The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-01-30
The Sanfuc Homicide.

inst as the sun was sinking beneath
the Western horizon, on Friday evening,
Ian. %, our erstwhile, quiet and un-
| eventful little town was veered from It's
regular course and was steered into sea
of excitement and grief by murder
! I saw that as the courts will handle it as
murder. Mr.. w. Z. Nixon was shot to
death by Mr.. Jake Jeter, who empted
both barrels of shotgun simultaneously
into his victim's right breast, who
breathed about fifteen minutes III total
unconsoiousness after the SHOT. Out or
due respect to those in trouble, Will
not give the details as full as have |
heard. but will be as brief as possible. |
There had not been previously any bad
feeling between these men. There was
grass widow, a meGii S9T in Mr.. Nixons
house, in way step daughter, and it
reached Nixon's ears that she and young
Letter conducted themselves in way he
rz1ut like and his face was set against
- SUI. 'Ss,saar his roof. I.-t->ia .'-s Wo, Wo,
tian that she-ouuTu not stay there living
that life. On The fatal day it is reported
the young man said the woman should
stay at that house if he had to kill Mr.
Nixon, and it is said that Mr.. Nixon
got wind that Jeter was laying in wait
for him between the town and the lat
n ter's home, and he was afraid to 60
A home. Friends warned him that thre ats
Z The evening Jefer was noticed stanasiino1 t:.Hsi
IN Mr.. l.. b. Jeter's store door, kind ot
hiding behind the door post with gun
= both barrels cooked; but several pson,e
~ did not know his intentions, until Nixon
o. came up the street, and as he got nearly
opposite the door Jeter fired both barre,s
- into him and ran. The concussio,, w.s
-, 80 violent the old man actually bounced
~ - ION oack and Was heard to saw. s.tb,t
is A'i,a me, |" and never spoke afterward.
hn Knew anything. He had a hole OBJ,
/! into MIN, into which man could insert
a. a. oo'h hsts, as not ten feet was betw,en
%. 'he men. Jeter is stout young mon
re- and Nixon was about 76 wears old MD
Id Nixon was well known cbaractor
ne around here, known by everybody and
a. A"e" everybody, was friend to every
}, o'uy ana everybody was his friend with
1t ou'y lew EXCEPTIONS He was Frenoh
canadian and came from near Ionsa
% canada, to York about twenty-seven or
e'sn' years ago, where he worked ahopt
TWO years and then came here to old -
se''lhS up steam grist and saw min f,n
'ne late L. j. Jones, he worked .t No.
niiii several years. then went to Eyo.;.~
.u'n unaln.u Two years and then went back
h'ms" as he always called it. ram,ina1
"oo"' one year, then buck to Ch,r,e.t
"here ne worked two years. then ha
came Dack to Santuc and rented O f,,n,
oue still held the position of ,oi,,or 49,,
sawyer a. the steam mill here IT.,
"' 'ous' quiet, inofrensiye, warm.
nsa! 'eu' generous and jovlal, and seemed Y
~ nave lohdness for the youno NJ a., i
~ aoon. mere. The worst thing that con,d
De SAD against him was be nado
p'oiesioa OF reli zion. Ash have so;,, Il
a"a n"a eve'yOo'y Tor allnost) both white {,
"nu '' &C. .ored as friends, and they all .v :.
press their sorrow. e"- ii
give this bit Ct history as dino h;,. a,
ne osing more than tbous,nd n,:,
itonl Ills native home, no. a re,a,ina; "a
'ns United States that he knew Of ann pr
"o i"s one no" Knows who TO write to and to
vi Ills unnatural demise am -,
49, "shauied nor sorry (only for nv t
"ck OF ability for this little t,;,m,, pl;
. Mr. W. e. Ninon, a foreigner but NJ
uSe'ui man, who labored, made he
money and spent it here "'
HEY DENVER po