The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-08
BARNWELh LYNCHING.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
TRAGIC AFFAIR.

9h- Scene After the Occnrrence-Seciins
80 the vsciuity-tction OF Governor
Richardson.
The Governor has offered a reward
OF 5000 each for the capture and con.
viesion of the Barnwell lynchers.
The special correspondent of The
News and Courier writes from Barn
well:
The safety of the town depends, it
it's said, on the fact that two hundred
armed white men will rendezvous on
the square at the very first note ofim-
pendiag danger. This was considered
this morning bold position to
assume when it is considered that
there is probably an equal num-
ber Of whites and negloes in the town
and especially as movement against
the village might be conducted a.
night by the hordes OF negroes in the
districts beyond the town. This illu-
sion would, however, be soon disrei-
led by glance at the faces of the ne
groes VITO came into the town from
the interior today.
There was /: strange fascination for
hem in the scene of the lynching. 1t
was the objective point of many a
Nong pilgrimage by the colored folks
fsom all parts of the county. They
looked in dazed, stupid manner at
hetrees of-executior, but they would
not go 10 see the bodies where they
Law in the town at a very pIblic
morgue. The correspondent Of The
News and Courier succumbed 20 the
spell or desire to see tee blood-stained
traces of the crime. The landscape
has. already been described as it was
left by the red handed artists The
place of execution was on either side
cf a narrow part of the road leading
from Barnwell to Aiken. Slender
white oak trees and pine saplinss grew
on eitner side.
The prisoners were divided into
significant groups; the men accused of
the murd OF Martin on the right,
the murderer and his accomp ice in
the Heffernan case on the left. The
question is asked. Were the
lvnchers who killed these last
two from Barnwell, and were the |
.lyLchers who slew Martins murder
ers from Martins Station? Be this as
it may, the scene was one OF unquail-
fed horror, more like q picture from
the inferno than anything that has oc
CURED since the death of Dante. The
first view Of the victims after the trag-
edy was obtained by the high sheriff
of this county, Chief Marshal Swan
and Mr.. A. 7. Woodward. There
were six death's-heads in one row,
with faces still translixed in the throes
of their last agony. First one and
then another appeared to view SIS the
lantern held by the marshall revealed
each dreasfui picture in turn One Of
these was shocking in the extreme.
Five ofthe dead negroes had been tied
tightly around the waist to the trees
with ropes. But in the death struggles
of one the rope slipped from around
mis- waist aHaa aHaa he fell to his knees. His
arms were outstretche1 and his mouth |
and CLASSY eyes, fixed in death, were
wide open. Those who saw this hor-
rible vision say they will never forget |
it, nor those who read of it, SO terrible |
is it in ghastly suggestiveness. The
heads of the others had fallen nearly |
down to their breasts. On some of
their faces the blood had been congest-
ed by the chilly morning air and there
it remained in clotted masses. One
passing by such spectacle might in
voluntarily recall the sides of road
marked BY the affixed bodies of cruesi-
fed soldiers in the olden time.
wHAT THE GOVERNOR SAYS.