The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-12-26

In his hip pocket. The blood hounds
from Austin had already been brought
aud put on the trail and ran about a
mile towards the river, but got mixed
up with a lot of negroes working and
lost the trail. There were hundreds Of
| negroes who had gone to work before
\ they heard Of the murder, but none of
them did lick of work after they
heard of the murder, until the negro was
buried. One negro had already told of
| another negro coming to his house the
| night previous and borrowing his win.
chester and bringing it back that morn
ing with one cartridge shy. The negro
who borrowed the winchester hal just
came ON the scene asking what was the
| matter. The officers arrested him at
once aud put the bracelets on him. The
gun was sent for and soon arrived, and
i'm few minutes DR.. John Hunter had
the bullet cut out and it just fit the win
chester. There was near thousand
negroes in sight and they were all in
bupches from a half dozen to one hun
dred and every bunch of negroes seemed
to be trying the murderer or else trying
the one murdered. Several negro
women came near fighting while discus
sing the good qualities of the murderer
and the one murdered. Some of the
factions of negroes were at times a hun
dred yards away from where the inq lest
was being held and were busily telling all
they knew, heard or what somebody elsa
had heard or knew. They kept that
uproar for several hours and until the
corpse was taken away. Nearly all
thought the one charged with the muir
der was guilty, but he would not say a
word, though several Of the negroes
asked him if he was guilty. AT last
when some were saying that the acc"sed
would sure be hung, one old sober look
ing negro who had been very quiet spoke
out in long and doleful tone: "Well
dat one he done dead and gone and hang
ing dis other one won't bring him back,
best thing we can do let him go, Cause
we want all we got." However the one
charged with murder was taken to Aus
tin to await trial though many of the
| white people thought he had done a
noble work. for Kidding the Country of
the worst negro in the bot, tom. The
negroes have church only about three
hundred yards from where the negro
was killed. Some of them seem very
religious and great many of them 60
to church, though many go only at night.
| There were about 40 baptised at one
time in the Colorado river while | was
there, but had gone to Dallas Oh the
date and did not get to see it, but the
preacher had tod them that baptism
would wash away their sins, and when
some of them came up out of the water
theJ begann Topping their arms like
they had wings and Yelling at the top of
their voices, II am light AS a feather. -
Some Of the negroes have fine hacks that
will carry a dozen or more persons, and
they did have ponies to pull the hacks,
but feed got 50 scarce and high that
many Of them gave the ponies away or
let them starve to death, but they still
have the hacks and they hire or borrow
horses to drive in the summer and go to
all the meetings and gatherings of their
color that they hear of. They hardly
ever have anything ahead to live on and
are usually dead broke when Christmas
is over and then they will work for fifty
cents per day until work is plentiful and
| ti,o.. .i.-s- LII ,iIU,C vi WIN
leave you without notice and you have
to let them have all they want, eveI,
though they get away behind, or else
they will leave you at any time.
Will tell you something of the Mexi-
cans next time. With best wishes to all
w. G. BAILEY.