The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-12-12
TIED AND GAGGED.
A FARMER KNOCKED sENSELEsS
END THEN ROBBED.
Ee Was Driving Home when Set Up
on by an Unknown Party
or Parties.


bound, gagged and robbed OF bis cssh
By an unknown party Thursday night
six miles northeast OF Uaion, is what
Is said to happened to Wa allsce Law-
son, according to the sensational story
told by himself to press representa-
tive shortly after his arrival IN Union
about l O'Clock Friday.
The following is the story as rela-
ted to the Union correspondent OF
The State on Friday:
II oame to Union yesterday, bring
ing my wife and two children. They
spent the night with 1ne.r cousin,
Mrs. L1la Barton. I lett U1ion. re-
turning home about O'CLOCK Wallace
Knox, q friend, was with me until We
reached his hone, five miles from here,
after I drove on alone, letting ny
mule jog along slowly in the dark.
AFTER going about one mile farsh'
er, the first thing I knew I felt blow
on the bsck of my head, which knock.
ed me from the buggy, AS struck
the ground I felt two other blows or
my forehead. when I became uncon
scious. When I recovered conscious
ness, the moon was shining, and ]
vas lying across the rosd with mJ
hands tied behind me with haddker
chief from my own pocket, and I va.
gagged with another handkerchief
. white cotton one, which locks like II
has never been used before.
"Tnis happened il lonely stre!ce
Of woods, high bank on cne si6e, snt
patch of pines on the other. WheI
struck I was humming hymn ant
leaning back In my buggy, with th'
top back.
when I got up I could not uoYt
my arms and did not get them united
until had walked mile to the hon:
Of Mr.. J. o. Harris, my father.in
law, where live.
I'm the lot at home I found the
mule and buggy I had been driving
Wien released I put my hand in N,
pockets to SEQ II I had lost anything,
and found missing two pocketbooks
in my black folding on (shich hsd m
name, weight and height on card II
it and Chicago Nstional Trust comp
any on the cutside) a $40 bill and 8;
} dill, and In the other, 8 double suar
pocket tbook, had 50. IS in eilver sut
scms receipts. One OF the receipts ee!
from F. NJ. Adams on Oct. % for sl5
then a register ed letter receipt from
E,zie for 81 so, and also Taybil o.
some cotton seed-sll made cut in M
name. My silver watch vas left, hcW
ever, and when I go the house I found
it was 1 O'Clock.
l ''My head vas hurting me terri u!
then, and after bathing it, ! went Il
bad. This morning my brothe--in.lsw
E w. Harris, csma With nae to the
spot and we could find only two tracks
one leading to the woods and no sjgr
Of anything else except where SONS
one had been sitting on the side OF ths
road.
"As to who could have done it..
have no ides. for so far as I know
have nc enemies, snd no one ssv mt
with the money on the Streets yester
day; though I handled the pocketbcol
with only the small change in it. Ia
Is about all 7 know thai can think
Of now"
Mr.. lawson is q young farmer
ebont % years Of sge, the son OF Va
Giles Lawson, Is married and has twt
lluJle children. When spoken to about
when ne left Uaion, be said thai he il
not acoustic med 20 drinking and Was
perfectly sober, SC that there seems tt
be no reason to think that the sf si1
vas sll a fancy. He also shows plain
| " the marks OF the blows on bis nsad