Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-03-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Charleston Tigers.

Governor Hayward has written let
ter to Mayor Smythe, Of Charleston, on
the subject of suppressing blind tigers
in the city. The governor gives the
mayor to understand most distinctly
that no reasonable effort will be spared
to secure the complete enforcement of
the dispensary law in Charleston.
Jencoat Killed at Last.
Charleston Jeffcoat, outlaw and muir
derer, who has been hunted in three
states and on whose head a price has
been placed several times, met his end
last Wednesday night in Alabama. He
was killed by Deputy Sheriffs Prest-
wood and Dunson, near Watkins
bridge, over Yellow river. The depu-
ties were trying TO arrest him and jeff
coat shot Dunson in the leg. Jeffcoat
was % years old. The first crime for
which he was indicted was stealing a
mule in Barnwell county. The mule
was afterward recovered in Augusta,
and the owner refused to prosecute for
fear of retaliation. Subsequently JEFF
coat was charged with arson, accused
of burning the home Of his brother-in-
law, in Lexington county. He broke
jail and went TO Georgia, where he
lived as Charles Johnson. In April OF
last year, he killed a man named VIII
son, in Herndon, Emanuel county, Ca
He and Wilson were engaged in Illicit
LIQUOR traffic. For more than q four
months he was chased as an outlaw.
On July 16, he killed Deputy Sheriff
Flanders, who was leading posse In
pursuit of Jeffcoat, near Midwife, Ca,
Jeffcoat and his wife were in wagon
when approached by the posse. jeff
coat dropped into the body of the wag-
on and fired. He escaped into the
Ogeechee swamp. A few years ago the
people Of Wagners, Aiken county, were
worried by horse thieves, and the gov
ernor offered a reward for their cap
ture. 1t has since become known that
the depredations were committed by
Jeffcoat. On July "a, Sheriff Owen AL
derman and Deputy Aull were in hot
pursuit Of the horse thieves. They
came upon Jeffcoat, who lodged to the
side of the road and fired upon the
posse, shooting Deputy Aull in the
back and killing him. For this crime
Jeffcoat afterward expressed regret, but
claimed that he was forced to do it.
The desperado' was traced to Dixiana
80 ht,t O
trace Of him was lost in the Congaree
swamp. There were frequent reports
that he had visited relatives in Column
bia. The people Of Aiken and Lexing-
ton counties were in terror for weeks
There were stories Of the outlaw max
ing his appearance in numbering camps
and demanding food, and like Harry
Tracey, the Oregon outlaw, he inspired
fear which protected him. The offers
of reward aggregated $1,000. Governor
Ellerbee in 1898 offered $10O for his cap
ture, just after his escape from Lex
ington county. Governor McSweeney
last July offered s1OO, and the sheriff
offered 500 for his capture. dead or
alive, for the murder of Deputy Aull
The rewards offered by officials and
persons in Georgia are as follows: The
widow of ]. L. Flanders, whom jeff
coat killed, offered 5000 for his appre-
hension; Sheriff J. T. Flanders, a broth
er Of the murdered man, 5000, and
friends Of the Flanders family 5000.
More than $500 is on deposit in the
Citizens Bank, of Swainsboro, and in
addition there is reward of $500 Of
fered by the governor Of Georgia.