The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-01-13

! w eSiSy WlISOG, n udItSODS young
woman of 20 Or .22 years. Her face
was5pillowed on Que arm, which rest
ed in pool of blood that still oozed
from her mouth and the wound IN
the back OF her head. Her luxuriant
brown hair was saturated with her
blood. Her barefeet were soiled from
contact with the frosty ground, where
she had gone in the lot to hitch up
the horse for her fendish murderer
| The house was turned topsy turvey,
and on the floor were seen number
Of empty rifle and pistol cartridges,
! showing that Cooper had taken the
precaution to reload after completing
bis murderous work.
THE INQUEST.
The coroner empanelled jury and
examined J. W. Baker, white, Sam
Lowry, and one other negro, who was
n the vicinity when the four murders
e7erc committed. DR.. E. r. Darby
made an examination of the bodies
and submitted a written statement,
that simply described the nature of
the wounds, and decleared that the
dead came to their death from said
wounds. The verdict i 1 each case
was that the deceased came to their
death from wounds inflicted by Simon
Cooper with murdercus intent.
This is the story of the most fendish
murder in the history of Sumter
County. The murder is one of the
most brutal and bloodthirsty on record,
and the people Of the State should
use every effort untried to bring him
to justice.
THE MURDERER DESCRIBED.
Simon Cooper is a ginger.cake col
ored negro, about feet or 10 inches
in height, 25 to 80 years old, broad
shoulders, -has small mustache, two
fgof6 filings in front teeth, toes Of one
| foo. were burned Oft when child :;
when last seen wore light grey sack
suit; his movements are quick and
nervous; has wound on back Of
neck and head, received in the riot on
Emancipation Day; may have other
wounds on his person.
LAST HEARD OF COOPER.
Isaac Boyle, the boy who was with
Cooper when the killing was done,
and drove him toward Sumter, was
captared near Mayesville this after
noon. He says that Cooper came
within three miles OF this place, left
the buggy, gave him FIVE dollars and
told him to go home. The boy says
also that Cooper boasted Of ravishing
Mrs. Wilson before blowing her brains
out. Cooper is said to have been seen
IN Mayesville after o'clock to night,
and went in the direction of Lynch
burg.-News and Courier.
THE EIEND LYNCHED.
MAyESvILLE, S. c., Jan. S.-Simon
Cooper, the notorious negro outlaw,
the murderer, has gone to join the
devils in hell and there is rejoicing
from one end of Sumter County to the
other. He has been lynched, This
report comes from parties who have
Just returned from the scene of the
lynching. This morning at an early
hour, a regro by the name of Bob
Wilson came to Mayesville and report
| ed that he had been forced at the
point of a revolver to accompany
Simon Cooper yesterday after he had
committed the terrible murders, and
that he had left Cooper in Turkey
Creek swamp near Sumter, asleep.
After making this statement, Wilson
went on through town to his home
near Mayesviile. Soon a posse or
ganiZed and went after the ne
gro Wilson. They captured him
and brought him back to town
where beeing closely questioned,
he confessed that Cooper was
in house about five miles from Sum-
ter. where be had spent the night with
him, and that Cooper had gwen him
FIVE dollars and ordered him to go to
Sumter and purchase fre.h supply
of cartridges. and that he took the
train and came on to Mayesville.
This news was Immediately telegraph
ed to the sheriff at Sumter. Soon a
posse left Sumter and went out to the
house where Cooper was reported to
be. The house was surrounded by the
posse and soon a lively skirmish en-.
sued between Cooper in the house and
the posse which surrounded it. a
cannon was sent for ana placed in po-
sition to lombard the house. At this
juncture, Simon Cooper yelled out
that he would surrender if they would
protect him. The posse ordered
him to come out OF the house, which
he did. When he landed on the
ground, some one put g bullet through
bis jaw. Cooper then began cursing
and abusing those who composed the
posse. Report says that the crowd
then empowered the sheriff and took
the negro to Green Swamp. not far
distant, where he was lyroned. It is
reported that he was literally filed
with bullets fror1 the crown Of his
head to the soles OF his feet. Thus
ended the career of the most notorious
and bloodthirsty demon that has ever
disgraced tie State Of South Carolina.
1t is reported that a guard will be
placed around the Sumter jail tonight
to project Boyle and Wilson, as there
are threats of taking them out and
sending them on to assist Cooper in
shovelling coal down below.
Cubaus Enthusiastic.