The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-05-22

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and the strange fatality hanging
over his business operations
though emlnently business man
Every business operation be evel
; embarked in failed, and Of course
injured, pecuniarily, some of his
friends. Hayne Williams wal
record is good. He was a gallant
dashing fellow, both as . soldier
and as private citizen. He must
however, have his fun at any cost
as 10 money, yet, as before init
mated, we don't believe him q cut
throat or highway robber.-Lau
rensviHe Herald.
CAPT. CHARLES V. HAMILTON DENIES
IMPLICATION WITH THE M'DUFFIE
ROBBERS.
Yesterday our reporter had an
interview with Capt. Charles V,
Hamilton, the alleged leader OF
the band of robbers, and who was
convicted at the last term Of Nc
Dufie Superior Court, and SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for robbery.
Capt. Hamilton said: I wish to
make a statement in regard to
the evidence of Long and Willis,
and also in regard to the previous
character Of those men. l. was a
tissue oflies from beginning to end.
Long statement was identical with
a passe sc in a book called "The
Fancy Man; or, A November Day
in Boston" Long had this book
here in Jail with him and learned
that passage before the trial took
place. Long stated that this rob-
berry was his first offence. That
was not true. He confessed to me,
when be was with me in this jail,
some time before the trial, that ne
had been implicated in a number
of crimes during and since the war.
In 1864 he stole a horse and ex.
changed it for q mule, which he
sold to Mr.. Lanier, in Abbeville
County, South Carolina. He said
that after the war, in 1865, he was
hired by several parties to kill Mr..
Lanier, for which service he was
to receive 500. Before he got to
Lanier's house, however, he con-
cluded not to kill him but to give
him a good whipping. Lanier
was a horse doctor, and Long sent
a man up to his house to tell him
that gentleman had a sick horse
down the road, which he wanted
attended to. Lanier went to
where Long was, who gave him
800 lashes, almost killing him.
He was next in with a party who
robbed an old man named Roun-
tree, in Abbeville. Long was to
kill Rountree with q sledge-ham-
mer, but as be made a blow at him
the old man lodged, and the ham,
mer slipped from Longs grasp.
Rountree then jumped to his gun
and the robbers ran off, taking
with them about $500. Immedi-
ately afterwards, Long, with two
others, stole a lot of guns, pistols,
watch, and $3.50 in money from a
party of negroes on Little River.
in South Carolina. Finding that
he was getting under suspicion, he
said he came down to Edgefeld
and hired himselfto Series & Hew-
lit, who were working a gold mine.
While there he frequently stole
gold, which another person was
suspected of taking. He and an
other party went to rob a negro
on the Savannah River, but as
they entered the house the negro
struck at Long with an axe, cut
ting open his shoulder and nearly
cleaving him in twain. He after
wards tried to make it appear
that it was the Elan boys, of Lin.
coin County, who were concerned
in this robbery. At Dorn's Mine,
S. c., Long robbed the United
States census taker, in 1870, Of his
books and money. He said that
there was man named Harriss
came to him afterward, and told him
that if he gave up the books he
might keep the money. He told
Harriss he knew nothing about the
robbery. Harriss then went to a
man who was concerned with Long
in the affair, and told him Long had
confessed. The man then gave up
the books. Again falling under
suspicion, Long said he went to
Coweta County, Ga, and after
wards located in Thomson. He
also stole a horse from a man
named Black we'll, in Edgefeld
County, S. c., and sold it in Glas-
cock County, Ga. Willis, who
tried to make the impression that
l had induced him to do wrong,
was as bad as Long. He helped
to murder Atkins, besides being
engaged in other crimes. Ram
sey, in 1866, went with aeparty to
Lincoln County. and searched the
house of an old negro man, named
Henry Cobb, for money. Failing
to get any at this house, they
wen; to the house Of Cobb's son,
whom thew huno untiI he was