The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-13
THE .EDGEEIELD TRAGEDY.

The Edge6eld Advertiser gives the following
particulars of the shooting Of Charles and ].
D. Cceswell, at Pottersville:
At old "Pottersville." one mile north Of our
town. on Thursday morning last. was enacted
ever called upon to relate. On that morning,
after usual breakfast time, two brothers,
Charles and J. D. Creswel, we'll known eitl-
zens OF the Ninety-SIx section, left the vii
lage, journeying homewards. They bad spent
the night at the Glover Hotel, on their way
from Augusta. They travelled in buggy
drawn by two horses; On the morning N I'm IN
brothers, was driving. AS they reared the foot
OF the hill, upon which stand the residences
of Mr.. A. Ramsay and DR.. d. Parker, they
we're fred upon from the corn field on their
right, Q very short distance below MIR. Ram-
says house. At this point. very near the cor
ner of the field, there stands small plum
thicket. Out Of this thicket came the shots.
Charles Creswell received some four shots IN
his right breoRs, aud lived more than an
hour. j. D:Cfeswell was wounded in five
places, right hand, left arm. chin, breast and
stomach. The horses continued to 90 forward
but at DR.. Parker's gate, about two hundred
yards from the scene Of the shooting, the 2t-
ter though 80 severely wounded, succeeded IN
stopping them. Here Charles Creswen fell
him, and j. D. Crsswell, calling for assist
ance, had him removed into the house, where
he lived for upwards OF an hour.
In connection with the circumstances which
led 10 this terrible tragedy, the public mind OF
our community had been previously sadly and
painfully moved, and when the late occurrence
was made known, it led to such day OF horri-
fed yet undemonstrstlve excitement as we
have never known in Edgefeld. In the after.
noon q coroner's inquest was held upon the
body of Charles Creswell, the jury returning .
verdict that he came to hIs death from gun-
shot wounds at the hands OF some person or
persons unknown. On the following day, the
speedily summoned, were conveyed to the
home of the departed mans parents.
J. D. Creswel, whose wounds we're at first
thought to be mortal, after remaining two
nights at Dr.. Parker's, was removed to the
Glover Hotel in this place, where he now lies,
attended by father, mothsr and two sisters.
HIS wounds, though very serious and painful,
are not considered mortal, and we'll grounded
hope ia entertained Of his recovery.
The parties who fred these fatal shots are
GEORGE B. and James Addison, sons OF our old
and honored fellow-citizsn, Major George A.
Addison. A few hours after the shooting, they
rode quietly into town, and after the result OF
the coroners inquest had peen MADE n;,t' Kno%,l'
surrendered themselves to Sheriff McDevltt.
On the following morning, attended by legal
adviser, they lett for Lexington to obtain bail
from judge BoozeI OF that place 0a ,San ths
slightest difficulty. accomplished their object
Since then they have gone to their homes.
Georg B. Addison is young man OF some
twenty-three or four years. James Addison ID
q youth not yet eighteen. They have been
raised in our midst, where, with all their fam-
lily. they have been loved and honored. TO see
them thus. was and ls to cur community