The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-11
A Story About tile Son Of. the Murder.
er of Gen. Little.

Several days ago paragraph published
in the New Orleans States, commenting
on the alleged appointment by President
Cleveland of Cuthbert Bullitt Jones as
consal to Callso, called editorially upon
Governor McEnefy to make. q requisition
for him as fugitive from justics; there
being an unsatis6ed Indictment against
him in the Parish of Catahoula for mur.
der. 1t then narrated the particulars of
the assassination of Gen. Liddell, in 1870,
by Jones and his father and brother on q
Black River steamboat, and how the two
latter were subsequently shot aid killed
by gang of lynchers in the Harrison
burg jail. Cuthbert Jones escaped and
fed from the country.
In conversation with reporter for the
Me,cs and Courier yesterday Col. B. i.
Crayton, of Anderson, said that he was
somewhat acquainted with the facts con-
nected with the assassination of Gen.
Liddell, and told the following interesting
story:
"The statement published from the
New Orleans paper is partly true as far
as it goes. There was feud between
Gen. Liddell and the father of Cuthbert
Jones, growing out of an insult which
the elder Jones had offered to Northern
lady who was teaching school in the
vicinity, perhaps at Gen. Liddell's house,
at the time it occurred. Ihave forgotten
the lddy's name; but she felt that she had
been deeply aggrieved, and in company
with Gen. Liddell she went to Jones's
house to demand an explanation. Jones
thought that Gen. Liddell had persuaded
her to take such course, and that he
was trying to make trouble. 1 have for.
gotten just how the interview ended, but
sometime afterwards, while Gen. Liddle
was going down Black River on steam.
boat; ths boat stopped at landing, and
the general saw Jones on the shore and
apparently with the intention of coming
on board. He went to the captain, told
him that there had been difficulty
between Jones and himself, intimating
that Jones might renew the trouble if he
should be allowed to come aboard.
Jones did come on board, however, and
went into the saloon where Gen. Liddell
was sitting at the table, eating. Jones
drew his pistol and shot Gen. Liddell
down, killing him instantly, and without
an exchange of words. Jones then made
his escape from the steamer. A great
deal of indignation was felt about the
murder. Some time afterwards q mob
went to Jones's house and lynched him.
Jones had not been sent to Jail, but with
his two SONS had fortified himself in his
house and prepared himself to resist
arrest. The door of the house was
broken down and Jones and one of his
sons taken out and lynched. Cuthbert
Jones, who was with his father, made his
escape by swinging out of the window in
an upper story and secreting himself
between the wall of the house and the
chimney, where he remained until the
lynching party had dispersed. He was
not with his father at the time Gen. Lid.
dell was murdered, but was an accessory
after the fact. He fed the country and
I had not heard of him again until /
read the paragraph published yesterday.
"About the time of the lynching of
Jones Mrs. Jones returned to this coun.
try from France with her children. I
have heard that when she heard Of the
lynching she did not 60 to the Jones
plantation, but forthwith returned to
France with her children, where she may
still be living.
"Gen. Liddell was first cousin of my
mother, and was son of Judge Liddell,
who was one of the Judges in this State,
and removed to Louisiana many years
ago-probably before Gen. Liddell was
born. He lived in Pendleton district.
Gen. Liddell was gallant soldier in the
Confederate army"