The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-13
BLOODY BOGAN'S CASTLE.
A Pen-Picture of Caslis Home and its
Surroundings.
Correspondence Nems and Courier.

Correspondence Neus and Courier.
CHERAw, March 7.-Henry Berry
Lowery in the palmy days of his out.
lawry scarcely attained more notoriety
than the persons who rejoice in the name
of Cash have managed to secure for
themselves within the past fortnight.
The traveller who journeys by rail over
any portion of Eastern South Carolina
and the Southern portion of North Caro-
lima hears little else on the way OF talk
and gossip except anent Cash, father
and son. As the train leaves Florence,
the thriving town at the junction of the
several roads which connect there and
strikes out in the direction of the fertile
fields of the Pee.Dee section, the talk
becomes intensified, and pretty soon the
entire company in the coach is engaged
in it. The conversation is invariably
carried on in subdued tone of voice,
and very much in the style in which a
nurse relates ghost or goblin story to
her appalled, and frightened child. If
an unusually large stranger enters the
coach at any of the stations along the
line the talk is hushed altogether and
there is . general feeling of uneasiness
until it leaks out that the stranger is not
Cash. Those who live within the
reach of the nimble pistol and deadly
rifle of Cash Castle are fond of relating
anecdotes illustrative of the desperate
deeds of the Cashes Most of them pre-
face their stories and incidents with the
remark: "i'm a friend of Col. Cash,
although I don't uphold him and Began
! in this thing" referring of course to MIR.
Began Cash's latest bloody exploit at
Cheraw and his subsequent defiance OF
arrest. 49,. r
At Cash's Depot, the abiding place OF
Col. Cash and his son, there is general
throwing up of windows aud a craning
of necks with anxious inquire. from
the strangers on the train: us that
where they live?" "Is either Of them
there?" 'iWhere's the depot" &c.
THE CASH CASTLE.
Cash's Depot viewed from the railroad
is dreary enough place. A low, nal;, ),
decsyed platform constitutes the oDePot.
About a hundred yards to the South OF
this is an old rickety one.story building
in an oak thicket near the railroad trace; );
This is the store known as "Larklns:"
The Cash mansion stands on knoll
about 500 yards 10 the right of the rail-
road track. 1t is q substantial two ano
half story frame residence with a
double piazza, and surrounded by grove
of majestic pines. Few outbuildings are
near it, and the usual enclosure of park:
partially hides the noble proportions OF OF
| the mansion. The place has peculiarly
dreary look. 1t is q fine residence set
down in the midst of barren pine for
est. This is where Col. E. B. G. Cash Is
residing at present. 1t used to be his
own properly, l am told, but now oe,
longs to DIR. Larkins, of Lancaster, 10
whom Col. Cash has sold it, together
with the demesne, which consists OF
nearly 5000 acres of the richest cotton
land of this rich and fertile section
The price paid for it is said to have been
100000. o, MI,
inquiry came from the correspondent o.
TTe Newscna Courier, and was directed
to q gentleman who was "a friend Of Col
Cash. and with whom he had formed
sneaking acquaintance on the journey
lsnt whose name for obvious reasons il
might perhaps be injudicious to publish
'.No, he doesn't" replied the friend O.
: the Cashes. "He lives below there.
And then my informant went on to tel
what he knew about the movements and
,ayings of the Cashes. He said thai
since the shooting in Cheraw W. B. Cash
had been staying at a house which be
pointed out to me and which is about
, 500 or 900 yards South of the Cash man
sion, on the line of the railroad, and is
in sight of the track. 1t is plain log
house, strongly and evidently recently
built in clearing, and enclosed with th&
characteristic worm fence of pine raiy|
Inside the enclosure are two stout bap
built close together, and in one of thS,
he informed me, w. B. Cash takes r.
ug" when anyone approaches the dft'
THE OUTLAWS ATTITUDE.
NV informant said that be BACON
versed with both Col. Cash and = son
since the Cheraw affair. COL On, ne
! said, had told him that neitheghe nor
his son Began would fire upon ny 9th,
Ger Of the law who attemptedb arrest
him. The persons for whose Pod Col.
Cash is reported to be thirstib are the
posse who, it is alleged, vopteered to
capture Began immedietelyafter the
murder. My informant st,'s, aud his
infol nation is substantial by the re-
ports of eye. witnesses, thsf Began Cash
was badly beaten in the Eht with the
town marshal Richards ihich preceded
the shooting. He addefhat Col. Cash
had told him that he ldn't intend to
have his son lynched, 1T that he would
see to it that he gaP himself up and
stood his trial like a Jan. He SAID, TOO,
that while he wouV not submit 10 an
arrest by posse of(olunteers, ne would |
not resist the atte ept of any officer to
arrest him. 1 mi as we'll state right
here that in theEent OF Cashs arrest
there is not the dightest probability OF
his being lynch4 Such Is my lmpres.
sion after CONVEYING with number OF
the leading CITIZENS of ChefaW who nave
most cause to j outraged At the lawless,
ness of the Cades. Myinfumant also told
me that Bogs Bash has S following and
that his 63ing place e.1! is thoroughly
picketed bylcouts. who carefully watch
the surrouPing country ana @ oy I oInefs
bring hiwintelligence of anything that
'ran'pirY'in the vlil''s, sa..,.
On tie streets of cheraw, in the esitting
room IF the hot Land in the public |
placs the subject of conversation is
;IiEash To sa, that the Cashes have
terrified the entfe surrounding country
void perhaps b. an e1aggeration, but it
is painfully apps5ent that they are looked
ujon with dred by all who do not
ntlas' that bote ete s knot Of half dozen n'r or
more per.ons 7ere seated around fire
I:,,or;nr Cod. One man was readinr