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! to issue q warrant for his arrest. although tho
accused was in own Oh that day. we called at
! the Justices Office, where we were furnished
with the copy Of the following
AFFIDAVIT.
STATE OF SorTH CAROLINA.
ARnENIII LIZ I'NI.NrN

with the copy Of the following
AFFIDAVIT.
STATE OF SorTH CARoLISA.)
ARBEvIlLE County.
Personally appeared before ne. trSilic /.
Illus Mathews. who. being duly sworn. says:
That At Abbcviilc. =. G., on or about the iSth
February. ISL, Caroline Farrow. while IN the
house OF Martin Thomas. WAS shot Ivy some
one ON the outside OF said '.0uSc. thrnu.h Il
crack in said house: that from lniOrriNt'N
den iv.d from others and from facts which he
knows Of his own knowledge ~" verify no.
licHrs W Il Martin Is III" person VINO Sl'"l li'C
said Carrie fnrrow. ana prnyS t!a! he may he
unprecedented aud dealt with according To law.
his
CORNELIUS X MATHEWS.
Sworn to before me this l9;h February. 1851.
ORvIIJE I. C.tI.U"rN,
Trial Justice AZ.
Colonel Calhoun af,crwarlkindly furnished
the following statement as TO the rumor, and
we give the same In his W words:
MIR. %cAI.uoUS's STATEMENT.
Mr.. Calhoun said that after he had taken
the above affidavit he asked the prosecutor II
he had his witnesses with him.; that If he had.
Martin was In town and he could 20 on with
the case then. The prosecutor said ne dlu no!
have his witnesses and would like 10 have the
case put OF until Monday. Mr.. ta!h"u
agreed to this and asked for names OF wit
ncSSss. and the prosecutor AMI those WIN MN
gave the following names: ar. Nlrnf. MARIN
Thomas, Eprraim Martin. Sarah Martin, ia.
son Gray, Lindsay Wilson. Amanda Thomas.
sarah Matthews and Phil. Madden. Mr.. Cal
hrun told the parties That he won:u Scld up
on Monday morning Tor Martin anu Witnesses,
and that they hal better 90 Oh home us Mar
tin was in town drinking. and some of them
might get into = ditlicNlty with him. They
said they would goS;raivht on home. Mr.. al
houn told them If the girl should die hciorc
Monday morning they must inform the Shcr'
i. as soon as the girl died and he would nave
Martin arrested, and they said they would DO
so. Mr.. Calhoun says he heard late ON Sittur'
day that the girl was dead. and that the sher'
iii hal sent Mr.. i. y. Jones To arrest Martin,
hut that he saw a brother of the girl soon att
c'ward and WAS told by him that ms sister
WAS not dead but was very low. lie t"lI MN
if his sister should die. To inform tho sheriff
and he would arrest Martin, and he Said he
would. On Monday morning he WAS informed
tina the girl was dead and Mr.. Jones nau been
sent To arrest Martin. He got this informal
ton from the sheriff. ana WAS told ny nc Shcr'
ir at the same tilne that he had sent Jones to
arrest Martin on saturday evening, but lie
had failed TO arrest him.
TIE ACCUSED.
Theaccuscd is a descendcnt OF one ofthc Old
and well. known families Of AhheviDc conn'
t., and as 4 matter OF course Is related 10 Il
number of our citizens. Ills father was John
Campbell Martin, senior, who died on hl'
farm. seven miles west of !Abhcville Court
House, in 1851, one Of the wcalihicSt men IN
the county n: that time. BESIDES being the
owner OF lhirty.fvc hundred acres Of land, tie
possessed more than one hundred slaves, to
gcther with all the implements and stock In
- 49,, - xl,a n,yJ,nt nf n form nf This size
The accused and his brother, j. Campbell Mar
lin, inherited the water power and about two
thousand acres Of tho land. Or this valuable
property the two brothers, being the youngest
OF the family. reside. The accused Is an un'
married man, aged &c years, and lives alone III
= little log house on the farm Gil the cast side
of the river and near the mill.
TIE DECEASED.
Caroline Farrow, the deceased, was q negro
| woman Of rci hars ~thir.y-five years Oh age. anu
leaves a number of little children.
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