Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-26

then and there but for Interference.
Crockett left tho house. Some time before
this the band moved up from Tradcwator
bottoms, and hired little grocery somo
four miles away on public road leading to
Princeton. A day or 90 after the fuss be-
tween Mary and Crocket crowd of men
from Princeton were riding by tho li,t'o
grocery, all drinking very freely, when one
OF them, in moment Of rccklessncss, fred
off his pistol. Tho Campbels, thinking
The mob was Gu them again rushed out of
the grocery and began firing. Tho men
returned the shols aud then galIoped on 70
town. This created another tempest Of
excitement and tho next doy mob was
got together to
ENTERMiNATE TUE cAMpDELLs.
The next night forty men, armed 10 thc
teeth, with masks on their faces and hatred
in their hearts, swept down the road toward
the little log cabin where the Campbelrs
Kept their grocery. Tho leaders were
picked men, aud they were followed by
some Of the most desperate mcn in The
county. 1t was resolved to do no half
work this time but to make sure Job Of it.
At dead galIop they rushed up to the
house and in an instant it was surrounded.
The forty mon sat on their horses like
statues, and each with shotgun ia his
hand, the hammer raised, finger on trigger
ready for work In Tho house was fumilv
named MoA1urry, an old man aud some
small children. Tho only other inmates
of The house were Reilly Campbell and
his brother Bud. The lender uf the mob
called out 10 The McNlunrys 10 leave The
house, which they instantly did, standing
out in the woods shive,ing and waiting for
what horror they hardly knew. Prcpara-
tons we're instantly made by The two men
in the house for fight to tho death.
Quarter was neither asked or given. The
The mob opened f,c and the CampbclIs
answered them. Then The firing became
fierce and fast. A groan and mut,crcd
curse came from the outside, aud a little
group hurried man off in their arms 1t
was llice johnson, wcll-to-do, respccta-
bic farmer. lie had ball through his
breast and bled 10 death out on the road
with the pistol balls flying over his head
singing his requiem. Then groan came
from within aud Reilly Campbell fell iu
pool Of blood at his brothers. feet, a corpse.
But Bud stood to his guns, doggcdly firing
away into tho night whenever he saw the
fash of an cnemy's gun. How long
this wild warfare might have lasted no one
knows. But Buds ammunition gave out
aud his shots bccane less frequent TSc
mob closed in on him. Thirty nine to one,
surely it was madness to resist any longer.
BUD did resist, however, aud ba, ricadipg
doors and windows he stood ready with
clubbcd gun 10 his hand TO defend his life
10 the last Suddenly he began to smell
smoke about him. Then he knew the hor-
ror Of his fate. Tho
MOB HAD FIGED THE CABIN.
ThiiIy.nine men stood ranged around,
just outside, with levellcd euus, waiting for
him. Death by fire Within death by the
bullet without, which would be choose?
The smoke became dcnscr, he could hardly
s,ope around the roam. The blaze was
leaping up around him like q mad wolf
The roof was mass of fire. Then the
door was burst open, and out Of the fire
aud the binding smoke that man could not
breathe aud live, out of this very mouth
of hell staggered man with singed clothes
and s,imy face and blcared eyes, clinging
lovcllcd at him, but he fell before the hands
that were 80 anxious to pull the triggers
could move. A dozen men gathered about
him, bound him haud and foot, and dazed
and half dead as ho was, dragged him
down into The woods. A rope was quickly
brought and as the smoke Of the burning
cabin 0oaled through tho trees it touched
and moved tho dangling body of Bud
Campbell.
Nobody knew wLcre Mary Sullivan was
all this smo. More than one Of the mob
afterwards confessed that if Mary had been
thcro The job would not have been such an
easy one. A night or 80 later some men
returning from n visit to ncishbor's
thought they heard mans voice pleading
with some one for mercy. They we're not
positive, but thought The person addressed
was called "Mary." Tho next day The
lifclcss body of Crockct jenkins was found
swinging from thc limb of giant Dark at
Tho top Of q tall hill. The moral proof
that Mary Sullivan committed Tho chine,
assisted by her mother and sister, seemed
to be conclusive, but there was no positive
proof. And so when Mary aud her mother
and sister were arrested nothing could be
done with them. They were all discharged
and when Mary went back houlc she found
DEATHS HEAD NOTICES
glnring at her, warning her to leave tho
ncishborhood All the rest of her friends
we've either dead or wounded or had left.
Bud Campbell was dead; Reilly Campbell
was dead; Crockct jenkins was dead; her
brother had gone away to recover from his
wounds, which had begun to trouble him
again; her mother and sister had fed; she
was an outcast and alone Rnt in sniin of