The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27
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Castor in Arms Over the Assault Up
on Mrs. SadleT.

The Story of the Negroes Fiendish De-
signs Upon an Unprotected Woman.
Saved by Her Little Brother-The
Suspected Assailant's Bold Return
to the Scene of Bis Assault.
Further reports Of the attempt to commit
criminal assault upon white woman
at Castor, S. c., on Monday night, an &C
count of which appeared in yesterdays
MORNING News, shows that it was most
outrageous. crime. The facts as are
given by gentleman from that section
yesterday as follows
Mrs. Archie Sadler was at her home at
Castor with no one in the house but her
little brother Frank, her husband being
away. CASTOR is a small town on the
South Bound, about 16 miles from
Columbia. About II 80 O'Clock a naked
negro jumped into Mrs Sadlers room,
and seized her by the throat. He told herto
make no cutlery, for if she did he would
kill her. She asked him his name. He
replied that he was Handy Kaigler, a
farm hand who worked on her husbands
place.
CRIED FOR HELP.
Size screamed to her young bro Their,
who was in the next room. The brute
yelled out that if he made any noise he
would be sent into eternity. The boy
however, jumped out of his window and
cried for help He ran blindly into the
woods near by, and there he struck
party of fox hunters and quickly told
what had happened, and in few mo-
ments the party was at Mrs. Sadlers
house. They arrived just in time
to brighten the negro off and
to prevent him from carrying out his
. purpose. Upon hearing footsteps he
jumped out of the window, grabbed his
clothes which he had left on the outside
and fed. The fox-hunters found foot
prints, which they covered for future
reference. They also discovered a pair
of shoes near by q barrel upon which
the negro had climbed to get into the
window The shoes were afterwards
found to belong to William Thompson,
another plantation hand, who, it is said,
was companion of Kaigler.
THE NEGRo's BOLD ACTIONS.
The party returned to Mrs. Sadler's
room, and had been in there but a few
minutes when Kaigler came in. He had
said when asked for his name by Mrs
Sadler that he was Handy Kaigler
Kaigler had been sent by Mrs Sadler to
also been instructed to buy some soap.
Some of his queer actions in regard to
carrying out these orders place
him under the strongest suspicion as
being either the guilty party or an as
sistaut of Thompson in his diabOlical at
tempt The crowd took Kaigler out to
where the tracks were discovered
When they got there they found that the
board with which they had covered the
oA hnpu InN h.,
tracks were obliterated. There is conse-
quently some slight confusion as to the
guilty party. 1t is believed that Kaigler
and Thompson had planned the scheme
together, and that while the one watch
ed from theAoutside, the other went into
the house for the accomplishment of his
designs. 1t Is thought that Thompson
went into the house and that Kaigler did
the watching.
KEPT UNDER GUARD.
Kaigler was locked up in barn and put
under a strong guard of citizens
Thompson has fled and his disappearance
throws strong suspicion upon him
When the foX-hunters went out to exam
inc the tracks and found them wiped out
they found other tracks that had not
been noticed before which corresponded
with Kaigler's feet.
Everything is orderly and quiet, but
the citizens have collected at CASTOR and
are determined to mete out swift punish
ment If Thompson is caught it is not
unlikely that he Y1th Kaigler, will hang
While the people of CASTOR are law-abid-
ing in every respect, they say they will
not let the case go to the court.
David s. Patterson, Of North Platte, Neb
who is rs years old, and who has been totally
bItnd all his life has invented and had infant.