The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-08-26
KILLED HIS FATHER.
A FOUL TRAGEDY NEAR EUTAW.
WILLIE.
Mr.. Harry Clark, Aged sixty-seven
Slain and His Body Concealed in
Thicket BIZ his Son.

Thicket By his Son.
A letter from Eutawville to The
News and Courier, under date Of
August Is, says that community was
very much shocked Friday after
noon upon hearing of the horrible
death Of Mr.. Calvin w. Clark. Mr.
Clark was missed by his relatives
and friends on Thursday morning,
but little was thought of this until
Friday morning, when a little negro
boy Informed the eldest of Mr.
Clark's sons, Newton Clark, that he
had accompanied jeff Clark, the
youngest son, with the body of Mr.
G. W. Clark in a wagon to thicket
on a nearby plantation, called Brush
Pond.
Newton Clark then informed Mr..
W. B. Stroman, the man to whom he
was hired, what the little negro boy
had told him. Mr.. Stroman came at
once to Eutawville and notified the
proper authorities. A party was at
once organized and a search COM
mencd. This little negro boy, with
out hesitation, carried the party to
a thick clump of bushes and told
them that they would find the body
in this thicket. When the party en-
tered the thicket they saw what ap-
parently was pile of straw, but upon
a removal of the upper layer an
odor was detected, and upon further
removal of the straw the body was
found. with the face so badly multi
ated that the person was scarcely re-
cogniZable.
Suspicion, of course, rested upon
the youngest son, jeff Clark, and he
was brought to the scene imme-
diately, but he said that. he knew
nothing at all about the affair. The
house where the father and the son
were living together was then
searched, and blood stains were
found upon the "set" dining table, |
and on the floor under the table.
Upon further Investigation and in
quiry, it was found that JEFF Clark |
had gone to his brother, Newton |
Clark, early Wednesday morning, |
and tried to borrow his pistol. This
Newtcl Clark refused to give him,
and he went to store nearby and
bought a can of concentrated lye,
and then returned to his fathers
house.
jeff Clark prepared breakfast for
his father as usual, and when Mr.
Clark had begun to drink his coffee
he stopped suddenly, and said:
There's something wrong with tlis
coffee, for it is barely warm and my
mouth has begun to blister already"
Jeff Clark left the house then very
aurriedly, but returned during the
day finding his father still alive.
Therefore, it was concluded that the
fatal shot or shots were fired on the
following morning.
JEFF Clark was removed from the;
own Jail Friday night, and carried
IN the Coast Line train to Elloree
'or safe keeping, as there was some
ear of lynching. Later he was tax
IN to Monck's Corner, and put in
all, along with his mother, who Is
:hought to know more of the muir
ler than she is willing to tell.
Mr.. A ". Clark was about 81
years of age, and lived on the place
# Mr.. W. B. Dantzler. JEFF Clark is
about 21 years of age, and there has
,een apparently no i'll feeling between
him and his father. JEFF Clark the
murderer, is bright mulatto, his
mother is negress, and Clark, the
aged victim, was a white man.
It was reported by Special Con-
stable B. Press Winter, who carried
the Clark woman to the Monck,s
Corner Jail, that determined ef-
,ort was made near Eutawvil!e tc
ynch JEFF Clark, the crowd even go
ug to the length of putting rope
around the accused mans neck. Mr..
Winter also says that on the way
,yer to Monck's Corner from Eutaw-
Vile the woman told him enough OF
the crime to indicate that young
Clark is the murderer of his father
An effort will be made to secure oal.
for the woman, but it is not hough'
that young Clark would be Wiling 70
leave the safety of the county Jal'
to face probable Whence outside,
even if bail would be granted.