The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-02
4 SOLDIER SHOT.
Young Kenneth Kearse, Member
of the Bamberg Company
SHOT IN THE BREAST.
The Shooting is Somewhat OF Mysteri'
ous Affair. Kearse Says He Was
Walking Along on Lower Main
Street When He Was
Shet UnsTares.
Shet Unawares.

Kenneth Kearse, a young souis!
who is in camp At Columbia with the
Bamterg GUARDS, last week, was seri
ously shot in the left side BY al un
known negro about II c'clcck Thurs
day night. The afsir occurred al
the corner OF lower Main and Divine
streets. The bullet penetrated the
chest cavity but the physicians state
that there is nothing to indicate tina:
it entered the lungs. The wounded
man wss taken to the Columbia hos,
pital soon after the shooting. TIE
following account Of the somewhat
mysterious affair, IS taken from the
Columbia State Of last Friday:
Kearse and Charlie Marshall, a
member Of the RIchland Volunteers,
were coming up Main street from the
union station and when they reached
the corner OF Main and Divine ne-
gro, who 1t is said wes being chased
by persons in civilian clothes, ran past
them and had not gone far when be
turned and fred. The nero wss not
known to the soldiers, and after the
Shooting disappeared mysterionslV.
Kearse's friend, Marshall, took him
Immediately to the cfice OF Dr..
Rice, which is only a few blocks away
from the scene Of the shooting.
When they reached the Office OF the
physician the wounded man was suf-
fering considerably aid al anodine
vas administered to alleviate his pain.
Both Kesrse and Marshall were un-
armed when they reached Dr.. Rice's
cf6ce. At the hospital the physician
probee for the bullet but could not
ind it. Later the patient was said
to be resting very well, although SUI
fering from shock. No definite opin-
ion as to the result Of the wound can
be given at this time. The ball en-
tered the cavity but there is no trace
Of henorrhage nor do the lungs ap
pear to be affected.
Patrolnan Ford was OF that beat
at the time the shooting occurred.
he stated that he heard one shot and
after an interval Ct about minute
three others. He was then near the
corner OF Main and College streets and
hurried on Down in the direction from
which the shots were coming. At the
corner OF Main and Green streets he
passed street car conductor named
Martin who told the officer in snsWe1
to bis inquiry that it was some soldl-
ers shooting at negro.
The policeman ran on to the corner
OF Main and Divine one block further
down. Here he met several negroes
who told him that some soldiers had
been shooting at a negro ard tnat
they had gone down Divine street.
Ford then ran down Divine for three
blocks to Lincoln and did not see any
body but one man who was coming to-
ward Main street. he was dressed in
civilian clothes and said he had not
seen any soldirs or anybody on that
street.
When Officer Ford returned to the
corner OF Main and Divine the negroes
were still there and told him that the
soldiers were coming along Main
street and met a negro who was on
the inside Of tie pave msnt next to
the fence and that they began 70
abuse him and be ran out in the mid
die OF the street and opepeo fire on
the milieismen. Tnese two accounts
are totally different and neither OF
them explains the series OF shots heard
by the polics man.
Kenneth Kearse Is a son ct MI. An
drew Ksarse, q respected farmer whc
lives en- the Atlantic Coast Line about
seven niles from Denmark. A tele'
phone e,sage from Denmark states
that Kenneth Kesrse has always beer
regarded as quiet and orderly yours
man in that community. During 8
part Of the last three years he has
lived in Columbia, being enployeo al
first one thing and then another. Fol
Lwhile be WORKED at the glass factory
snd subsequently in drug store
Ksarse has an uncle at Denmark "bt
was app1ised OF the shooting so tha'
he could inform the parents at once
Took Her own Life.