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A
TWO SUDDEN DEATHS IN !
CAMDEN.
First an Accident, Second a Sui
cide?E M Itoykin and E C
Zemp the Victims
The State, 17th.
The news that Mr. E Miller
Hoy kin. president of the Farmers
and Merchants bank of Camden,
had accidentally shot, and Killed
himself was followed a few hours
later yesterday evening by the
news that Mr. E. C. Zemp,cashier
of the same bank, had committed
suicide.
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ivir. DoyKin'8 dead body was
found a few minutes after fhe
fatal shot. lie had just left his
family with the declared purpose)
of going out to shoot a hawkl
which had carried a chicken to
the woods, and in climbing the
Tenoe the gun was discharged
There was no other theory advanced
but that the shot had been
accidentally fired.
Of Mr. Zemp's suicide there is
no doubt. He went to a barn
about 7 o'clock in the evening?
four hours after Mr. Boykin's
death?put his pistol barrel in
his mouth ami pulled the trigger.
I lis body was found there about
8.30 o'clock.
The tirst story from Camden
was
as follows, telling of Mr.
Hoy kin's death :
The entire community of Cam
den was inexpressibly shocked
and grieved at the sad and sudden
death of Mr. E. Miller Boykin,
who was found dead from
an accidental discharge of his
gun, having gone out to shoot a
hawk which had been annoying |
his chickens.
Mr. Boykin left his office at
his regular dinner hour and
while waiting at his home on
dinner, a servant came in and
notified him that a hawk was in
the yard, lie secured his gun,
which is said to have been re
cently repaired. It is a hammer
less gun and the safety catch had
been put on backwards, const*
quently instead of the trigger lie
ing at safely it was ready lor firing.
lie was last seen following, the
hawk into a pine grove adjoining
his premises and ttye supposition
is that while he was in the act of
getting over the fence the explosion
took place, as the gun was
resting on one side of the fence
and he on the other, with his
o.nt n.,<fa-.u 11.~ i -
IV % I ivntuun mo irilC^.
William Richardson, a little*
neirro who was sent out to callj
.Mr. Bovkin to dinner, was the
lira! to reach the scene. This
servant[came back to the house
and met Mr. -John Cantey, who
had stopped by on his way down
town to use the telephone at Mr.
Boykin'e house. Mr. Cantey
ran down to see wh'aT*had happened
and found that Mr. Boykin
was dead. The discharge
had entered the breast. - The re
port ot the gun was distinctly
heard frdm the house but no one
paid any attention to it, as it was
thoimht that he hail fired at the
hawk lie leaves a devoted wife
and one son, who was his father's
constant companion and friend,
also a very large family connection.
llis wife was Miss Lula
Cook ot a distinguished Virginia
family. Ilis sisters are Mrs. K.
B. Oantey and Mrs. Brown Manning,
and his brother* are Messrs.
A. H , Burwell, Allen Jones and
L. Whitaker Boykin, all of whom
are prominent and popular men
here.
Mr. Boykin was one of the
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most prominent business men in
the State. lie was a niPin,,or of
the' Democrat io convention at
Chicago in 1884 which nominated
Cleveland tor president ; w ?s
a member <?t the leui-daSure anl
in 1885 was appointed I :.i;c 1
States marshal, lie made iriends
every whet e ami it may t>e salety
said that lie did not have an
enemy.
Then came a, brief account of
mo suicicr 01 .Mr. z,emn :
At S.30 o'clock tonight Mr. K.
C. Zemp, cashier of sauio bank,
was found dead in his barn ; full
particulars not yet ascertained.
Few men in this community
were held in higher esteem than
Mr. Zemp and his tragic death
is a shock to his family and
friends If there is any shortage
in the bank accounts, it is
not known A meeting of the
directors will bo held in the
morning and it is thought by
the business men that the bank
will continue, as it is in good
standing Mr. Zemp leaves a
largo family, lie was about 15
years of ago.
TIIK r.ATKST ACCOUNT.
Mr. J. E. Vaughan, one of
the directors of the farmers and .
Merchants bank, late last night
gave the following statement relative
to the status of the bank.
"The bank was entered about
0 o'clock by several of tno directors.
Nothing was found
either in Mr Boykin's private
r>uir>i> ttl' ill flin #!?..
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would indicate a c;iu?e for the
tragedy. The last statement in
October, so far as 1 know, showed
good standing, but 1 <io not
remember the exact amount of
deposits or surplus, but the cap
ital stock appeared $5,000.
Mr. Zenip left the bank after
closing, saying that he was going
up to Air. lioyKins. He
went to lus home. lie tliero
remarked to hi- family that be
was then going to Mr. lioy kin's
which is only a short distance.
The supposition is that 1 < v- ut
over to Mr. lloykin's, and was
not ntisseil until a meeting of
the directors which was to have
taken place to look into nllairs
of the bank. Mr.' F. Al. Zemp
started out to look for Air.Zemp
the cashier, thinking that he
was at Mr. Boykin's. He telephoned
to have him come down
to the meeting. He could not
he found and then a search was
made. He was found dead in
a barn not far front his home,
sitting down with his head leaning
back on a box, with a pistol
wound in his mouth.
OABTOIIIA.
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