The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-30
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A Ghastly ayd Tragic History :.
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.IfRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
y MANHNa, August Is.
=. The Jury Of inq1est have concluded their in"
yestieations in reference to the death Of Isaac
Fraser, colored, Of the finding Of whose body
or rather portion OF his body, recently
wrote you.4 The result of the inquiry BY the
Jury was that the deceased was killed by Hugh
Boen, Allen DeSaussure, Griffin Seymour and
Ben. Mccutcheon, andathat sally Boen, lately
the wife Of the, deceased, was an accessory to
the killing. All of the. above named persons,
who are :oolored.l except Ben. Mccutcheon.
have been fully committed to jail to await theil
tl1al; ;theslast named has not yet been arrested.
but the constables are ON his track.
It seems from the evidence addnced at the
INQUEST, that Isaac Fraser cams to his death
some time in July, 1857; that his wite, Sally,
the next morning after tho day on which the
deed is supposed and alleged to have been
committed. moved With her household futni-
ture to kitchen in the yard of MIR. Jennings,
on whose place she and her husband lived,
and took up with Ben.. cCutcheon, one or the
supposed murderers: that subsequently she
became the wife OF Hugh Boen, another one
Of. the supposed d,murderers; that, dd interim,
she told Mrs., Jennings and others that she
had heard from. Isaac Fraser, who was living
in another State and doing well. a negro grl
Who was living ON the Jennings place, whose
statements were In evidence only through
thlId parties, as her attendance could not be
procured before the jury, has said repeatedly.
that on the day on which the murder is cup
posed to have been committed. about the
hour Of twilight, she saw sally Fraser admit
four men-the same who stand accused-to
lS-1 ogt Ia ,yY,o Or1f
and closed the door; that subsequently Isaac
Fraser, who had returned from his work,
came to one OF the negro. houses contiguous to
his, ppocured light and went home, and
soon after she saw by the bright light stream
ing from the cracks ln the house that he had
hndled a fire; not; long stter this, witness
heard noise in the house Of deceased like
TO the floor, then deep groans: witness then
noticed that the FIRE in the house of deceased
had been extinguished, and all was silent in o
few moments. Some little time afterward
witness noticed four men noiselessly leaving
the house of deceased, the same. a. well a.
che could tell, that she saw enter it.
Some negrs, boys who, after the occurren ;e
mentioned, were storing fodder IN the house
mentioned, (Ehlch it seems was closed up
and entirely abandoned after the night OF the
killing stated that they saw where blood had
been split or padded on the floor; aud on
raising the planks OF the floor hole in the
earth about the length Of man was visible.
having the appearance that q grave would
present were q body disinteTed from 1t. This
house was, some year or Two ago, torn down
and the place where it stood has been cuttiva-
ted. The woman, Sally, persisteutly denies
any knowledge of the circumstances attending
the death of Isaac, ard denies having said that
she "hsd keard from him and hat he WAS in
another State dong we'll" When the case Is
thoroughly investigated and the evidence sift-
ed, then will be developed one OF the most ap-
palllng aud tragic: occurrences that has ever
taken place in this county.
The weather has become fair once more,
the days are hot and the nights cool. The
cotton has Deen greatly injured by the recent
rains and have heard it stated by good
Judges that from thfs cause the yield of cotton
will be diminished one-third. FRANZ.