The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-11-24
KILLED WITH AN AK,
a Terrible Crime Committed In Elbero
County.
ENcrtcn Ne,c !South.

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In That portion of Goosepond district.
o?glethorpe::county, lying near Broad
river, on Monday night Of last week.
therc was scene too horrible to depict.
ana certainly. fearful enough to freeze the
blood of the beholdcr. There and then
0ioody deed.was done,.a soul sent unbid.
den before his maker, and the body purity
burned to ashes. Last year n maa
named Dunson, hailing from Harmony
Hrove, became n tenant of John Eber.
na'tS III this section of Oglethorpe.
lie stayed the year out and this
heart, but ns the crop progressed hs
sold out to Wesley Kidd. and induced
MN to move into the house with his
family. There hadibecn some impropcr
intimacy between Mrs. Kidd and Dun.
son, reports which had reached Duns0n's
wife and when the Kidd family moved
III she LEFT and, il s.supposcd, went back
! to jackson county.
After staying around here some
Time Duns0n went off-t0 Macon il il
sald-and had been in the neighborhood
out short time when the unfortunate,
affair occurred. II is reported he had
been OH IL spree and had not sobered off
when, on Monday evening he called nj
kidd's. One account is tha, Dunson met
Mrs Kidd in her garden and told her he
wanted her to sell out and go to Macon.
and that she would net consent; that
she went into the house and he followed
her, Kidd beingspresent, and there he
continned to abuse her. and finally struck
her, and striking ut her second time.
mt the child which ..she had taken: she
then lett the house to go to her father.
in-iaw's house, about mile distant.
Another account gives no quarrel between
Dunson and Mrs. Kidd, and that Kidd
tod ms wife TO 60 to his fathers. If
quarrel there was, however. and blows
given, Kidd heard the one and saw the
other without rcsenting either. Both
accounts agree that when Mrs Kidd was
ABOUT ZOO yards from the house she
turned and saw Kidd and Dunson quiet.
~ sitting down and facing each other,
End that was the last look she was ever
10 take Of Dunson. Between 0 and 10
o'clock at night fire appeared in the
direction OF the house occupied by Kidd,
and Eberhart WAS the first to reach II
ana ilnd the house nearly CONSUMED, and
could see the head OF man protruding
from what appeared to be burning bed.
ding. And this was the condition of
affairs until the next day when the heat
had 80 far died out as to permit mn nyes.
legation: This investigation developed
human body, lying under bedding which
had ourntt 10 crisp, the mass of fhalf. burnt
bedding protecting the breast from being
destroyed by the consuming clement, but
the legs, arms and head, being exposed
70 the flames, were almost burnt to ashes.
Close examination developed the fact
that the man had been killed. The lick
n v ytyou 1ScnN Al. IL.
oil the head, just above the eye, and
another blow with the blade of the AK.
the point fallingjust above the root ofthe
teeth of she upper jaw in front, several
teeth being cut out found on the ground
ny the skull), and cutting off u portion Of
the lower jaw. Lying on the body was
discovered 81 .G5 in specie, knife and men,
orandum book, the contents of the latter
realing the fact that this was all there
wns ofthe human body of poor Dunson.
The coroner's jury rendered verdict
that deceased calne to his death by vio-
lence Mt the hands Of Wesley Kidd.
Some difficulty was had in secU-ilg in
| terment for the remains, but gentle,
man finally volunteered to perform the
act. and hole was dug, the body rolled
up III quilt and tossed in the hole, and
thus the rites Of Christian burial were Civ
en-! 1t was thought little singular that
although all the people in the neighbor-
hood turned out to the fire, not men,
Der of the elder Kidd's family put in an
appearance, although they lived ns near
as most OF those who were there. Wesley
Kidd was not at the scene of the burning
and had disappeared from the neighbor-
hood. On Friday lust he put in III 90.
pearance, however, and admits that he
killed :'unson, and gives his verson of
the affair He reiterates the account
given OF the scene between Dunson and
his wife; that he abused her because sin
would not consent to go to Macon that
he Kidd did uot resent Dunson's con-
duct because he was afraid of him. He
then states that after Mrs. Kidd left the
house Dunson followed her awhile and
then commenced raving about the room:
then began to throw the bedcothing in
the fire; that he then told Dunson he
must behave himself or leave the house
that Dunson made an impertinent reply,
whercupon he seized an ak and hit him
on the head with it. The first blow was
followed quickly by q second. The
blows of the AK had knocked the man
under the bed, but he saw that he had
Killed him, and became SO frightened
he did not know what TO do, so he ran
away. He was now ready to give him.
self up. Suppose the firs was the result Of
the burning bedquilts, which was partly
thrown in the fire by Dunson, some of the
ends or corners reaching out to the floor.
How craven the man who permits an
other 10 insult and abuse his wife and
strike her and her babe, without resent.
ment, and is then reused to murderous
indignation at the burning of q bed.
quilt
WAY DowN SOUTH IN DIxIs.-D.:;
Emmett, the old time negro minstrel :,
| who una IN a nnnnii lnrt ,rnal. nil