The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 27, 1909, Image 6
HE GIVES UP
Negro, Who Shot Sheriff Corley,
Surrenders
WAS WITHOUT FOOD
Bovcral Hays WliHIti Hiding From
tho Posso W ho Was Pursuing llim.
lit* Tolls of His K\|H'riciM'o ami
His Trip Through tlio Country I
Itcfotv He <?ave I'p.
Hunted by a determined posse for
three days, without food and ubsolustely
exhausted, 10d Itynum, the negro
who shot and dangerously wounded
Sheriff Corley of Lexington county
last Wednesday, gave himself up
Saturday to a white man whom he
knew he could trust, and Sunday
morning at 7 o'clock was landed in
the State penitentiary. The escape
of Itynum from a mob bent on violence,
his wanderings through a section
ot country where there was no
possible chance of meeting it friend
to protect him, and his final surrender
form-d a story full of human
interest.
The Columbia Stale says there is
likewise a feature, well worth comment,
in the action of (lov. Ansel's
secretary, Mr. A. J. ltelheu, who has
been in constant touch with the situation
from the time of the shooting
and in the t.rip (through the
country with Itynum by Mr. Jacob
It. Oswald, who at personal risk saw
that the negro was finally brought
here and placed safely in the penitentiary.
It will be recalled that Itynum shot
Sheriff Corley hist Wednesday when
the sheriff rode up to arrest the
negro. It was charged that Itynum
had been a cropper on the farm of
Mr. C. W. Caughman, had quit his
work and had run the other hands
out of the field, when Mr. Caughman
employed them to work out
Itynum's patches. When Sheriff Corley,
to whom the matter was reported,
attempted to arrest Itynum, the
negro shot him.
For three days Itynum evaded an
infuriated posse, all of them armed
and many of them with dogs who
determined to hunt him down and
kill him. Some of the oUlcers of the
law who had been asked for In Ip
responded with bloodhounds and the
chances for Itynum's escape seemed
slim. In every direction in Lexington
and Saluda counths the description
of the negro had been telephoned.
His relatives were known and
a close watch kept on their houses.
Thursday Secretary Bethea, in the
absence of Gov. Ansel, sent over Mr.
,1 as. Broom, a detective of Columbia,
to get in touch with the situation and
il possible get word to Bynum that
be could be brought to Columbia and
protected. Broom at once went to
the father of the negro, Henry Bynum,
and asked him to get. word to
the fugitive that, should he decide
to surrender, protection would be
guaranteed. Ollieer Broom, who had
considerable trouble in finding the
father of the negro, finally located
him and advised that should 10d Bynum
not care to trust himself with
the ollieer he should ask him to get
some friend among the white people
who could be trusted to bring him
over for safe keeping.
Word was finally sent to Bynum to I
this effect and as a result the negro
went to the home of Mr. Oswald
Saturday, after visiting relatives.
This place is near Gilbert's, about
12 miles from Lexington. Bynum
arranged to come to Columbia, accompanied
by Mr. Oswald. The two
drove through the country, taking
a circuitous route, and met no one
on the road. There was hut one
accident. The buggy turned over a
few miles from Columbia hut was
quickly repaired and the trip resumed.
About 7 o'clock Sunday morning,
both being physically exhausted,
with the strain and the ttip the two
appeared at the government mansion
r.ird reported to Secretary lu ih.ua
Arrangements were at once made to
take Bynum to the penitentiary and
he is now in the hands of the authorities
awaiting the results of the
wounds inflicted on Sheriff Corley.
Bynum, who is rather intelligent,
had very little to say concerning his
escape from the mob. In a very calm
manner he related to Mr. Bethea
that he had been without food for
three days and to escape the dogs,
which lie heard once within 100
yards of him, ho took to water and
walked or ran up a branch for
about three miles. Then he doubled
and almost ran into the hunting
fiarty. He hid under a bridge which
the party passed over a little later
He recognized five of the men and
(beard their threats against him. H<
then made his way to his brother's
bouse and made arrangements u
give himself up to Mr. Oswald, wh<
stated that he would see that the
fugitive was brought over to Co
]umbia for safe keeping.
Itynum does not know why he shot
Sheriff Corley. lie said that Ik* was
At work on Mr. Caughman'H place as
a cropper and asked the latter for
Aome clothes. Mr. Caughman refused
to give him the clothes at that
time, remarking that Hynum's account
was overdrawn. Then Dynum
DESTROY FLEET
STAKT1NCJ INVENTION' TO
TKCT (.KIIMAN COAST.
To llmt (i'ivttt lOloctric Magnets to
Draw Kueiny's Vessels Within
Itewli ol* 1'oets.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany,
says a startling novel invention, for
the protection of the German coast,
harbors and seaports, is receiving
the serious attention of the German
r.aval authorities.
A German naval engineer, named
llolininnn, applied to the German
patent olliee tor a provisional patent
for an invention which is intended
to destroy any hostile fleet, attempting
to blockade or attack Herman
port s.
According to the inventor, stations
must he erected along the coast and
at the mouths of rivers, wheh will
1m; equipped with the strongest electric
magnets that can be manufactured.
When those are in action it Is
claimed that they would exercise sufficient
attractive force to make ironclads
and other protected vessels
deviate from their course. These
magnet stations are to situated
where shallow and deep water alternate.
The hostile ships would ho drawn
into the shallow water where they
would ground and lie helpless at the
mercy of the guns of the forts.
Although the invention smacks
strongly of romance, yet :s noteworthy
that competent authorities
deem it of sufficient importance to
he subjected to a thorough examinat
ion.
lu this connecton, it may ho added
that electric cranes capable of
lifting weights of five tons by magnetism
are already in use at German
ha r ho rs.
Avcii^mI II is Sister.
At Morgan City, La., Dr. All' n
King, a widely known physician and
commander of the Louisiana naval
militia, was shot and killed in his
ofllee by Leroy Oliver, a 10-year-old
hoy, who alleges his sister had been
wronged by King. Oliver has surrendered.
*
Three Die in Storm.
It is known that three lives wore
lost in a severe storm which struck
I'ensacola, T' la., Thursday. The
wind reached a velocity of 00 miles
an hour, whipping the hay into a
seething mass and carrying small
boats down. Much damage to trees
and buildings was done in the city.
,A Menace to Life.
Residents of Catoosa county, C.eorgia,
declaring that the government
riile range there is a menace to life,
are preparing a petition for an injunction
to prevent target practice
by the Eleventh United States cavalry.
Confesses to Kobbory.
Ralph II. Clark, a young man of
good family, sum ndered to the United
States commissioner at Columbia
on Friday on the charge of robbing
the postoflice at Batesburg. lie is
also out on bond of $1,000 for trial
in the State court. *
left and returned Wednesday, finding
other hands on his part of the
farm. lie ran the negroes off and
Mr. Caughnvan went to Lexington !
after Sheriff Corley. Bynum in the
meantime had gone to his house to
get breakfast and when Sheriff Corley
approached he took up his shotgun
and tired, some of the shot striking
the sheriff in the face and 100
others in the right forearm. This
is all that saved the sheriff's eyesight,
and probably his iife. Rynum
left at once and his chase coinim need.
The saving of Rynum from the
mob, his remarkable experience in
eluding the dogs and his confidence
that Mr. Oswald would bring him
safely to Columbia is ono of the
remarkable eases in a near-lynching.
Rynum will he kept there until
Sheriff Corley recovers and at the
next court will be taken back for
trial on the charge of assault and
battery with intent to kill. Sunday
at the penitentiary he was well
cared for and in a few days will l>e
entirely recovered, despite the privation.
Secretary Rethea asked Mr. Oswald
to present his claim for expens|
es. There was no reward offered,
despite the efforts made by some of
the posse to make it appear that
there had been a sum of money set
, aside by the authorities for the cap
nirc 01 me negro. ints, according
to Mr. Broom, was put out to assist
I in tlie capture by those bent on
lynching. Mr. Oswald was accompanied
by his son, Mr. Willie P,
) Oswald, and Mr. Tillman Taylor, in
bis drive across the country. *
Sheriff Corlcy Improving.
Sheriff Corley, of Lexington counh
ty, who was shot hy the negro Ed
i Bynum on Wednesday morning, is
i improving satisfactorily. IBs assail
ant is still at large, the posses being
unable to find any trace of him
up to the present. Every means
known to the officers L bciUi; used
to run down the culprit.
OtfuY A JOKt
Till: AIISI KIMTY OF THE PltOTKITION
SYSTEM
Shown I |? l(y Senator Tillman in
II is l*ro|N>sition to Tax All the
People for One Mail.
The tea industry of the United
States came up for a little discussion
in tlie senate a day or two ago,
says Zach Mctlhee in his letter to
The State. Dr. Shepherd of Sutnnierville,
you know, is the tea in
dustiv. llt? has a tea farm upon
which he grows 15,000 pounds of
It a. Senator Tillman, in order to
show the absurdity of the protection
system, interrupted some Republican
speaker and said:
"Now just wait one minute?and
as it is acknowledged by the senator
that we could obtain $10,000,000
by a duty of 10 c? nts a pound on
tea, and it would not increase the
cost of tea at all ? so these importers
tell me?why do we not pick up that
$10,000,000 and give protection to
this industry down in South Carolina,
where there is one tea producer?
There is a poor little pulling infant
industry out in the piuey woods
at Sunimerville, begging the United
States for help, and saying if tea
can g? t a protection of 10 cents a
pound it will be the pioneer in introducing
into that Southern country
a great industry."
Mr. Hale?Let me say to the senator
?
Mr. Tillman?Will the senator
vote for it, or will he have this commit
tee r port it favorably? I want
to introduce the amendment. Now,
1 will join you. 1 want protection
for that pulling infant in South Carolina?the
tea industry?and we
shall get $10,000,000 by it, too,
Why not give me protection for this
industry in South Carolina?
Mr. Tillman 1 have got a real
industry. One man down there produces
15,000 pounds of tea.
Mr. Hale?If that can become a
prosperous and leading contributor
to the industries of the United States
as against foreign competition
never so dang< rous as now and as
it will he in the next 30 years?then
the Republican party will adopt his
bantling. 1 have no doubt of it.
Mr. Tillman?I can only assure
you that this gentleman, Dr. Shop
herd, who has boon experimenting
with ton culture for 20 years, has
reached that point where, like all
the others in this country who are
seeking to increase their prollts,
wants enough protection to increase
his price. He knows that as soon
as he would got 10 cents per pound
additional, it would raise the value
of his tea.
Some of us people in South Carolina
have an idea that we of the
South are great tea drinkers. That's
because we do not really know much
about the general run of people
about us. Those of us who can trace
our ancestry back to England or
English immigrants, and do it without
the assistance of a professional
genealogist or coat of arms manufacturer,
usually drink tea. Many
others of us who, while we c;in not
trace our own families hack, have
been associated with those who can,
also drink tea. Hut hear what
Senator McLaurin of Mississippi
says:
"What, do you pay for ttja now?"
asked Senator Hale.
"1 don't pay anything," said Mr.
MrLaurin. "I don't buy tea; 1 buy
coffee. We don't use tea very much
in our part ot' the country."
And that's a fact, true not only
of Mississippi, but of the South generally.
I have an idea that it is
true to a larger extent of the whole
country, to even of New England,
than is commonly supposed. Hut
your Lodges, your Hales, your
Cranes, Aldriehes, Fryes and so on
do not know it. They belong to the
tea drinking class, and know little
about the lives of the grosit mass of
people in their States.
If Dr. Shepherd lived in New
England, what Senator Halo says
might bo true, they might let him
enjoy the special privilege of assessing
.ill the tea drinkers in America
in order that he might make
a profit. Hut since he lives in South
Carolina and most of the tea drinkers
aro in New England, there is no
chance for him.
Confesses to Outrage.
John Thompson, white, aged 91,
confessed to the authorities at
Welch, W. Va., that on September
14, 9108, he outraged and killed Lula
Stafford, aged ten whose body was
found in a clump of bushes in McDowell
county court house yard.
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iiHiiu-N .noon ior i rimo.
Tho moon will bear an important
part in the defense of Richard
Kraft, of Berlin, Out., who shot up
i police headquarters in Detroit, Mich.,
this week, and wounded three odicers.
lie says he suffers from mental
derangement during the full of the
moon.
( Want Women to Vote.
A Philadelphia woman announces
that a petition signed with one mili
lion names will ho presented to Cont
gr< ss at its next session for a sixtieth
1 amendment to the Constitution,
1 ( which shall allow women to vote.
TRAIN ROBBED
Locked The Messenger Up and
Rob Express Car
MAXES THEIR SCAPE
Xo On? on the Train Knew of the
During ltobbery I'ntil the Me*?8?uger
Was (Jot ton Out of the
Ilox in Which lie llael Iken
Locked |?y the Kobbers.
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overpowered Express Messengei
Thomas L. Hutto, on Southern train
No. 1 7, which passed liranchville little
before eight o'clock and whicli
is due in Augusta at half-past ten
o'clock, and robb'd the express safe
of about $200, all the money that
was in it. The robbers took nothing
else. The following particulars
of the robbery we take from the
Augusta Chronicle:
The robbery occurred between
Warrenvillo and Augusta. The
thieves got, the drop on the messenger.
knocked him senseless, tied
his hands behind his back, and threw
him into and locked him in a chest.
Tin y procured his keys and, at their
leisure, ransacked the car.
The messenger was liberated at
the ITiion Station in Augusta. The
blow with which lie was felled was
not severe. 11 was nearly suffocated
from his close confinement in the
chest. Otherwise lie suffered no ill
effects physically.
Southern No. 17 makes up at
liranchville. It's connections there
are with Columbia and Charleston,
It's express and mail are through
Ordinarily the train, for the Southern
Express Company, carries $2,501
to $10,000 of currency. Tuesday
night's packages were the smallest
in years. As stated, as luck had it
the shipments was not more than ap
lil'nvi Hl'l Ink'
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Thomas L. Hutto has been an ex
press messenger four years. He lives
a i L'08 Ml lis street, lie tells a ver;
interesting story of the robbery.
Hutto was sitting idly on a box it
his car?a compartment car, embracing
mail and express service?as tin
train pulled out from Warrenville
The end door of the car?next tin
baggage car?was thrown suddenly
open and a man, his face hidden bj
a shabby mask of red flannel, pisto
extended, ordered "hands up!" Hut
to was daz-'d by the suddeness of ii
all, and made no move. "Hands up
1 tell you!" was ordered by anothei
voice, and a second man had entered
face red-flanneled, pistol extended
Before Hutto could obey the rapit
and fierce orders, and as he reachet
for his gun, which was in a tin bo?
but a foot or so removed from him
he received a blow, presumably fron
the man who had entered the cai
first, and was rendered unconscious
But he regained consciousness it
a flash?he is sure he was unconscious
but a moment. When himself
again he found his hands grasp
ed tightly behind his back. A pisto
barrel was pressed hard .against his
spinal column. "Cry out, make an>
demonstration, and I will pull th<
trigger!" the robber told him. A
package of baby clothing?an express
shipment?was cut open and
cords taken therefrom, with which
the messenger was securely tied?
hands behind back.
There was in the car an emptj
express cnesi rour reet wide, live
f'.et long and three feet deep. Tlu
robbers threw the helpless messengei
into this chest and clasped it, bin
did not lock it. They then, having
secured his keys, went through the
car and safe at their leisure.
There llutto remained until ex
press helpers extricated him at the
station in Augusta.
The negro helpers at the Unioi
Station, when they proceeded to the
rar. as is customary, to remove the
I express to the station otlice, foune
the door of the car on the righ
side?which was closed?unlocked
The end door was locked. The doo
on the left side of the car was open
Entering the car they heard vigor
oiks talking in 'the express dies
and liberated llutto, who gave til
first information of the robbery.
Conductor J. B. Metz declares tha
he and no other man on the trai
had intimation of any thing wron
until after llutto had been releasee
The robbers left the train at Broa
street, through the down-town sid
door of the car?the one found ope
at the station.
From his chest prison llutto coul
hear them plainly rattle silver. II
could hear their voices, but no dis
tlnctly enough to distinguish wlu
they were saying. He hoard one c
them call the other "Jim."
His experience on the run enable
him to locate when the train reache
the Hamherg yards, when it crosse
the bridge and about when it reache
Broad. It was then that the hum c
conversation ceased and Hutto kne
that the men had left the car. II
kicked the chest in the hope of a
tracting the attention of some onefor
he was about to suffocate?bi
was not successful. He then sun
, moned all his strength and waite
till the Union Station was reachei
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COLUM E
, KILLED HER FATHER
j MOTHKK MAKKS ACCI'SATIOX
k A(iAIXST IIKH I)Al*<ilITKH.
The Police llelieve That Ijouise Ar!>ogust
is Guilty of Murder and
Thinks She is Crazy.
! The authorities iu St. Paul, Minn.,
t have the slayer of Louis Arbogast
, in the hospital ward of the County
Jail, but they are uncertain whether j
mother or daughter did the actual
; killing. Louise, 23 years of ago,
toarlsse, refuses to talk. The mother,
Mrs. Minnie Arbogast, escaped a
direct accusation because the police
were able to establish circusstantial
i evideioe that makes it imi>ossible
to prove the charge. She escaped
formal accusation because the police
forced her to accuse someone else |
in self-defense. She accused Louise.
The lKuly of Louis Arbogast was
found in his bed, last week. The
head had been crushed with an axe
, and gasoline was used in an effort
to destroy the remains. When th%
accusing officers got the daughter
, and mother together in the mothI
er's cell the girl withstood the battery
of searching eyes and maintained
her absolute innocence. Finally
, the mother, in an outburst of desperate
appeal, cried:
"Louise, it. is either you or me.
.Tell the truth, tell the truth. You
( were outside father's door when I
r came from the bathroom. You must
L toll the truth."
The girl was silent. The mother
persisted. She almost shouted,
"You say you didn't do it, but I
know you did."
Hut Louise professed to remember
nothing and stared straight ahead
in silence until the terrific strain
^ was broken by their sob and the two
embraced, weeping bitterly, the girl
kneeling by her mother's bedside.
The girl was arraigned in court
' and listened to the reading of the
charge. She said she needed no attorney.
A plea of not guilty was
entered, and the prisioner taken to
jail, the case being continued till
Thursday.
It is declared at St. Luke's
' hospital that Miss Arbogast, who is
one of the most beautiful young women
of Minnesota is irresponsible
and killed her father in a moment
of demoniacial frenzy, caused by
hallucinations which have for
^ nirtn t ho honn nn ?? I r* L ^
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"She is plainly irresponsible,"
1 Chief of Police O'Connor said:
"According to hospital reports and
other facts known to us," said
County Attorney O'Brien. "The girl
is insane and was not responsible
for her action."
The story of the mother, the accusing
story which brought Louise
' Arbogast to the bar, bears out the
statements of the authorities as to
the girl's mental condition. The
L very nature of the act, Indeed, indicated
maniacial frenzy, the cunning'
ness of some of her alleged attempts
1 to cover up the slaying is declared
to establish the fact, and the asserted
inconsisbenoiets of her statements
after the slaying are said to have
i been the lapse of cunning due to
5 slip of judgment, common to crimes
committed by the inasne.
l
' when he renewed his vigorotts kick'
ing.
On the floor of the express car
was found a piece of rubber tubing?
} such as is used 011 the air brake connections?on
one end of which was
1 a brass coupling joint. Hutto had
3 been hit with the rubber hose. There
? were 110 signs of the discharged rod
* flannel used for masks. No mer1
chandise was disturbed. Hutto's
' pistol was found lying on top of
r the chest iu which ho was imprison'
ed.
The police got on the case immof
diately. Sergenat McArdle and Roye
nolds made examinations at the depot.
Lieutenant Britt summoned the
* detectives. No arrests have as yet
n been reported.
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iiiuiu uiu niHL roiiuer wno
' entered tho car was about 5 feet
" 11, and slimly built. The second
e robber was of slight build and a lltn
tie taller than his companion. Furthor
than this, the messenger could
(* give no description of tho men.
e What happened, happened quickly.
3" After Hutto was rendered senseless,
lt he had no further opportunity to
)f seo his assailants.
It takes a good neighbor to ap(*
preciate a neighbor who thinks he
l(* is better.
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Four Murines Sfnt to Prison Cor
Taking Doer.
On April 3 B. II.. Hayes, chlof
constable for Beaufort county, seized
two barrels of beer while in transit,
| consigned to Thomas Eaton, of Paris
island. His place of business is just
outside of the Government reservation.
This man, and others near
the same locality, are alleged to have
caused considerable trouble to the
county constables.
Thomas Eaton, hoaring of this,
furnished, it is said, a gun to four
United States marines, telling them
they could have as much of the beer
as they could drink if th-y would
rescue the beer from Hayes, which
they did at the point of a doublebarreled
shotgun. They then opened
the beer on the bank of the river
and proceeded to enjoy themselves.
Col. Cole, who is in command at
the United States School of Instruction,
being informed of the affair,
had the men arrested and tried by
court-martial. They were convicted
and sentenced to serve three
years and one month in a GovernI
tnent prison. They will be sent to
I Portsmouth in a few days to com!
mence serving the sentence. Thomas
Eaton is now under- indictment, and
will be tried by the State.
THEKE WAS XO WOMAN
Put Only a Pouch Itasket Hat Floating
Along.
The useless bravery of Michael
IConlin, of West One Hundred and
| Thirty-eighth street, nearly cost him
his life. From the Madison avenue
bridge over the Ilarlem river he saw
a peach basket hat floating down
the stream and believing there was
a woman under it, he valiantly leaped
overboard and swam to the hat
only to find it untenanted. Hut his
shoes and other clothing were so
heavy that he was unable to reach
a dock unassisted and had gone
down several times when he was
rescued by the police. He was sent
to the Harlem hospital, where it was
said that he had been almost
drowned.
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