The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-13
SAVED FROM A MOB
a Kershaw Negro Carried to the Peni:
tertiary for Safe Keeping
TIE MILITIA WAS ORDERED OUT.
A Most Horrible Story OF Human
Depravity Seems to be Back
Of the Above Stated
Trouble.

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Trouble.
A dispatch from Sumter to The
State says John Llrgley, 35 years old, 3
white, committed suicide Sunday
morning, July 3, at 9 o'clock, behind
his barn near Rembert, in Kershaw
county, by shooting himself through
the head with a, 80. ca!ibre pistol.
Wounded pride and remcrse is thought
to have caused the act. It will be .
remembered that Aaron Williams, a
negro, it is charged, committed an
assault upon his WIFE about two weeks
ago. Tie negro is in the Cameron
j il. Mrs. Langley, it is said did not
report the outrage to her husband :
uutll a week after its occurrence, fear-
ing that soc would be Killed she said.s
After Langley was told, it is further
laid, be worked along with the negro:
for t1o days, wien crowd was CT
ganized for the purpose Of ]yrching.
Just before the negro was to te strung
up, Langley, it is c.aimei, asked him
where was that money ne had p owed
up in the spring? This disgusted the
men and the negro was turned loose.
CARRIED TO COLUMBIA.
The State of Wednesday says to
avoid mob violence, the negro, Aaron.
Williams, was brought from Camden
to Columbia and lodged in the State
penitentiary. The prisoner was escort
ed by Sheriff J. S. Tranthan Of Ker-
shaw and Capt. S. c. Zsmp OF the
KershaW Guards with "a Of his men,.
The Eegro was arrested on Thursday
June 80, by Sheriff Trantham and
olaced in the Camden jail for safe:
keeping, the preliminary hearing beirg
set for Tuesday following. A number
Of people from Sumter and KershaW
went to Camden and a large crowd
from the Boykin neigh hborhood, tie.
Gene Of the crime, was also in town.:
In a short while it was generally cir:s.3
culated thai the prisoner would dGbs:
| lynched. Later some men came IN from ON
Lancaster and shortly it was rumored5
that a crowd was coming over from
that section on the local freight and;
that the negro would be lynched dur.
ing the n5gat. :5sSs
When tue Sheriff Investigated these;
rumors and was satisfied danger was;
imminent, he sent the following tele-sG
gram to Gov. Hayward:
'P.ease wire Capt. Zemp, KershaW
Guards, to protect pris9ner. Capt Troy
OF Gen. Jones staff is here. AnsWerat:
once. Important. . 5; :5si:$33 s.s!s;:.;;
In the absence Of the Governor the
telegram was turned over to sAdjt.
Gen. Frost. he at, once telegraphed,
Capt. S. C. .Zemp to report to- Sheriff
TraItham with "a men. Within half:
an hour after the bugle sound the
prisoner, protected by the military es-s
cort, was on AID a local freight fors
Columbia, which arrived at 7:45 in
the afternoon and the prisoner vases,
corted safety to the penitentlary and.
turned over to Superintendent Crit
fifth. ::Ssts .sS$$ts
STORY OF THE AFFAIR. ssSs$
The story Of the whole affair, as;
told by the sheriff, is that he was tele-..
phoned Thursday morning, June BOZ
by Capt. G. Z Irby, a farmer living;
at Boykns, .ishJ mi es below Cam
den, and near Mr. ohm Langleyss5
place. Capt. Irby, hesaid, stated that
q crowd in the neighborhcod was:
ab ,ut to Tyr ca Aaron Williams, a ne
gro who had assaulted Mrs. John:
Langley: that he Rad been able to
deter them from their purpose tenn.
porarily, and to come at once to stop
a lyncning. When he arrived at Boy
kinS he iourd Capt. Irby and Langley
awaiting bin. The negro, be was
at the time working in a field near
Langlsy's house. Later VIII Jams was
arrested in the field without any re.s
sistancs or effort to escape and was:
taken to Camden that afternoon
The sheriff said that Langley told.
| him the assault occurred on Saturday.
Jure-26, but that Mrs. Langley did:
rot tell her hush and until tine follow
ing Mn 'ay. The ne;ghborhood knew
OF thu affair, it is said, by Tuesday or
wednesday, but the sheriff had not.
been notified until Thursday after
noon, when Capt. Irby telephone1
him. The negro was a field hand;
employed by Langley, lived ina cabin
in Langley's yard and was trusted by
Langley. When arrested the negro
tod Sheriff Tranthan that it was all
Mrs. Langley's scheme to get posses
sion Of his money. He said he had
some money, but had circulated a re-
port some time ago that he bad ploWed,
up big burd,e Of money and had it
bid. The prisoner declared to the
sheriff. if he would go to his cabin and
lift plank which had a. knot hole in !
it, a large amount Of money would be-
found. assss &.
The sheriff Immediately sent
special deputy, Mr.. Vernan Keels, TO-
return to the house and search for the
money. Keels, he said, reported to
him that when he arrived at Williams
cabin he found Mrs. Langley, upon
whom the assault was alleged to have
been made, and another white woman
whom be did not know, inside the
cabin, and upon asking what they
were doing in there Mrs. Langley re-
plied that they were looking for Will
liams' money Mr.. Keels reported
that he lifted the plank designated
but no money was found. This hap
pened on the day OF Williams arrest,
Thursday, June 80, and en- Sunday
morning, three days later, Langley
vas found dead behind his barn with
a bullet hole in his head, having killed
himself.
Disturbed Hen.
AtNorth Adams, Massachusetts,, for
alleged interference with the regular
hycinocs Af citfinr hon .I0SaDA