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LYNCHED OVER IN AIKEN.
CALVIN KENNEDY SHOT TO DEATH
FOR THE USUAL CRIME.
The FIend Confessed His Crime and I'm
plicated Others--The Victim Pretty
Young Girl of Fifteen Years---Two Yer
sions OF the Crimo.

Kennedy's was one of the most horri-
BILE ever committed in this state.
About eight months ago Kennedy
with Major Wade, another negro.
visited the home Of Miss Salie Webb,
five miles from Windsor, and while
she was alone in the house, her par
ents being temporarily absent, the
two negroes forcibly carried her off to
the house of Edna Jones, a negress,
where they compelled her to submit to
their outrageous assaults.
After committing the fendish aet
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 becomea 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 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 s.. G.. &
Ga. train and started for Aiken to.
place their prisoner in Jail for safe.
keeping. sc
Just before the train reached Wind
sor masked mobb OF 25 or 80 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 $50 yards from the
depot to tree where they piniened;
him. They did not hang him, but
after binding him to the tree, they,
riddled his body with bullets until it
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 p;s-
tol shots were heard. The mob Is
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 Webb is young, beau
tiful, well educated and of good par.
entage who are highly respected
throughout Barnwell county. She is
a half sister of the chief of police Of
Blackville. All is quiet at Windsor
today.-Charleston Post.
ANOTHER VERSION.
BRANCHv1LLE, Feb. 29.-The fol-
lowing rather unsatisfactory details OF
the lynching that took place near
Windsor, in Aiken county, Last nihgt,
obtained on the train from Charles.
ton tonight from conductor of local
freight that passed Windsor todaysi
Sallie Webb Is the 16-year-old dAnek
ter OF Nh Samuel Webb, q well-t0do:
farmer ana miller living abont iEe
miles from Windsor, q small stations
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 .
negro boy named Major Wade. CAL
vim Kennedy, o large black negro
man, on Learning the atate:of affairs,
also by the aii Of the old woman,s per
suasiye powers, committed the crime.
This was some months ago s ThteI
week the girls disgrace becomiAgs
known, the negroes naturally became,
alarmed. 1t is said that the youngee:
negro persuaded the girl to flee vita
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 magistIate'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 whsn
his train passed Windsor about IL
o'clock this morning he saw the negro
tied to a tree about 200 or 300 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 Hred. The mob evidently fired at
him with pistols also, as the tree bark
was cut up by bullets. The people OF
Windsor were this morning innocent
ly ignorant of who committed the
deed, saying that they did not even
hear any shots fired the night before.
Columbia State.
Killed by his Prisoner.
SpARrANBURG, March 4.-Another
bloody tragedy must be set down to
the illicit sale of whiskey. Deputy J.
D. Kirby was killed early yesterday
morning by prisoner captured TOR
making blockade whiskey. On their
way to this city on Wednesday after
noon, Kirby, Miller, Brown and Klr-