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THE EDGEFIELD LYNCHERs.
Ten Allowed Bail In $4,000 Each---
Friends of the Others Much Disap-
pointed.
No,re oDf3 H,1Jrio3.

Ners and CDuricr.
TRENTON, November 6.-Judge Hudson hav'
ing allowed bail to ten Of the party under ar
rest in the Culbreath lynchng affair. The re-
fuSal Of bail to the other twenty-tirce prison
crs was great disappointment and much dis
satisfaction thercat il expressed by the friends
of those still in custody.
The following is Judge Hudson's order o.
bail, which was filed in the office Of the Clerk
of Court at Edgeteld to-day:
TIE STATE OF SouTu CAROLINA
County OF EDGkFIELD {
E1 pdrtc Vim. Purknan, Wyatt Holmes and others
charged with murder. Application for bail.
This is an application Of thir'y.three citizens o
EdSctcld, who arc in the custody Of the Sheriff o
that county, charged with the murder of o. +. Cul
breath the 2lSt day Of September last, praying t.
be admitted to BAIL The testimony tukrn at the cor
oners inquest is vouninons. and in support of the
prisoners application more than ninety ai'lnvs were
read to which the State rrplicd with half dozen O
more counter aidavits. The hearing Of the
suned nearly twelve hours Of my time iu the hid>
of very pressing business OF the regular term Of III,
Circuit Court for Rchland. 1t is utterly impossible
Tor me tn give the great of testimony that
full Ierusal and consideration which the gravity Of thu
case requires owing to the great pressure Of work
awaiting disposal in this Court, and which, with the
utmost cXertion. cannot finish before the opening o
the Court at Edgefcld on next Monday. when the
charge against the petitioners will be submitted to lh'
grand jury.
1t is an exceedingly delicate matter for Judge a
Chambers to be called upon to take act" based npor
er rte aidavits which may in the slightest degree
influence the findings of grand lury before whom 81
scrnus charge Is SO soun to come for investigation
Certainly will not, in passing this nr'"r suffer my
self to indulge in comments upon the testimony, IL"
to the extent of vdicatng myself for the actor
am taking Besides, know not what motion in 0[el
CUnrt may yet be made before in behalf of the
cused, and prefer not,by any course of reasoning
now upon the fncts, to clnfarrass myself in the
duct of future proceedings. but to leave myself I'M
committed and free to act as the eXigcncy ny require
Ilavn. heard nll the testimony and the full argu
mcnt of counsel upon the law and the facts,
that ni is refused under the law and Lcts ant
peculiar circumstances of the to all the petitioners
excepting Inc toowin. persons to wit: Morgan Dorm
Eibcrl Dorm, Arthur Mcdaniel, Richard Hammond, "
II. Thurm"nd. +. l.. Dcv're. " }. Tsibert, Wyatt
Sriglcr w. l.. Mcdaniel and p. Il. Bu>scy.
Against the discharge on bail Of these men the coun
sci for the State admit that there ID valid objection
to be drawn from the evidence. and In this concur
1t II therefore, ordered hut enc of the aforesaid ter
prisoners be discharged fun the custudy of the Shcr
f of Fe.efeld upon each entering into rccogni
zance before he Clerk OF the Circuit Court for the
suing term Of said Court to answer tn bill Of indict
mcnt to be preferred against them for the murder
one o. T. Cutrcath the 2st day of September lust
and then and there to do and perform and abide by tn,
order and judgment nf the Court each rccognizanc,
to be in the of two thousand dollars and to bt
signed by not less than two than six SurrtleS
who in the aggregate shall justify In the sum Of two
t,ionSlnd dollars Let the petition and oil accompany
ing aIlavits be placed file in the Clerk office aIls
dismissed rs to all the petitioners except the aoresait
ten All the others rccummi!ted to The custody o
the Sheriff as before the granting of the writ herein.
j. II. llrDsuN. Presiding Judge.
at Chambers, November 5, 1886.