The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-10

man. a colored man, passed. Mr.. Jeter hailed
him: he answered IN an abrupt manner, who
is which," The. deceased was lying on his
back, with his right hand out from his slde.
from the fence. There were four sacks OF
seed cotton living near the body; two of the
sacks we're bound together with q rope. I
know %nothinp.uore. / came to zee the de.
ceased at the request of bis mother.
AdoIphus c. Lyles, being sworn, saye: I
was sitting In my house about 8 o'clock last
night: l heard some enc riding up the road;
some one hslloaed at the gate and aald:
tsCome out here" aud I went out to the gate;
place: when I went to the gate there was one
man at the front gate and another man upa at
The potato patch gate; the mai at the front
rate said: I'VE have caught some boys with
Stolen cotton, and I want you to come out and
see If YOU know them / said I did not know
them In the dark; and zen spencer spoke and
ed I did not know JEFF. Then Pearce Hay
ward spoke, and / recognized him; the other
how I did not know. One Of the men said: I'VE
are determined to put q stop TO this cotton
stealiug:n and said to the boys, "God damn
Won. | believe we will shoot you" Witness
said. mo, gentlemen, that won't do; take
them up to Mr.. Jeter's, and he can tell
c whether tel, they yyDe iivs d Il w snsFe stolen y od 5s
ion or not, and he could prosecute
Them" thought the mel had agreed 10 that
conrse. HIT afterwards commenced talking to
Ihe boys: struck one OF the boys over the
head with a pistol; I think 1t was JEFF. I'm
mediately ona of the men fired, I think at
JefT: JEFF ran then; the man fred again at
Pearce. then fired az the other boy; I did not
know The boy fell; the men mounted their
horses and went back down the road; the men
had on no disguise. l did not know them;
never cav them before; they had OH dark
clothes and claimed to be Yankees; had on
sack coats, and talked In broken English, and
like foreigners. One was riding q black
mule: the other q gray; do not know whether
a horse or mule; alter I went 10 the house,
one of the men called me out again, not by
name, but ssid, zone word With you before
more. If YOU want to see me come 10 the
honae: one dismounted and came to the door
and eaid. siyou are not TO know anything"
I said TO that mai you ought not 10 have
shot those men at my gate; the man said do
not be- uneasy, you will not be hurt;
we are determined" The men left; one OF
them had a moustaohe-a large tall mani
supposed six feet high; weigh-two hundred
or one hundred and seVenty-dVe pounds. The
kers. 1 did not order them 1.-THE boys) TO run.
One of them Rugged around me. I Told him
not to bng around me, I did not want TO get
shot. witness SAYS he knew AcEnglish, and
neither of The men was McEnglish. Think
thew were white men, am certain they were
white men, and their brogue was not put on
or affected. He was present when the man
on a roam horse passed. do not think It one
OF the horses which the mar rode who done
the shooting. JEFF. told me he had just come
no with the boys down the road. l sold, JEFF,
strange YOU always happen ia come up on
these cases. do not know anything more.
This conversation with JEFF. was before The
shooting.
Thompson Glen being sword says: I know
nothing about the case; some one took my
horse ont of the stable last night. and 1
tracked him this way, aud found him In hr.
Thomas G.. Jeter's yard.
DR., John F. Thomas being sworn says: He
finds the deceased With q gunshot wound In
the chest, three-fourths OF one inch above,
and about two inches In front OF the left nip
pie, near the breast bone, passing between
The fourth and NTH cartlliges of the ribs from
below, penetrating into the right ventrlcle OF
the heat, no doubt producing instant death.
The jury returned the following verdict:
That the said Robert Jeter vas killed and
murdered by some person or persons, to the
Jurors unknown, ags4nst the peace and dignl-
" OF the same State aforesaid.