Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-29
HsoooLErTIsa N rAr NORM.
On It's Way to Lynch Ono Negro q Mob Strings
Up Another.

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Danyille, H.. July a5. --rLis city is In
the throes of arace war; One negro, an
unknown man FROM Evansville, lad, who
tonight shot and killed Henry Cater.
man, white, has already been lynched by
mob of 600 men, who were later fired
upon by the sheriff, three men being
wounded. The mob was clamoring 70,
the life of another negro named James
Wilson, who has confessed to bruta
assault on the wife of a farmer at Alyon
ILL.,, just north of here.
The unknown negro met his fate while
the mob was OH the way tolynch Wilson
The angry throng was passing down
east Main street when tht n.aro became
involved In an alteration with some OF
its members. They started after him
and he pulled gun. firing into the
| crowd.
Henry Gatterman, young butcher
who has recently returned from Fort
Monroe, fell mortally wounded and ex-
pired in few seconds. The negro
turned aud fed, but was caught by the
officers within a block from the scene of
the tragedy and hurried to the police
station with the mob in hot pursuit,
temporarily diverted from their march
to the county Jail.
The officers with their prisoner took
refuge in the city building, barrioading
themselves behind the door of ono of the
offices. They could not check the fmob,
however, for it secured lorg pole and
tried to batter down section of the
wall and the door, both of which woro
| very thin. On account of the overwhel-
ming numbers of the mob it was useless
for the officers to resist. The negro was
seized and rushed to the spot where he
had shot down Gatterman. 1t was the
| work of an instant to throw rope
around his neck and swing him up to
the nearest telephone pole. The mob
did not delay long, but waited to see that
their victim was dead. The life was
slowly strangled out and he was left
| hanging, while the mob proceeded on to
the county Jail.
Wilson, it is charged, went to the farm
house while the woman was alone and
he told her he was hungry. While she
was getting something to eat he entered
the door and seized her. Ho fled, leav-
ing her half dead. Afterward she man
aged to crawl to the nearest farm house,
| where she told the story. A posse OF
officers started in pursuit of the negro
and when Wilson was captured he was
hurried to the county Jail to prevent
| lynching. There he confessed.
Three other negroes have beon at
tackled by members of the mob and Sc
| verely beaten. One of them is Ben
| Rich, and the other two are said to be
| refugees from Evansville, Ind. The VIC
tim of the mob was later identified
as j. d. Mayfeld. The mob changed it's
mind before attacking tho Jail, and went
back and cut down Mayfield's body.
They rushed it to the public square and
burned it in bonfire, hacking it to
pieces with knives as it burned. Then
they charged the JAIL aud the sheriff and
deputies fired, wounding several mem
bers of the mob, some fatally.
The mob repulsed, sent to neghbor-
ing mining camp for dynamite and proba-
bly, will attack the Jail again. The mob
is infuriated and threatens to lynch the
sheriff and his deputies, also the negro
turnkey in the Jail.
After securing battering rams it took
them about half hour to wreck the city
prison, the negro being found hid in a
safe. He was pulled from the safe,
struck with sledges, knocked down,
jumped uDon and stamned to daoth A
rope was placed about his neck and his
lifeless body was dragged about three
blocks An effort was made imme.
diately to hang the body to a telegraph
pole, but the rope broke. The mob
which by this time numbered 5000, then
dragged the body to .thea Jail and
burned it.
Company X, a colored troop, has its
quarters hore and the officials have pre-
pared to call it out. Leaders of the mob
declare they will try to kill the entire
n n if