Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-06
heel. The sheriff did not instruct us to fire

heel. The Sherln dlQ not instruct us 10 nre
unless we were resisted.
ARTHUR G.. HART, sOo1m. livein York
Vile. I was at the barn where the tracks
were examined. saw tracks-one outside
of the gate, but do not remember of which
foot. saw a shoe fitted to the track. 1t
corresponded to the track. Sheriff Glenn,
George Grist and others were present. 1
did not notice the horse tracks. 1 saw
the fire that night. 1 was four miles
from town, on the Limestone road, with
Tom Glenn, DR.. Cartwright and Mr.. Riddle.
was with the party that went to arrest
Sylvanus Thornburg. 1 went with Depu-
ty Tom Glenn. / was near the Finley house
and heard firing, / think at about IL o'clock.
After the firing, went, for our horses,
which took about twenty minutes. I came
up to the Seceder church, and went out on
the Charlotte road, having appointed to
meet Tom Glenn and two other men at the
bridge. 1 had not then noticed the fire.
saw it when about Woods house. [ was
present at arrest of Thornburg. William
Thornburg was first arrested near the rail-
road trestle, aboutsiX miles from town. Syl-
vanus was arrested soon after, nearer this
way. Bill was snaering from a wound,
and after we started from the trestle, DR..
Cartwright and myself stopped at the spring
to get some water. Tom Glenn and Mr..
Riddle rode on ahead of us. They were
in advance of us, when heard Tom say,
"Halt, Sylvanus" He did not halt, how
ever, and they fired. Sylvanus was armed
with two pistols. l Examined them. They
were loaded. He was riding horseback.
We met Sylvanus q mile this side of the
trestle. Riding by Tom Glenn and Mr..
Riddle after they halted him his horse
Stumbled and he fell off. had pistol in my
hand and told him to get up. He was then
brought to Jail. We stopped at the Jones
place. Saw the blaze of the burning barn
while there, and had him to locate it. We
arrested the defendant between two and
three o'clock. We returned to Yorkville
about half-past four. / don't remember
of Thomasson telling the time while we
were at his house. Before turning back in
the direction of the trestle we went about
three miles from Osse Jones'-a mile and a
half beyond the trestle. Coming back we
met William Thornburg in buggy near
the trestle, and on further this way we met
Sylvanus.
Cyoss-eranaia1ed. / understood our orders
from the sheriff to use no violence unless it
became necessary. Sylvanus was hailed
both times before being shot at. counted
the heel tacks. There were tWenty-seven
impressions in the sand, and the same num-
ber in the heel of the shoe. Mr.. Riddle was
about fifty yards in advance Of me when
he fired on Sylvanus, just previous to his
capture. When leading the horses, rode
some times in a gallop., Cadet Moore was va
with me. After taking the horses to Riddle
and Cartwright and mounting them, we
rode rapidly. Sylvanus did not display his
pistols. I noticed his horse after he came
up to us near the trestle. l heard no sound
of horses feet before Sylvanus was halted.
The horse had hard fall and was blowing.
T did not notice any persplratlOn on the
horse. The sun rose that morning at moon
down. When Sylvanus was arrested the
moon was two hours high. There was
moonlight all the way from the>place of his
arrest to town.
L. GEORGE GRIsT, s,Uorn. I remember
the night of the burning of Sheriff Glenn's
barn. I was there after the fire. On the
brought into town, i followed after them
down to the Jail. When the sheriff started
from the Jail to the place where his barn
was burned, I asked permission to 60 with
him. Mr.. Parish was with us. About the
U1me we started, on the way out, he SAID TO
me, "The sheriff's barn was burned last
night, and he suspects Sylvanus Tornburg
with having burned it. If he did, these,
(showing pair of shoes will do the work" !"
saw a track. There were tWenty-six tacks
in the shoe heel; twenty-five of them made
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track with foot rule. Could count twenty
six tacks in the heel of the right shoe !;
eleven in the heel Of the left shoe. They
were put in irregularly, and correspondent
with the track. There was one track on
the left of the road coming out, but 90 not
remember which footit was. ltcorrespOnd-
ed with one of the shoes. l also saw the
tracks of horses in the road, outside the
gate. A track, made, by the horse that
Thornburg was on when captured, was q
fac sinaile of horse track near the gate. l
measured these horse tracks with piece OF
paper and they correspOnded.
ross-eramined. Iasked permission ofthe
sheriff to accompany him to the burned
barn. l was not a member of the posse that
was out the night before. l was up that
night until half past ten. arose the next
morning about sun up. Hearing the pris-
oners were in town, came on down street
to meet them. I had not heard of the burn
ing of the barn before 1 got into the buggy
to start, when Mr.. Parish made the remark
to me about the shoes. My yreason for going
was to see if the shoes "Would tell the tale"
I had one in my hand. We were out there
hold of the shoes besides myself. There
were tWenty-six tacks in the heel of the
right shoe; twenty-five impressions in the
track. One of them, among the last in the
row, did not show. l did not count the i'm
preston of the tacks in the left heel. L
found no tack impressions across the heel
The ground was sandy; the atmosphere a
little damp; the weather dry. | could not
tell whether the track was newly made or
old. There were other tracks in the road.
We examined other tracks, tracks that we
made ourselves. There were tracks that we
could not account for. l saw no barefoot
tracks. 1 did not follow up the horse tracks,
| do not know how many roads there are on
the east side of town approaching toward
the barn. l did not examine the road lead
ing by way of the Jail for tracks, nor the
road leading from the barn by way of Lean
der Parish's. think there is another road
that leads to the barn, but cannot describe
it. I followed up none of the roads. did
not examine to seeif a horse had been hitch
ed at the gate. There is woods near by.
To have hitched horse in the woods and
gone to the barn would have rendered it ne
cessary to cross the road. l saw no tracks
crossing the road. The road is clay. Oppo-
site the gate the soil is sandy.
Redirect. Had man walked across the
CLAW road, he might have made a track. l
had one shoe; Mr.. Parish the other. We
were together when one of the tracks was
compared with a shoe. There were seven
or eight persons besides Mr.. Parish and my
self present.
GEORGE S. RUSSELL, saco7n: l was pres
ent at the examination Of the tracks just at
ter the fire. Frank Melton, Mr.. White, his
wife and sister, j. l.. Parish, and perhaps
others, were present. We saw tracks lead
ing from the gate to the barn. l could not
say positively that l recognized the tracks
as tracks of Sylvanus Thornburg, but if |
ever saw track that they resembled, l
~, I that