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LYNCHED OVER IN AIKEN.
CALVIN KENNEDY SHOT TO DEATH
FOR THE USUAL CRIME.

CALVIN kENNE0r oFS' ~ Seos''
FOR THE USUAL CRIME.
The Flend Confessed His Crime and I'm.
plicated Others---The Victim . Pretty
Young Girl of Fifteen Years--Two Yer
sions of the Crimo.
BLAcKvLLE, s. G., Feb. 29.-Cal-
vim Kennedy, a negro, was lynched at
Windsor, Is miles west of here, at
fa 80 o'clock last night. The crime Of
Kennedy's was one of the most horfi-
BILE ever committed in this state.
About eight months ago Kennedy
with Major Wade, another negro,
visited the home of Miss Sallie Webb.
five miles from Windsor, aid while
she was alone in the house, her par
ents being temporarily absent, the
two negroes forcibly carried her of to-
the house of Edna Jones, a negreas
where they compelled he, to submit to-
their outrageous assaults. .ssss ~.
After committing the fendish act
the negroes only agreed to release the
outraged girl upon her faithful prom.
ise not to divulge the names Of her
ruinators. She was told that If she re-
vealed the story they would kill her,
her father and her mother. Miss
Webb, fearful that her assailants
would execute their threats and mur
der her and her parents, returned
home and bore her shame in silence. {
As she is to becomes mother in q
months time her parents became sus-
picious of her condition, and after
persistent efforts finally succeeded in
getting from their daughter the story
of the heinous ofense committed.
AS soon as Miss Webb told OF the
outrage committed upon her the story
was quickly spread in the neighbor-
hood and in short time the citizens
organized and commenced a search
for the rapists. The negroes got wind
that the story of their crime was known
and that lynchers were On their tracks
and they at once fled the country.
Kennedy didn't succeed in escaping.
He was caught in Williston last after
noon. After his capture two consta-
bles boarded the West bound 8. 9. &c
Ga. train and started for Aiken to
place their prisoner in Jail for safe
keeping.
Just before the train reached Wind
sor masked mobb OF 25 or 30 men
boarded the train, overpowered the
officers and took their prisoner from
them. Kennedy confessed his crime
to the constables. The lynchers dragg.
ed Kennedy about 150 yards from the
depot to a tree where they piniened
him. They did not hang him, but
after binding him to the tree, they
riddled his body with bullets until t.
looked as though it had been run
through a threshing machine.
The lynching was conducted so quiz
ely that the people of Windsor claim
to have heard nothing regarding the
work of the mob. Not even the pis-
tol shots were heard. The mob ID
now securing the county for Wade
and Edna Jones at whose house the
crime was committed and If they are
caught they will suffer the same sum-
marily punishment. inflicted upon
Kennedy. Miss Webbis young, beau
tiful, well educated and of good par.
entage who are highly respected
throughout Barnwell county. Sheis
a half sister of the chief of police Of!
Blackville. All is quiet at Windsor
today. charleston Post. . IS
ANOTHER VERSION. 's:' |
BRANCHv1LLE, Feb. 29.-The fol-
Lowing rather unsatisfactory details OF
the lynching that took place near
Windsor, ia. a ken county, lat nihGt,s
Ii Obtained on tho train Ir0nC CharfeGr
ton tonight from acon6uctor ROT Aisss
freight that passed Windsor t0dAy
Sallie Webb is the 16-year old daugHz
ter of Mr.. Samuel Webb, q wel-to-do.
farmer and miller living about FIVE
miles from Windsor, a small station
on the South Carolina and Georgia
railroad, in Aiken county. The re-
port says that an old negro woman
named Edna -, living in the neigh
borhood, had persuaded the young
girl to allow herself to be ruined by q
negro boy named Major Wade. CAL
vim Kennedy, large, black negro
man, on learning the state OF affairs,
also by the aid of the old womans per
suasive powers, committed the crime.
This was some months ago. This
week the girls disgrace becoming
known, the negroes naturally became
alarmed. 1t is said that the younger
negro persuaded the girl to fee with
him, and they left her fathers home.
The man, either being found out or
his guilt making him afraid OF being
accused, also fled. He was captured,
| it is said, by officers of the law-wheth-
er sheriff's posse or magistrate's
constable could not be learned
and put on Friday nights train at
Williston to be taken to Jail at Aiken.
When the train stopped at Windsor
the negro was taken from the train 'by
a mob. My informant says that when
his train passed Windsor about IL
o'clock this morning he saw the negro
tied to tree about 200 or 800 yards
from the railroad track, dead, with 9
hole in his head. Appearances led
him to believe that a shotgun must
have been put under the negro's head
and fred. The mob evidently hred az
him with pistols also, as the tree bark
was cut up by bullets. The people OF
Windsor were this morning innocent-
Ily ignorant of who committed the
deed, saying that they did not even
hear any shots fred the night before.
)-Columbia State.