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YOL. XXYII. KIXGSTKEE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MARCH 20, 1913. NO. 3~ j
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STORY.
thrilling story of the capture of
tpical wild man of the jungle, a
ro, covered from head to foot
h black, bristling hair, as thick
*nd long as that on some giant gor*'
ilia, on the edge of San tee .swamp,
Vjf itt,South Carolina, near Lanes junc\
tion, fifty miles north of Charleston,
* * is told by W S Damon, conductor in
%urge of the Atlantic Coast Line
^ s plsocnger train which arrived at
(_ *jj&25 p. m. from Florence yesterday,
v.'says the Savannah Morning News
pi Monday.
: The wild man, Mr Damon states,
', driven from San tee swamp by a
mi reshet in the-Santee river, hid in a
* mrn near the edge of the marsh
*nd and, when discovered, fought
lendishly until overpowered and
lowed into subjection. The man is
new chained and tied with ropes in
tpe barn in which he was captured,
the conductor says.
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Retails of the capture of the man,
Uf, Mr'Damon states, are unknown to
r . him. Lanes is a division point where
^'transfers are made for Columbia,
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Georgetown and Savannah. He
\ * - said that when he reached the juncKnn
vp?tprHnv mnrnintr at 11:10
% o'clock the little town was in a state |
mntense excitement over the cap-,
of the man. The Savannah i
did not stop at Lanes, how?
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eyer, for longer than five minutes
V slid so Mr Damon could get but
feeagre information of the affair, j
Tie negroes of Lanes are panic.atricken,
Mr Damon says.
m V^What disposition will be made of
[ *n Mr Damon declares he does;
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not know. He says that it is his
supposition, however, that the matter
will be reported to the authorities
of the State Hospital for the
Insane at Columbia and that the
man will be sent there for confinement
and observation. The man is
a burly negro and speaks some English
says the conductor.
It is generally thought, the conductor
says, that the negro is either
an escaped convict or a fugitive
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irom justice, xic oojro ib to u.v e .
eral belief at Lanes that the man |
went into Santee swamp to hide
from officers of the law and, frightened
by the loneliness of the place
and the fear of capture, became insane.
Another theory of how the man
reached his present state of savagery,
Mr Damon says, is that the negro,
already mad, wandered into
the swamp and remained there. The
appearance of the negro.it is stated, !
would indicate that he had been
living in the swamp for probably
many years. J
According to Mr Damon, when i
members of a family of negroes re- i
siding on a small farm on the edge i
of Santee swamp, went out to a i
ramshackled barn in the rear of i
their little cabin, about daybreak
yesterday, they were frightened by i
the terrible sight of a man, over six
feet tall, broad and muscular, with
great brawny arms and heavy ]
shoulders, covered from head to i
foot with thick, black hair and
whose eyes gleamed like those of <
some wild animal, crouched in one
corner of the shack as though ready
to spring upon the first living crea
ture which molested him.
The family of negroes, it is said,
were thrown into a panic and went
hurrying in all directions in search
of aid. Residents in that neighborhood
went in response to the frightened
cries and pleas for help. A
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small mob, it is said, formed around
the barn within half an hour and
plans were hastily made for the capture
of the man alive, if possible,
and with as little injury to him as i
necessary.
The negro showed signs of fight
and when the effort to catch him
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however, without any of the mob
being hurt and without inflicting
any injuries upon the man further
than a few bruises of a minor nature,
the burly stranger, more animal
in appearance than human, was i
overpowered and tied hand and foot.
Quickly the news of the fight with 1
and the capture of the man spread 1
over the surrounding country and !
people from adjoining settlements i
and residing on small farms and along <
the railroads in all directions from 1
Lanes, began to pour into that little ]
town to view the strange species of 1
human held in the barn of the negro
family. i
Little groups and circles of people, ]
the blacks and the whites to them- .
Belyes, began to form all over the !
streets of Lanes with here and there i
a larger gathering of white men with 1
a few awe-stricken negroes on the i
outskirts who would listen for a few 1
moments to the trend of the discus- i
sion, and then go back to those of i
tneir own race to report. i
The authorities of Lanes are fol- i
lowing up every case where a crimi- i
nal has been thought to have hidden i
in Santee swamp, or where a negro 1
strayed off and was never heard of <
again,in an effort to identify the man. '
The negro, it is said, will not talk, i
glowering in a ferocious,sullen man- <
ner at his questioners at times, and
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to the queries being propounded. |
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When any one goes near the man
he strains and tears at his tethers and
makes a throaty,horrible sound more
like the growl of some terrible,maneating
beast than of a human.?
Xeirs and Courier.
^WOULD-BE SUICIDE TALKS.
Tried to Kltl Himself Because of
Girl, Says W. F. Coltrane.
Tossing about on his cot, with his
head sunk deep in the soft, white
pillow and the cover drawn close up
so as to almost hide his face from
view, W F Coltrane, the young man
who took three tablets of bi-chloride
late Saturday afternoon, on South
Battery, yesterday afternoon told a
representative of The News and
Conner that he didn't give a rap
whether he was alive or dead, and
laid the blame for his act upon a
woman.
He did not appear to be nervous
and his voice was soft and clear.
He did not even appear to be ill.
At first he refused to make any
jtatement whatever, but when asked
a few questions, consented to tell of
the circumstances tljat led to his at*
temDt at suicide. "It was a girl," I
lie said,and then he seemed to choke
and hesitate for a moment before he
again took up his story. "I wouldn't
tell you her name, but she does
n't stay here anyway and she. didn't
marry some one else either, nor did
3he turn me down. I won't tell you
what she did, but it was a girl that
caused me to be here now." After
which he gave a deep sigh and remained
silent until the reporter
questioned him further.
"Yes.I regret what I did one way
and another I don't," he answered
in reply to the question whether he
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was glad that he failed in his attempt
to kill himself.
According to his story, he was a
telegraph operator for the Western
Union Company at Kingstree, S C,
and came here last Tuesday to visit
the wireless station at the Navy
Yard and not to seek for a position
as was first stated. While here he
said that he began to think of the
trouble with the young lady and he
decided the best way out of it was
to kill himself. He said that he
went into a drug store on King
street and purchased the poison tablets,
went to the Battery and took
them. A short while afterwards,he
says, when he felt that he was about
to fall from the bench unconscious,
he called to a man passing by. He
said that he did not remember anything
after that until he was restored
to consciousness at the Roper
Hospital, whither he was taken in
the police patrol.
His condition has improved won
derfully and he will be discharged
about noon today.?Newts and Courier.
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GRECIAN MONARCH KILLED.
King George Assassinated by
One of His Snbfeets.
Saloniki, March 18:?King George
of Greece was assassinated while
walking in the streets of Saloniki this
afternoon. The assassin was a Greek
of low mental type, who gaye his
name as Aleko Schinas. He shot
the King through the heart.
The King was accompanied only 1
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by an aide de camp, ueui uoi rraacoudis.
The assassin came suddenly
at the King and fired one shot from
a 9even-chamber revolver. The
tragedy caused intense excitement
,
Schinas was seized immediately and
overpowered.
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