New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-19

FEARED THAT HE WOULD BE MURDERED BY
THE MOB IN SOUTH CAROLINA

| FEARED THAT HE WOULD BE MURDERED BY
THE MOB IN SOUTH CAROLINA
| Washington Nov. Is (specaD.-R r Tolbert r.
| the Republican nominee for Congress In the INA
, District Of South Carolina. whose brother and
father were shot in the recent election riots In that
| State. and who is row refugee here. has made
! this statement of the circumstances which led to
| his flight 70 Washington:
accepted a nomination for Congress a month or
Two ago. and went to work In systematic and
methodica way to SECURE my election. | made a
chairman and members of the County Execufits
6omHcs sSd s aSse~3 ser at hsr
Nos; l. and 8 and instructions as to conduct ot
near bBeve Being Satisfied Nth IL the my grospect
and antcipatng no trouble at the polls on the day
cinct. to vote; everything quiet at that cleo
fd had e been ths Srs sh
wounded ., at Ph.enix about $50 o'clock and at
and for r" the Ny le, c5ne john
r. Tobert, Collector OF the Port of Charleston had
ley to vote, taking along his tenyear-oid nephew.
steve' Tolbert Father. having heard that his
wounded son had been carried. Upon his arrival
mob Of forty or fifty men fred into his horse and
horse being shot. his mad fight is ell that saved
T. being on my way from Abbevilie to nv brother
VIII, the doctor met my father coming toward
he bs coSeTed % gS to
me buggy with him. put negro in the buggy
1obc VINO had fallen g out S Of a the buggy
on the waysde. and to go on to brother Toms" and
brennan and shelter for my father in the hous.
and Army comrado of my father After sunup on
y y emo at er aea AND r care
my father to my home six miles from Verdery on
from the trip I sent for the doctor again, but no
could not come
SHERIFF WOULD NOT HELP HIM.
on Wednesday. about p. m. my horse and
buggy were taken away from my driver at Green
wood. who sent there for my mail. and kept
there my driver barely escaped with his life. and
reported at my house about 400 o'clock (hayins
had to run all the way. eight miles and half.
from Greenwood that the mob would be at my
Joe" and myself. at once sent my wife and
children to country hamlet fifteen miles from
appealed the Sheriff OF AbbeviIle County for pro-
lection for my father an old schoolmate OF the
II am sick and cannot come tonight. have
authority to call out men and force them 70
After receiving this answer from the Sheriff joe
and myself and my brother,n-aw decided 10 sell
that night my father proposed to us that we get
Brother Broth Joe" and myself with the assStance Of
station i' on the he's s A. Railroad. ragged the train
X building s on the Hsn d S him To G
for Chester. the nearest hospital. having to go
through Greenwood. where all this mob violence
was raging They vent from chester TO Columbia.
under indictment for melting riot. and were placed
In the peniteniary
Upon my arrival at home Thursday morning
had to get to work Arranging ing, my papers In use
Thursday and went to see my wife and family as
then supposed FOR the last time after telling
railroad station. The conductor on the train aided
the bes ' he sond s @ ns as MS wa o tho
train. also telling me that a desperate character.
T G the to xii nsd H se Son%ud p"'.
vised me not to attempt to escape. but 10 sur
Sheriff to meet the train with carriage at the
GIsenve siston The sheriff net me with he
man. and escorted me to the Mansion Hotel
there ate a meal for the first time since Tuesday.
and matured my plans for coming 10 Washington
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE
The cause OF ,he trouble was the anfdavts that
my brother was having subscribed 10 and Wit
messed at his voting precinct. Brother Tom had
secured the permission OF the owner OF the store
TO take these afidayits. Mr.. Watson giving him
goods box md chair on the piazza on which TO
cratic manager at The Gains polling precinct TWO
miles and half OF. came over to PhGnS With
away from the polls. Ethridge insuted TON"
kicking oyer The box End Ink and at the ,s same
& ~ ,pr. runnrS with sfs ofat taxes Io
came out OF the door on the piazza with guns ana
pistols, ana one or the nrst Shots Killed ftntue,,
Tolbert was also shot down. and .eceivsd load
OF buckshot in RS arm AMI road OF small shot IN
his left lung. After the shoe ing over and the
guns emptied Toioert got up looked around
to see II ne had any friends on the scene. ana
having none-all the colored people having fed-he
said TO the mob You nave shot almost 10
death. / have no arms. You can KIN me, bur you
can't change my politics. anc started OF for hong
Having gone half mile. ne tainted m the road.
side. and carried by different parties from
point 10 point until he reached his home; nooosdSy
being with him but his aunt to attend 70 ns
wounds. The mob. increased to one hundred ana
nifty or two hundred strong At Phoenix. SEM
party of forty or Atty in pursuit OF Tom Aiter
trying To make MIN confess 10 the killing OF Etn.
ridge TO tell what negro did Kill him. they were
In the act OF leaving when my father and littie