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THE TRIAL OF LONG
?
MANY WITNESSES HAVE TESTIFIED
IN THE CASE
STATE HAS POOH CASE
Several Witnesses Testified that Guliter
Hud Threatened to Kill Long
if ell Was Elected to the Legislature
and Came Hack to the Town
of Wagener.
(i t r it-.?1- t i- * - * * 4
n 11 itkii l^ung is eiecieu 10 tne
legislature 1 will kill the
and stamp him
in the dust!"
M. T. Ilolley, a well known Aiken
county farmer living a few miles
from Aiken, and who was himself a
candidate for the State Senate in the
political campaign which last summer
led up to the killing of Pickens
N. Gunter by Hugh Hong, testified at
Long's trial Thursday morning that
Pickens .Gunter uttered this threat
the Monday evening before the second
primary was held.
"I told him," said Mr. Holley, on
the stand, "that he could get in more
trouble in a minute than he could
got out of in a lifetime, and that if
he talked that way, Long might kill
him." Mr. Holler's testimony was
the climax of the morning's proceedings.
The defense began to combat
the case the prosecution Wednesday
made out against the legislator, and
Thursday morning produced some
testimony to establish the plea of
self-defense.
"I saw Pickens Gunter in Aiken on
the night of August 27 last year, the
night of the first primary election,"
said Mr. Holley. "I was at the bulletin
board looking at the returns as
they came in, interested as I was for
the reason that I was a candidate for
(lin CJfnfo onn'itn f!iinfor "">1
my friend, came up. lie was drinking,
I flaw he waa mad. Tie said lie
wanted to talk to me. We walked
out of the crowd and into a park in
the street. Then he wanted to know
'what in hell' we gave Hugh Long
such a large vote here in Aiken for.
I told him I had nothing to do with
it. He said, 'If you'll go in that crowd
and get Long and bring him out here
I'll show you how quick I can kill
him." I told him if he wanted to
shoot lyong to go hunt him himself."
The threat, the witness declares,
Pickens Gunter made against Long's
life, was made at Wagener. "I came
hack to Aiken and seeing Mr. Long
I advised him not to go back to Wagener.
I told him what Gunter had
threatened," continued Mr. Holley.
"Ho replied that he thought the
whole thing would blow over after
the eloction and that he didn't think
Gunter would hurt him."
J. B. Permenter, a liveryman of
Aiken, accompanied Mr. Ilolley when
ho went to Wagener Just before the
second primary, and his testimony
was in substantiation of that of 'Mr.
Holley. Mr. Permenter also had a
talk with Mr. Gunter at that time.
"Tie asked me," said the witness, "to
deliver a message to Hugh Long. I
told him I hardly knew Long. Tie
said Long had better not come back
to Wagener, and told me to tell him
so. Ho said if Long came hack he
would kill him; that the two of them
couldn't live there. He said he
would take his rifle and flhoot a hole
through him and wouldn't think he
had done anything wrong."
j\ m misiiT lcsunes.
The Rev. J. 0. ITolley, who lives at
Wagener, told on the stand Wednesday
morning how Pickens Gunter approached
him during the campaign
last year and said that if ITugh Pong
did not "take back" what he had said
in his paper, tho Wagener EdistoNews,
one or the other had "to take
n whipping or one or the other had
to die"; that that article could not
stand without retraction and both he
and Pong live in Wagener. The minister
added that he was friendly to
both parties and that as soon as
Hugh Hong returned to Wagener after
his election, he, Long, asked him
if ho thought it safe for him to remain
there. "I told him," said tho
witness, "that because of the rumors
that were afloat it would ho prudent
to avoid Pickens Gunter."
Mr. ITolley added that the morning
of the second primary ho met
Mr. Gunter again and that Mr. Gunter
put his hand on his shoulder and
led him into the Rank of Wagener of
which he was president. Tie said he
wanted to tell mo that others of his
friends had advised him the same as
I had and having heard so much
good advice, he had decided to take
it. We shook hands, and he told me
he was done with politics and was going
to drop." That was a little more
uian iwo wooks nerore the shooting.
O. S. Cook, a farmer living near
Wagoner, told of meeting Pickens
Onnter a week or so before the shooting,
when Mr. Onnter stopped him
and asked him what he would do to
a man that had published an article
about him in the paper, "lie said,"
the witness swore, "that he was going
to whip Long the first time he
got a chance."
On cross-examination the witness
said he never heard Mr. Ountor
threaten to kill Tx)ng or any one else.
T. C. Fanning, a merchant of
Wagener, testified that on one or
two occasions lie heard Pickens Gunter
say ho thought he "would give
Hugh Long a good thrashing".
It was brought out in cross-examination
of Mr. Fanning that Hugh Long
had published in his newspaper article
reflecting upon J. \V. Ly,brand and
Pickens Gunter, but the copies of the
papers were not put in evidence. Wit- '
ness said he begged 'Mr. Gunter not
to fight Long, and that at last Mr.
Gunter told him he would not, and
they "shook hands on it".
When J. B. Harley of Barnwell,
was 011 the stand a witness for the
prosecution, Tuesday, one of Mr.
Long's attorneys asked him if Pickens
Gunter did not pass him at the
cotton platform, a few minutes before
tlie shooting took place and give
him a message to deliver to "Jake"
Lybrand. Mr .Harley denied tills.
Joe A. Garvin, of Wagoner, took the
stand Wednesday morning and testified
that lie saw Harley and Gunter
talking together at the platform
about ten minutes before Gunter approached
Hong in front of Hayes' 1
Guliter's store where the shooting
took place, and heard Pickens Gunter
say to Harley:
"Tell Mr. Lybrand the fun's going 1
to begin."
1). H. Easterly, who served as a
special policeman at Wagoner during
a part of the campaign, swore that
while Hugh Long was away from
Wagoner after bis election to the
general assembly, Pickens Gunter often
met the trains at the depot.
That after Hugh Long shot Gunter
lie was overheard as he walked away
from the scene to say that he intended
to kill lilm (Gunter) anyway, as
testified Tuesday by witnesses for the
State, was denied by Butler Smith,
who took the stand Wednesday
morning to tell him at the sound of
the pistol shots he stepped out of a
store to see Hugh Long standing in '
the street a few feet from where Gunter
lay. Long bad his revolver.
Smith said ho reached Long's side
lirst, when he was not more than ten
feet away from the spot where he had
shot Gunter, and took him by the
arm. "I told him to go with inc."
said the witness. "Ho said it 1
wouldn't do to leave there then. I
insisted, seeing that there was likely
to he trouble, and 1 urged him away,
lie kept his pistol in his right hand
as he walked away, toward Cook's
stable. 1 do not remember passing
any one." Witness said he could
have heard I.ong had Hong made
such a statement as that credited to
him, as he was nearer to him than
any one else, but that he did not
hear it. He declared that when he
looked back a crowd, armed with
shot guns and pistols, was following.
(In cross-eamxination, Mr. Smith
declared that he urged Hong away
from the scene of the shooting for
the sake of peace, "to save not only
Hugh Long's life, but other lives as
well". He said he lived then near
Wagener but bad since moved, as he ^
heard and told some of Hunter's
friends that threats had been made
against him because he had saved
Hugh Iyong's life.
The Morning Session.
The morning session opened with
the testimony of I)r. Frampton Wyman
and I)r. Hastings Wyman Jr.,
who examined Long when he was
brought to the Aiken county jail.
They testified that Long had a contused
wound on the left side of the
head caused by congested blood;
there was also evidence of blood settled
under the eyes caused by severe
blows, also contusion and scratches
on the throat caused by a man's fin
gers. tug defendant was Wednesday I
morning examined before the jury,
the physicians declaring afterwards
tliat there are still evidences on the
scalp of a contused wound. I)r. R.
B. Jennings of Columbia took the
stand to tell of an examination he
made? of Hugh Dong when lie newly
elected legislator was carried from
Aiken to the State penitentiary for
safe-keeping when It was feared a
mob would lynch him if he was kept
at Aiken. At that time, declared Dr.
Jennings, Dong had a bruise on one
side of his scalp and there was discoloration
beneath both eyes.
The defense introduced Wednesday
morning testimony to show that
Hugh Dong was followed over the
country while making his campaign
last summer.
Robert D. TTolseback and S. R.
Freeman testified that Pickens Gunter,
Dr. D. ID Ethredge and "a man
named C.antt" went to the Warrenville
campaign meeting and "tried to
get several men to break up the
meeting. Afl effort was made by
them, the witnesses declared, to howl
Dong down when he spoke. Will
Owens corroborated tills testimony,
and said he heard Pickens Ounter
during the course of Dong's speech
say out loud:
"That's a lie, and if you'll
get out on the ground and say that,
off comes your head."
Tl. ...?? I .1 11. -
i inn i t-iiiiii n. wan ucuttmuuoil) Lilt?
witness declared, by reference made
by Hugh T,ong to bla,political opponents
at Wagener, wbo, be bad declared,
had tried to rule him while
he was intendant and had fallen out
with him because they could not do
so.
G. W. Anderson told of the Warrenville
occurrence and said that
Pickens Ounter threatened Hugh
Long at that time "if he would go
back to Wagoner and say that".
The State objected and attorneys
i for the prosecution were sustained by
1 Judge Gary when attorneys for Long
asked W. 0. Fowls of Wagener if
' Pickens Ounter did not state to him
I
BATTLE WITH BEASTS
?
LioiiT\i\<; I K::KD LKOP\RI>S ON
STORM-T<>SSKI> SHIR.
Officers, l<cft to Their Own Devices,
liAssocd Animals ami Cast Them
Rack Into Their Ctt^os.
While a terrific storm raged about
them, tossing their big freighter
about like a cork in the ocean, five
officers of the German steamship
liheinfels, which arrived recently in
Philadelphia from Calcutta, battled
for five hours before they succeeded
in subduing five frenzied leapards
which had escaped from their cages.
During the storm all hands had
been ordered on deck by Capt. Albert
Knuckens, and when lightning struck
the poop deck it knocked the leopard
cages down in the midst of the fortyRight
men.
With a scream of fright the men
took to the rigging, kicking, cursing
and fighting in an effort to climb to
a place of safety. In an instant only
the six oflieers were left on deck.
One stoker, seized by fear when he
saw the loose leapards, leaped into
the sea and was drowned.
Around and around the battered
deck the quintet of leopards raced
paying little attention to the group
of six men crouched in one corner.
All the deck load had been washed
into the sea, giving the beasts ample
room to romp and run. After ari
hour, the leopards sighted the men
and stationed themselves in front of
thorn, evidently intending to wait until
the storm abated to advance on
them.
Hut the ollicers thought otherwise.
One crawled from the group on hands
and knees to his room, procured a
rope and returned. Suddenly he
threw the rope across the leopards,
seated on their haunches a few feet
away. Unprepared for the movement,
two of the beasts were caught and
made fast. Other ropes were secured,
hut it was not until three hours
later that the last of the leopards
U'!1S 11 rnii nn <1 nln/mil i ?, ? , W?
,, .%!J vu> v/v? | / 11 \i - V< in (ui\/v m;i
cage.
In the same cargo of wild beasts
were two giraffes and two antelopes.
Their cages were shattered, hut thov
remained quietly on the poop deck
and watched the tight.
Cai>*l of Seventeen .Automobile Hand it.
Myrtle Collins, a seventeen-yearold
girl of Chicago, stole a revolver
from Chauffeur William Uansdale,
while riding with him, and used it to
take $ 1 r? away from him. Then she
climbed out of the machine and tied.
She is said to he the sister of a notorious
highwayman who escaped from
the Oregon penitentiary somo time
ago.
Flagman Dies Under Train.
At Valdosta, (la., Flagman (1. T.
Day of the (leorgia Southern was killed
Wednesday when lie fell under a
moving train, his head being severed
Macon, where he had a young wife,
from his body. Day's home wtis in
The body was taken to Macon.
that anybody who would vote for
Hugh TiOng was no friend of his,
Hunter's, and that he did not want
them to speak to him.
Oscar Oarvin, who lives near Wagener,
took the stand to tell of a talk
U/v 1. ~ .1 lit. T*1 -1 ^
no ii(in wiiu ricKons uunier anout
ton days before tbo shooting, when,
ho said, Ounter told him not to ront
a house to Hugh Loitg; that "Long
is not. fit to live in Wagoner and was
a sorry man to oogin with." Tie
said, declared tho witness, "ho wanted
to got rid of him." Witness told
Long what Gun tor had said. It was
brought out in this connection that
tho town of Wagoner has boon built
up on the old Gunter plantation.
Among tho witnesses introduced by
the defense to establish Hugh Long's
reputation for peace and good order
was Dr. W. P. Houston of Monroe, N.
C. I)r. Houston, who is a dentist, is
a brother of Secretary Houston of
the department of agriculture, recently
appointed to the cabinet by
President Woodrow Wilson. Hugh
Long formerly resided at Monroe.
Other character witnesses who swore
that tho legislator's reputation has
always been good were It. W. Lemon
of Monroe, former representative and
former State senator and now clerk
of court; It. F. Reasley of 'Monroe,
editor and proprietor of a newspaper,
former superintendent of county
schools and a member of the North
Carolina State board of internal improvements;
W. P. Etchison of Columbia,
who attended school with
Long; the Rev. J. D. Moore of Columbia,
Baptist Sunday school sec
reiary ior rsoum Carolina, who attended
Wake Forest college with
Eong In 1 802; Col. C. A. Armstrong
of Gastonia, N. O., who was sheriff of
his county for a number of years and
is now mayor of that city; E. Th
Gunter of Wagener-, cashier of the
Hank of Western Carolina branch
there; Ed Toole of Wagener and W.
,T. Gantt of Wagener. When Mr,
Toole, an aged man, was on the
stand, the solicitor asked him if he
had not heard many things concerning
Hugh Hong since Long got into
politics in Wagener, ho provoked a
great deal of merriment when he
turned to the solicitor and replied:
"Yes, Mr. Guntor; when you open
up campaigns you open up lots oi
trouble."
[long is set free
Ijuhy takes only ninety seconus
to do it.
VERDICT IS APPROVED
Hugh I/ong, the Defendant, on the
Stand Tells the Story of the TrugI
edy, DocluriiiK That it Was the !
Outgrowth of Political Differences
of the Times.
A precedent was established in
Aiken County Court history Thursday
when the jury in the Long murder
case decided that they had about
enough testimony and were ready to
acquit Legislator Long without hearing
any more evidence or any of
counsel's arguments in the case; that
they had already reached their decision
and would have returned a "not
guilty" verdict Wednesday afternoon.
The defence had just rested its
case and the prosecution was ready to
place on the stand witnesses in rebuttal.
but it was near the dinner
hour and the Court announced a recess,
whereupon the foreman of the
jury, das. It. League, of North Augusta,
leaped to his feet, hut when h?>
started to make his statement the
Court stopped him with the announcement
that the. State must be
given its opportunity to present witnesses
in rebuttal to the testimony
offered by the defence.
When the State's testimony was
completed after dinner, the foreman
then informed the Court that the
jury had already determined upon
the merits of the case, and that arguments
by counsel were useless. This
stemmed a promised How of oratory.
So Judge Ernest Gary, of Columbia,
presiding, delivered his charge and
permitted the jury to enter an anteroom
and draw in regular form the
acquittal of Long. They were out
about ninety seconds, when the clerk
of Court, in sonorous tones, read the
verdict, "Hugh Long, indicted for
murder, not guilty."
And to-night Hugh Long is the
happiest man in Aiken County. His
friends and attorneys are jubilant,
too, and his counsel, Messrs. Croft
& Croft and Col. Claude E. Sawyer,
who so intelligently and skilfully conducted
the defence for their client,
wore the first to congratulate him
and they were followed by throngs of
people, some of whom were heretofore
absolutely indifferent as to Hugh
Long.
With some few natural exceptions,
there is general satisfaction over the
vordict and no one, so far as known,
has presumed to question its justice.
In the same Court room, where he
will soon bo practicing law, if reports
be true. Legislator Hugh Long
took the witness stand Thursday
morning at 11:45 o'clock and told
how and why ho killed Pickens N.
Gunter, of Wagener. Ho remained
on the stand one hour and forty minutes.
All day Wednesday and Thursday
morning the defence had, by more
than llfty witnesses, been building up
and establishing Long's plea of selfdefense,
and apparently the testimony
could not be shaken, and there
was offered a fitting finale when the
Aiken County legislator took the
stand in his own behalf and in an
earnest, straightforward manner presented
his story. The prosecution's
efforts to break him down were without
avail.
When Mr. Croft began the examination
for the defence he proceeded
t ... r ? ~ ^ a#? r ? a t- ? a ?
iu in aw ii uiii itir. liuug me siory or
his early life, Loup testifying that he
was horn and reared in 'Monroe County,
North Carolina. After graduating
from the high schools, Long
taught school for several years and
then went to Wake Forest College,
from which ho later received his diploma,
going hack to Monroe and into
business for himself. Mr. long
aflirmed his personal acquaintance
with the several prominent North
Carolinians who were used Wednesday
as character witnesses in Long's
behalf. Mr. Long has three brothers
in the ministry. His father fought
during the four years of the War between
the States.
Tho witness then proceeded to
state that he moved to Wagener in
1911, and that shortly thereafter,
without any solicitation on his part
nn/1 1.1- ?ill * -
diiii >ii i !i<ii in ? i i nun i in:; will, lie
was elected mayor of the little town.
In Wagener he owned and edited a
country weekly newspaper, and in
addition to this had a good deal of
law work.
Then he told how, in the early pait
of last summer, almost innumerable
friends approached him and urged
him to run for the House of Representatives,
and as he expressed it,
"he was in the race before he knew
it". From that point the witness
told of his alleged political persecution
and how, ho charged, Pickens
. (lunter and others followed him from I
J
, ono meeting place to another; hounding
him all over the county, he alleged.
He enumerated several occasions
when they attended meetings and he
declared that Gun tor and his friends
were at practically every meeting of
the campaign, with maybe three or
four exceptions.
He said ho remembered distinctly
that tho deceased was at the campaign
meeting at Warrenwille, and
with him wore several friends. They
filed into tho hall, Long said, and
took their positions in front of him,
assuming, ho charged, attitudes of
hostility, defiance and bravado.
Tho witness said that while he
was delivering his address he had occasion
to mention tho name of and
prefer charges against Jake Lybrand,
when some one cried:
"That's a d?n lie!" "And when
I asked for the name of tho person
making the declaration," Long said,
"1 received this answer:
" 'Pickens N. C.unter, of Wagoner,
South Carolina, and if you'll say that
outside on tlio grounds, off comes
your head!' "
The witness was elected to the
House, however, at the second primary
.and said he was informed that
his successful candidacy had made
"the opposition" in Wagoner more intensely
hitter against him than ever
before, and that if. would he best for
him to stay away from Wagoner for
a while, lie said that more than a
hundred people warned him of the]
deceased's alleged threats to kill,
among them M. T. llolley and .1. P.
Permenter, and he corroborated the
testimony that those latter two gave
Wednesday. Also, he testified, number
of his friends in Wagoner among
them 10. 11. Ciunter Jr., of the Hank of
Western Carolina, and Van Jones,
who was acting mayor, advised him
that it would ho discreet to remain
away until the ill-feeling subsided.
Hunter and Jones testiiled Wednesday,
it will he recalled. Acting upon
those many advices Hong said lie determined
to remain in Aiken for some
time, and had his wife and child to
go there, where the family boarded
until after the third primary election,
which was just a few days before the
homicide.
Long said he remained in Aiken
because he wanted to avoid any trouble,
but that after J. C. Busbeo, "the
opposition's" candidate, was elected
in the third primary, he had thought
that would bring an end to the political
troubles. Further, he said, that
his home and his business were in
Wagener, his money invested there,
in fact everything he had, and he felt
that he had n tn rnlum t/? \v?rr
?? - ?n v * VyVU1 * tv/ " uh
finer; that under the circumstances
ho didn't feel that he could do anything
else.
Hut before lie went back to his
home ho had published to tlie voters
of Aiken County a card of thanks, in
which lie expressed to them his appreciation
of their vote, the confidence
they reposed in and tlie honor
they Conferred upon him, stating in
the card that he "could even forgive
those who had mistreated me, for I
have not one tinge of hard feeling
left in my heart for any one". The
published article was exhibited in
Court and accepted as evidence.
The defendant then continued that
when he returned to Wagener, ho
found that his newspaper ofilce had
been entered surreptitiously and Ills
private papers ransacked; even that
his home had been surrounded and
pried into, and, he declared, somo
party or pnrtles had been at his house
after midnight, but, after unseemly
demonstrations and efforts to enter at
the windows, departed.
Not accustomed to using or carrying
on his person firearms, Mr. Hong
said, he had not a trustworthy weapon
in his possession and secured a
gun and revolver from Dr. O. II.
Portwood and a revolver from one
Joe Brown, this latter weapon being
the one, ho believed, with which he
fatally wounded Pickens Ounter.
"And when I pot thorn," he said, "I
carried them directly homo by the
nearest route. I did not, as has been
alleged, walk the streets of Wagoner
with a gun on my shoulder."
The defendant then told of the
tragedy:
Tie had hoon to the post office, he
said, and was standing glancing over
tho headlines of a newspaper when
he was approached by a man in his
employ. Tbey stood there some moments
conversing, be testified, when
he felt some one grab him, Jerk at
him and strike him stunning blow
in the back of the head. lie had not
seen Ounter, he declared, and was not
aware that he was anywhere near.
Tho blow stunned him, and as he
fell to the ground he recognized the
face of Pickens Ounter, whose countenance,
he said, "looked like that of
a wild man in a cage." The legislator
said that as he fell, ho had an
idea that the affair was the execution
of the numerous threats made against
his life, and that this fear prompted
his deed ot a few moments later.
About the time he fell, ho said, his
assailant struck him a heavy blow
between the eyes and blinded him to
such an extent that he did not remember
to have seen consecutively or
very consciously anything else that
transpired until he got up.
After they fell to the ground, T,ong
affirmed, Hunter's left hand gripped
over his throat and was choking him
into unconsciousness. lie was grap
pnng lor ms pistol and when Hunter
realized this lie grapped Hong's
wrist and tried to wrest the revolver
from it. The first shot did not find
its mark, and Hunter, said Long, renewed
more vigorously than before
his efforts to secure the weapon, hut
Long fired the second and fatal shot
and Hunter's muscles relaxed.
At this Juncture, Mr. Hong, in n
clear, steady voice, declared:
"I shot because I believed my life
to be in imminent danger and that I
myself would be killed unless I did
fire. I fired the two shots in defence
CIVIL SERVICE ABUSE
?
WAS KI N IN INTKKKST OF UKI'l
HLK AN I'AHTV.
Shameful Condition* Are Said to Fx-1
1st in Some of the Departments at
Washington. '
Information laying bare sixteen
years of debauchery of the civil ser- ^ an
vice under Republican rule will not
be lacking if the Senate authorizes a
probe into the administration of the hung
service, in accordance with a resolu- ?veytion
introduced by Senator Lee S. ? ca
Overman. In fact the mere introduc- '?
tion of tiie resolution lias brought
wiiKe
out alhdavits from government em- i ,
. cl I i
ployoes which show not only the
rankest favoritism for Republicans,
t>nt disclose shameful conditions mon
growing out of the employment of most
negroes side by side with white poo- revel
pie, many of whom are women, and house
even placing white women in posi- jiving
Hons subordinate to negro men and j rand
women. ion al
la almost every department of the
government whites and negroes oacta
work together. In some of them , prio
women are subjected to insults from ( ihu
negroes, who hold superior jobs. In ,er o
nearly all of them the same lavato- n th
rics are used by white and blacks, over
even in some cases the same towels. Ucho
White women stenographers take whic
dictations from negroes and their die a
veiled insults at the same time. ;
They are afraid to protest, if they do P1"*
they lose their Jobs or are transferred \ bir.i
to even worse positions on one ^orto
ground or another. DK
Side by side in the bureau, as well ie ^.uas
in other departments of the goveminent,
arc clerks receiving $1,000 ' ,
and clerks receiving $2,000, all doing
the same work. The inference that lS(Jho
tho liigher salaried ones are itepuh- ^
licans is borne out by the afiidavits (pnlh
in the hands of Senator Overman. ciatb
In the office of tho recorder of frjen,
deeds there are twenty-two negroes ouraj
and fifteen whites, several of them
111 i ?
women. In oflice is negro woman il)VVj,
who loans money at the rate of ten j eVl>
per cent, a month. Her "patrons" Qe p[
in tlie bureau (which she has an ex- y h
ecutivo position) slie rates "high" in r
WV/ V
11ho government work, those whoso buyi
not so unfortunate to require loans aing
do not fare so well, it is charged in coup
an aflldavit. pers
Out of tlie 3,905 employees in the 5r
bureau of engraving and printing
there ?iro 583 negroes and less than 'roc
100 Democrats. Here as in tho other ? ,,v
dpa I j
departments whites and l)lacks work "
in the same room and use the same
lavatories. Of 800 employees in the
arcs
bureau of the census there are forty { v
Democrats and ninety negroes. In j^ t
tho post office department there are j
187 negroes. jre]^
Under the sixteen years of Repub- prt
liean rule the negroes in tho depart- Gett
ment have not only Increased in
number, but they have advanced in
grades of work so that there are
i/i v*
many whito people subject to their
orders. The only recourse whito employees
have had in these seemingly
unbearable conditions has been to
quit. Appeals have resulted only in
dismissal on some fancied ground or une
a lowering in pay. jVVin
iy a
of my life. I knew that if Mr. Gun- onR
ter secured my revolver ho would kill
mo, if his friends didn't." f4?
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Mr. TiOng denied that as ho left wa
the scene, he encountered C. K. Lybrand,
who testified that he heard
Dong say that ho had intended all
along to kill the . rent
Ho said ho couldn't recognlzo in
Hayes Hunter as ho pulled Pickens
back; was dimly aware only of a hu- lib C
mnn form on/1 "/ll/i >'- ? ~- ? *
....... .u. uiki uiu iiwu n HU W W UUU1- _
cr ho wan friend or foe".
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Mr. Bong wont on to the house-?
ho had already soon behind him the
shouting mob of armed men coming *"*
toward him?ran up-stairs, ho said,
and looked out of a window to see J.
Th TIarloy and J. Chester Busbee run- ^
nlng up with guns. Busbee is the la
young man from Wagoner who was jB
selected to the Houso of Ropresentatlves
at the third primary election, *|jo
and who this week receives his diploma
from tho law department of the
South Carolina University.
Bong refused to surrender to Baldwin,
tho chief, he said, because the
hitter was his personal enemy. Further,
he said, he didn't care to risk
his safety in "tho little calaboose wo
used for a guard house". However,
ho told the chief to wire to Aiken for .
the sheriff and the rural policeman,
and that ho would willingly surrendor
to them when they came, if they '
would guarantee safety to his person. HI
When they did arrive, several hours
later, ho surrendered to them. psai
ITo told how he and one of tho n
rurales slipped from the house, crawl- ^
ed through tho woods a foot in the DC
face of a cold, driving rain, losing J G
their direction several hours after rta
midnight. As day broke gray and jam
misty, they wandered upon a house, tllld
where they secured a conveyance that
brought tliern on to Aiken, and Bong
1 was safely lodged In jail.
Immediately after i\lr. T.ong loft i
' tho stand his wife was sworn, and ) H t
discredited absolutely tho testimony
1 of tho Wagoner chief of police, llayes ^
Gunter, who has been indicted as an 0 g
1 accessory, very vividly repeated sto'
ries told, and apparently cleared hira1
self of any malice toward the deceas>
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