Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
RACE TROUBLES IN SOUTH CARO-
LIMA

One man was hanged and three were
severely whipped in the little town OF
Norway, Orangeburg county, S. O.,
Tuesday night, while the village was
guarded and patrolled by men from
neighboring tow rs, who went to the aid
of the Norway people on hearing that
an attack on the town by negroes was
anticipated last night the village was
heavily guarded but there seem to be
little cause for apprehension.
On Monday evening, James L.
Phillips, a Confederate soldier, and the
father of nineteen children, was sitting
with his family at supper, when there
was a flash and roar at the window,
and the white head of Phillips fell forward
on the table, blood spOutirg from eight
slug wounds in the back of his head,
some of which pierced the brain. One
bullet struck the baby OF the family, a
girl of nine years, and another the young
est son, boy OF eleven, but neither OF
the wounds was serious. While the
elder children ran for a doctor, the
wounded boy supported for twenty min
utes the head of his dying father.
At daylight villagers began the chase.
They heard that Charley and Henry
Evans, mulattO brothers, had been seen
in hiding with guns near the town the
evening before. Starting where the men
were recognized, they were tracked to
the window through which Phillips was
shot, then back to pond, where Charley
Evans was captured, his brother e.
Gaping.
1t is twenty miles through the country
to the county seat and there seems t.
have been no disposition in Norway to
part with the p: :soner. He was locked
II the wooden "calaboose." "
In the evening a messenger went into
the village saying that Henry Evans was
"down by the branch" and said t.
"come and get him" Twenty OF the
villagers went down to the place indi-
Gated, surrounding it. Evans was not
there, but twelve armed negroes were
These, however, being outnumbered and
lacking leader, did not fire, bat made
threats. They were all seized and dis
armed, John Fielder, II. s. Johnson,
and Pink Hartwell, the most dangerous,
being locked up.
In the meantime word spread through
the county that negroes would attack
Norway that night Rifles were for
warded from Columbia and men to shoot
them rushed in from neighboring vii
lagos. About midnight a crowd took
out the three men who had been ar
rested in the afternoon and whipped
them separately. Each of the negroes
implicated the Evans brothers. Aiter
they had been severely hogged, these
men were released. 1t is said one will
die.
Shortly before daylight Charley Evans
was carried 200 yards over the town line
and hanged. Evans declared his inno-
cence, saying if they would give him
until next morning he would prove his
brother committed the crime. The
body was still hanging last night. The
only negroes in sight in that vicinity are
gathered about the tree from which
the corpse was hanged.
All day men have gone about with
guns on their shoulders and Norway was
again guarded last night. Governor
Hayward was very much disturbed.
He wired the sheriff OF Orangeburg,
Exhaust every means to apprehend
lynchers and suggest any aid this de-
partment can give" A message along
the same line was sent the coroner.
Henry Evans surrendered to the
sheriff last night. The father of these
young men is white man, having
prominent connections.