The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-20
But Sheriff Creech and His Dep
uties Prevent Lynching.
HAD STONED 4 LADY
And H., Brother Shot the Culpri'
through the Body. ard the angry
Crowd Trisd to lniIict the
Death Penalty oa Him
at Once.

a CISpdlCU 41CA So'@iESe-' w.
to The State says after passing
through a hsir-riSlng experience
Deputies Reuben Jscobs and E. 3
Morris OF Barnwell, S. c., reached So
vannah Friday from Barnwel count!
with John Sims, coloreo prisoner
who had been shot through ths
BODY before he was arrested. Sims We:
being carried through Savannah K
Augusta and thence will be taken te
the State prison at Columbia.
The negro was arrested at BACK
vile Friday morning for turkey steal
ing and tor throwing bricks at MIS-
BUST, a sister OF Mr.. Arthur Dewitt
When she appeared st the lot, where
the negro was stealing turkeys arc
tod him to leave. Sims picked uE
stones and tried to bit her with them
and she sought safety by crawling
under q house. When Dewitt return
eo to the house be mounted 5 horse
and went In pursuit and overlook the
negro q short dista- CO from Blackvllie
and when the latter showed hight,
De Witt shot him through the rgat
side, the bullet going through the ne
gro's body.
Deputy Morris sent telegram tc
Sheriff Cree CD at Barn sell that Sims
had been arrested and that he was
going to bring the prisoner to Barn
well. The negro's wound wss hastily
dressed and he was placed aboard the
Southern train for BarnWsll.
Arriving at Barnwell it was found
that an excited mob was in waiting
and that sheriff Creech and several
deputies we1e having trouble in keep
ing them in check. AS the train
slowed up Sheriff CEeech spraDg
aboard and held the mob at bay until
the doors to the car in which the p'iS'
oner was confined we're locked. Con-
6uctor J. B. ESkew was surrounded og
the mob and commanded not to move
his train. Inside the car with the
negro, were several deputies armed
with shotsuns and they had orcers to
fire il any one carried the doors.
Eskew succeeded in escaping from
the mob and quickly signaled the en-
sineer ahead ano the train dashed out
OF Barnweil with several meCb=rs OF
the mob still cGnging to the platform,
Some OF these stayed n TIE train IN
til the next stop.
WHAT CAUSED IT.
4 dispatca from Biackviile says q
strange negio nan who uss found
stealing in the yard Of MIS-. Hattie
BUST there Friday morning attempt
ea to strike her with 8 stone auo
threatened TO brain her If sae su'
tempted to stop him. Mrs. Buist Cal.
led for help and the negro fad but
was caught 10 niIu.es after wards
Great excitement followed and had Ii
not been Tor the quick action on the
part OF the ICwn authorities the ne
gro would douolissS have bzeo lyIcc-
ed. After ne had 6eea arrested aac
was being taken to the guard cCus,
the negro was shot through the body
By brother Of MIS-. B1isg.
A deputy sheriff arrived from Barn
we'll two hours later to carry the ne
gro back to Barrwell, where be We:
TO be placed In jail. Co1s!6erab.s
t ouble was experienced in getting The
negro aboard the train here, as moi
had gathered around the station anc
seemed bent on lyrchics him. TIE
mob followed the prisoner on the trair
to Bsrnwell and the sheriff YVES un
able to !aaye the train with the ne
gro in the face Of the mob.