The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-23
THE MURDER0US CASH FAMILY.
A Father and Son Whose Only Method of Re-
dressing Grievances Was the Pistol.

COLUMBIA, s c., May 22.-The recent tragic
death of W. Boggan Cash, only son of Col E.
B. C. Cash, attracts public attention for the
present, and there are two views of the matter
No one questions the Justice Of the fate which
overlook him, while public opinion is fairly di-
vided as between those who regret that the de-
ceased had not so acted that the law would have
convicted or acquitted him. But the decree
that he who liveth by the sword shall perish by
the sword has been verified in the life of young
man who has been principal in two duels in
stigated a third killed an officer of the law NOR
tally wounded an inoffensive citizen, and finally
met death with twenty wounds while resisting a
sheriffs posse, to his dying moment
Young Cash had nherieed all of the bad traits Of
his father, and neither of them thought for a
moment that any real or fancied wrong could be
atoned for save by the shedding of blood, Like
father like son, was never more strongly eXhib
tied. Both of them wero men of the highest
educational training, but the curse of strong
drink and the sensuahty OF the lbertine so de
based their character that the good they did or
could have done was ObGterated by their moral
turpitude.
Col. Cash will be brought on trial next month
for aiding and abetting the killing of Town
| Marshal Richards and the mortal wounding of
| James coward; IN Otnef words, as an accessory
before and after the crimes. While there was
| never much expectation of his conviction, no
doubt the death of his son, the principal in the
double deed of blood, will have sufficiently ap-
peased the public wrath to justify the acquittal
or very mild punishment, of the old man, whose
| life is a perfect wreck in every respect.
Col Cash has two other children--a married
| daughter, who was at her fathers home when
her brother was slain, with her husband (who is
one of the Cash attorneys, and single daugh-
| ter, who teaches school in Spartanbur S. G.
| 1t is probable the father would have been buried
in the same grave with his son had Boggan Cash
| been hemmed in at the parental mansion, but
Boggan was surrounded in barn on his own
plantation, some five miles from Col Cash's
| home.
A servant of the household upon being asked
how the Colonel took the death of his son, re
piled: Mighty hard! Mighty hardT
James Coward, the unOffending citizen and
unfortunate victim of Boggan Cashs pistol
practice, still fingers the verge of the grave.
with no possible hope of recovery, and with no
immediate prospect of release from his suffer
ues palalyzed Where the ball entered and
where it was extracted have healed oyer and
seem healthy, but bed sores are forming on the
young mans body. Marvellous as it may seem,
young Coward is very cheerful under the cir
cumstances. and up to the eve of Boggan Cashs
death had used no expression of complaint at
his sad fate, of revengeful feeling toward the
man who had been the means of reducing him to
his present condition. In fact it is safe to say
that the unfortunate young man, as much as
any one regrets that fate had decreed that Rog
gan Cash should not receive his just deserts in
a court of Justice