The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-08
IN ASSASSIN DIES.
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out. one after the other. The negroes
all expected to be lrnched and their
fear was great. 1t was understood
that they knew OF the acts OF the
Evans boys aud they were made TO tel!
what they knew. AT first they Gid
this very reluctantly. One by one
they were cowhided within an inch
Of their lives and then they told thelr
stories. 1t is remarkable that al!
three Of the negroes. who Ike al ol
their kind lie in fear ana lie under ali
circumstances. should have toid Tue
same tales. Charles Evans SHOT air-
Phillips, they all said. His brother
helped him to get ready for the CRIME
aud went with him when ne snoc ln0o
the Phillips household. Iha0 jim
was an accessory TO the crime tney
proved by stories that tallld. aosoluCe-
", but each said that it was Charles
who tired the shot.
THE REAL WORK OF THE NIGHT.
After the negroes had been beaten
so that they will be marked for life
they were put back in the guard house
and then began the real work OF the
night. Evans was taken out AND car
rie6 to the outskirts OF the town. He
was asked if he wished to make a
statement and in reply said that II
the crowd would only let him live un-
til morning that he would tell them
who committed the crime. He was
denied this privilege and told that ne
must die. Then he tried to place the
crime on his brother He was asked TO
tell where his brother was. He sald
that he did not know. but he knew
that he could lind him by morning or
some of bis friends could. The mob,
with the thought OF old Philips ana
his wounded children in their MINDS,
laughed in derision.
HUNGRY FOR THEIR PREY.
"Take him out in the woods. We
viii teach every negro within 1000
miles Of here to keep their guns away
from women and old men" cried the
ringleader of the mob Of now mad.
dened men.
They lifted the negro his yellow face
shining in the lights OF the lanterns,
bodily from the ground and carried
him out in a little woods beyond the
town NOT very far, to be sure, not
more than 200 yards at the utmost,
from the house where the old soldiers
liseblood was oozing out slowly, and
some Of them would have carried him
further but for the fact that the
string Of lies that he cried out on the
night air seemed to enrage them more
and more-at every step they took
HURLED INTO ETERNITY.
Finally they put him down on the
ground and a seml-circle OF men stooo
~sSsSS him-some with their rlEes
raised for fear that he, noted as a
fleet-footed negro, would escape--and
the customary piece Of rope was pro-
duced. It took but a moment then
to put it about his neck and the CO.
Rardlv brute was told to make his
peace with his God. Insted he begged
for mercy.
tAsk Phillips" was the laconic re-
ply, and the rope was made taut.
Now stand back men and riddle
the brute, so that every negro that
comes this way Wednesday may have
his lesson"
Two hundred guns were fred at the
word and when your correspondent
went to the scene wednesday morn
there were just II wounds IN the oooy.
THE AWFUL SIGHT a LESSON.
The negro made an ugly picture,
The sun steaming down on his copper
colored face and the blood dripping
from his wounds. But his dead face
was as nothing to the live ones OF the
negroes about the scene. Despite the
fact that they knew that there is dan
ger for every negro in the county, un-
til after Mr.. Phillips dies, like muir
.derer to the scene of his crime, they
hailed back and camped around the
spot. Up to late hour "Wednesday
evening the body had not been cut
down, the towns people leaving 1t
swinging from the limb Of the tree all
day, that it might teach the lesson
that they said was so much desired IN
the country and from which they
hoped much good effect Woujd
emanate.
Meantime down th. shaded country
lane but a short distance away there
is another picture. 1t is within the
vine-clad cottage Of the Phillips. Since
the fatal wounding it has been prac-
tically impossible to keep the old man
in bed. He half sits, half recllnes IN
chair with his head on his arm, suf-
fering the death agony that is only
the question of few hours. Ihe
room is on the yerandah. The neigh
bors sit about and take turns doing
what they can to alleviate the fright
full pain. When your correspondent
entered the room the wounded man
had just passed though one OF his
paroxysms of pain. In moment OF
consciousness he asked with some
pathos in his voice what any one could
have against him that could have
caused the deed. The two sons are
half crazed over the suffering. that
they brought on their father, and
thus far the physicians have been un-
able to relieve his pain. The fact
that be is alive at all is a mystery and
it is thought that he cannot possibly
live until morning.
GOOD COMMUNITY.
Mr.. Phillips was employed as the
overseer of Mr.. II. L. Solomons, a.
wealthy merchant and farmer of the
neiqhborhood. Mr.. Solemons said
Thursday that in ten years residence
in the community he had not seen u
half dozen drunken men of any
description, and that the citizens were
naacasnl laUhidino neOnle The