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 CHILDREN KILLED
Thrss ~ shs Rs~tinss Clan Are Taken
end ~ strictly Legal P~rsessdinss.
without q. Lynshins, They
Pay Penalty Ter Crime.
Fron the Washington Times.
" We noW. no sholl We reap"

From the washington Times.
"As We SOW, % shall ye reap"
A little more than SIX weeks ago In
0eorgta. q man-at least. he wears thu
semblance OF q man-piotted the exter.
niination OF n family-planned one oi
The most nendish murders ever con
ceived by a human brain. To aid him
In the contamination OF this crime ne
called upon his three s~ons-they did
HIS bidding.
Today this nan and his own family
~ least the male part OF it--stand un-
der b shadow OF the gaiioss. He
himself IN sentenced TO death alone
with his two eldest sons. while the
youngest son M been sent 10 n Twins
death. Retrtbutive justice a been
swift--swift and also according TO Jaw.
When the decree OF the courts so Into
effect q Georgia family will legally
3. q. Rawlings. aged nifty. will hang
Milton Rogers. his son. aged nineteen.
Will hang Tor the 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 I'm the murder OF
thc Carter children.
Frequently brothers ave 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
ther and son at the same time Tor
murder.
Near Nsishbors for Years.
For years the families OF Rawlings
and Carter lived on plantations which
marched together In the Hahira dis
tricl. Georgia. For years the bad blood
between the two had seethed and boiled.
AZ last IL boiled over. with the result
that two young Carter children were
brutaiiy murdered. M the rawlings
are now TO pay the penalty with their
lives.
Rawlings and w. L. Carter are both
former ministers. o have preached
the gospel: but IL II not recorded that
either of them lived good lives for.
though Carter mas not been sentenced
TO death for murder N Rawlings has.
yet the former mas long had an evil
reputation In Lowndes county.
Several months q one OF Rawlings
sons wal prosecuted In court for at
tempting 10 drown While Carter In the
small river which flow close to the
homes OF both. Young Rawlings was
acquitted. u this did not appease Raw
llngs. sr. He was spelling FOR "A hight
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room. and he had u.
The men fought up and own the
LONG room In the ValdostR court house.
fought like demons. while other men
WHO knew OF the trouble between the
two looked on. Rawlings was armed
with n knife which he stroye to use.
cai ter held his wrist In a vice like grip.
striving always to keep the glittering
battlefront his heart. Hut Rawlings was
the more powerful mar and slowly he
bent Carter backward. back until he
host his balance and fell to the floor.
,rhe grip on Rawlings wrist was broken.
Quick as a flash the stronger mar
thrust with the long knife. Carter
was wounded on the hand n his
throat was cut. Thinking he had done
has work Rawlings iied.
Rawlings Hate Grows Apsee.
r.. s.lcasi. Carter was badly wound
q. 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 wounds.
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 n
his whole family. For the Carriers
hated the Carriers with the deadly hate
OF the southern feudists. than which
there In no hate more deadly. IL gen
crates a spirit which does not consider
Az n towards deed 60 shoot another
man from ambush. or even to nssnsrin-
ale women and children. So Rawlings
Wondered on his wrongs and bided his
lime. That time was soon To come as
he tkor-ht.
About the LIST OF June. when Carter
was on the high Dad To recovery. Raw
Iings wng bound oyer To keep the peace
under a $1,000 bond. The Rev. 3. s.
Kemp, a clergyman who was ac-
quainted with both men. went TO them
separately and asked them TO drop their
quarrel. He testified later that Carter
had signined his willingness TO keep his
hands OF Rawlings. provided Rawlings
would gree TO do the same thing In
regard Ia himself. But Rawlings ripped
out an oath when Mr.. Kemp ap-
proac.ei hin on the subject and swore
that he would never sign a peace com
patt with the man who had wronged
him. He declared that n he were not
under a bond 20 keep he peace he
would steal up behind Carter and
shoot him In the back. or wayiay him
on a dark night. XIII him he would
o.se way o. cnots.er.
Bat cs Rawlings hurried his hatred
A. --..@ss rpon him that Il would new.
er do TO kin Carter aloEe. II he was &c
be free forever from dread OF Carter
he must wipe out the whole family,
ro-. Id bran.a. This course he deter
Upon. At iTst. perhaps. because
OF tie bond under which he had beer
placed. perhaps he was afraid that his
crime might be found out too easily II
he himself carried II through. Rawlings
endenvored TO hire negroes to commi,
the wholesale murder. He approached
several. Offering them sio0 n they would
undertake the job. First he tried q
negro by the name OF Frank Turner
Turner went I'm turn To Mitch johnson
and told him that Rawlings was VIII
Ing TO give him. Johnson. SIS II III
would undertake the murder of tn
Carriers.
Finally. however. Rawlings found
willing tool I'm n negro by the name o.
All Moore. a laborer In one OF the near
by mines. But even then he was no
sure hat the murder would be carried
our TO his satisfaction. Therefore. h
called upon his SON TO help him.
They are mere boys. Milton. Jess
ar Leonard. the oldest not quite 20
ana the yours st about Is. But thel
must be chips OF the old block. or thei
father must have "A wonderful contro
over his SONS. for they fell In with tn
plan. how readily no one knows. Tht
IA the plan aE unfol6cd by All Moore
their accomplish. when he turne'
states evidence recently.
Plan Of Murder.