Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-09-10
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
MAN SHOOTS DOwN WIDOW IN
TOWN OF SENECA.
Slayer Then Kills HimscIf-Had Decn
Persistent Suitor for Her Affections
eliminated in the Tragedy.

fcrsistcnt SuitOr for Her Affection.
eliminated in the Tragedy.
j. F. Hinkle shot and fatal,
wounded Mrs. E. l.. Anderson, q
widow with three children. there n,
her hime on Main street at Seneca
Wednesday between 1880 and .
o'clock, and then killed himself
Mrs. Anderson died at 1920 that
night.
1t is rumired that Mrs. Ander.
son refused to marry Hinkle and
'nis is said to have caused the trag-
edy.
Hinkle shot at Mrs. Anderson
daughter. Christine. once and then
at Mrs. Anderson twice, and after
wards shot himself once. the ball en-
terinS his head below the chin and
passing through the roof of his
mouth, lodging in the brain. He died
instantly.
One ball entered Mrs. Anderson,
left side. passing through the abdo-
men. and one broke her right arm.
Hinkle used "A Colts pistol.
Hinkle went into the room where
MRS. Anderson was sitting with sew
eral boarders and said to her: II
would like to pay my board" and
asked her to come into the dining
room, which she did. Upon her re-
fusal to marry him he shot her.
Hinkle left three letters. one ad.
dressed tn nr
to the Atlanta Journal and one to the
public. In DR.. Doyle IS letter he
requested him to buy a cheap coffin
and bury him beside his first wife in
Senace cemetery.
Mrs Hughes Of RichIand, sister
OF Mrs. Anderson, arrived about four
hours before she died. Mrs. Ander-
sons brother, DR.. Cox of Pendleton
was also with her in her last hours.
The verdicts of the coroner's Jury
is In accordance with the above facts
Mrs. Anderson was a native of An
dersin county, wide and priminently
connected.
Another Account.
a dispatch from Walhalla. saws
Coroner j. w HOLMAN received no.
tice Wednesday at o'clock to 60 tc
Seneca to investigate a double trag.
edy, which occurred at Seneca. eight
miles from there, shirtly before 2
o'clock.
The tragedy was one If the mos,
narrowing Oconee has witnessed in
years. j. #. Hinckle shot and mortal.
iy wounded Mrs. Emma l.. Anderson
proprietress of the Anderson board
ing house while they were in con-
versation in the dining room of Mrs
Anderson's home, and as soon as he
had committed the awful deed. Hinck-
le turned the weapon upon himself
hring point blank under his chin. the
ball ranging upward and into the
brain. Within few minutes he had
expired before having spoken to any
one.
Mrs. Anderson fingered until S
O'Clock that night, when she died
without having rcgained conscious
ness
Hinckle fired three shots at Mrs
Anderson, one of which was warded
on by her, one breaking her arm and
the third entering her body between
the seventh and eighth ribs and com.
ing out at the back, crashing through
her body close to the heart. Mrs
Anderson ran from the room and was
caught by some one as she fell NOR.
tally wounded.
1t is stated that the first shot fred
was aimed at Mrs. Anderson's daugh.
tnr cf akI
room with her when she and Hinckle
entered the room. Hinckle engaged
Mrs. Anderson in conversation
under the preteXt of wishing to pay
his board bill. II is understood thai
lie had been persistent suitor fol
Mrs Andersons affections for some
time and that days tragedy was the
elimination of her refusal to marry
him. Several notes were left by hin
and are in the possession of Coroner
Holman. but their cintents have no
been made public.
For number of years Hinckle wa.
piliceman at Seneca and was wei
thought of. For some time he anC
Mrs. Anderson had been quite inti
mate. She was wiman of beauty /
face and figure and had many ad
mirers. Jealousy and Mrs. Ander
sons persistent refusal Of him ar,
generally thought to he the two primo
factors that led TO the murder ant
suicide.
Hinckle was about so years of ag
and a widower. and Mrs. Anderson
several Years Younger. Her husban,
has been dead about three years.