The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-21
in the Charles street station when
Spriggs was in the be; dey OF bis glory
Was Sergeant Farrel.

SprlggS was in the hej oey OF DIS Slo1.
was Sergeant Farrel.
In connection with the hints o
murder in the dives kept by Spriggs
it was recalled by residents in Cornell
ia street that about twelve months
ago q white woman leaped Fl. m tbs
secone-story widow Of No. IA Cor
nslia street, then kept by Spriggs.
Ar ambulance was called from ST.
Vincsnt's Hospital. The d0cter at
tended the womal, but negro who
rushed out Of the house as she felI
took charge CT her, and sending for q
cab, to her away, refusing to per
nit the ply sicisn to take her to the
hospital. She was never afterwaro
ssen.
U1 to the time Of Sprigg's removal
from No. II Cornelia street fe"
weeks ago, neighbors say it was no
IN Usual thing to her piercing shrek:
from the house almost nightly
Spriggs, who is a repulsiVe looking
negro, is about 81 e, Inches in height
and about thirty five years old.
He always was well supplied With
money, dressed hashily displayed
many diamonds ard always went
srned. BE was feared and throughly
detested by 81. respectable residents
Of Greenville Village, who on acc u
Of his ugliness, dubbed him The
Human Monster.
The appalling revelations OF the
traffic conducted by Sprtggs and his
band have stirred every minister ano
social worker in the city.
The story told by Edna Coleman IS
most dramatic. She is one OF the most
PIT possessing Of the women who have
oeen brought to the District Attol-
nsy s cftice since the crusade was b.
gun against the infamous practices OF
Spriggs and men Of lis kind. Since
ner arrest she has bsen locked up il
the Bcuse Of Detention as witness
Acc riding to her story, she vas he'll
self caught by one Of Sp:iggs's agents
abcu5 two years ago, aud 5hes CO o.
wari to the time OF her arrest she " S
kept in one or another OF the d
houses which Spriggs maintains ID
various parts Of the city.
Eighteen months ago, she said, she
was Ii Inc in the West T~enty-se7en
th street house, which was taken care
Of By the B .nnett woman. To that
den one day were Fought two young
and pretty white girls, who had been
lured to the place by the usual trap.
For more than week." said the
Coleman glrl, they were kept close
prisoners in q dark dirty room. They
cried constantly, and their screams a
night made the house hideous. Their
meals were thrust in to them, ano
they were informed that they would
have to stay in the room until they
decided to be quiet. They were tolo
they might as we'll make the ssst OF
things, because there was no escape
for them. After about week theif
zrief wore itself out, and ore day they
we're permitted to come down Stairs.
This liberty was little better Than
the close confinement to which they
osd been SUI ead. None OF US ever
ever saw the outside street save
through barred windows. Most OF the
time the shutters we're closed and 5te
blinds d avn. a soon as the two girls
zere permitted to move about the
aouse with some freedom they began
10 pl,t to escape.
We who had been there for long
while told them how useless that was
and what dangers they would run /;
they tried to get out. Bit they pale
no attention to US.
''Oae night they hid in the csllsr
and when they thought no one was
looking tried to escape by forcing S
window. They were caught before
they got out and were taken to their
rooms. Soon after 1 heard aw1u
screams, and ran to the roons to see
that was the matter. saw two big
negroes whipping the g.ris uanerc.-
fully.
''The poor things were on their
knees, b g2ing for msrcy, and the ne
groas were standing over them, toei!
faces distorted, swearing horribly, and
str cking them with all their strength.
When tried to help them I was or
dered to my room. They told me- that
if I interfered I WCu get the same
dose.
1.-THE next day one Of the girls died,
and the day following the other dled.
A negro doctor wss called in. so l was
told, and signed some sort OF 8 certlh
cate. Then negro urderts ker took
the bodies away st midnight"
Such is tbs story. As black a chap
ter of police inefhciency, or worse. as
vas ever written OF Life In New York,
it is but one OF the scores that ere
striking terror to the hearts OF facn.
srs and mothers all Cvsr the city, ano
bringing forth from eVery section
demand for action that will make a
repetition Of these outrages forever
impossible.
The governors of the Clara de
Hirsch Bone in East SlXty-tnlro
street have called 8 sp; cial meeting
OF their committee for Thursday tc
discuss the conditions, and plan
campaign Of action.
The Usual Result.
Georgia hot sucperS seem to be as
ratal to the coIored attendants as the
South Carolina article. Bob Tn IA !,
colored, is in Clarke county jail on the
,horoa of Killing Jim Jackson. another