Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-02-20
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FROM NEleHBoRIHe CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is Of More or Less
Local Interest.
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Local Interest.
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Rock Hill Herald, January 16: Mrs.
Robert Lindsay, Of Yorkville, and MIS-.
John Stringfellow, and Miss Mary Cas-
ton, of Chester, were in the city Friday
on business for the executive commit
tee of the Woman's Presbyterfal Union.
The S. D. Barron Chapter u. D.
| c.. has secured the services Of the fa-
nous lecturer. Gov. Bob Taylar, Often
nessee; but have not yet fixed date
for his coming. :. Chief Of Police Part
low captured a few days ago trunk
that was checked in Charlotte for Rock
Hill and that contained five gallon
keg of whisky, 81 pints Old Henry and
Gump whisky and % half pints.. .......
Mrs. H. D. Blake spent Thursday in
Charlotte. DR.. J. E. Massey visit
ed Lancaster this week. Mr.. r. e..
Tompkins is at home for short While.
Mrs. w. B. Wilson entertained at
of Sharon, spent Thursday IN
town. -. Mr.. Major Hall has gone to
Chester to spend some time. MRS.
w. G. Neville, of Yorkville, spent We'd
nesday in town. Mrs. Margaret KIM
brell is visiting relatives in Fort Lawn.
Mr.. J. c. Witherspoon spent several
days in Columbia this week.. Misses
Jessie and Josie Fewell are quite sick
at their home on Oakland avenue......
Misses Aline Mobley and Nan Hill go
to Charlotte today to spend awhile... -.
Miss Maud Gardner, Of Yorkville, Wis
tied Mrs. w. B. Wilson this week.
Miss Isabelle Allen, Of Charleston, is
visiting her friend, Mrs. r. L. Moore.
Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Hay, Of Clo-
ver visited their son, Mr.. Sam Hay,
this week. ... Mrs. E. R. Avery and
Mrs. J. w. c. Johnson have been quite
sick; but are now better. The many
friends of Mr.. Lloyd Phillips will re-
gret to learn that he is very Ill with
pneumonia .. Mrs. w. B. Kerr re-
parents, DR.. and Mrs. J. H. Wither-
spoon. go. Misses Willie and Lee Will
liams, of Yorkville, and Miss Ford, Of
Belmont, N. c., spent Friday in town.
REV. ]. B. Harris and Mrs. V. G..
McFadden attended the Tongue Wolfe
marriage in Fort Mill Thursday night.
:. Mrs. w. T. Williams and son, Mas
ter Willie, are visiting Mrs. Williams
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Green.....
Miss Anna Lewis Cole entertained at
Mrs. Brice's Thursday afternoon COM
plimentary to her friend Mrs. Kenne-
dy, Of Baltimore. .... Mrs. w. H. Nc
Fee, who has been spending some time
with her mother, Mrs. Brice, in Oak
land, has returned to Winnsboro..
Mr.. and Mrs. Moncrieff entertained the
board of stewards of the st. Johns M.
E. church and their wives last night
at their home in Oakland. Mrs. L.
P. Clark, who has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. C. S. May, has returned
to her home in Reidsville, N. c. Mrs.
May is now able to be out of bed. ......
Thursday night John McCord, a color
ed brickmason well-known in this city,
was shot and killed by Captain w. r.
Bradford, editor Of the Fort Mill Times,
The circumstances, as we have been
able to learn, are about as follows:
Ellison Laney is a mulatto barber who
lives in this city. He is a married man,
and a few days ago his wife went from
home, going to Lancaster as he learn
ed. Thursday evening he boarded the
train and went to Lancaster in search
Of the woman; but where he learned
that his wife had left there and was
then in Fort Mill. That afternoon he
returned to Rock Hill and an hour or
so later started out foot to go to Fort
Mill. Upon arriving there he ascer-
tanned that his wife was at the home
of a colored woman who lives in the
town. Laney went there and was met
by McCord, who had evidently taken
the woman to that town, and McCord
evidently feeling guilt and fearing the
consequences, pulled a pistol and fired
three shots at Laney, the latter mean
while throwing a rock in return. La
ney, however, finally ran, and going UP
into the town called upon Constable
Lee Warren to arrest McCord. The Of
flcer at once proceeded to make the ar
rest. being accompanied by Policeman
Clyde Culp and the colored man Laney
and when on the way they were Joined
by Captain Bradford, near whose home
the shooting had occurred, and who had
been greatly annoyed thereby, on ac-
count Of the sickness Of his mother
and her nervous condition, made much
more so by this trouble so close to her
home. AS the officers with Laney and
Captain Bradford neared the house, the
latter being somewhat in front, McCord
met them and cursing Captain Brad
ford outrageously, pulled his pistol and
snapped it at Bradford. The latter
having a pistol also, at once fired upon
the outlaw, shooting three times. Two
of the shots took effect, one in the
back of the head, the other in the
right side, penetrating the liver, and
McCord dropped dead, still clutchine
his pistol. Three Of the chambers were
loaded and one of the bullets showed
the indentation made by the hammer
when it snapped. Captain Bradford
at once surrendered to the officers, and
that night an inquest was held by act
ing coroner, ]. B. Mills, and the jury
after hearing the testimony of several
witnesses, returned a verdict that the
deceased came to his death from the
effects of gunshot wounds, inflicted by
w. r. Bradford in self-defence. Nc