The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-02-08
HOUSE SET ON FIRE
DAsTAfsDLY ATTEMPT Ar iNCRN.
s,IAfsYlsB Ar sPR1NaEI MID
Some Fiend Attempts TO Burn Town
tho Residence OF Marshal
Holloway.

kAitF TF f>SNAVWpys Nth'Nt e |
Tuesday morning at 3 O'Clock the
handsome neV two. story dwelling OF
Mr.. L. 70. Phillips at Springfield
together with the entire contents was
burned. " Ia Thought the house was
Fe6 on fire by some fsnd.
Town Marshal Henry w. Holloway, |
who was seriously wounded by VIM.
L. Fleming In an attempt to arrest
Fleming ut Springfield January Is,
with his wife and little children. 90.
cupied rooms on tho top floor, and it
looks like some midnight assassin
WAS attempting to burn him as he
10y, as IL were, chained to his bed.
Thoaa who firsb saw the fire affirm
that the dwelling was saturated With
Kerosene oil and tho oil was yet burn.
Ing on the ground and base of the
Chimney when they got to the ire.
There Ia a grim determination on the
part Of the cltiz ans thar the perpe-
tratogs shall be brought to speedy jus.
tice. Fortunately the fire, which had
b6en lighted with kerosene, was dis.
covered In time and extinguished, and
the wounded officer vas taken to Co.
lpmbia.
The following statement from J.
w. Jumper, ~intendant Of the town,
caused the governor to offer q reward
for the l %1oendisry.
II beg to inform you that there was
q fire at Springfield Tuesday morning
at 3 O'Clock which destroyed the house
Of l.. n. Phillips. 1t la Thought by
everybody that the ,aot was incendi-
arism, ] also beg to inform you that
the barn Of Il. b. Fulmer has also
been burned, and I think that was an
aot Of incendiarism. The dispenasry
and two stores were burned tho 2lst
OF last November, and I respectfully
ask your %excellenoy to offer q suitable
reward for these burning8."
1t will be remembered that the
shooting affray which resulted In the
serious wounding of three persons took
place whom Marshall Holloway arrest
ed Fleming-who is an itinerant pho.
tographer travelling out of Brooklyn
and q companion with whom he had
become Intoxicated. Fleming shot the
marshal and q Citizen deputized to as
sist him and was himself shot In the
thigh by the marshal, as tho latter
was falling. Aftar tue shooting, whion
Fleming says took place at q time
when no Was so drunk as to be uucon.
soious Of his actions, Fleming waf
placed In the Orangeburg county Jail,
at Orangobura.
He appealed through q friend tt
Secretary FL. 8. Fox, of Oongaree aerit
EFraternal Otdcr of Eagles, asking fol
assistance and representing himself al
Q member Of the Brooklyn aerie. Mr.,
Fox communicated with the Brooklyn
aorie and upon receipt Of instr uotiont
from there TO do everything in hi
power for Fleming, retained an at
torney, Mr.. w. Boyd Evans, ant
through him secured q court order 70,
Eleming's removal to the State Hos
pital for the Insane, on the grouof
that the Orangeburg Jail was no place
fo5 p man SO grIeyously hurt.
Subsequently Fleming was AGAR
moved. this time to the hospital OF
tho state penitentiary, because the
Insane asylum proved Too crowded Il
|, afford facilities for adequate treat
mont. He Is nov at the penitenGiary
hospital, and making q good recovery
1t 10 said that IL the Brooklyn Eagles
do not drop the case, application viii
be made for an order admitting Elem
Ing to bail Oh soon. as he shall have
become strong enough to leave the
hospital.
Marshal Holloway is thoroughly In
dignant over the attempt to destroy
his home this morning, aud feels
sure that the incendiary meant the
flames TO wipe out his whole family,
IS we'll ~ the dwelling Ia which they
were asleep, unsuspeoting, He de,
nies most positively statements from
Fleming la the press that he hat
often taken drinks with Fleming an6
that Fleming had begun carrying 9
pistol at hls suggestion,