The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-29
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The Supervisor of Chesterfield county,
Smith oliver, was badly cut on the throat
by W. N. Ratclife last Friday. The fight
grew out of a trivial matter. divers
condition is serious.
One negro shot and killed another in
Newberry county, near ChappelPs last
Saturday night, double-barrel shotgun
being used. There appears to be little or
no motive for the killing. The murderer
escaped.
The celebrated Mcdaniel murder case
was tried in Lexington again last week
and verdict of not guilty was rendered:
Mcdaniel killed the town marshal OF
Swansea in December, 1902, and was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment IN the penl'
tentiary. Appeal was taken to the state
supreme court and new trial was grant
ed, which resulted as above.
Noah Brownfield, a negro shoemaker,
was shot and instantly killed in front OF
his shop in the city Of Greenville last
Saturday evening by Robert Holmes, a
negro painter. Family trouble was the
cause of the killing. A pistol and five
loose cartridges were found lying near by
the BODY when the police arrived. The
weapon used was double.barrel shotgun.
Robbers broke into the postofice at
Kingstree last Thursday night and blew
open the safe. They secured about 5,OOO.
which included registered package OF
money sent from Charleston that day to
the bank of Kingstree, 1t was undoubt-
edly the work of experienced safe crack
ers, and they have not as yet been cap.
tured. The robbery was not discovered
until the next morning.
Efforts are being made to have Cover.
nor Hayward commute the sentence OF
Hoyt HAYES, the Oconee wife murderer,
who is to be hanged on the 14th OF Octo-
ber. Counter petitions are being elrcu-
lated. The one asking that he be gwen
life ima.isonment bears more than 9O0
names. while the one asking the governor
not to interfere has over 500 signatures.
This shows that public sentiment IN that
county is much divided.
Mr.. R. M. Pierson, formerly of Walter
boro, was killed in Savannah last Satur-
day night by fall from trolley car. He
stepped off and missing his footing fell
backwards and struck his head on the
y1trified brick pavement. He never regain
ed consciousness and died about midnight.
Mr.. Pierson was to have been married this
week to Miss Leah Westendorf, and was
in company with his bride-to-be and her
mother when he was killed.
George W. Taylor, photographer, OF
Bennettsyille, committed suicide last
Thursday morning by shooting himself
through the head with pistol. He had
been drinking heavily for some time, and
imagined that parties were hunting him
to kill him. The night before in bis bed
room he made ugly wounds on his throat
and over his heart with knife. Friends
were irving to- take care of him when the
act was committed. He was about thirty
years old and unmarried.
A travelling man named Ralph Wells
died in Columbia last week from blood
poisoning, which resulted from blow On
the head with soda water bottle. The
deceased auarreled with an unknown
man in drug store at Clyde, N. c., sever
al days before and was struck on the head.
The wound was slight, and he paid little
attention to it at first. Wells was the
son of prominent physician at Murphy,
N. c., and his body was sent there Tor
burial. He travelled for Columbia house.
Rev. William Aiken Kelly. minister
of the South Carolina conference and IN
charge of the Methodist church at North
Augusta, mysteriously disappeared last
Friday a week ago. Nothing has been
heard of him. He married daughter of
DIR. J. A. Clifton, now at Orangeburg, and
his wife is prostrated with grief and has
been brought to her fathers home, DR..
Clifton going to North Augusta for her
last week. Mr.. Kelly was worried over
financial matters it is said, as his charge
was building or had recently built new
church and large debt on it was coming
due in short time and he saw no way to
nav II. his Is uOI tue uiSt liuo Mt'
Kelly has wandered away. He was build.
ing a new church in Sumter few years
ago and wandered away, being found a
few weeks later in New Orleans. 1t is
said that his friends had been much wor-
ried over his mental condition for several
weeks before he disappeared.
A negro named James Stuart was
lynched by Laurens county citizens last
Friday night after being brought across
the river into Greenwood county. Friday
afternoon he attempted to assault four
teen-year-old daughter of Mr.. Hughes.
Two daughters were picking cotton near
the house, and the negro was also picking
cotton not very far away. Mr.. Hughes
had gone to ginnery and Mrs. Hughes
to visit sick neighbor. Knowing that
the girls were alone, the negro secreted
himself in the cotton house and attacked
the youngest girl when she came to empty
her cotton sack. She screamed and her
sister came running to her rescue, when
the negro desisted without accomplishing
his purpose, although he threatened to
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