The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-18
ANOTHER FIEND HUNG.
JUDGE LYNCH AGAIN HOLDS COURT
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Williamsburg Nj on Swing a Raplst High
and FIN Him With Lead,-AssauIted .
Lonely Woman, Was Pursued ano
Captured and Confessed Ills Grim.
kINGsTREE, $. c., May GA few
great pools OF blood are now all that
mark the spot where last night Sam
Galllard came to his end. During the
day yesterday this community Wa,
stirred from centre to circumference
by report that Mrs. Nesmith, an esti-
maole young white married lady, had
been DrutallY assaulted whilst alone at
her nome near this town by some
oiaCk brute in human form. Her hus-
Dand Was absent at the time at an ad-
joining plantation. AS soon as she
could free herself from this [iend she at
once gave the alarm, and it spread like
'Wildlire. Messengers were dispatched
IN every direction, and so hot and close
was the pursuit that it did not take long
10 hilnt the RASCAL down. He was
Cf'.ugllC quietly sitting in his farther's
dld not seem to realize the magnitude
Oh his crime. lie was at once taken
before Trial Justice Litrage, who put
MN under strong guard and started
INN TO Jail.
In the mean time groups of men
coulu Dh sec COminE in from all direc.
ttonS. Ihh guard brought him safely
to the suburbs OF this tJwn when thev
were halted and ILL., prisoner taken
lrGm them. lIa was given a kind Of
preliminary hearing and identified
peyond Il doubt n vote was then taken
as TO what should be done. It was
unanimously agreed to lynch him, and
. ne was at once notified Of his doom.
c ne asked tor preacher but none
II pr pare for death, after which he was
C made TO stand upin a buggy and the
c rope was put around his neck and the
d ocheI enu uraWn across a limb. At q
v gwen Slghal the buggy was remove d
70 anu he was riddlel with bullets.
r lne execution happened just a. tho
Souun bound train passed through
- IpEMn, ana passengers and citizens
~ alike were startled from their slumharo
10 by the ce.Geless roar of musketrv at
TINS dead hour of the night. Itis said
lc tlat mere were at least three or four
Il iuhdreu pefLo Is present, at least fIfty
'd vi "hom were coo ed, and thew ali
L. seemed with one accord to pronounce
a, Ine act righteous Judgment.
,c our correspondent only reached hero
,L at Il very ate hour last night, and It
T.. Was win great difficulty that he could
=, get any information at all. not heino
~ able to get out to the spot until dawn
~ tllls morning. There found IaiIlard
y was sun hanging by the roadside with
l, the following placard pinned on his
Il back: VII lilo
n "haPlst, here hangs the scoundrel tba
+ p,'t u'u rape an honored lady in her gown
ii n,'I tiaT, syn, alas, This scamp did cape
+ so far as | can learn this is the firo+
, time crime of this kind has ever been
+ attempted upon white lady by
, negro IN the county. Our people de-
, pore Che resort to lynch law. vet Il
mas always been one OF the unWritten
laws tnat This crime merits dea n. and
All win whom | have talked TODAY
seem TO think the act Of the lynchers
Iie only thlng that could have been
uone under the circumstances. The
purity of our women must he defandeS
: aI all hazards. The honor of Williams-
: Durg County is at stake, aud whilst
we deplore the necessity of having to
resort to lynch law, yet the act Justified
Ihe end, and this goes out to the world
us u warning to all would-be rapists.
Inc coroner impanelled jury Of in
quest today and after viewing the
, wTi! 0',Cy lo.ilu Inc lOllOWlng verdict:
IhaI Sam Gaillard came to his death
from being hung by the neck and shot
10 death by parties whose names are TO
the Jury unknown" This ls the first
tlme lynch law has ever been resorted
I 10 IN Williamsburg County. 1t is yery
qulet and orderly here today and peo.
PIE In all walks of life are pursuing
their various avocatlons as peacefully
as II nothing had happened. L will add
Ill., .naI omitted TO state at the proper
+ place IN the above article that the
prisoner made full and free confess
SION OF his crime, so all must admit,
ilaJ his punishment was lust one. r.
IS hoped that 1t will be warning to
others. W.