The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-06-23

ED 1YNuM GETS TEN
YEARS IN PEN.

Nearo Who Shot Sheriff Corley Tried
On fsiday-Pleaded Guilty and Sen
steneed in Short 0rder-Brousht
From Columbia in Mr.. Sam Roofs
Handsome Buick.
Contrary to expectations, Ed By
mum. the negro who shot Sheriff Cor
ley five weeks ago, was brought from
the penitentiary on Friday morning.
tried before Judge Aldrich and sen-
fenced to serve ten years at hard labor
in the State penitentiary. The actual
trial consumed only fifteen minutes.
Early Friday morning Sheriff Cor
lev, Messrs. Sam P. Roof, @. E. Leap
hart and D. R. Haltiwanger left for
Columbia in Mr.. Roofs handsome
Buick automobile, Mr.. Roof driving
the car. The run was made in about
fifty minutes. The party went to the
Governors mansion, secured the nee
essary papers and drove out to the
penitentiary. Here wait of 80 min
utes was incurred, in order for Bynum
to change his clothes. The return
trip was begun at 8 o'clock, and at
9:15 the car pulled up to the court
house door where it was met by Dep
uty Sheriff Miller, who was on the
lookout for tie party. Bynum was
carried upstairs and placed in one OF
the jury rooms where he was closely
guarded by Sheriff Corley himself until
Judge Aldrich finished his charge to
the jury in the Darby case, when ne
was quietly brought out and arraigned.
When asked the usual question as to
is guilt, Bynum replied, "Guilty,
and ask for mercy
By this time thu news began to
spread that the would-be slayer OF
Lexington's popular sheriff was about
to be tried, and the court room began
to fill up. When Judge Aldrich began
mis- charge to the prisoner one could
have almost heard a pin fall in any
part of the room, 50 anxious were the
spectators to catch every word.
After commanding the prisoner to
stand up Judge Aldrich said:
"It is charged that you violated the
law, and warrant was issued for your
arrest in order that you should be
brought to answer for your crime.
That warrant was placed in the hands
of the high sheriff of Lexington County
to serve, and when he went to place
YOU under arrest, you, instead of sub
mitting civilally to the arrest, as a
good citizen should, Of even bad
citizen should do, you resisted that
officer, you refused to respect his au'
thority, you put yourself in open in
surrection and rebellion against the
law of your state, and being further
instigated by the Devil, you sought to
take the life of the high sheriff OF
Lexington County, by shooting him
with a double barrel shot gun at a
short distance.
If there is anything you have left
undone to. show that you are a bao
man, and an unworthy citizen, I can
not imagine very well what it is, and
when men act as you have acted, the
law, mercifully to them, provides a
place where they will be separated
from the body of people whom they
have con Illuminated, and whom they
have endangered, and put them where
thew will be safe from doing harm,
and where it is hoped they will re-
fleet and mediate, and by the grace
of God repent, 30 that when the peri
cd for which they have been impris-
oned has expired and they. return to
their homes, they will be better men.
As bad as you have acted, and as un-
lawful as you have shown yourself to
be, there is ray of encouragement
that you may profit by your punish
ment, in the fact that you have plead
ed guilty and have not put the county
to the expense of trying you, ard you
have not added to the other crimes,
the high crime of perjury which, un-
fortunately, is too common with your
race.
"The county of Lexington is to be
congratulated that this case terml-
mates as it does, according to the Or
derly methods of the law, and that
the good name of Lexington county,
and the hands of her Ions rave not
been stained with blood outlines,
which might have been the case il
YOU had fallen into the hands of your
captors shortly after Your crime was