The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-28
shots aredig Hapid succession. and lhe
thOughtSh1shel iipUn The mind OF Bates


thoughaf6sha apon the mind OF Bates
at once that tho bank was in danger
Mr.. Waldo stating that he cried out,
"Thenr men are going for the town, they
mean to rob the bank" although Mr.
| Bates does not recoiiect saying ANYTHING,
he became 80 excited. He remembers.
however, rushing TO the door, and seeing
| sOme pep ride up from the bank; they
| came riding towards him with long pis-
tols IN their hands, and called out, sect
in there, you son Of D."
n 1MTx Bate, etCpco seized shot gun and
ssfah lbSckfo Ghe dior, but tho gun yonId
llo9 gl dE q He tbert put ddSR the gun
| and seized a fine seveI.shooter, which
| was not loaded, and as the men came
down again, (they were riding to and fro,
eyicsntly intent upon keeping people
from the bank be standing behind the
doorjams, called out, "now I've got
YOU" and pointed the empty pisto. as if
drawing a bead on them They turned
thejr horses suddenly and fred at Mr.
Bates, the ball crushing through the
plate glass. This ruse he practiced over
and over again with the same effect.
There were other men Mt the bank firing
down the street.
The next he saw was Mr.. j. s. Allen
running down the street from the bank,
and two shots were fired at him.
Mr.: Manning, of Mill Square, whose
store is in the same block as the bank,
next came upon the scene. He ran out
of his store with Remington repeating
rife, and took deliberate aim and fred
from the corner, Mr.. Bates calling out,
Jump back nowj or they'll get you"
Next Mr. j. Is. Hide came 10 with a
double -barreIed shotgun and discharged
the two barrels, and retired to reload
The Rev. Philips also took :urn at
the scoundrels, and l.. Stacey delivered q
cool, deliberate aim. Mr.. Bates next
heard report over his head and saw
oge Of the dcspcradocs fall from his
horse. The horse made faltering
plunge forward and thon suddenly
slapped, and the man pitched over on
his face to the ground and in a few mo-
ments was dead. This shot was fired By
Henry Wheeler from an old, ca, bine
from out one of the Windows Of the Dan.
pier House, from the very room in which
this report is written; Dir. Manning was
still firing, and, as he crept to the corner
tn fire, Mr. Waldo called, "take good
aim before you fire." Immediately after
this shot one; of the horses started up the
street, and che rider began to reel and
sway to and fro, and suddenly fell to the
ground just opposite Elridgc's store.
Another horseman Immediately rode up,
dismountcd and spoke to the .,pr0strate
man, who was stretched out mt full length,
supporting himself on his outstretched
arms, when he relied over OF his back.
Then the other man took from him his
cartridgebolt and two pistols, and. re.
mounting his horse, rode off.
Another horscmnn, finding Mr.. Man
ning's fire too hot, di.mouDted from his
horse and got on the opposite side of it
Tor protection, when an unerring ball
from the Remington brought the horse
down, the man running behind some
boxes which were piled beneath the stair
case before mentioned, and now cnsied
lively fusiladc between this fellow and
Manning, the scoundrel keeping himself
well under cover. But ball from
Wheclcr's musket struck the fellow i'm
the leg, halfway 'aboye the knee. lie
mt once changed his pistol to the left
hand and grasped the wounded limb with
the right. still trying to get at Mapuings
rinulHg himseIT getting weak nc turned
and !'mreed off up the street, but seeing
Bates with pistol in his hand he sent n
SS'A "hhHihB tOWAtuo tiIht kEgltICIUIf1t
grazing the side of his cheek and the
bridge of bis nose and burying itself in a
collar box in the store. Mr.. Bates says
he feels the ring of that ball in his ear
still, and the ball, he says, he will ever
keep Ms o souvenir Of tho hottest day
Northfield over saw. 1-,4.. ..s.,'I
The man Iimped away as he got oppo.
site to NJ. Mcr-;=' s.:.c, ;whhon he cried
out to his retreating companions: "My
God. boys: you are not going to leave me
II am shot" One of the party riding
sorrel horse with e light tail and name
turned and took the wounded man up be-
hind him, 80
q Swede. who evidently understood
but little English, WINS passing down the
street. He was ordered to stop, but paid
no attention, and ono of the horsemen
fired a'stnt.which inflicted wound upon
his head, which was hot believed to Sc
serious, but this afternoon the doctors
fear that he cannot recover.