The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-09-26
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.

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these days and it's making the cotton
look tough. Another week will make
what little is left in the fields sprout
in the burr.
Mrs. Maude Farrell and Fannie
Copeland went to Branchville to
spend a few days with their relative,
Mrs. Emma Appleby.
Masters Herbert and Ben Ehrhardt
left to-day for Newberry College.
Hay gathering now is almost an i'm
possibility. Can't cureit.
A most deplorable occurrence hap
pened at Mr.. Henry Ehrhardt's lum-
Der mill at the crossing of the A. G..
L. Ry. and Mauldin's rail road. COM
monty known as Mauldin's crossing,
one day last week. Mr.. Raymond
Ehrhardt and laborer, Mr.. Joe
Cook, got into a controversy which
resulted in Raymond using his pistol
andkillingC Cook. On the daybefore the
killing Raymond and Cook We're pre-
vented from fighting in Little Salt
kahatchie swamp, when they in COM
pany were getting out single
blocks. Cook at that time start
ed to use his drawing knife, and Ray
mond, to defend himself, picked up a
rifle that was standing near. They
were separated with maybe a few
oaths uttered on both sides. Ray
mond went to Ehrhardt for the night
and returned next day, in the after
noon, to his work at the crossing.
Soon after arriving at the mill Ray
mond went into the commissary to
get some tobacco, and was the only
one in the building at the time. Cook
was painting the end of shingles out
side, and it is supposed was watching
his chance, and walked in behind Ray
mond. Grabbing scale weight, he
said to Raymond, II intend to kill
you," and started towards Raymond.
AS Cook was passing the bacon box:
which was between Raymond and
Cook, he threw down the weight and
took up the large meat knife Ray
mond saw there was nothing to do
only kill Cook, so he shot him twice
in quick succession. Cook turned
and went out of the door and walked
about fifty or seventy-five feet to-
wards the shingle mill and fell dead.
The pistol used was a 81 caliber.
DR.. Moorer, of Lodge, found one
ball. This one entered from the side.
There was small abrasion of the
skin on the back near the spine, but
the probe would not enter, and it
was thought to have been made from
some other cause.
The body of Cook is buried, but it
is thought by some that the second
ball should have been found or traced,
as the doctor said at the inquest that
the ball entering from the side could
not have produced death so quickly.
While the whole affair is deplored by
relatives and friends, it seems as if
it could not have been otherwise
under the circumstances. Mr.. Cook
holds the name of being a desperate
character when aroused. Was mus
cular and tough-muscled. Raymond
was no match for him in a hand-to-
hand combat. Raymond went to
Walterboro and gave himself up to
the sheriff and is now in Jail, waiting
the courts process for bail.
Mrs. Anna Copeland and her little
son, Harry, leave for Cameron, in
Orangeburg county, where she ex-
poets to arrange to place him in
high school in that county. Harry
was to have gone to Newberry COL
lege, but his mother thinks he is too
small to go so far from her side.
Mr.. Shep Pearlstine has rented
Messrs. Frank and Jake Hiers's store
at this place, and expects to open up
a stock of goods in it next month.
Our supervisor had better look up
the needs of the new causeway near
w. l. Carter's. tits in bad condition,
and will soon be so the travelling
folks will have to abandon it. 1t is
dangerous now. JEE.
Buford's Bridge Breezes.
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