The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-05
SHOT TO DEATH.
Eight Prisoners Lined Up and
RiddIed With Bullets
BY DETERMINED MOB.

Mob to Spear, but it Re.
fused to Do Sc.
A mob entered the jail at Watkins
vile, Ca, at Gwo O'Clock THURSDAY
morning and took therefrom nine
prisoners, eight Of whom were shot to
death and the ninth escaped only by
being thought dead by the mob. The
prisoners taken ou5 and lynched were:
Lon J. Aycock, white, charged with
the murder ct F. N. RoibIoek ano
wife OF Oconee county, and seven ne
groes, Rich Robinson, Lewis Robin
son, C!aud e der, charged with the
murder OF the Holorook couple; !;
Sandy Price, a young negro, charged
with attempted rape upon The person
Of MIS-. Weldon Dooley; Rich Alien, q
= negro convicted and under sentence Of
desth for the murder Of Will Robert
son, another negro; Gene Yerhy, an,
other negro charged with the burglary
Of q rife from Mr.. Marshall, and Bob
Harris, a negro, charged with shooting
another negro.
A dispatch from Watkinsville says
there were about so to IS men in the
crowd. All were heavily masked
and no one knows whence they cane
or to what point they returned. They
went at once to the house OF Town
Marshal L. q. Aiken and quietly
called him to the door. AS he put
his head out OF the door he was seized
and told that he must deliver the jail
key. he refused and men put pistols
in bis face and overpowered him, he
being a rather small man. Aiken re-
fused to dress, but some OF the party
dressed him and carried him along.
The mob next seizsd Courtney Elder,
8 blacksmith, and made him brig bis
tools along with him. On their way
to the jail they were met by a. w.
Ashford, a prominent citizen OF Wat
kinsviile, who had heard the noise at
the ma,shal's house and came down
town as soon as he could dress.
Mr.. Ashford begged the men to de
sist and let the law take It's course,
especially pleading for Aycock on the
ground that the evidence had not
been secured to warrant his conVic
tion. He also begged them not to
lynch these not charged with capital
crimes. They told him that they Were
cool, sober and determined and that
he might as well 60 back hcme ano
20 TO bed. The jail Was then opened
by the town MARSHAL under cover OF
several pistols ard inside the jail the
mob he'd up Jallor Crow and demand,
ed the keys TO the cells. He refused
at first, but surrendered them after
being menaced with guns. JallOr
Crow begged hard for Aycock on the
same ground that Mr.. Ashford cid
and also tor the Two negroes who were
not charged with capital cflmes.
Members OF the attacking party tod
him to shut his mouth. Tney knew
what to dc, they said, and they were
going to clear out the whole jail.
The mob got every prisoner in the
jail except Ed Tnrasher, a negro
charged with gambling, who was on
the nis6emeanor side Ct the prison
and was not noticed. The prisoners
were carried to q point SINE 100 yards
from the jsil and Tied to three fence
posts BY uneir neckS. Aycock protest
ed his innocence TO the last. He said
they were killing an innocent man.
While the general belief IN Octnee
county is that Ayccck was noe guilty,
still there were many who did not be-
neve so. Rich Robinson said it was
all right, so far as he was concerned,
but that three more negroes were IN
the Holorook murder. he named
Sidney Norris, Jim Taylor and Wiley
Durham as the three implicated.
These negroes had been in jail before
on this cnaige ard lad been released
after fuil investigation by the COM
mittee. The other prisynecs did not
open their mouths ourlng their marc4
to their doom.
After the prisoners had been tied
to the fenceposts, the mob lined up
and fred Eve VoIleys into their oouies
All oied without a struggle, with the
exception OF Joe Patterson, negro
who was charged with pointing gun
at Albert Ward. Patterson was shot
several times In the bocy but was
alive after the mob left and will recoV-
Or. Aycock's body was fairly r:ddleo
with shot, q great hole was torn
through his heart and another th1ous g
his rignt breast. TIE mob LETT quickly
after doing its work, and none OF lts
members went toward Athens. Ii Is
believed that the men were from neisn
boring counties, as the report was
brought to Watkinsville Wednesday
afternoon by A. n. Bostick Ct Morgan
county that mob would likely atacs
the jail Wednesday Tnis 1umor, how
ever, was not given much attention
since so many Of It's kind had come
before.
Sheriff OVERLY was on his farm Wed
nesdsy afternoon and he was not mott
fed by Mr.. BosSick. In fact the pur
pose Of the mob was accom- pisheo 81
quietly that the sheriff, VINO lives
mile from the Jail, knew nothlng G.
the occurrence until THURSDAY morn
ing. and the residents Of Watklns7lA
we're taken completely by purprlSe
The people OF Oconee county are hor
lied at the occurrence. They hat
home with patience the delay neceS
sary to securing the evidence agalnS
the Holbrook nurderers and had agree'
to let the law take it's course. IN
iDaoelling cause Of the lynching with
ont douos was the attempted rape o.
Sandy Price, which excited the peopl
all over that section.
Killed aI LUdZ.
6isnatch from LOCI says tina