The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-11-06
The Pickens. Riot and Murder.

SIX NEeiROES To BE HANSEO AM EIbu lci.N
SENT TO THE PENrTENTiARY.
Two of the most extraordinary crini'
nal cases ever known in this State have
Just terminated in the recent Coort oi
Common Pleas for Pickcns District.
The trial of Alexander Bricc and hire
negroes, on the charge Of the murder OF
Miles II. N. Hnnnicut took place Thurs.
day, before His Honor Judge Dawkins.
The State was represented by the So
licitor, Hon. J. P: Reed; the prisoners
By Generals MCGOWAN and Easiey,
Messrs.e Norton & Adams. The evf.
dence and arguments occupied two days,
and the jury, after the absence Of half
an hour, brought in q verdict Of Guilty,
With. reference to December Gadsden,
Nat Frazier, John Keith, Jack Walker,
Green Cleveland, Jr., aud Jackson Hen.
derson-all> colored. Not Guilty with
reference to Alex. Bryce, {white, J and
Captain Deane, Boh Breckenridge and
Mark Adams, eolored.
r. The testimony of the President Of the
Union League proved that all of the par.
ties named constituted the guard sent
out to arrest Bob Smith, the white man
who had fired a pistol in the neigtbor.
heed efthe League; that. portion ol
this guard werc armed with guns and
pistols, and under the direction of Jack
soa Henderson as Sergeant ; that De-
cember .Gadsden, the Vice President Of
the League, from the description OF his
size and his bearing on the occasion, was
the one who fired the fa;al shot which
to.,k the life Of young Hannicuts, the
others being accessory to the crime. Il
also appeared in evidence given by both
white and black, that the negroes used
the most violent threats and language,
imprisoned the white men present, in
the Academy, and evinced desire to
proloeg the disturbance and resort to
arES.
The sentence of the Court was that
the parties convicted should be executed
at Pickens on ths6 9th of December neat
TIE RIOT CASES. -....
On the day following the rendition q
the above verdict, thirty negroes and
Alexander Bryce were tried for particI
pating in riot, on the night Of and the
day after the psurder.
The evidence of witnesses, white an6
colored proved that the Union League
after remaining il session ell night-the
members being ordered not TO leave
was organized into quasi military guard
AMI. armed and, otticered, went from
house to house in the country, arrested
white citizens and CARRIED them off
That al one place they rndely tore bus
band from his wife, who was then in ar
extremely delicate condition, and Sc
frightened TIE poor woman that hel
health since Is we'll nigh ruined. Ant
that they made the most violent threats
and uttered denunciations which sh"wet
they were ripe for rebellion in its mos
fearful shape,
TIE Solicitor entered a nolle pros. IL
several of the cases, and the jury broush
in a verdict of mot Guilty" with refe:
enca to few, bat eighteen were con
victed, Notwithstanding the able effort
of counsel and sentenced respectively ::
follows:
Elias Kennedy, twelve months in pen
itentiary, to be released, on payment o
$500, in thirty days Isaac Brown, ditto
Green Cleveland, Clark Cleveland, Gen
Osopho Bradley. james Keith, Thoma:
Orr and David Singleton, each fourteen
months in the penitentiary'; John Butler
Captain Dean, Doctor Franklin, JohI
Reed, Robert Breckenridge, Georg
Wright, Ulysses Grant, Alexander Rob
inson, Amos Cummings and Lewis Young
each twelve months in the penitentiary