Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-07-09
NOTORIOUS SIDE OF GLORIOUS FOURTH.
In an Attempt to Stop Negro Row Marshal
John r. latham Is Badly Cut.

In an Attempt to Stop Negro Row Marshal
John r. latham Is Badly Cut.
latham was seriously cut by a negro,
Will Green, while attempting to stop a
quarrel in the negro hall on New Galilee
Baptist church lot. The quarrel arose
over who should have possession of the
hall, several women having taken pos
session of it for the purpose of selling
the remnants of refreshments from the
colored Fourth of July picnic, and a
number of boys claiming right to the
them for the purpose of dancing. The
crowd became boisterous and Marshal
latham went in to quiet the crowd.
After searching a number of the negroes
for pistols Will Green turned on him and
slashed him with a knife, inflicting q
horrible wound on the face and neck.
The blade entered the fosh at the side
and to the front of the left ear, running
down and across the throat. Mr..
latham did not know at once that
he was cut, thinking he had been
struck with some metal instrument,
and began clubbing Green to subdue
him. 1t was only for an instant, how
ever, that the wound deceived him.
Blood began to flow in steady stream
from his throat, and realizing that he
was seriously wounded, yet desiring to
secure the early arrest of his assaiiant,
Mr.. latham drew his revolver and shot
Green, the bullet passing through both
legs above the knees. Feeling that he
had his man reasonably secure, Mr..
latham hurried from the scene to secure
medical attention. He stopped on his
way, notified Sheriff Moss of what had
taken place, and continued down. town.
Before reaching the Walhalla Hotel he
was almost exhausted, and friends as
where he was given every attention, and
where he remained until Sunday morning.
Sheriff Moss and two others hastened
to the scene Immediately after being
notified of the trouble and placed under
arrest Green and five others. Green is
in Jail awaiting the outcome of Mr..
Tatham's wounds before an indictment
is drawn against him. All the other
negroes were released Saturday, there
being no grounds on which they could
be held longer.
Marshal latham is getting along as
we'll as the nature of his wound will per-
NIT. He is now at the home of his Sis
ter, Mrs. l.. d. Brennecke, where he is
receiving the best attention and every
care at the hands of relatives and numer-
GUS friends. His early recovery is
earnestly noped Tor.
What7 How7 Who7 Why7
On Saturday night about O'Clock j.
b. Hawkins, who has room and sleeps
at HOuchins & Fincannon's livery stables,
was walking up by-path on the south
side of the Blue Ridge Railroad tracks,
and just as he was passing at the rear of
G. w. Pitchford Co.'s warehouse he SAYS
negro sprang from the side of the
l,..,r IL, Ia lzll~s a.
and fired pistol almost in his face. The
bullet entered the lower half of the crown
of his straw hat, making hole large
enough for man to insert two fingers,
and passed out at the back, leaving a
smooth-cut hole about such as would be
made by 3S-calibre pistol ball. Haw-
kins rushed up!to the livery stable and
told his tale of woe to few persons sit
ting in tho Office. He then got rifle
and went hunting for his man, but came
back without finding any trace of him.
Bloodhounds were secured and trial
made at singing out track from the
rear OF the warehouse. There was no
article of clothing or anything with
which to start the dogs properly, and it
was decided best not to let the dogs loose
on the one track on which they opened,
as it followed beaten path and might
be only the track of some one passing.
A good many think, too, that Mr.. Haw-
kins was giving the otherwise quiet and
orderly town sensational "josh," and
shot through his hat first and then pro-
ceeded TO talk through it. Sunday night
he rushed from his room at the stables,
shotgun in hand, and fired. Several per-
sons went from the hotel office to see what
was up, and Hawkins said he had shot
at some one, and "knew he had hit him.
because he holloed." But nobody was
found whore he said he fred, and the
proceeding looks little favorable to the
theory that on Saturday night Mr.. Haw-
kins fired the shot through Mr.. Hawkins's 8
hat, and that Sunday night he was ohas-
ing phantoms.
Shooting ARRAY at Blue Ridge Tunnel.
Quite crowd of picnickers from West
minister spent last Saturday at the old
Blue Ridge Tunnel. In the afternoon
Ernest Kay, son of Mr.. James Kay,
was shot in the arm by VIM. Smith.
fired at him as he fled, one bullet taking
effect in the left shoulder. He was lost
sight of by the picnickers and did not
return with them to Westminster. He
went through the hills on foot, and it is
said reached Westminster Sunday morn
ing. Neither of the boys is seriously
hurt, and 80 far we have heard nothing
OF any arrest.
Willis James Throat Cut.
On last Monday morning about 6
O'Clock Willis James was found sitting
on cross-tie near the water tank of the
Blue Ridge railroad with his throat cut.
He had bled profusely, but not at that
place. On investigation it was dis
covered that sometime during Sunday
night in a small room to the rear of his
barber shop in the Walhalla Hotel the
cutting had been done. 1t had evidently
been done several hours, for he had bled
freely, and the blood ad congealed
He was carried to l.s room on John
street, and Drs. Bell and Wickiiffe were
called. 1t was an ugly cut on the front
of the neck, the windpipe being almost
severed. The physicians dressed the
wound, and it is now thought he will
recover. He is doing as we'll as could be
expected. No arrests have been made,
and James declines to tell who did it.
Various theories have been advanced,
but we refrain from further comment at
present. willis is q popular barber,
and has many friends among the white
people of the community. The occur