The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-30

Last account .JellcOaC gong Dack .CL
Browns landing. Got posse in pur-
suit.
Owen Alderman.
Sheriff.
JEFFCOAT's GEORGIA RECORD.
The Savannah Morning News. re.
ferring to the killing of the Aiken
deputy by Jeircoat. Wednesday gave
the desperadU'S Georgia record as fol
lows:
This makes Jetfcoat'S third killing.
lie was wanted in Emanuel county,
Ga, for killing man named Wilson,
near IIerndon last winter. lie went
there under The name Of Charlie John
son. and it is said he and Wilson were
doing an Illicit liquor business to-
gethcr. After killing Wilson he left
Emanuel, but recently returned.
Sheriff Flanders had made several ef-
forts to apprehend him and on the
night of July l6 undertook, with a
posse to surround him in a swamp.
The man had escaped, however, and
the posse scattered to search for him.
Deputy Sheriff Curl and Joe Flanders.
brother Of the sheriff, overlook jeff
coat and his wife on the road to Mid
vile at II p. m. The desperate was
expecting arrest and was sitting in
his buggy with his face to the rear.
When ordered to surrender he shot
Flanders in the left breast with Win
chester rifle, then jumped from the
buggy and fled to a swamp. Nrs.
Jeffcoat. or Johnson, also took part in
the shooting and was wounded in the
head. She is now in Jail at SwainS-
boro.
"Jefrcoat has sailed under a alias.
In Emanuel county he was known as
Charlie johnson. The people of that
county have been greatly aroused, and
any news of the man who killed Elan
derS is eagerly sought. This was
shown by the way in which informa-
tion was sought from Columbia and
Aiken.
Rewards amounting tC 5000 have
been offered for Jeffcoat. Dodgers
have been printed and circulated, Civ
ing descriptions Of him. These may
be the means of running him to earth.
The rich prize his capture would bring
will induce police and constabularieS
to maintain a strict watch for him.
He will find it a difficult task to
escape, and may yet meet death at the
point Of a Winchester as unerring as
his own.
The wife of J. G. Flanders offers
5000 for the apprehension Of Jetfcoat,
and Sheriff J. T. Flanders, brother OF
the murdered man, offers $500 more.
In addition, 5000 is offered by friends
of the Flanders, and the aggregate of
5000 is on deposit in the Citizens bank
at Swainsboro. In addition, there is
$500 offered by the governor.
"Jetfcoat, or Johnson, is described
as being between 81 and 80 years old,
whighing about l35 or 40 pounds.
He is ) feet s, or 10 inches high, and
has blue eyes and dark brown hair,
which, at distance, seems black.
He has, light mustache and features.
When he left Emanuel county, he
was barefoot and in his shirt sleeves.
"JetTeoat'S occupation is that Of a
wood sawyer. He has two brothers
living in Aiken and two living near
that place."
MADE his ESCAPE.
The Columbia State says though it
was expected that news would reach
here Friday that some of the posse
after Jeffcoat had managed either to
capture of kill him, that it seems the
fellow is an artful dodger and has
to confuse and finally elude
the man hunters who were so close
upon his tracks. The only informa-
tion the governor received Friday was
most diScouraging. 1t came in this
form:
Wagener, July %.
Gov. NJ. B. McSweeney:
Have no definite trace Of Jeffcoat.
Some think he has gone: others say
not. Will stay here today. Have
you heard from Pitner and HankinSon.
Answer.
Owen Alderman Sheriff.
HOW DEPUTY ALL WAS KILLED.
The States correspondent at Aiken
has sent the following details Of the
killing OF Deputy Sheriff Ahl by the
fleeing desperate: On Monday even
ing, July 81, Chief Of Police d. G.
Weeks of the city Of Aiken received
a telegram stating that the notorious
horse thief Jeffocat was near Seivern in
this county, and to 60 there at once.
At II o'clock that night he accompani-
ed by Mr.. ID. c. Ahl, left for Seivern.
The account Of the chase and its sad
result, your correspondent has gotten
from Chief Weeks upon his return.
Mr.. Weeks says: When we arrived
at Seiyern we were informed that jeff
coat had moved from where he was
when the telegram was sent to me.
The good citizens Of Seivern went to
work Immediately to locate him. Mr..
Ali and myself with two other citI-
zens Of Aiken county went over into
county, and there struck
his trail and followed him towards Co.