The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-08


heads of the other three were put in the
opposite end of the grave-their legs and
feet being on top of the three first put IN.
The dirt was thrown upon them, and
mound now stands where those beneath
so lately stood in life. :,
The whole proceeding was conducted
in most quiet way. The crowd return
ing from the shooting made no effort at
concealment-returned in body and
slaked their thirst at the we'll, and in an
hour after the shooting, had quietly dis
persed. No exultation, no boasts, no
threats being heard. Only one loud eX-
preston was heard. One man with a
musket iii his hand said to crowd of
negroes standing some distance off, "you
niggers can 60 and
BURY THEM DAMN NIGGERs."
The two women, Betty Perrin and
Tilda Holloway, who were implicated by
the verdict as accessories were then
turned loose without as much as word
of warning-showing, we think. a Won
derful leniency on the part of the out,
ragged community. 1t was the general
feeling too of the crowd assembled that
the verdict of the jury indicated de-
termination on their part to give others
who had been implicated by the evidence
the benefit of every doubt.
THUS ENDED THE HARMON TRAGEDY.
The friends of the deceased were advised
by bad designing people not to touch
them. and Il was not until the time
stated that they were moved by better
counsels to bury them: The feeling of
the negroes in the immediate neighbor-
hood as expressed, is that the evidence
was conclusive, and that the guilty de,
served death. Things are now quiet, and
peace and order are again supreme.
THE FIRST BURIAL PARTY
who went to the place Of the tragedy on
Thursday morning, removed the bodies
some twenty steps to the shade of some
trees and commenced to dig the very
grave in which they were finally biried,
but while digging, messenger, who had
been to trial Justice Kellar, returned
stating that if they buried these men
| without first having held an inquest, they
| would become liable to the severest penal,
ties of the law. The work was stopped
at ONCE and the place abandoned. :.
The friends and relatives of the dead
seem to care very little about them.
MANY of whom never vert near the
bodies of the deceased, and to all appear
,ances feel as little concerned about their
dead as they could do for dead Indians
on the Black Hills.
BEFORE THEY WERE BURIED,
the birds of prey had begun their work
of despoilation, and had eaten the fesh
| from the faces, necks and craniums OF
the brothers Stephen Lake and Jesse
Lake, and when the burying party came
the despoilers on wing, who were the
only witnesses of this burial, sought
refuge iii the tops of the trees near by,
and stood in their elevated positions
quietly looking at the work of intermen!t,
which was not completed Until dark.
They mourned not for the dead, except
that they were, as they thought, deprived
of the rich feast they expected to enjoy
on the morrow. ...a- .
SINCE THE BURIAL
the negroes have felt better satisfied and
the whites have felt more comfortable.
AS long as they lay exposed the fact
seemed to be cause of agitation and ex-
citement, but as soon as their bodies were
beneath the ground a change came over
the feelings Of all, and everybody went to
work with better will.
,n,eo~rrpo ,urpP cIrApDED
night and day by number varying from
fifty to five hundred men. The number
was mitch greater than was necessary for
the safe-keeptng Of the prisoners against
auy efforts they might make on their own
behalf, but rumors of an attempt to
rescue them were heard, and in order to
prevent forcible release they assembled
at the scene of the murder in great num-
bers.
SOMETHING OF THE EXECUTED.
Lark Holloway the leader of the double
murder, was preacher in good standing
in the African Methodist church, and
held religious services at Liberty Hill on
the Sunday following the commission OF
this most foul murder. He was the most
intelligent of the number, and was the
only one who seemed to have any appre-
citation of what the kidnapping of the
sheriff meant, and his exclamation, My
God, they have got the sheriffl' was per-
haps intended to convey an idea of dan
ger to his companions in crime. They,
however, affected stolid indifference and
want of appreciation of the situation.
It is thought they believed the leading
off to shoot was intended only to intimi-
date and scare to confession those who
had denied their guilt.
Marshall Perrin had been living in
adultery with a woman for several years,
and he wanted to assume the ministerial
robes, and on the Sunday previous to the
murder, married this woman, and applied
for license to preach the glad tidings of
great Joy, and peace on earth and good
will to men.
Austin Davis, otherwise known as Sam
Perry, it is said, was an escaped convict
from the Edgefeld jail, whence he made
his escape while waiting to be carried to
the penftentiary for term of four years
the sentence of the Court for stealing a
horse.
We learn that Stephen Lake was sold
during slavery for some offense, to man
in Georgia. Since emancipation. ne
came back from Georgia, a refugee from
justice, for some crime unknown to us.
We know less of the others, but hear
that one of them held a high Office in the
church, and are of opinion that the other
two were communicates.
| THE JURY
labored assiduously for week, and the
result in ferreting out offenders in this
short time is perfectly wonderful, and it
is believed by some if the jury had taken
a recess ON Wednesday instead of adj
| iourning, their labors would have been
rewarded by still further discoveries.
There seems to be little doubt that man
by the name of Cheatham and another
by the name of Chiles was present at the
| Tho