The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-16

o"ohS"oP iooSe anu SOlne pistol car
tridges as requested. L went anc
gave them to the man who ask ed me
to get them. He sent me back the
second time to get some loaded
shells for the gun; this time 1 go,
some loaded shells and returned the
loose buckshot. The salesman who
waited on me was Mr.. Hooten Eel
der. The man told me to tell Mr.
Fielder, n man at Mr.. Counts store
wanted them. don't know who the
man talking to me was.
MIR. PRICES TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Price testified: That las
Friday morning a little after 10 he
was in the back yard in the rear Of
Messrs. Rice, Bradham d Byrd's
stores, about four hundred yards
from the house of Mr.::John r. Bel.
linger, on the Fitting School campus
quietly engaged, when he was start.
led by hearing loud report of q
gun, followed by three er four pisto
shots, in the diraction of the Carlisle
Fitting School; that deponent was
for four or five years marshal Of the
town Of Bamberg, and accustomed
to hunting and the use of firearms
so as to be familiar with such sounds
DepOnent walked out toward the
stores and called for Mr.. Brooker
and met him, telling him what he
had heard; as he had also heard OF
a difficulty the previous day between
the Rev. Mr.. Johnson and young
Mr.. Bellinger; that deponent had
heard Mr.. Johnson's affidavit read
in which he refers to a personal
difficulty on the streets with young
man of the town of Bamberg in sym.
pathy with the Bellingers. Depon.
ent thinks he may be the man re.
ferred to, but the difficulty referred
to had nothing to do with any quar-.
rel between Mr.. Johnson al. the
Bellingers. but was purely pc. on.
al matter, and depOnent was ot
particularly interest in Mr.. Beliin,
and he had nothing to do with it.
THE SISTER GF THE DECEASED.
State of South Carolina, Bamberg
county: Personally appeared Lillian
c. Bellinger, who, being duly sworn,
deposes and says: That on last
Thursday morning she was present
and sitting on the front piazza of her
fathers house, while Robert Walk
er, the colOred painter, was engaged
in painting the fence in the front
yard, between her fathers yard and
that of the Baptist parsonage, he
being in the yard Of the parsonage
painting on that side. That she
took a seat on the piazza about half
past IL; few minutes after she took
her seat her brother, VIM. II. Bel
linger, came out of the house and
took his seat on the corner post of
the fence. He was in his shirt
sleeves and had his pistol in his
back trousers pocket, partly sticking
out, and sat there watching the
painter. Clarence Moye passed on
a bicycle on the opposite side of the
street from her brother, looking at
him as he passed, and went into the
parsonage back gate. In about five
minutes Mr.. Johnson and Clarence
MOye came out on the piazza and
Mr.. Johnson ordered Walker to
leave, saying: Get out my yard,
Walker; get out of my yard" Walk
er turned to leave. My brother told
him to come back and paint the
fence. Mr.. Johnson told him again
to get out Of the yard, and my broth.
er told him again to come back
Then Mr.. johnson told Walker ia
get out of the yard, and that if he
did not he would put the fullest ex-
tent of the law on him.
dAhci uuu SOItcu ucdI Vie SdCe
when my brother Willie said
"Walker, are you going to paint the
fence?" Walker replied that he was
afraid. Willie said: What are
you afraid Of? That long-legged
sOn-of-a-gun?
Mr.. johnson told Walker to get
out of the yard and let Bellingel
paint the fence if he wants to.
Then. my brother told Mr.. Johnson
that he was a thief and he knew it;
that he had stolen land from us;
that he had gone i'm the night and
taken the stakes from the fence and
dug the dirt away. Willie cursed
Mr.. Johnson, after telling him to
shut up.
Mr.. Johnson told him that he
would not come out i'm the street and
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