Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-06
KNIFE AND PISTOL.

affray occurred IN Negro caolh, oc-
cupied by Will Jones and Lizzie Adams,
on Kings Mountain street, just within
the incorporate limits of Yorkville, last
Monday afternoon about O'Clock.
The participants were Will Jones,
Adam Mckinney and Alph Massey,
and as the result of the fracus: Massey
has left arm almost severed from his
shoulder, Will Jones is lying at the
point of death with gashes that pene-
trated his lungs and almost severed
his head, and Adam Mckinney is a
prisoner with bullet hole in his left
shoulder, and also bludgeon wound
on his head.
The first known of the affair in the
business part of town was when an
old Negro man came running, out OF
breath, after a doctor, giving the in
formation that Will Jones was cut all
to pieces. He was followed a few
minutes later by Alph Massey, walking
down street with cash extending
from his shoulder across his left arm,
to the small of the back and gaping
open in places width of at least two
inches. The whole left side of his
body, from his shoulder down, was
reeking with clotted blood, and the
sight was a most horrible one, es-
pecially for the women and children
that the poor Negro had passed on the
way.
At the first opportunity, after the
affray the reporter went to the place
where it had occurred to get particu-
lars. DR.. Miles Walker had already
dressed the wounds of Will Jones,
who was lying in bed in the cabin,
too sick to talk. The floor of the cabin
looked like that of slaughter pen !;
but the blood had been partially scour.
ed up, and the little 10x12 foot room
restored to as much order as was prac-
ticable. The only person present be-
sides Jones who knew anything about
the matter was Lizzie Adams, and she
offered no objection to telling her
story.
The woman said that the difficulty
had occurred at about 2 o'clock. Will
Jones was in the house with her, when
Adam Mckinney, Alph Massey and
another Negro came along. They
stopped in the house and began to
talk, pleasantly at first; but presently
became abusive. Mckinney applied
an epithet to Jones that called out the
remark. "Adam I ought to kill you
for that" Adam replied with an oath,
"Do it and then talk about it." Then
Adam ran on Will with knife in his
his hand, grabbed him around the
neck and stabbed him. Alph Massey
tried to part them. Mckinney got
hold of Massey and raked his knife
through Massey's shoulder. While
Mckinney and Massey were strug-
Cling, Jones got his pistol. In the
meantime Massey had broken away
crying, "Send for the doctor, | am
killed" He got out of the house,
and Jones fired at Mckinney twice.
One bullet took effect in the left shoul-
der and the other struck him on the
head. While Jones was firing, Nc
Kinney rushed upon him, slashing
with his knife. They clinched and
fell to the floor, where Mckinney con-
tinued to hack until he was satisfied.
Then he got up, leaving Jones lying
where he had fallen, walked outside,
swore around while and went away.
The weapon used by Mckinney was
a large whitehandled pocket knife
with a blade something like two or
three inches long. Jones's pistol was
a cheap 32-calibre bulldog affair that
was not calculated to do great deal
of execution. Although the woman,
Lizzie Adams, said that only two shots
were fired, others who were in the
neighborhood say they heard three
shots, and the pistol shows up three
recently emptied chambers. One OF
the bullets, somewhat mashed, was af:
terward picked up on the floor of the
cabin.
Within about three hours after the
shooting, the officers of the law pro-
cured the chaingang bloodhounds, in
charge of Guard Davinney, and got
on the trail of Mckinney. The dogs
followed the trail all right for dis
tance of about mile. The course they
took showed that the Negro had evil
dently lodged about like a rabbit
Finally, in a piece of woods near the
waterworks, the dogs found bloody
shirt that the Negro had taken off q
short time before. There was bullet
hole in the left shoulder. After find.
ing the shirt, the dogs did not seem
disposed to do any more trailing, and
the pursuit had to be abandoned.
The wound of Alph Massey was
dressed by Drs. White & Mcdowell
They found it necessary to make 20 OF