The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14
Sensations in Charleston.


CHARLESTON, March 12.-The young
PROSTATE mother of the little wall
spoken of in my last letter, fingered
until 8 o'clock Monday morning. The
Tightening before death" beamed in
her face brighter than the sunshine of
that beautiful day, and when old st.
Michael chimed out nine ':the Healer
had come" and the weary sufferer had
calmly passed under the rod" into
the arms of Him who had said. "Come
up higher; 7 will give you rest" Suf-
fering soul! It needed rest. Siren
man had plucked the rose from viz
tues ruby cheek, and placed a burn-
ing blister there! When the crisis
came, cruel writer's heralded her sa-
cred name to a curious public, and
thus il was that
leach new day,
A CASH was added to her wound.
And these sympathizing (?) news
seekers who inflicted their blows up
on the innocent living as well as the
unfortunate dead, had the brazen ef-
froniery to precede her name with a
pitying "poor' before penning it.
Not murder; 10: but merciless
butchery. I wonder if they Will let
her rest now, or satiate their raveaous
appetite on the living innocents who
bear her name? How appropriate,
with slight change, what Leartes
said at Ophelia's grave.
"a ministring angel shall this woman be,
While thou liest bowling.
Tie insurance swindle has swelled
to larger proportions than was at first
dreamed OF. The companies have
been defrauded of about $25,000, and
there is no estimating the number Of
bodies that have been resurrected and
reburied as being men now living.
The elder Bond played this game on
his own son, mere youth who had
no connection with the transaction.
He then forged his wife's name to a
receipt for $4,000 insurance, and got
the money. There are in JUL here
now five prisoners awaiting the result
OF the Investigations, namely, J: H.
Bond, L. II. Shafer, Lis son, r. Z. L.
Shafer; and two negroes Eva Red
mond, the wife of a former member
of the Salvation Army, who was at
work with her husband iu cotton
factory at Greenville, is under arrest
at that place and will be brought here
tomorrow. She telegraphed that she
is willing to confess all she knows, and
thereby secure her release, the State
using her as its witness. The detec-
tives have ascertained that Eva Red
mond was once derni monde Of
Charleston; that the Bonds put her in
a house to herself in a respectable
part of the city, and used her as be-
Ing the wife of a sick husband who
was said to have been in room cup
stairs" A body was bought from
the keeper of the Potter's Field one
night and placed in the room where
the sick husband was supposed to
have been. The man was reported
dead next morning, ladies invited over
to console the bereaved widow, the
funeral preached, and the body bu-
ried. The insurance was paid in due
time, and after division Of the booty,
Eva Morris left the gang, went to
Greenville, married Redmond, and
reformed. The physician who would
give the certificates Of cause Of Death,
etc., was DR.. james P. Bond; the
clergyman, DR.. Shafer, sometimes
s:Parson Shafer;;" pail bearers, young
r. E. L. Shafer aud others not yet
caught; and the insurance agent,
Thomas H. Bond, who skipped by
the light O the moon" I shall keep
this matter before your readers as 1t
progresses.
The bust of Eon c. G. a1emmin-
ger was placed in position at the City
Council chamber last week, and this
morning that great and good South
Carolinian breathed his last. His
history is too familiar with your read
ers, and space is TOO limited for me to
attempt a narrative; sutficeth it to say
he fought a good fight; he kept
the faith" and bis memory will die
only with history's page.
The Court of General Sessions has
convened with Judge Presley on
the bench. The OF the State VS..
-, popular drummer for
the wholesale house of J. G. H. Claus
sen & Co., charged with larceny, was
tried. The drummer had been sent
oat on e trip, authorized to make
collections. When be returned from
his trip there was s37S short, he not
having spent cent of that amount
for the use of the house. He Yas az
rested, and tried under the statue
passed by the "rag. tag" legislature Of
'6o, which reads, ':any person commit
ting breach of trust with a fraudu-
lent intention shall be held guilty of
larceny" The Judge read the statute
to the. jury, told them that he had
been studying that for twenty years