Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-11-23
PROMINENT MEN WOUNDED.
DROPPED THEIR PENS AND USED THEIR
GUNS--FiVE MEN GET SHOT.
THE RESULT OF A D|SPENSARY ROW
Haseden Offered to Fight Ouzts-Haselden
Accused Sellers OF Giving Information.


COLUMBIA, $. o., November 49,
The publications which have beer
made for the past five weeks, respect
ing tho conduct of the State Board
| of Control, and which have local.,
been termed "revelations," have re-
suited in bloodshed, in which five
prominent men of Marion county
have been wounded, more or less
seriously.
Among The wounded is J. Dudley
Haselden, of the Board of Control
who has been its chairman for some
time, and his brother, Capt. Luthc,
M. llaselden, late Adjutant Of tho
Second South Carolina Regiment ir
the Spanish-American war.
About ten days ago j. d. Hascl-
den offered to fight d. A. G. QUITS
who, as an ex-employec of the dis,
pensary, had been making charges
of his crookedness. Recently infor.
nation was furnished QUITS by some
one at Sellers, S. c., the homo ot
Haselden, that the member of tho
Board of Control had his house
stocked with special brands of liquor,
"llascldcn's Choice" ETC., made tol
him gratis by liquor firms for whom
he voted contracts for supplying tho
State dispensary.
Yesterday morning Benjamin Sci
lers, postmaster at Sellers, received
message from Haselden, asking
him to come to his gin, situated nea1
the lIaselden homestead, and clos,
up some business about cotton. Sci.
lers complied, and while at the gin
was charged by Haselden with hay
ing furnished QUITS that information
about liquors. Sellers denied; boil
abused each other, and Haseldor
drew a pistol.
Sellers said he was unarmed ant
charged Haselden with cowardice
The men then separated. Severa
members of Commissioner Hascl
denis family were present at thi
scene.
Late in the evening two buggies
containing Commissioner j. Dude,
llaseldcn, his father, j. G. IIaseldon
his brother, Luther NJ. IIaseldcn
his cousin, Aubrey Evans, brother O
Gov. Ellerbe's private secretary, an,
DIR. Henry Edwards, drove into Sci
lers from Marion, which is ten miles
distance, and where they seem t.
have gone to get arms. All Of then
were armed, there being rifles, shot
guns and revolvers in the party.
Reports are conflicting as to no,
the shooting began, some chargin,
that the Hasoldcn party was am
bushed by the Sellers brothers, job
| 9. Sellers, one of the most promincn
men in the county, and his son Ben
jamin, who wero concealed in tn
post office. The shooting began jus
as the Haseldens were opposite AM
also about twenty feet from the post
Office door, where the buggic
stopped.
A seemingly reliable account il
that as the postmaster walked out 0
his office he was fired on from tn
buggies, the first shot entering hi
abdomen and the next smashing hi
left hand. These shots came fror
the buggy containing COMMISSIONS
Iasclden and young Evans.
Immediately after the second shot
Sellers drew his pistol, and, thong
perhaps mortally hurt, opened fir
on tho buggy. The vehicle contain
ing the other members of the part
then drove few feet down the raj
road track, taking the post onic
building on the flank. Then Com
missioner IIasclden got out and ad
vanced on tho building, firing as h
went.
At this juncturc John G. Seller
rushed on tho scene to support hi
crowded son and opened fire. /
turning his buggy down the trac
the rifle of DR.. Edwards fell out an
he was left unarmcd.
A negro, who was an eyewitness
says Capt. Luther Hascldon got on
of the buggy and got on the soutl
platform of the building, from whicI
several shots came.
John @. Sellers was wounded wit
a rifle ball, which passed under hi
right shoulder from the front an,
was cut out noar tie spine.
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