The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-09-01
INrHE EM4GIsrRATE'S COURT
The Lamb-Hu8hes Case Again In
Court.-Before the Magistrate
This Time.

/ on factory hill, has bobbed up again ant
this time the prosecution was shifted
The first trial, of which mention was
made III the Times, few weeks ago,
was tried before the Mayor. At this
trial Mrs. Lamb appeared rs the pr ose
cutor while Mrs. Hughes and Miss
| Courtney were the defendants. The
defendants came clear: it appears that
Mrs. Hughes, in retaliation, then indict-
ed Mrs. Lamb for assault and battery,
and the case was heard Tuesday by
Magistrate Mcclure. AS there seemed
to be a great deal Of interest centered
in the clse and rs it is of SO unuSI,al 4
nature we have decided to give it in de-
tail with the evidence bearing thereon,
Nc. V. f.. Deoass appeared for the pros
ecution while Mr.. J. A. Saw! er rep
resented the defense, Both sides We're
| well represented, anu mad: strong fights
for their respective clients. AS the
case was tried in the court honse, in the
presence of fairly large audience, one
could hardly realize that it was the Mag
istrate's court and not the Circuit Court
that was in session.
THE EVIDENCE.
Norman Bailey: saw Mrs. Lamb pick
| up plank aid raise it tnreatenine,y
over her st oUider at Mrs. Hughes, who
| canght ,lle plank and took it away from
| cS."Lamb ;is it WAS about tn descend
Identities tie plank. If tue blow h..i
| ben made p,ank wouil have struck Mrs.
| Hughes on side OF face or shoulder.
Mrs. Limb came nit of h4r side. of the
| house md Mis-. Hughes came ont from
her side and walked towards Mrs. I.amh,
Who picked UP the plank which had Il
] nail III il; plank about five feet long;
could not hcar what Mrs Hughes said:
| Mrs. Lamb eTlaavored to strike Mrs.
| Hughes An argument here enSued be-
! tween the attorneys as to the admisab;l-
| itY of what happened subsequent to the
alleged assault. Del'ass negative, Saw
yer affirmative; Sawyer sustained on the
ground that it was continuation Of the
fracas, Immediately following the al
legged assault. Bailey answering, says
severa, licks were passed; Miss Courtney
| came up; Mrs. Lamb picked up the
plank at Miss Courtney. who picked up
small bucket and hit Mrs. Lamb with
it.
James Hughes: Early Wednesday
morning, Aug. 9th, heard Quarrtling
and bad language. The two families
| live in The same house, we in one eud
the IIugheseS in the other end Mrs.
Lamb had been in our side of the house
and raised a row with DNdey Courtney,
| my wlfe'S sister: heard Mrs. Lamb use
the words durEed or blamed hefer. My
wife said, ''l0ok here, Mrs. Lamb, am
81 lady and ] want to tell you something;
my wife was going towards Mrs. Lamb
us she spoke, but not in a threatening
manner. Mrs. Lamb jumped out in the
yard and grabbed the plank, saying III
burst your burned or blamed b; aims out
Biiley's statem mentS rs to plank, etc COR.
federated Saw Jack Willeford come up
after l had made my wife go in the
house. lie shook his finger in Dodey'S
face and said you will have this to pay
for: Mrs. Hughes had sat down on the
| ground some minutes after tha bucket
struck her. and after she saw Wil;eford
coming. Wife, her sister and I, are
boarding with 1 Ter. Wife had gone
| through our houe from back door, and
| Mrs. Hughes had gone through hers
| when they met u the 'front.' 1t was Gus
tomary to eros each others po:cl; don't
know what became Of bucket.
Mrs Hughes Heard quarreling that
morning, went down stairs it waS Mrs.
Lamb and Dody. l said l had heard
| enough of this racket. and Mrs. Lamb
turned on Inc and called me Il heifer
husbands testimony corroburated us to
the fight. The orgination of the row
was brought out, which began with some
talk derogatory to MissConrteny'S charac-
ter on the previous Mon lay morning.
| AS II result Of which the parties had
s)me hot words, and the final outcome
was the "Wednesday morning row. IL
| developed that some very unbecoming
language Especially for LADIES' had been
used during the feud. VIM. Brock tps-
titled that he only saw Mrs. Lamb at
tempt to strike Hughes wife WHO caught
the board and threw it on the ground
before they went together also saw
Hughes take his wife back in the house.
and saw Miss COurteny hit Nrs. Lamb
while she had the board drawn on Miss
Courtney.
| Geo. Fowler didn't know anything
about the affair except that lio made the
| arrest, and saw the bucket, which. was a
small, empty wooden, two hoop jelly
bucket that would weigh four or five
| ounces.
| Mrs. Lamb recountcd her side of the
origin of the row.--That MIS-. Hughes
had threatened to slap h---out of her
| quicker than Il could Scorch a fea:h-
or, etc. She w s put through severe
cross examination in which it developed
that she had been several times reported
to the mill boss men for Disturbances.
She claimed only to have been defending
herself with the plank from attack,
and denied the ugly words attributed tO
| Oh u, l,i, thnA ~. L.. 4