Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-19

calls the "Bob Ingersoll cigar" 1t burns
we'll at the end. ....''.'" Coffee growing has
proved successful with few planters in
southern Florida, and its cultivation there
promises to be extended. 1.-The Democracy
Of Ohio have nominated for Governor, Thos.
Ewing, now member of Congress, aud for
Lieut. Governor, A. V. Rice. They we're both
Generals and served throughout the "war for
the Union" The Democrats are jubilant
over the nominations
ATROCIOUS CRIME AND LYNCHING.
A correspondent of the Greenville En-
terprise and Mountainesr, under date of June
1lth,. details the following particulars of
horrible crime perpetrated in Spartanburg
county: ~, r s !
On Thursday. June 5, nice lookingyoung
woman passed through Vernonsville, Spar
tanburg county, making inquiries for Mr..
Woodward, stating that her name was Wood
ward that she had two sisters living with
Benjamin Morgan, near "The Traps" in Pick
ems county; that she was looking for Mr.. Wood.
ward, an uncle, or Paschal O'Shields, and
that she had walked from Pickens. She was
dressed in a neat black dress, with brown
straw hat, and striped shawl on her arm.
She was directed to Jefferson O'Shields, at
Reidville. From the stores she passed on
about a half mile farther, asking for Wood
ward. Finally, abandoning all hope Of find
ing the person sought, she turned towards
Reidville, asking directions She arrived at
the house of John j. Moore as they were sit
ting down to dinner. She accepted an invita-
tion TO eat, and departed. Mr.. Moore accom-
panied her short distance to the main road,
when she took her final leave, nothing more
being heard of her.
On Sunday, 9Th instant, two men passing
the road noticed an unusual number Of buzz
yards just off from it. On STOPPING and look.
ing that way they saw something unusual,
and then first recognized the smell of car.
rion. They went towards 1t, and discovered
the body of the woman. The huzzards had
picked out her eyes, the body was much
swollen and discolored, the clothes were
thrown up about her waist, her throat was
cut from ear to ear and into the backbone, q
bullet hole was in her right breast, worms
crawling in countless multitudes in every
cavity-the hair was kept in motion by them.
God grant I may never again see such
sight!.
T. P. CASTOR summoned jury, but night
set in before much could be done, and the in
quest adjourned until sunrise this morning.
10 the credit of the jury, be it said, nearly
every one stayed to help watch the corpse,
which could not be moved. This morning
they finished, with verdict Death by
gunshot and incision in throat, by person nm
known"
Suspicion, however, was soon directed to-
Moore, the man who accompanied her from
the house to the main read, and he was ar
rested and committed to Jail in Spartanburg.
Subsequently-on Monday night last -he was
taken from the Jail by a body of men and
summarily executed, the full particulars of
which we copy as follows from the Spartan
burg Herald of yesterday: Z.
Further facts having since been discovered
tending more conclusively to convict Moore
of the diabolical act, public Indignation rose
to the highest pitch, and on Monday night
body of mounted men, estimated at between
two and three hundred, approached the town
about II o'clock at night, for the purpose OF
taking John j. Moore out and hanging him.
News of the approach Of the body Of armed
men was whispered about town late III the
evening, and considerable excitement vas
created. Sheriff Thompson endesvored to get
up posse eomitatus to guard the Jail, and
collision being apprehended, efforts were made
to induce the mounted men to desist from
their purpose Their minds, however, were
made up, and they rode into the town, and
surrounding the Jail, demanded the prisoner.
The Sheriff, finding that he could not get
posse comitatus sufficient to protect the prison.
er, secretly took the prisoner out of Jail, un-
der guard, and had him carried of and Be-
creted Just outside of the limits Of the. town.
The mounted men searched every cell and
room in the jail, and upon being satisfied that
the prisoner had been carried of, they scat
tered in every direction and continued their
search until they found the prisoner under
the Chinquepin trestle of the Air. Line Rail.
road, one mile from town, where Sheriff
Thompson had left him in handouts, under
guard, with orders to take the cars on the IL
o'clock train towards Charlotte.
taking possession Of their prisoner they
rallied their forces and rode through the town
with their prisoner and carried him off TO the
SPOT where he had committed his diabolical
deeds and hung him, we are informed by a
person present, at z o'clock this (Fuesday)
morning, in the presence Of about one thou
sand persons, among whom were two sisters
of the lady whom he had murdered, who ar
rived from Pickens yesterday. He was per
mitted to take leave Of his family and was
placed in buggy under a tree upon limb
Of which the rope was tied and adjusted round
his neck. He was then given permission to
speak and made few remarks denying his
guilt and saying-"That he didn't blame
them, thinking as they did, for what they
we're about to do; but hoped that after he
was dead the right man would be found and
they would say that John Moore, for once,
spoke the truth" When he closed his re-
marks, the buggy was driven from under him
and his body hung until life was extinct.
"Thus ended the career of John j. Moore,
man of VIGOROUSLY bad character perhaps
the worst man that ever lived in Spartanburg
county-a man who, himself, had admitted
that "he had committed every crime known
to the law except suicide" 1t rs q Inonu-
ment to the peace and law. abiding character
of our people that he has been permitted to
live in this county, implicated, as he has been,
in so many crimes and rascalities."
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Correspondence Of the YOrkyille Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACKS STATION.
BLACKS STATION, s. c.. June II, 1879.
Our town was thrown into considerable ex-
citement this morning about dog that passed
through, exhibiting signs OF having hydropho-
phia: An effort was made to kill it, but it