The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1903-07-08

pocket and in a half listiess way as II
he were hurt discharged another bal
at his brother. With that he went or
toward his own home, and Pinckney
Hutto expected him to return with
more ammunition, until the town mar.
shal came up and arrested Pinckney
for having shot his brother.
HAD PISTOL HIMSELF.
There was one point in the nara
tive upon which edid not speak with
freedom, and that was in regard to
his having pistol himself. He ad-
mits that the prosecution pointed out
that there was no powder burn on his
brothers clothing at the place where
the ball entered and he states that he
did indeed have pistol and that he
fired it once to frighten his brother,
but that he did not point it at Worth
liutto, for had he cared to do SO he
could have shot every button Off of
his coat. Pinckuey llutto was not i'm
the habit of carrying pistol, and
this weapon is one which his son had
laid on the mantel after having come
in from the farm that afternoon
When the excitement started Pinck-
ney Hutto slipped the revolver int
his pocket, but he asserts Stoutly that
the fatal bullet did not come from his
pistol.
| CONVICTED AND SENTENCED.
His brother fingered day or so
| longer, but never seemed 10 regain
possession of his mental faculties, for
he was full OF OpiateS all of the time
| Pinckney Hutto and his son were ar
rested, charged with having killed
Worth liuttu. The young man was
acquitted, but Pinckney IIutUo, al
though represented by Senator Ray
Sor, was convicted and sentenced To
serve three years in the peniteutiary.
| The appeal TO the supreme court was
overruled and Hutto, seeing in The
! State a notice of the action OF the
supreme court, came To Columbia at
the same time writing to Sheriff
Dukes of Oraug burg that he was
coming. AS yet his commitment pa
perS have not been received, but Supt.
Griflith has admitted HutLo to the
State prison.
Plum" Iiutto 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 liv-
cry Of crime while other men more
criminal in deed and In thought have
met with Il more kindly fate. A prom
inent Columbia merchant who once
| lived in that section states that the
deceased had the reputation Of having
been dangerous man, while the con-
vicJed brother was known as man Of
peace and an Industrious citizen.
SAVED HIS BROTHER FROM DISGRACE.
7 We dTr r-proehers in size, ,"-..
the homely way in which he expresses
their difference in physical appear
ance. Pinckney Hutto is small and
slender, with Il kind blue eye and with
quiet and pleasant air. He de-
clareS shamefacedly that on one occa-
sion he 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 interven-
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,
MIR. Brooks, who had sent n bill tu
Worth Ilutto 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 chidcd the younger
for having the revolver lying around
in that fashion, and the latter replied
with d menace that Pinckney HutJu
had better replace the pistol and the
shavingS as he had found them. lie
then declared defartly that he 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.
lie declares furthermore that on
that fatal December night when he
lett 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 Cant ID / Grinith th,