The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-30


". n. 6. Elrod sworn says BE lives IN Ander-
son County near Piercetown A. J. Smith cRme to
him on the morning July the 9th, 1891, and said
somo one had tried to break into his house night
or two before and wanted him to 90 with him
went with him and We met Sion Richardson and
made inquiry about boy, describing him, and
Mr. Richardson informed us that the boy was q
little ways ahead of US he overlook some one and
the boy In my presence when We first started out
to hunt for the boy Mr. Smith said the boys nams
was John Maynee; when VIC got in sight Of the
boy Mr.. Smith says "yonder be is" and then says
Smith got Oft his mule and took hold Of the boy by
the wrist Il think said the above with the word
mo" stricken ou) and tied his hands with 9
leather string; Mr.. Smith said the boy was good
hand to work. and asked him if he was not at his
place the night before, to which the boy replied,
"yes, getting some June apples y Charley Smith
drove up and John said "hand me the whip
want to wear it out on this boy" he reached out
Smith took the whip; it wa, . leather-eoyered
whip; he went up the Greenville road, behind
Mr.. Smiths storo-house and said one Of you boys
como on told Mr.. Smith would hold the b horses
Col. Jamesoss and get law for him and not whip
him he handed me the reins and went up; saw
John Smith pulling the coat partially off the boy,
and then they got out Of my sight; was about
seyenty-iye yards from them, and heard some
licks which could have been heard between two
about fifteen minutes; think I heard from fifty
to seventy-fve licks, and heard groaning at the
beginning, but which did not hear towards the
whipped him and Charlie held him : saw the boy
going off up the Grcenyille road.
Cross-eraminsd: Says he did not know The boy !;
Just after the thing happened party came to me
aud asked the boys name; and told him had
forgotten the name; on Sunday after, John Smith
came to my house and said told party that his
name was John Gilstrap, but he said that was not
bis name, but If any one asked his name to tell
them his name was Gilstrap the boy Is Is or 18
years old, and about grown about my size; I
don't know my height; as he walked of up the
road he did not seem to be hurt; do not know
that the boy was the recipient Of those licks
did not hear the boy sey that he preferred the
back the lash Of the whip look frazzled for about
an inch saw nothing else wrong with the whip,
and did not notice condition Of whip before they
went off; heard the boy was sick, and went to
hunt for him, but could not find him, or hear Of
him.
W. II. 6. ELRoD.
Thomas Webb, being sworn, says: That the de-
fendant, Mr.. Smith, came to my house and asked
him if he had caught his boy; it was somewhere
between the middle and last Of last week and Mr..
Smith said that he had caught him !; asked him
If he had sent him to Jail, and he replied 'no %
he said he had whipped him, giving him between
so and IS licks he told me that he had split the
hide on the boy for ten inches: he claimed that
the boy was the same that had tried to break into
his house.
Csoss-eramined: Says Mr.. Smith was good to this
boy; told me that he had got him position with
Mr. Warren Martin; he said the boy chose to take
the whipping instead Of going to Jail that they
had found on his person u coat and vest that he
had stolen from Charley Smith, and Mr.. Smith
thought it would be better than sending him to
the Pcnitentiary Mr.. Smith seemed, from what I
could gather, to have whipped the boy in kind
ness rather than send him TO prison.
G. H. Holcombe, being sworn, says: On Monday
morning went to Mr.. John Smiths and wont
around the store house and saw blood In the foot
prints upon the ground in the end Of the rows OF
Cultivated land ; he said he heard boy was beat
nearly to death.
Cto;s-eranlined: Says he did not know whose
tracks they were, rs there were several about
there; the land Is mulatto clay; do not know
what tho field was planted in; do not know
whether the growth around the house was larger OF
smaller than that In the field; cannot tell human
blood from hogs blood says there had not been
any rain to his recollection, up to the time he
went there; Mr.. Murphy said 1t was blood.
Redirect: When the blood drops struck the
ground they seemed to separate.
certify that the foregoing Is a true copy of the
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