The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-08-03
KENNETH KEARsE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.

KENNETH KEARSE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
Member of the Bambers Company Shot in the
Breast-A Somewhat Mysterious Affair.
Kenneth Kearse, a young soldier who
is in camp with the Bamberg Guards, was
seriously shot in the left side by an un
known negro about II o'clok last night
The affair occurred at the corner of lower
Main and Divine streets.
The bullet penetrated the chest cavity
but the physicians state that there is
nothing to indicate that it entered the
lungs. The wounded man was taken to
the Columbia hospital soon after the
shooting.
s Kearse and Charlie Marshall, member
of the Richland Volunteers, were coming
M Main street from the union station
and when they reached the corner OF
Main and Divine negro, who it is said
was being chased by persons in civilian
clothes, ran past them and had not gone
far when he turned and fired. The negro
was not known to the soldiers, and after
the shooting disappeared mysteriously.
Kearse's friend, Marshall, took him I'M
mediately to the Office of DR.. Rice, which
is only few blocks away from the scene
Of the shooting. When they reached the
Office of the physician the wounded man
was suffering considerably and an ano'
dine was administered to alleviate his
nain. Both Kearse and Marshall were
5unarmed when they reached DR.. Rlce's
office. At the hospital the physicians
probed for the bullet but could not ind
it. Later the patient was said to be rest
ing very well, although suffering from
the shock. No definite opinion as to the
result of the wound can be given at this
time. The ball entered the cavity but
there is no trace of hemorrhage nor do the
lungs appear to be affected.
Patrolman Ford was on that beat at
the time the shooting occurred. He stated
that he heard one shot and after an inter-
ssval of about q 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 con-
ductor named Martin who told the officer
in answer to his inquiry that it was some
soldiers shooting at negro. The police
man 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 and that they had gone on down
Divine street. Ford then ran down d.
vine for three blocks to Lincoln and did
not see anybody but one man who was
coming toward Main street. He was
dressed in civilian clothes and said ne
had not seen any soldiers or anybody on
that street.
When Officer Ford returned to the
corner of Main and Divine the negroes
we're still there and told him that the
soldiers we're coming along Main street
and met negro who was on the inside
of the pavement next to the fence and
that they began to abuse him and he ran
ont in the middle of the street and opened
fire on the militiamen.
g These two accounts are totally differ
eut and neither of them explains the
series of shots heard by the policeman.
y Kenneth Kearse is son of Mr.. Andrew
Kearse, a respected farmer who lives on
the Atlantic Coast Line about seven miles
from Denmark. A telephone message
from Denmark last night states that Ken
meth Kearse has always been regarded as
. quiet and orderly young man in that
community. During a part OF the last
three years he has lived in Columbia,
being employed at first one thing and then
another. For while he worked at the
glass factory and subsequently in a drug
store. Kearse has an uncle at Denmark
who was apprised of the shooting so that
he could inform the parents at once
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