iu the mountains of North Caro- (
lina. On Quaker mountain the other j
day a neighborhood quarrel resulted |
in a pitched battle. In the midst of i
the hostilities a pienlc party appeared i
moving along the road ttiat separated '
the enemies. As soou as tlie lighters
saw the pi nickers one of them called <
out, "Hoys, stop .shooting until these
young ladles ami gentlemen pass." At 1
once the tiring ceased and the young ;
ladies and gentlem passed in safety.
Could there have been finer ehivalrv
?-. J ,
even in the days when knighthood was
in tlowei"?
A St reiiuoim Game.
Baseball is a little more strenuous in
Georgia than elsewhere. A dispatch '
from Atlanta gives an account of a
game between rival negro teams near
that city in which a base runner was '
shot in the act of attempting a "slide." 1
lit- was carried to one side and the
game proceeded, the wounded man dying
before the tinish. When the score
was tied in the last inning the umpire
made a decision which caused him to
l?e killed in his tracks. The murderers
escaped and the team for which they
made the gun play is gallantly pulling
for the pennant.
A Itunaway Horse.
A runaway horse created intense
excitement in C. F. Jones ?!fc Co.'s
store in Anderson recently. The animal
became frightened from some
cause, broke loose from its fastenings
in the rear of the store of II. G. Johnson
?V Sou, dashed through this store
and then across the street. It ran upa
lligiit of steps and through a partly
open door into the rear room of Jones
store, which was occupied by the dress
making department.
Hit ten l>y a Snake.
A dispatch from Chesterfield says
Wednesday morning Mrs. Fannie
Funderburk, wife of the Bev. It. S.
Funderburk, while reaching in a barrel
of meal in a barn to get some for
her cow, was bitten by a rattlesnake
pilit. Medical aid was summoned and
Mrs. Funderburk H now getting along
very well, but she has suffered agonies.
I
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AWFUL CALAMITY.
The Worst Disaster Ever Occurred in
??
the History of Yoming.
OVER TWO HUNDRED KILLED.
A Ttrrlllc Fiplnnion In n Mine
of Fire Dump. Shut Tliem
t'p l.ike ICiiIh in n
Tru p.
11 anna. Wyoming, was the sccue
Tuesday or a terrible disaster?the
worst in the history of Wyoming?at
I .:t0 a. m., when an explosion of tire
lamp in mine No. 1 of -the Union l'a;ific
(Joal company snutTed out the
ives of 2114 men, injured scores of
ithers and caused the destruction of a
oist amount of property.
The mine was not lired, as was
tated in the earlier reports, but the
'V nil Lt.ii in ivnti litrrifl.t u..H ..I..
haltered the timbers ol' the main
haft and numerous entrances, tilling
he working pit witli debris, and those
>f t lie miners thai were not killed outight
by the explosion were buried
ilive. The explosion was heard for
nany miles around and attracted peo>le
from the adjoining settlements,
luge timbers and raillroad iron were
iurled :tOO feet (mm the mouth of the
haft. Supt. E. S. Drunks and a large
'orce of men began tiie work of removng
the debris from the shaft, tliat
,hey migiit reach the entombed
liiuers. Their progress into the mine
vas blocked by the foul glasses and
everal times they were forced to re,urn
to tiie surface.
All day the rescuing party worked,
.he force being increased from time to
lime by the arrival of ranchmen and
itliers from nearby settlements and
>y those of a relief train sent out
'rom Rawlins, which arrived at 2
/clock in tiie afternoon. About 1
/clock Tuesday afternoon four men
were taken out alive and a half hour
ator they were followed by 42 others,
dany w. re unconscious and had to l>e
;arried from the workings. Several
ire in a serious condition, hut it is
telieved all will recover.
Two hundred and eighty-two men
went down in the mine at 7 o'clock
Wednesday morning and up to a late
lour Wednesday night only 48 have
jeen accounted for. Of this uumlier
Iwo are dead. It was some time after
Lhe- explosion occurred that tbeiirst w_
man was brought to the surface. He ?
was followed by others until 1 o'clock
when the last of the 48 was brought
jut. Tiie rescuers were unable lo
EHinetrate further into the mine as it
was necessary to make another opening
to permit fresh air to reach the
lower levels.
Horses and scrapers were put at
work hauling debris away froru the
ihaft. The work is progressing slowv,
owing to the narrow space in which
the rescuers are compelled to operate,
;>ut by daylight the mines should be
ipened sufficiently to permit of deep
explorations and the rescue of the
lead liodies. Late Wednesday night
i party of rescuers readied four mules
that were alive and this caused renewed
hope. It is a faint hope, however,
for experienced mine bosses and
minors sav that when the imprisoned
men are reached, all will lie found
lead. Some of the miners win* escaped
say they saw 20 (lead inidies in
jntry No. 17. They reported that
many of the men were crazed by the ?
jxplosion and ran hither and thither
in the mine. Many of these could
nave escaped but they lay down buried
Llieir faces in their hands and gave up
the light. (If the 234 dead about 17.~>
were married and leave large, families.
About 100 were Fiulanders, 50 were
colored and the rest were Americans.
The Hanna mines are among the
best on the Union Pacific system, being
established in 1S78. The town
was named for Senator Mark Hanna
when he was a member of the Union
Pacific Coal company. Mine No 1. is
practically a new property. It has
20 entries, 15 miles of workings and
a main incline shaft of one and
une-half miles in lenirth. The mine
has been recognized as a dangerous
property for some tiuie on account
of the large amount of gas, but the ^
system of ventilation has been so good
that an accident was not anticipated.
Kitten ily IIokh.
Cynthia Johnson, an aged widow,
who lived near Klnuison, Indian Territory,
was attacked hy an unknown
party with a club Thursday night and
beaten almost to death. The unknown
man shot her twice and she fell dead,
lie left tlte hour-e and is hiding in tiic
brush and is a still at large. Mrs. Johhsou
was a widow of some means and
money was found in Iter home unmolested.
Site bad a sou and daughter
who resided with iter, but they were
away at the time of the killing and
when the daughter, who came home
tirst, arrived at the gate she found
their mother dead in the yard. Hogs
had attacked her and had eaten Iter
corpse until It was beyond recognition.
t% i nouHumi Men Hilled.
Dispatch from London says the war
otllce today received a dispatch from
Col. Rochfort, one of the Itritish
otllcers serving witli the Adysslniati
forces in Somalililand, which says the
Abyssinians, May 31,after a series of
forced marches, struck the Mad Mullali's
forces near Jeyd, surprising them A
at dawn and killing 1,000 spearmen J
and capturing almost all their cattle A
and sheep and 1,000 camels.