The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-10-05
FEUOS STILL EXIST
IN PARTS OF SOUTH
The Rawiins Family Make At
tempts to Exterminate
the Carriers.
TWO KILLED
Thess ~ ths Rs~,inss Clan Are Taken
and BY strictly Legal Proceedings.
without 9. Lyrehlns. They
Pay Penalty fer Crime.
From the Washington Times.
IN We soy. no shnll We reap,"

From the washington Times.
We sow, 90 shall ye reap"
A little more than ak weeks 3 In
Georgia. q man-at least. he wears the
semblnnce OF q man-plotted the cxter-
the most ficndish murders ever con-
ceived BY q human brain. To aid him
In the consummation OF this crime he
called upon his three sons-they did
his bidding.
Today this man and his W family
~ least the male part Of it.stand un-
himself IL sentenced to death along
with his two eldest sons. while the
youngest son has beer sent 10 q living
death. Rctributive justice has been
swift-swift and also according TO law.
when the decree OF the courts go Into
effect n Georgia family viii legally
cease To exist.
J. q. Rawlings. aged nifty. viii hang
Tor instigating the murder OF the Car
ter family.
Milton Rogers. his son. aged nineteen.
Will hang for h murder OF Carrie
Carter.
Jesse Rawlings aged seventeen. will
hang for the murder Of Willie Carter.
Leonard Rawlings. aged sixteen. will
spend HIS life behind prison bars for
assisting his brothers In the murder OF
the Carter children.
Frequently brothers have been tried
and sentenced for taking part In the
same murder. but seldom has IL ever
been the lot OF n judge TO sentence IA.
Their and son ut the same time for
murder.
Near Nsishbors for Years.
For years the families OF Rawlings
and Carter lived on plantations which
marched together In b Hahira dis
trict. Georgia. For years the bad blood
between the two had scethed and boiled.
AZ last Il boiled over. with the result
hat WI young Carter children were
Brutality murdered. and the Rawlings
are now TO pay the penalty with their
lives.
Rawlings and w. L. Carter are both
FORMER minister's. both have preached
the gospel: but IL IL not recorded that
either OF them lived good lives for,
though Carter has not been sentenced
TO death for murder n Rawlings has.
yet the former has long had IN evil
reputation In Lowndes county.
Several months ago n OF Rawlings
sons was prosecuted In court for at
tempting to drown Willie Carter In n
small river which flows close TO h
homes OF both. Young Rawlings was
acquitted. but this did not appease Raw
lings. sr. He was spelling for n fight
when he met Mr.. Carter In the court
room. and ne had IL
The men fought up and down the
long room In the valdosta court house.
fought like demons. while other men
WHO knew or the trouble between n
two looked on. Rawlings was armed
with n knife which he strove to use.
Cat ter held his wrist In n vice like grip,
striving always TO keep the glittering
blade. from his heart. Hut Rawlings was
thc more powerful man n slowly he
bent Carter backward, back until he
lost his balance and fell to h floor.
srhe grip or Rawlings wrist was broken.
Quick as a fash the stronger man
thrust with the long knife. Carter
war wounded on the hand and his
throat was cut. Thinking he "A done
his work Rawlings He'd.
Rawlings Hate Grows Apaoe.
t.. .s.ci:i. Carter vas badly wound
SCI and was picked up covered with
his blood. the cut was not fatal. Since
t..at time he has grown slowly better
ot h.s wound
lie his enemy grew stronger day
b. day, Rawlings became more and
more convinced that his only hope for
peace lay I'm the death OF Carter and
hts whole family. For the Carriers
hated the Carriers with the deadly hate
OF the southern feudists. than which
there Ia no hate more deadly. IL gem
crates a spirit which does not consider
a. n towards deed To shoot another
man from ambush. or even To assnssin-
a,e women and children. SO Rawlings
pondered on his wrongs and bided his
lime. That time was soon to come as
he thought.
About the LIST OF June. when Carter
was on the high o to recovery. Raw
Iings was bound over to keep the peace
under a $1,000 bond The Rev. >. =.
Kemp, n clergyman who was nc-
q~uainted with both men. went TO them
separately and asked them to drop their
quarrel. He testified later thai Carter
had signifed his willingness to keep his
hands or Rawlings. provided Rawlings
would 4 gree TO do the same thing In
regard IL himself. But Rawlings ripped
out an oath when Mr.. Kemp ap-
preached him IN the subject and swore
hat he would never sign a peace COM
patt with the man who had wronged
him. He declared that II he were moi
under a bond To keep the peace he
would steal up behind Carter and
shoot him I'm the back. or waylay him
on a dark night. Kill him he would
OFT way o. cnosSer.
Bet cs Rawlings Eursed his hatred
n .cs cpon him that IL would nev
err do TO kill Carter alone. II he was to
be- free forever from dread OF Carter
he must wipe out the whole family.
ro.. I'D brarea. This course he deter
T. upon. At hrst. perhaps. because
OF tie bond under which he had been
placed. perhaps he was afraid that his
crime might be found out too easily n
he himself carried IL through. Rawlings
enlenyored 10 hire negroes to commit
the wholesale murder. He approached
several. Offering them slC0 II they would
undertake the Job. First he tried a
negro By the name OF Frank Turner.
Turner went I'm turn TO Mitch johnson
and told him that Rawlings was WILL
Ing TO give him. Johnson. sl25 II he
wouli undertake the murder OF the
Carriers.
Finally. however. Rawlings found n
willing tool in n negro by the name OF
ALI Moore. "A laborer in one Of the near
by mines. But even then he was not
sure that the murder would be carried
out TO his satisfaction. Therefore. he
called upon his som TO help him.
They are mere boys. Milton. Jesse
Ar Leonard. the oldest not quite 20.
ana the your g st bout Is. But they
must be chips OF the old block. ar their
father must nave "A wonderful control
over his Sons. for they fell I'm with the
plan, how readily no u knows. This
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