The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06
FEUDS STILL EXIST
IN PARTS OF SOUTH
The Rawlins Family Make At
tempts to Exterminate
the Carriers.
TWO CHILDREN KILLED
Three Of the Rawlings Clan Are Taken
and by Strictly Legal Proceedings,
Without a Lynching, They
Pay Penalty for Crime.
From the Washington Times.
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From the Washington Times.
las We SOW, SO Shall We reap
A little more than six weeks ago in
Georgia, Il man-at least, he wears the
sembiance OF a ~man-plotted the exter-
minat!on OF Il farlily-planned one of
the most tiendish murders ever con
celNed by a human brain. To aid him
In the consumlnatlon OF this crime he
called upon his three sons-they did
his bidding.
Today this man II his own family
at least the male part of it-stand UNI
der the shadow OF the gallows. He
himself is sentenced to death along
With his two eldest sons, while the
youngest son has been sent to a living
death. R~etributiVe justice has been
swift-sWift and also according to law.
When the decree of the courts so Into
effect a Georgia family will legally
cease to exist.
j. G. Rawlings. aged fifty, will hang
for instigating the murder of the Car
ter family.
Milton Rogers, his son, aged nineteen,
will hang tor the murder OF Carrie
Carter.
Jesse Rs-"lings aged seventeen, will
hang for the murder of Willie Garter.
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 eldom has it ever
been the lot of a judge to sentence ia
ther and son at the sulne time for
murder.
Near N~eishbors for Years.
For years the families of Rawlings
and Carter lived on plantations which
marched together in the Hahira dis
trict, Georgia. For years the bad blood
between the two had seethed and boiled.
AT last 1t boiled over, with The result
that two young Carter children We're
brutally murdered. and the Rawlings
ure now to pay the penalty With their
lives.
Rawlings and w. l.. Carter are both
former ministers, both have preached
the gospel; but it is not recorded that
either OF them lived good lives 1or,
though Carter has not been sentenced
to death for murder and Rawlings has,
yet the former has long had an evil
reputation in Lowndes county.
Several months 6 one of Rawlings
sons was prosecuted in court for at
tempting to drown Willie Carter in the
small river which flows close to the
homes of both. Young Rawlings was
acquitted, but this did not appeaSe Raw
lingS, ST. He was spelling for Il fight
when he met Mr.. Garter in he court
room, and he had il.
The men fought UP n down the
long room in the Naldosta court house,
fought. like demons, while other men
who knew OF the trouble between the
two looked on. Rawlings WAS armed
With Il knife which he strove to use.
Garter held his wrist in a vice like grip,
striving always TO keep the glitterinS
blade from his heart. But Rawlings was
NJ. ,11,a nDNEp,.;lll man and SlDWlN- he
bent Garter backward, back until he
lost his balance and fell TO the floor.
The grip on Rawlings wrist was broken
Quick as a flash the stronger man
thrust With the long knife. Carter
was Wounded on the hand and his
throat was cut. Thinking he had done
his work Rawlings fled.
Rawlings Hate Grows Apace.
But though Garter was badly wound
ed and was picked up covered with
his blood, the cut was not fatal. Since
that time he has grown slowly better
OF his wounds.
While his enemy grew stronger day
by day, Rawlings became more and
more convinced that his only hope for
peace lay in the death of Carter and
his Who'll family. For the Carriers
hated the Carriers with the deadly hate
OF the southern feudists. than which
there is no hate more deadly. 1t gen.
crates a spirit which does not consider
it a towards deed to shoot another
ma from ambush, or even to assassin
ste women and children. SO Rawlings
Wondered on mis- wrongs and bided his
time. That time was soon to come as
ne thought.
About the LIST of June. when Carter
vas on the high road to recovery, Raw
lingS was bound over to keep the peace
under a $1,000 bond. The Rev. S. S
p.~. ,r1,n was ar.
quatnted with both men, went to them
separately and asked them to drop thei,
quarrel. He testified later that Carter
had signifed his Willingness to keep his
hands off Rawlings. provided Rawlings
would agree to do the same thing ir
regard to himself. But Rawlings ripped
out an oath when Mr.. Kemp ap'
preached him on the subject and swore
hat he would never sign a peace com
pact with the man who had wrongeC
him.. He declared that if he We're no.
under a ono to keep the peace hs
would steal up behind Carter anc
shoot him in the back. or waylay hin
on a dark night. Kill him he would
one way or another.
But as Rawlings nursed his hatred
It dawned upon him that it would new
er do to kill Carter alone. If he was tt
be free forever from dread of Carte
he must wipe out the whole family
root ana TdlcI l his cOuISe lie ueteI
mined upon. AT first, perhaps, becaus'
of the bono under which he had beef
placed, perhaps he was afraid that hi
crime might be found out too easily !
he himself carried it through. Rawling
endeavored to hire negroes to commi
the wholesale murder. He approaches
several, offering them 500 If they wOul'
undertake the job. First he tried
negro by the name of Frank Turner
Turner went in urn to Mitch johnson
and told him that Rawlings was will
ing to give him, Johnson. $125 if h
would undertake the murder of tn
Carriers.
Finally, however, Rawlings ound
willing tool in a negro by the name o
ALT Moore, a laborer in one of the near
by mines. But wen then he was no
sure that the murder would be carrie
out to his satisfaction. Therefore. n
called upon his sons to help him.
They are mere boys. Milton, Jess
and Leonard. the Oldest not quite q
and the youngest o IS. But the
must be chips of the old block, or thei
father must nave a wonderful centre
over his sons. for they fell in with tn
plan, how readily no one knows. Th1
is the plan as unfolded by ALI Moore
their accomplish. when he turne
states evidence recently.
Plan of Murder.
~, -..,,u, bo,.C with Ale Npori