The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-11-04
a BRUTAL MURDER.
Henry Patrick Shoots and Cuts His
Wife to Death.

Henry Patrick Shoots and Cuts Els
Wife to Death.
LITTLE ANNIE'S TESTIMONY.
Crazed by Drink, the Inruriated Hus-
band Accuses His Wife OF I'm
fairhfulness and Then
Kills Her.
Bennettsyille had shocking mur.
der on last Tuesday week, the particu-
lars of which are most revolving. A
dispatch to the State says:
A ghastly sight met the gaze Of
those who went to the home OF Henry
Patrick, a three-room cottage in the
southeastern portion Of Bennettsville
near the cotton mill Tuesday morning.
On the floor, face downward in pool
Of her own blood, lay the dead body OF
Mrs. Mary Ellen Patrick with q gun
shot wound just under her left ear and
six gashes made with a knife or razor,
across her throat. In another room
was part Of a bed soaked in blood and
two little children, boy OF 2 and
girl Of s, seeming not TO realize that
their mother had been murdered by
their father. There is but one known
eyewitness to the tragedy-ths.t is
the girl, little Annie May. Her story
told at the coroner's inquest today is
as follows: I was in bed with mamma
asleep and was walked up by the fuss.
Papa was cursing mamma about
note she wrote to Raleigh Stewart.
Kit Cox told him about the note, be
cursed Kit and told her il she didu't
get out he would cut her brains out
and Kit went out. Mamma was Sit
ting up in bed. She told papa to take
that gun away and he shot her. She
fell down on the bed and got blood on
my arm. He told her, Damn you
and Raleigh Stewart too" BE was
cursing every kind Of a way and was
standing up by the bed. After he
shot her he pulled her out Of the bed
and dragged her into another room.
Papa and I vert to negro house on
Mr.. Capel's place. After be shot
Mamma papa told him if be didn't get
up and make fire for his little girly
to warm he would shoot his old house
down. The negro brought papa home
and put him in the porch and he went
to sleep. I tried to go to sleep but
couldn't and Mr.. Carpenter came and
carried me to his house. Raleigh was
here when pa came bone last night.
Mamma was writing letter to Raj
eigh and gave it to him herself. Pa
told him if be didn't get away from
here he would shoot bis CUTS out. !"
The collateral evidence gathered from
several other witnesses is summed up
below.
Mrs. Kit Cox, woman about 80
years old, who recently came here
from Stanley county, North Carolina,
was boarding at PatrickS. She said
she had heard no threats OF fuss but
left the house because Patrick was
drinking and slept on the floor in an
unoccupied house the rest Of the
night. She heard the gun a few min
utes after she left Patrick's. Two
young men, Raleigh T. Stewart and
Walter S. Carpenter, spent the even
ing at Patrick'S home and drank With
the men and then left again. Car
penter Swore that while they were
there Mrs. Patrick wrote note and
handed it to Stewart. Stewart after
ward handed one to her. The young
man left between and 10 o'clock.
When Carpenter got home be found
Patrick there and they again drank
together. Patrick left there between
IL and -. Carpenters father said
The gun fred after l. Soon afterward
Patrick and his little girl came over
and the girl said: PA has killed
mamma" Patrick showed Carpenter
his hand and it was bloody. Carpen-
ter sent for the sheriff and he found
Patrick lying at bis steps in adrunken
Stupor. He had to be carried to jail
in a buggy and was carried up the
steps. He said nothing about the
killing. Stewart denied knowing
anything about any note. Il think
that is mistake" he said. Il did
not receive any note" Stewart is q
l.o+Lo- re TT Ctn1part copt 20 ctpr
for the woodwork on A. J. Matheson's
new residence and is himself at work
on the building. Patrick is well
known character here. He has been
living until about two months ago on
Matheson street, near the depot. He
was for a long time employed by the
Marlboro Wholesale grocery. BE is a
strong, robust man, weighing about
200. His wife weighed little more
than half Of that. Mrs. Patrick was
a daughter OF John o. Sanders, an old
and well known citizen Of BENEFITS
vile. Your correspondent saw Pat
rick on Wednesday afternoon and
asked him if he had anything to say
for publication. He said he was very
sorry the accident occurred, but that
it was purely an accident. I was
loading my gun," he said, and it
went off. MIS-. Cox was there when
it occurred. and I think Raleigh Stew
art was there too. Sheriff Green has
nv knife and there is no blood on it. /"
A Valuable Tree.
It is reported by consul general