The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 23, 1906, Image 5
BLACK FIEND.
B.ave Young Woman Fights for
Life and Honor.
-w - ?GAINST
A FIEND.
Bob
Davis Attempted to Ravish and Mur*
der Young Lady in Qreenwood^County.
Then Makes Successful 4
Attempt on a Negro
Woman*
A dispatch from Greenwood to The
State says one of the most diabolical
attempts at criminal assault possible
was made Tuesday upon the person of
Miss JenMe Brooks, the 20-year-old
daughter ot Mr.and Mrs. J. P. Brooks
of the Mt. Moriah section of the ooun
ty, by a negro named Bob Davis. The
Hand did not accomplish his purpose
but he came near murdering Miss
Brooks who is not yet out of danger.
The crime is a horrible one. Mr.
Brooks is a farmer who lives between
Greenwood and Mt. Morlah church,
about four and a half miles from town.
He is a very successful farmer and has
accumulated property. In connection
with his farm he runs a store. Tne
store building it^about 50 yards or less
from his house. The public road runB
betweenrthe two.
It is a very public place and it
seems incredible that tne tiend would
have been so bold as to attempt the
crime in this placC 4n1 in open daylight.
It is the custom of the family
to keep the store looked and to open
when customers oome. Tuesday Mr.
and Mrs. Brooks had gone to attend a
protraoted meeting at Itihoboth.
They left their two eldest daughters,
Misses Jennie and Nalo, and their
grandmother, Mrs. Uerlong, at home.
The grandmother uses a rolltng ohair,
- * a 3 i ?i.ii
Oiling A Uijuurmou lUY?im. imw J aumn
was called to the store by some negro
cu8ion3ra and while tbey ware there
the negro Bib Divis cam* In.
She says she did not like the negro's
looks. lie waited until the others
had t one out of the storr then he
asked to see s( a ; shoes'. Jie selected
a pair and i.iea bought a psir of
pants, then he told hor he w.Mited
some bacon. rfhe told him she was
out of baoon. H i poln; 30 to ?ome
tbat suited him in the box and she
came from be da J the cou uer t > get
It. As she d d s he grabbed up the
meat kn;f.i and came towards her saying:
"Y u a a lat I wi ut."
M.sa Br)oks, wuo wi perfectly coo)
when rotating h?r awful experience,
says she saw an iron bar before her
anu attempted t/' ^et. It to defend herself.
The negro made a murderouionslaught
wir.h the kr'fe and she
threw up her h*?nds tnvuuatariiy to
her face. The bmw of the knife almost
severed two of her lingers As
soon as she dropped her hands, he
again s'rnok at her with the knife,
this time making a ghastly wou id in
the throat.
This wound is about four inches
long and missed the carotid arteries
by the mere traction of an inch. V ith
her blood spu'rting from Inn wound Id
her thrw&t and disabled In her right
arm by the othor wound, Mhjs Brooks
successfully fought off her issaiiamt,
finally in some way securing the knife
thoug u she says she does not know how
she got it
The thing that saved her was a
passerby. Mr. John Tolbert, coming
to town in hH buggy, passed th<
store. The ovtsing frightened th#
negro. He flid and Miss Brooks
came to the door and had strength
enough leit to call to Mr. Tolbort.
He had heard, he said, a peculiar
noise In the store, but led her to the
gate, where he was met by her sister,
who said she would take her in and
for him to go for help to catch the
negro. He did so. In a short time
men were leaving town in droves.
Dr. G. p. Neel went to the wounded
girl at once In an automobile, Mr.
Tolbert having caught him oy 'phone
from the nearest 'phone to the Brooks
home. Dr. Neel thinks she will recover.
After his attempted ansuault on
Mlhs Brooks the fiend went to the
VirtrmA i.# .. /..ilnv^/4 uur.man r\n t,VlM Hftll
"Viiug KJL eft VAilV/i^u TTgLUMU wm
plaoe and there marie an assault on a
negro woman whose name could not
be learned. In this attempt he was
successful. The description of the
- * negro fits exact'y Bob D ivls and there
Is no doubt that the same fiend com
mltted both crimes. If oaught the
fiend will be lynched.
Voted Out,
Without & dissenting vote in the
presence of a large gallery of speota
tors the oity council of Birmingham,
Ala., Thursday night finally passed
an ordinance which will prohibit the
operation of any sort of brokerage
' house in the oily which deals In futur*
} es, after Ootober 1. The action is the
result of the sentiment brought ab^ut
by the defaloation in the First National
Bank of Birmingham.
Killed at Instrument.
During a severe electric storm Tuesday
afternoon Stewart Battle, aged
25 years, telepraph operator for the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at Col
ller'a Station,, Va. was struok by
tfhtnlng and Instantly killed. At
the time of the occurrence Battle wai
nun IHTO STRUT OAR. I
A Fool Who Septus to bo Following
Dons' Advloo.
The Columbia correspondent of The
News and Courier says there was considerable
c xcltement In that olty Friday
afternocn. It sems that Manson
Hamilton, a negro porter at the ltldievtlle
Club, was riding out to Rldgewood
on a car with some excursionists
from Clinton. He oooupled a seat Id
the section for white passengers The
jonduolor went to Hamilton and told
hlmto get in the seats Intend d for
the colored. It Is said he declined
10 do so and a row followed. The
white passengers joined in and the re
suit was that Hamilton was put otT
the car. Uatbllton claims to have
been kicked and badly treated. *The
conductor and others olalm that he
was simply put off the oar.
The oar passes by Hamilton's home
and on the return trip Hamilton was
standing In his door and shot Into the
car. The shot went wild. A few
small shot hit Mr. George Ware on
the hand and a few hit Conductor
Younglner. There was considerable
excitement in ?!? ? u,,rl in
?MV VI WJ U11V4 111 OUA?lV3
way the report spread that if Hamilton
were caught ha would bo lynched,
iie came to Columbia quietly, went
to the county jail and is there now.
The itllcers will v.grously prosecute
Hamilton for his conduot and for |
shooting into the car. Fortunately
no one was at all seriously hurt.
Hamilton claims that his gun went
oil accidentally. The passengers on
tlie train claim that Hamilton delib
erately shot luto the car. Hamilton
ran and he was chased. Superintendent
Walla le had a warrant sworn
out against Hamilton and soon a posse
was hunting him. l)uring the even
Ing Hamilton came to Columbia in
company with Mr. Brown Hyatt and
surrendered. He is dow in j all. lie
only asked to say that the gUn went
oil' accidentally aud tnat ho was badly
treated on the train.
Negro l'roo|>h Umuho CJrliuo
N^gro Uulted States tr >ops have
aoted very badly at Brownsville, Texas.
The killing of one man, the fa
tal wounding of another and an attempted
outrage upon a white womau
constitute crimes that will uot be
lightly condoned. Tne splintering of
white re-ildences with rltle bullets
tired by negro hands was all on acc
)unt of tue fact tnat a white saloon
refused to serve them drinks. Negro
soldiers seem to be the only incentive
for the dastardly action of the
negroes. Demands of a premptory
na uro have been made ou the oomuuud
r of Fort Bown for the arrest
vn I proper punis iment of the marau-1
- - J A. - * - %
; '<r * arja tiie matter or senaiDg scale
r op< to chd soene is only held In
1 *?y& :oe uutil It is known what the
l';uer*i military authorities Intend to
!o It is under ?tood that General McCarty,
uo* in Austin, will make a
^enrobing investigation into the
vuole affair.
s*yh Ic'h a tie.
The fo'lowlng letter was published
.a the Columbia Record Thursday: To
ihoEhtor of th Daily Rjcord, Cournbla,
S. 0.?Dear Sir: Will you
Kindly let the people of South Carolina
kno w that John C. Haskell told
* moftt damnable lie when he made
?he statement that 1 had made a ren
irk *o the effect that the rapatrs on
Wilie Jones's house had been mads by
banal an, the whiskey merohant? To
h3 best of my knowledge, I never
h?ard of Ltnanan before this affalr
ame int >* otnoe. I don't know when
1 ese repairs ^ere made, they must
i?ve been male since C9(J, as I left
?cuth Carolina In thar year. 1 don't
think Mr. Ilask'dl will gain anything,
with fair-minded and honest people,
by telling a damn lie about a man
that Is Lhiee thousand miles away
from him. Yours, eto.
Wm. II. Caldwell.
Terrible Tragedy.
A terrible tragedy took place a few
miles frcm Anderson on lest Saturday
Ight, In which Mr. T. F. Drake, on(
of the mcst prominent farmers in th<
county, was killed by J. Allen Emer
son, who is in charge of the count]
chaingang. The killing occurred a
the home of Mr. Drake, Emersoi
had gone to Mr. Drake's hous<
clandestinely, and was diheovered in i
room with Drake's daughter. Emer
son claims that Drake discovered hln
in the room rmd opened tire on him
\nd that he had to shoot to keep fron
being killed. One shot struct Mr
Drake, entering the body under th
right arm aDd coming out on the op
posite side of the body. Mr. Dark
fell and died almost Instantly.
Calls tl I in a Liar
ThAfinlumh'.a Sts.be wavs Plan. Will
Jones said Thursday in reference t
Ool. Haskell's remarks about Lmi
han presenting him with a puno
bowl that he could not understan
why Col. Haskell- should give uttei
ance to such lying and slanderous st<
ries unless he knew they were tru
and was willing to be responsible f<
them. As Ool. Haskell had stated thf
he did not know that they were trt
and did not give the name of any ma
who had stated the stories, all 1
could do was to denounoe the autht
as a liar, regardless of who he was.
at his telegraph Instrument reportli
the southbound passenger trail
whtoh left Petersburg at 6.16 P. 8
i The unfortuaate young man was
ton of Henry Battle, of this olty, at
had been in the servioe of the ra
. road company as telegraph operat
i for many years.
V
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I FIEND CAUGHT
And Governor Heyward Goes to
the Scene and
*
TBIES TO SAVE HIM.
\
The Governor Plead Eloquently and Earnestly
With the Crowd to Let the
Law Take Its Course. But
the Crowd Respectfully
Declined tp Do So.
Dob Davis, the fiend who attempted
to assault a white girl and who really
suoceeded In assaulting & colored girl,
has be^n caught and lynohed. After
the crime was committed on Tuesday
a big crowd of men and boys of both
raoes went to hunt down the nend.
They searched swamps and houses
and never did the r*al slacken. They
meant to catch that negro, and they
I meant to kill him, and that Is the
| whole story. For forty-eight hours |
the hunt kept up without abatement,
and then It was rewarded, thirteen or
fourteen miles away from the little
store in the Whitehall section, where '
Hob Davis attempted his crime and
his murder. Will BrookN saw a head
close up against a log. The body was
prostrate, covered with cane, but the
head showed. Brooks and John Williams
caught the negro, and it was not
long before be was tied and under escort,
started for the scene of hlsorlme
for Identification.
About tills time there was a Governor
in Columbia with a deep scone of
orido in his State, who was worried
and paoing his office. The sheriff of
the county had telegraphed him that
if Davis was caught ho feared a lynching,
and ho asked for help. Governor
Heyward consulted friends in
Greenwood, and realized that first of
ill the negro might not he caught,
and if he shot.Id be, that the temper
jf the people was suoh that armed
troops might lead to bloodshed and
u-selcsa loss of lite. ID thought over
the whole situation. iSo posse could
be assembled In the neighborhood, he
thought* to defend the %.'Ould be-ravlsher
should ho be caught. To order
J out the militia might lead to blood
shed. It would have been premature
and had the militia been here Davie
would hardly have been brought to
t.he house for personal ldentiiicatlon.
Governor Heyward thought, perhaps,
ne could move the people to a realization
of their duty as cittzsns and mer
by a personal appeal to let the lav
take its oourse. He wont oyer the
whole thing and f?U that the people
might heed him ?s Governor of South
Carolina, pleading for law and order.
It was a patriotic and an unusual resort
for a Governor to virtually got
down on his knees and plead and beg
and implore that the law lake Its
course. Perhaps some day It may ac
compllsh good. Thursday It was useless.
The circurastanoes of the assault,
the young woman in the room tifty
feet away, the long and weary search,
the record of the negro the bloody garments
all conspired to make the eloquence,
the force and the earnestness
of Governor Heyward's appeal for law
fall on deaf ears.
There had been a wreck . near
1 Ghappell, on the . Columbia and
1 Greenville Road, and tbe train with
1 Governor Heyward on board arrived
at Ninety-Six about 4 o'oldck Thura-day
afternoon. It was seen tbat
1 there was excitement and it was soon
learned that the soarohersbad a nogro
and were on their way to the home
of J. P. Brooks to have tbe man
Identltied. Governor Heyward talked
no the State Senator Brooks. Former
' It 'DreseriL&tive Klnard. (knt. h'ranor
f and other citizens at the station at
j Ninety-Six. They all to'd him the
? same thing, that he could hardly
nope to do any good, as the crowd
meant ckath to avenge the outrage.
P Ah soon an possible arrangements
i were made to take the Governor to
1 i.he Brooks home, eight miles away.
Woen he arrived there he found &
crowd of dfty or sixty determined
9 men there.
Tne store in whloh the outrage was
a attempted was open and across the
, road was the neat cottage in which
Mi-is Jennie Brooks lay. There were
'. women folk about. Governor Heye
ward made himself and 4 his mission
> known. lie was cordially received,
e out was frankly told than there was
no earthly cuanoe for him to save the
negro should be prove to be the right
man. lie went about in the crowd,
e out got no sign of help or encourage,0
ment. Tne men were there with
t pistols and guns ready to kill. They
h were not mere boys on & lark, but
d men with gray hairs and determinar
tion. They came with their coats
)- oil and a deep-set vengeance. Govle
ernor Ileyward was asked into the
v* himiaa t.r? itCkf. hlt.a trt ftaf IIo qui.
/A "V VV/ p^vv M MI WW WV VI* Ui AAO OU^'
it gosted that the la* take its course,
le The women folk dashed that they
,n would act as men if need be. Coverle
nor Hi vward thought he might get
H Mr. J. Pett Brooks, the father of the
young woman, and a sturdy man, tc
)g Kilted by r*ui?|*nesv
Qj A dispatch from Manila says firs
,1, Lieut. John 7. James and two prlv
a atea of the Eighth infantry, wltl
1(j Contract Surgeon Calvin Snyder am
11. Internal Revenue Collector William 7
or Williams, were killed Thursday after
noon, in a hand-to-hand fight with i
help him; but do, he, too, wanted
1'ilok vengeance. He eveQ wanted
jtie uegro burned.
It looked hopeless from the ver?
itaifc. Finally the cavalcade came up
;o the house with the burly negr? .
'Jed. The crowd had irrown. Tb? '
lews had spread and from far auci
*ear came men with their Unarms,
vl n from Qreenwood, from abtv* and
lelnw Greenwood, and even from
Vbbevllle, were there, now many
rons -e e there, Heaven only knows i
Vt east 500, and oounting pistols,
wlce tha number, and perhaps more,
four men literally dragged DavU
nto'hs room to show him to Mt?a
4ro< k). The orowd was so thick that "
t was difficult to get him Into the
louse, but he was anally taken into
he room and Miss Brooks identified
dm beyond question. She had no
loubt in his Identification, and he was
tasily recognizable. Davis was then
akon back by his captors to the bugry
in which he was brought. Govr
nor Hoy ward was asking tint the
logro be turned over to the ofllcers
>f the law. The orowd asked that he i
le heard. Several boards were placed {
icross the angles of the front yard
enoe and Governor neyward was y
pulled up on the boards. The Brooks I
louse Is about 100 yards from the t
I tore Around the yard Is a picket ;
!once. In one angle was Governor
lleyward's Impromptu stand, and In
jho other front angle was the guard
with the negro. It is well to note
these relative positions; Governor
Hey ward was Intensely In earnest. 11 .
was almost pale with excitement
when he mounted the little stage.
There was applause, and as he spoko
the crowds cheered the man, the Gov
omor they all felt and knew was do- 1
ing his duty. Some one suggested (
that the hurrahing might disturb
Miss Brooks, and G wornor Iley ward '
begged that the audlenco bo quiet as :
this was a most serlom matter, and ;
out of respect to the women and sick.
Giveraor Hey ward literally had 1
guns to the right and iefo of him, to |
the front and to the rear. The men
were deeply id earnest and listened. I
Governor Ileyward said ghe oame 1
alone, except that there woro two j
newspaper men wlti him, citizens of <
South Carolina, Just as ho wis. lie i
said he came unarmed, unassisted i
and alone to plead fir law and ordir. i
T len came applause, aud tlnilly Gov- |
?rnor Ileyward stopped It. Gsvernor i
Ileyward said he might have ordered i
troops to the sooue, and even those
might have b*>n useless, but he did
not. wish to have further trouble. Ho i
w mo from G dumbia, he weut
on cj say, to enter his plea
as Governor of the .great
State of South Carolina that the law
be allowed to take Its course. He be
devod the men present would see it
as he did, and the great wrong and
great Injustice that; would be done
die State If the crowd took the law In
ts owh hands.
"Lot the law take Its course" hj
bended. 1 am a South Carolinian lust
cha HAtnc as you are. I have a wife
and family at home for whom I have
the name attachment that you all
have. 1, too live In the country
Ptrhapn when I was In Colleton I
lived more remotely from nMtfhbors
than any cf you. and 1 assure you 1
know how you all feel. Still i am a
South Carolinian, and as Governor of
this State, let me be# you, let me implore
you, that the law tie allowed to
take its course. The State of South
Carolina is on trial before the olvilized
world. The question is shall the people
in passion ruie, or shall the majesty of
the law be upheld?
,4It Is a serlods question. The full
seriousness Is upon you. Let me ap
poal to the manhood of Greenwood
County, let mo appeal to you as
South Carolinians, mat you let this
man, this brute, be punished as the
law dictates. 1 appeal to you to let
your oltizdnship, your pride in Carolina,
rise above your natural passions
[ and prejudices. It will do you nood.
j I have come here to promise you on
my word as Governor that there will
he no delay In this oit-e I am as anxious
as you to see this brute punished, |
and 1 understand your feelings. The
people of your county should try this
case. The men about me are the
jurors. Why not leave It to them.
If the jury convicts this man, and
they will do so, 1 would 1)6 willing to
cut the rope just to have a legal execution.
You are my people. You
are all my friends, and let me plead
wit.h you and beg you to turn this
man over to the otllcersof the law and
have a legal execution.
"I have in the four years of my
term, so help me God, undertaken in
ever way to uphold the ni*J^sty of tne
law, and 1 want you to do so now.
The State is prospering and there is
but one cloud on the horizon, and
that is that uuch crowds as this take
the law too often in their own hands
It does you and it docs the State
harm."
The Governor referred to the Phoe
nix riot in this county, and said that
i the effects of that were bad and the
good people here ought to consider
i such matters. It makes no difference
V-Wt rat vnA #Aa1 n hmif niKih A.i n A < I * Ai^ jU i
nun vw%j icci auuuu nuuuunvw, iu uu^iit
i to be remembered that there are ample
laws in the land, and that each
Buoh impulsive action, each such in
' (raotlon of the law did harm not only
to those engaged In It, but to the
) State as 9 whole.
> "In Gjd's name," he implored, "dr
> not put another stain on the name ? 1
foroe of Pulajane* at Juhta, island 01
\ Leyte. The detaohment, which 00c
a slated of ten men, was greatly out
d numbered, but made a gallaut figbt
The Pulajanes captured three pistols
' tour Krag-Jorgensen rifles and thze
& hundred round of ammunition.
FIEND LYNCHED i
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iVithin Hearing of the Scene of J
rl
His Awful Crime. d
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IN ORDERLY AFFAIR. J
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lob Davis, the Fiend, Pays the Penalt> \
for [His Dastardly Assault on Two *
helpless Women He Was ^
Hanged and Riddled With *
Bullets. ,.]
4
Within hearing distance of the &
irooks home, where Miss Jennie G
Irooks lay suiTerlng from a fearful ^
found, which he had inilicted, Bob ^
3avls, the negro who on Tuesday at- &
emptcd to criminally assault her, was u
ynohod about lialf aftor 7 o'clock *
Thursday evening. The negro had tirst
jeen ideutltied by Miss Brooks, and ,
?ho G jvernor of the Stato of South i
Jarolina had made a futile appeal to a
ihe determined men who were leaders
n the lynching to allow the law to
iake its course. The lynching was as
ieoent, orderly and matter of-faot an J
llT*l>" of tbe kind as could ha ImauMn.
3d. ? ,
While Governor Hey ward wan speaking
the tlond was taken a way by tho
men who had him in ouarge and the
large crowd quickly followed. II3 was
taken down to the tlrst clump of trees,
below the homo of J. Pett Brooks and
thoro a halt was made. It looked as
if the execution would be swift, but
Mr. Brooks, the father of tho young
girl, rodo up and begged that the
crowd wait a wulle. II3 said that
many who had been on the throe days'
hunt had not yet arrived, and to wait
on them. Ho then begged that the
crime be wiped out by burning the
sooundrel. The negro seems anxious
euough to wait and he sat on the
ground. It was hard work to keep
some from shooting him, but the wait
continued. Crowds came up, some
from Greenwood and some from the
neighborhood aud most of them with
guns and pistols. There appeared to ,
he no hope to save the negro's life.
T crowd would listen to nothing.
Gjveruor Hey ward, who remained
some distance back, sent messages by '
friends to men ho knew in the oowd
to do what thoy could to save the negro
and to have a legal hanging. The {
crowd would not even let his messentjp.ru
rAt.nrn. Ha uoiU. ril'.linr mnuuinoo '
A*V wv?4w v/vwwi uuvno?i^\>0|
but all In vain. He wanted to go to
the woods and see what he could do,
but his friends told him that would ,
be useless, and theorowd told him that
do would rather he would not oome,
And It was even hinted that If he
weut that his head would be covered '
with a bag, not as a disrespect to t) e
Governor, but simply so that ho could
>63 nothing.
A negro woman, Annie Spare, whose
niece had been assaulted by Davis, 1
came up and ideutliled the man, and
cursed him for ids conduct, Sh*? *at.
your State. I be# you, 1 implore you,
1 plead with you, let this man have a
legal trial. The case can be tried in
two weeks' time, and your own jurors
will try him and no one will Interfere
with the verdiot of your Jury."
Finally Governor Hey ward asked the
oiowd to reason together as Carolinians
and see the wrong that was
about to bo done by lynching Davis.
He told them how ho was circumstanced,
and how he had always felt
that there was somethtng higher and
nobler than vengeanoe on a brute of a
ae.gro devil and that was the vindication
of the law, "Gentlemen, after
you have killed this poor negro, as you
may do. vou will not enjoy it. Lit
there be a legal trial and you will all
feel better."
Some one In the crowd: "Governor,
we appreciate what you say; but we
are going to do it."
Governor Heyward was pleading
earn&Htlv and elcnuantlv. H? was I
fighting arising tlae, bub he kept on
for a trial for the negro.
Finally, lagged out and hopeless, he
was b&KQn from the stand. Some one
In the crowd, an old man with a
oeard asked when there could be a
trial. Governor Hey ward thought he
saw a ray of bope and he Jumped on a
carriage, and said that ho had telegraphed
for Solicitor Cooper and that
he could certainly promise a special
term of Court In twe weeks. He sild
the laws required two weeks for the
drawing of a j lry, and that the trial
could bo had in that time.
Over In the other corner of the
fence the orowd with the negro, was
getting Impatient, and woile Governor
Hey ward was talking they drove
away wiun tneir victim. u ivernor
Heyward begged that the people turn
the negro over to O&pt. Evans In
whom all had the greatest oonlldenco,
aud let him have a trial. O i towaid*
the wocdi the captors led their vioi
tlm and those around Q ivernor Hey
ward realizing the utter hopelessness
of his mission, urged him to get down
! which he reluotantly did.
f Mutlnoera hxoouted.
Seventeen of the sailors of the orul
ser Pamvat Azova who mutinied, Aug,
2, rnd one agitator arrested In oon
' ueotlon with the mutiny, who wen
it condemned to death by a oourtmar
i tial, were exeonted at Reval, Russia
on Saturday. Twelve other sallori
I.
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d no be allowed to lire the first shot
ato hit body. All agreed that this
irlvllege be given her, and the was
landed a platol and plaoed In front of
be tiring line, but ber nerve failed
iur and she die not tire, although the
olored man aoit her claimed to have
red four times. The main firing
Ine was about 100 feet from the
ody and the largest orowd was on ft
JllHlde made by the out In the road.
Wlille Hob Davis was sitting on thft
round awaiting bis fate he was asked
bout the orime. He admitted that
ie had been In the store and that he
ad been cut with the meat knife,
lis band was lacerated. He, howver,
tried to ImpUoate some one else,
nd said that he took the knlfi away
rom Miss Brooks and that he had not
ttempted to criminally assault her.
Ie did not talk distinctly, but rather
lumbled his words and very little
ould be gotten out of him.
While he was sitting listening to
he questions he asked for a cigarette
nd he puffed it with pleasure. A
olored minister, the Rev. J. C.
inode, pastor of Macedonia Baptist
Ihuroh, asked if he might pray for
ho negro. Consent was given, and
s lie worked ills way through the deerminod
crowd up to the victim, all
noovorcd their heads. That was a
pontaneous tribute to God. With
moovered heads, that vast ttirong,
ntent on killing a poor negro, listen*
d to the colored man's prayers, durng
the long wait thore were repeated
.uggestlon of burning the negro and
>f mutilating him before killing him.
finally Capt. Evans, who had been
working to save the negro for trial
md who had been on the tiunt for
lays got consent of the crowd that
they would do no burning or mutilating.
Two men tied a rope on Davis's
arms and ho was pulled up about two
lengths of his body in a pine tree,
about a q i&rter of of a mile from the
home, lie kloked and squirmed, and
then hlw legs were fastened. With
*\1k i liCc to the anxious crowd, he was
given a moment or two to say something,
and then at the brop of a hat
a thousand bullets were tired into his
body. Hundreds and hunereds and
hundreds of balls ploroed his body
and then after the ilrst fusillade men
asked to bo allowed to take shots
and In tho ilnal round up his head was
literally shot to a pulp, and with the
rain ot am# down over his head and
clothing. With the sun fast sinking
ever the hills, the thousands or more
who had witnessed the miserable affair
we^t home. At the tirst volley
the smoke obscured the hanging body;
hut the tiring kept up, then the smoko
lowered and the shooting oontinued.
There was no hurrahing, no drinking,
no cheering, ltwasqulelt and premeditated.
Davis was *a ratharj young negro.
He was coal black. Even to his big
thick lips, nis head was shaped like
i ccoauut with an lnollned forehead,
and the hair, beginning far back on
his head. IIIb eyes were red and in
tho corners of the eyes was pus. He
looked drowsy, but did not appear
frightened except thrt he always
wanted to sit down. Tue crowd literally
had to shove him up the little
pine tree to get him high enough up
for the range of the impatient orowd.
Lt was not the least excited or.boistorcus
only a bit Impatient waiting to #
shoot and kill their prey.
Sheriff MoCJaslan tried to save the
negro and made a plea for a trial, but
wie crown was impatient ana aia not
care to listen to him. Dvvis had a
half brother lynched In this county
about thirteen years ago for assaulting
a white lady. It was In this county
about eight miles from hare, that
about eight years ago 1 saw the
Pheonlx lynchings, and to-day's afTalr
was much like that I saw at Independenee
Church, In Elgetield County,
where all day long a crowd awaited
the chance to shoot down their
victims, experience seems to show
that when a crowd of several hundred
once get hold of a man, charged with
such an olfence, as this that there Is
no hope of a legal trial.
Governor Hey ward, after the lynching,
which he avoided seeing, oame to
Greenwood, and with the returning
crowds and newspaper men reached
here after 8 o'clock. It Is about live
miles from here to Mr. Pet Brooks's
home. There were several negro men
In the orowd at the time of the shooting.
The dead body was left tied In
the pine tree. August koiin.
Important, itoloriu.
The state ooard of dDpen^ary directors
held its monthly meeting Thursday
but nothing was given out from
the meeting. Director W>lle said
that the board at Its present meeting
would arrange to put Into iff .ict its
resolution adopted on the eve of the
state convention to buy its bulk stuff
only from bounded warehouses and
have the commissioner take out a reo ?.)
J? .1 W1 II - *
VIM910 liUQIJOn AUU UU UIIC U1CIK11IIK 1U
the state dispensary. The advertise*
merits for bids for the new quarterly
purchases will be qo worded.
friend Wanted.
A negro fiend on Monday attacked
G'acennla Magla, an Italian farmer,
in his home near Wocdb'iry, and
criminally assaulted Magla's wife after
compelling her to give hlui all her
saving's amounting to $107. Magla
was beaten Into insensibll.ty by the
uegro and is dying at a hospital. Hla
wife ia In a orlbloal condition at tbelr
home.
were sentenced to bard labor for periods
varying from six to ten yeara,
, 13 were drafted to the disciplinary
batallions, 15 were condemned to vai
rious disciplinary penalties and 34
were acquitted. Three civilians im,
plicated In the mutiny were banded j
i over to the olvll authorities for trlaL J
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