The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-23
A MURDER MYSTERY.
CrangcburS by Unknown Parties.

\ Man Cut 30 Death on the Street il
Crangcburs by Unknown Parties.
\ special from Orangeburg says
A very mysterious murder occurred
on Russell street between Market anG
Broughton, on Saturday night about
eleven o'clock. The victim was Isaac
Smith. quiet, inotTensive colorec
man, who was about forty years Of
age. He was walking down Russell
street towards the st. Joseph Hote
in company with Iorick Hay.
also colored, and when near Robin.
sons bakery he discovered that he
had been stabbed and was bleeding
very freely. lie turned around and
walked back up the street, and when
he got in front Of j. w, SalDaks hard
ware store he fell from loss or blood.
He was taken up and carried to tile
corner Of Church and Russell street,
where lie WAS attended by DR.. L. G.
DDyle, who did all he could to relieve
the unfortunate man. After being
treated by DR.. Doyle he was taken to
his house on Briggman street Where
he died on Sunday morning al nine
o'clock.
Hay, who vas with Smith when
he was stabbed. prenteiids to know
practically nothing ahuat the matter,
bat said he was sure 10 white man
had done the stabhing. He says oulY
three men passed them who could
have possibly done the deed. and they
were all colored. Hay. it seems, has
told seyera! tales about the affair.
which lead to his arrest. The stab
which caused Smiths death was in
the groin made apparently by the
blade Of a small pocket knife, which
severed the superficial feuaral artery,
which caused death as above stated.
1t seems that very little attention Was
paid to the wounded man by those
who were near him until he fell from
loss Of Blood. Then inquiry was
made by passeFs by as to who the
wounded man was and how came he
to be hurt. 1t will be seen that the
killing Of this innocent man is
wrapped in considerable mystery,
which we hope will be unraveled and
the guilty party caught and punished.
About two hours before Smith was
stabbed there had been an incipient
riot between some white men and ne
groes on Russell street not far from
where Smith was stabbed, but he had
nothing to do with this row. 1t is
not an easy matter to get at the prim-
ary facts what caused the row and by
whom particularly it was started. 1t
is supposed. however, to have Qrigi-
mated In a difficulty between negro
and strange white men who are here
under Foreman Haynes Of the Atlanta
construction department Of the Bell
Telephone company stringing cables
for the local exchange. 1t is charged
that the same parties have on several
occasions heretofore raised disturbance
with negroes ON the streets Withou
the slightest cause. And it may be
added that the negroes were at no
time the aggressors nor did they give
any cause for the attack Saturday
night. This is the evidence of those
who saw the most of the row.
What connection this row, and the
bad blood it naturally engendered,
had tl do with the stahbing Of Smith,
if any, is hard to determine. Just be-
fore the unfortunate stahhing a police
mans whistle was blown at the cor
ner of Russell and Market streets, and
the crowd from the lower end Of Rus
sell street rushed up the street to the
point where the sound of the whistle
came from. This crowd is said to
have been composed largely Of negroes,
and it was while they were passing
Smith that the stabbing was done.
When it was done he was quietly
walking along the street. An inquest
was held over the body on Sunday af-
ternoon, but nothing could be learned
from any of the witnesses that would
give a clue to the guilty party. The
witnesses were in the main negroes
and it appears that Smith himself said
the man who cut him did so as he ran
pass him in the direction Of the WhiS-
tie. There was no ante-mortem state
ment taken, it seems, but Smith is
represented as saying that he did not
recognize the man who cut him, and
appeared doubtful as to whether the
party was white or colored.