The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-09-28
KILLED BY INTENDED VICTIM.
John Anderson Shot BY Frank 9.
Wrenn In Greenwood-Defends
Himself in His House.
The State.

The State.
Greenwood, Sept. 24.-As the result
of an attempt to take the law into
their own hands, whitecapping party
lost one of their members at the home
If Mr.. Frank G. Wrenn, where they
had gone to regulate' Wrenn. He
shot and instantly killed John Ander-
son, who had succeeded in getting i'll
to the house and was graphing with
Wrenn to try to take him out to horse
whip him.
It is the expected elimination of
kind of lawlessncss that has been un-
Fortunately too prevalent in Green
wood county ever since the Phoenix
riot and while greatly to be regretted,
it will doubtless have the wholesome
effect of putting stop to the business
Of trying to regulate' people in
stead of bringing them to the law
where adequate and sufficient punish
ment for any and every crime can be
obtained. .
Mr. Wrem came in town this morn
ing and surrendered to the sheriff.
Neither he nor his counsel, Sheppards,
Grler & Park, were willing to make
any formal statement in the matter.
Mr.. f. Barron Grier of the firm stat
cd that he would make application for
bail Immediately.
Alone at His House.
From accounts of the shooting it
( appears that last night Mr.. F. c..
Wrenn was awakened by some ono
either saying "Hello' or kicking at
his door. He lives in what is known
lis the White Jones place, rather
large, two-story, old fashioned house
on the road between Greenwood and
C"kesbury. At that time Mr.. Wrem
was alone i'll the house, his wife and
sons having left him some time ago on
account of family troubles and it wa,
IN this account that the whitecappers
had come to whip him. Wrenn an
swered the call by coming to his front
soor. lie opened it and saw several
persons standing around the door and
asked what was wanted. One of ,hc
party replied that they were cotton
mill people on their way from Green
VILE to Greenwood and wanted to STAY
all night. Having Travelled half the
night did not seem to strike them as
being at all homogeneous. Wrenn told
them he was sorry, but he could NOT
accommodate them. They then asked
for something to eat and Wrenn told
them lie was again sorry, hut as his
wife had left him alone he had moth
ing to eat cooked in the house. Finally
they asked for some water. BY this
time Wrem had made up his mind
| that there was trouble brewing and
that those men were determined to get
into the house for the purpose of do
ing some injury to him. He, however,
agreed to give them some water, but
said he would go and get the water.
Closing the door Wrenn went first
into his bed room, where he kept his
pistol, which happened to be loaded
Picking up his pistol Wrenn went to
the place where he kept the drinking
water and went to the door with his
pistol in his right hand and the bucket
Of water in his left. Opening the door
he handed out the water to one of the
crowd, and as he did so, noticed a
man crouched up against the door as
close as he could get, apparently
awaiting an opening to jump in. is
Wrenn saw this man he shut the door
and called out to know what this man
was doing up against the door, No
sooner had he closed the door than
the crowd dashed against the door
and burst it open. Four men apparent
ly rushed through the door and Crap
pied with Wrenn in the center of the
room. There was no light and the
four against one were bent on bring
ing him out in order to whip him, or
possibly do more, even kill him, while
he was doing as every creature, man
or lower animal, all he could to save
/ his life.
Defends Himself.
At this time WTenn began using the
pistol. There were four men sur
rounding him and he began shooting
at the same time they touched ..';.r. TIE
fired, four shots as rapidly as Ito
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