Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-08
Correspondence Of the YOrkviIle Enquirer.
A FOUL MURDER.

BULLocK's CREEK, York Co., S. c., De-
cember Con Tuesday last one of the black
est and foulest murders known in the GRIM
inal calendar, was committed on the plan
tation of Mr.. VIM. E. Good, who lives
between Bullock's Creek and Broad River,
on the road leading from Sarratt's Mill to
Howell's Ferry.
John Lee Good, son of VIM. f. Good,
was brutally murdered on that evening be-
tween sundown and dark. The facts, as I
am enabled to gather them, are as follows:
There were three of Mr.. Good IS children
picking cotton about one hundred and fifty
yards from the house. Two of the children
went to the house before sundown. Lee,
the murdered boy, had stopped at hickory
tree and was throwing up to secure some
nuts. Three baskets of cotton had been
left in the field at different places, fifty or
had been blowing in wheat just above
where the children were picking cotton,
but went to the mill q while before sum
down, leaving Eli Roberts, colOred, ploW-
ing. Eli, however, went to the house be-
fore sunset and was around about the house
for short while. He then started to
the lot to feed some Of the stock, when
some of the family heard cries in the di-
rection of where the cotton.pickers had been
working. ELI ran in that direction, and
when he had gained the top of hill he
stopped to listen and heard groans OF some
one in distress, and going further he found
BILE field with his head, mouth and face
mashed and cut in q horrible manner. Eli
was the first person to reach the wounded
boy. The mother and sister Of the unfor-
tunate lad came up soon after, and they as.
sisted in lifting him out of the trench. The
body was found about two hundred and
fifty yards from where he was seen in the
evening at the hickory tree. It seems that
the perpetrators of the deed intended to
carry the body to the river, but from some
cause were thWarted in their design.
The boy was taken to the house and DIR.
J. B. Good summoned, who came at once,
but he was powerless to administer relief,
and the wounded lad fingered until 9 O'Clock,
when death ended his suffering.
Besides the above-described wounds,
there were other marks of violence on the
body, discovered after death. Two stones,
weighing each six or eight pounds, were
found at the place where the boy was MUIR
dered. These stones were covered with
blood, showing that they had been used in
the preparation of the deed.
The murdered boy was a promising
youth, twelve years old, and his piety was
remarkable IN one so young. he nau COLI
nected himself with the church at Bullock's
Creek in September last, and was loved by
all who knew him.
Early Wednesday morning Trial Justice
J. P. Blair was notified of the occurrence,
and acting as Coroner, he proceeded to hold
an inquest by summohing the following
jurors: D. w. Fowler, foreman; A. w. o.
born, James C. Ashe, James f. Bankhead,
]. NJ. Mccullough, S. B. Dowdle, S. NJ.
Feemster, r. F.. Smith, w. McCaw Dowdle,
VIM. N. Nelson, R. w. Hamilton and X.
L. Sherer.
Several witnesses were examined, but
the jury failing to agree upon a verdict,
the inquest was adjourned to another day
but in the meantime, on suspicion and the
oath of w. E. Good, a warrant was issued
for Nose Lipscomb, Bailey Dowdle and Dan
Roberts. colored, who were committed to
Jail on Wednesday night:
The jury of inquest were called together
again on Friday, and on that day about
twenty witnesses were examined, resulting
with but little more development than the
jury began with in the morning. The jury
failing to agree upon verdict, another
adjournment was made, after advising that
the acting coroner issue warrant for the
commitment of Print Thompson, colored,
against whom suspicion points as one of the
guilty parties. Thejury will meet again on
the 10th. P.