The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
A Scandal In Laureus.

| n ooanoei In Laurens.
Some days ago School Commission or l.. p.
Davenport. about 66 years old, of Lauren,
county, attempted q criminal assault on q
young married woman, I6 years old. named
Fuller. The woman's husband "agreed to
compromise the matter for SlOO. The neigh
sors heard of the transaction aud held an
indignation meeting, at which resolution
was passed calling on Davenport to resign
and leave the State in forty.eight hours.
He obeyed orders"
There is considerable mystery about this
Infamous affair, in consequence of very con.
Trajectory reports being publs he'd abou. IL
but there are also some very unsavory trans
actions connected with it, in which not only
Davenport but other persons of respectable
social standing are darky implicated, and
we are inclined to believe that some politics
was In it that saved Davenport from The fate
OF the negro Peterson, at Denmark or the old
negro, Kinard, Of Columbia, for the same
crime. There was this difference between
the cases: there was not shadow Of doubt
as to Davenports guilt and identity. Mrs
Fuller is the young wife Of poor, illiterate
man. who did not at first appear to appreoi-
ate the enormity and character of the assault
upon his wife's honor. and, evidently
through the Influence of Davenports friends,
was induced to compromise the affair for n
msney consideration. Mrs. Benjamin, the
Young wife's mother. however, seems to have
been the only one that futty eomproheuded |
the grave nature Of the offsnse aud the effect
!, sess sey eonpronise might have upon her /
...t-.sr = cbaraoter. and mphatioally and
2teus1y feeAFeatsssss ts saaxs->Aaaffair hu.hed
up dPen any consideration.
senator lrby became mixed up with the
compromise. by being called in by friends
and relatives of both parties, but in a card
from him he distinctly says:
"The two fathers Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fuller
retired to the horse lot and were gone for
ZEN minutes andthen called me and said that
lhey hsd agreed that Mr.. Davenport should
pay $lOO and that the matter should then
30 dropped. told them that it was one of
he kind Of cases that couldn't be settled
With money, and that it would be n compro.
mise OF the girl as well as Of the whole fam
~, and advised against taking it. They.
however. insisted and said that they would
'"t be satisfied with anything but money
nd called Colonel Shaw, who is nephew Of
lr. Davenport, and told him that thew
Ton'd have to have Sl00. Samuel Fuller
eemed to te highly pleased with this settle.
'ent, especially the money part of it, when Ii
ADVISED him that he ought not to accent
,,oney Of this sort. Mr.. Davenport gave Mr..
haw his note for 500, which was written
myself, and Mr.. Shaw paid Fuller $50
nd gave him his note, endorsed bv myseIS
n $50 more in sixty days"
There seems to be an inconsistency in Sem
or lrby's conduct in advising against a q,
oney compromise, and then endorsing a s,
'te TO effect such compromise. o.
Is there any danger of School Commission .,
davenport being caught and lynched for =
tempting to outrage poor but respectable d
oman in. Laurens County? Let, the law m
ke it's course. III