The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-29
ANOTHER ASSASSINATION.
Capt. 8. III. whitworth waylaid
and Shot from His Buggy
With a Winchester.

Capt. s. Ii. Whitworth was way
laid aud assassinated near his home in
Lehore county last Friday evening by
parties who had concealed them
selves on the roadside. He was shot
from his buggy as he was crossing a
bridge, and painter or mechanic
named Ingram, who was riding be-
side him, was slightly wounded in the
shoulder.
The readers of the LEADER are fa
miliar with the particulars of the Ris
ing Sun tragedy of year ago, in
which Capt. Whitworth took a lead
ing part. This last tragedy is sup
posed to be the direct outgrowth of
that, and seems to surprise no one,
not even Whitworth's most intimate
friends.
1t is reported that the McCarty
brothers, who were desperately
wounded in the Rising Sun encounter,
and narrowly escaped with their lives
after Ivey and Aston had been slain,
said after Whitworth's acquittal at
Greeuvllle that they had appealed to
the law to have him punished as he
deserved, and having failed i'll that,
they we're resolved, sooner or later, to
take the administration of justice in
to their own hands. Be that as it
may, when Whitworth was released
on bail a few weeks ago and went
back home, a deadly encounter was
at any time looked for, and he was
repeatedly warned by his friends that
his life was in peril.
Soon after his return, Whitworth
had the McCarty's and others placed
under peace bonds, on account of the
threats he had heard, and then went
about heavily armed, and this re-
opened and aggravated the old feud.
The following special to the Times
Democrat is the latest and most au-
thoritive statement we have seen from
the scene of the murder:
GREENWOOD, Aug. 25.-The jury
of inquest in the Whitworth killing
rendered a verdict of death by un-
known parties. The particulars as
developed at the inquest differ some
what from those related by Ingram
and telegraphed to the Times Demo-
Ioxy nf ho Ei1linn
rect account of which is as follows:
Capt. Whitworth, who stayed in town
most of the time, went down to Ris-
ing Sun on the morning of the killing,
accompanied by Ingraham, in order to
SHOW him over saw mill, as he want
ed to employ Ingram to run it.
After showing him over it they
started for town in a.buggy, and when
about 200 yards from his house, just
this side of the bridge, they were
fired upon by two men from behind a
tree. The first ball struck the cap
tain under the right shoulder blade,
coming out the left side and entering
his arm, killing him instantly. Mrs.
Whitworth hearing the shot, ran out =!
of the house, but seeing the buggy
drive on she did not think anything
wrong. She saw two men run away,
but could not tell who they were as
they were running STOPPING toward.
There is no clue to the murderers.
Capt. Whitworth was popularity
credited with being the leader of the
band that committed the Carrollton
massacre, and when the Rising Sun
tragedy occurred, it so aroused popu-
lar Indignation in Lefore that it was
with difficulty that the Sheriff kept
him, Mclean and Hoskins from being
iynched until they could be remoyed
to another county. In view of this
old feeling, which his acquittal re-
vived, and the sentiment largely pre-
vailing in that county that his murder
is a just retribution for his own acts
of violence, it is extremely doubtful
whether his assassins, whoever they
may be, will ever be apprehended or
punished.