The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-08

in from the farm that afternoon.
When the excitement started Pinck-
ney Hutto slipped the revolver into
his pocket, but be asserts stoutly that
the fatal bullet did not come from bis
pistol.
CONVICTED AND SENTENCED.
His brother fingered day or SO
longer, but never seemed to regain
possession of.hiS mental faculties, for
ne was full Of opiates all Of the time.
Pinckney Hutto and his son were ar
rested, charged with having killed
Worth Hutto. The young man was
acquitted, but Pinckney Hutto, al
though represented by Senator Ray
sor, was convicted and sentenced to
serve three years in the penitcntiary.
The appeal to the supreme court was
oyerruled and Hutto, seeing in The
State notice of the action Of the
supreme court, came TO Columbia at
the same time writing to Sheriff
Dukes of Orang, ourg that he Was
coming. AS yet his commitment pa
pers have not been received, but Supt.
Griffith has admitted Hutto to the
State prison.
Plum" Hutto speaks with sorrow
Of his dead brother, and there are
certain episodes in the life of the de-
ceased which were mentioned not
with i'll feeling, but merely to show
what tolerance had been exhibited by
the man who is now to wear the llv.
cry Of crIme--wh:le other men more
criminal in deed and in thought have
met with a more kindly1ate. a prom
inent Columbia merchant who once
lived in that section states that the
deceased had the reputation of having
been a dangerous man, while the con-
victed brother was known as a man Of
peace and an industrious citizen.
SAVED HIS BROTHER FROM DISGRACE.
I'VE are not brothers IN size," is
the homely way in which he expresses
their difference in physical appear
ance. Pinckney Hu5to is small and
slender, with kind blue eye and with
quiet and pleasant air. He de-
clareS shamefacedly that on one occa-
sion be saved his brother from dis
grace at Denmark, when he had been
convicted Of hog stealing. The elder
brother paid the fine and paid the fee
OF the lawyer, who was very much
outraged by Hutto's action after the
trial and would have shot Worth Hut
to, perhaps, except for the iDterven-
tion OF the older brother.
Another instance he relates with
some show of sorrow and shame is
that his brother sent outrageous mes
sages to the postmater at Norway,
MI. Brooks, who had sent a bill to
Worth Hutto for small purchases out
of his store. His older brother found
this out one day when he went to
sweep some shavings of Of the work
bench of the deceased. A pistol fell
out of the shavings upon the floor.
The older brother chided the younger
for having the revolver lying around
in that fashion, and the latter replied
with a menace that Pinckney HutJo
had better replace the pistol and the
shavings as be had found them. He
then declared defantly that be was
ready for the man Brooks. In order
to settle the trouble, Pinckney Hutto
paid the bill and had the matter
dropped.
BEGGED MARSHAL NOT TO SHOOT.
He declares furthermore that on
that fatal December night when he
left his wife sitting in the snow be-
side the Seaboard Air Line and went
In search Of the town marshal to ar
rest the brother who had cursed so
outrageously in his home and has fired
his shot gun threateningly under his
very window, with these exciting cir
cumstances harrassing his mind he
went TO the officer OF the town and
begged him not to hurt the younger
brother.
Upon arriving in the city, Hutto
called upon Gov. Hayward, Mr.. W. f.
Furtick and other well known citizens
Of Columbia with whom he had pre-
vious acquaintance or to whom he had
letters OF introduction.
HAD MET BEFORE.
When he stepped upon the porch Of
the guard room Of the State prison
Tuesday afternoon he was greeted
pleasantly by Capt. D. J. Griffith, the
Superintendent. Well, Captain, l
have come to accept your invitation,
but not in the manner had expected, :"
said Hutto, recalling an invitation
extended by Capt. Griffith a year or
so ago when the latter was down in
that section and stopped over night at
the hotel at Norway kept by Hutto.
II thought / might run Up to Colum-
bia some time and thought I might
come and take a look at the peniten-
tiary," said Hutto, but l never
thought I would come to this" He
was treated with every kindness and
consideration by Capt. Griffith and
Capt. Adams, the captain Of the peni-
Tertiary guard, and the convicted man
commences his sentence with the re-
assuring words that three years is a
short sentence COM pared with some
and that three years will get by in a
hurry.
81 can't do very much work." he
said apologetically, for I am 81 years
old and have not done much hard work
lately anyway" 1t is indeed a sad
plight in which he finds himself, for
at home he works about Is or is
hands on his farm in addition to other
laborers. He has the air of.a man CT
affairs and family whose name he
bears is well known in Aiken and
Barnwell counties. Hutto enters the
prison with a stronger hope than a
great many men have in facing the
same future For the judge gave him
very light sentence, indicating that
there was d great deal of evidence in