Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
TUESDAY, MAY as, 1909.


arguments by Attorney Dagnall, for
the defense, and Solicitor Bonham, for
the state, and Judge Dantzler's charge
were completed at 5.45 o'clock this af-
ternoon when the jury retired with the
case. During yesterday and today more
than forty witnesses testified, about
half of them being for the state The
defense was based on temporary insan-
ity caused by cocaine in the whisky of
which he was under the influence at
the time Of the shooting. Simmons held
UP extremely well. When the jury re-
tired he chatted merrily with his young
wife who sat at his side during the en-
tire trial. He claims not 10 have known
anything from the time he took the
whisky on the morning Of the fatal day
until he awoke under arrest In the jail
at 8 o'clock that night.
Chester special Of May 81, to the
News and Courier: Coroner w. N.
Leckie was called to Great Falls yes
terday morning to hold an inquest over
the remains of John Chisholm, colored.
whose body was found In pond yea
terday morning and who appeared,
from contusions on the back Of his neck
and from other marks Of violence, to
have been murdered and thrown into
the pond. A number of witnesses were
examined, but no very satisfactory tes-
timony was adduced. The jury, with
Mr.. s. B. Crawford as foreman, brought
In the following verdict: THAT the
said John Chisholm came to his death
from being struck on the back part OF
his neck with some blunt instrument
and then body found In pond by par
ty or parties unknown to this jury"
Chisholm was last seen alive Saturday
night. The testimony showed that he
was a member of a party that had
spent the greater part Of the night
gambling, although he was said to have
taken no part in the proceedings. 1t
was difficult to get any connected tes-
timony out Of the negroes, who were
examined. and 1t will be almost impos-
sible to find out whether Chisholm was
murdered and thrown into the pond or
stumbled in while drunk and was acci-
dentally drowned.
- Union, May %: Hannah Kelley.
an old negress. reputed to be over liz
years Of age, and who several years ago
won widespread notoriety by cutting,
what appeared to be, her third set OF
teeth, has just died here. Aunt" Han
nah, as the old woman was called, was
born at Fish Dam Ferry on the Broad
river In this county, aad apparently
well authenticated records show that
her birth occurred about January, 1877,
on the plantation Of Mr.. William Kel-
ley, long since dead, to whom she be-
longed, and who gave her at his death
to his son, DR.. James Kelley. in whose
family she lived for many years. For
quite a while Aunt Hannah has lived
In Union near the Excelsior Knitting
mills, with her daughter, Rachel Eng
Iish, who is herself quite an old woman.
It was about three years ago that
AUNT" Hannah was reported to be cut
ting her third set Of teeth, but a dem
tist of this city, who examined her,
then expressed the opinion that what
appeared to be several new teeth, were
but the roots of former set Of teeth.
which were becoming exposed because
of shrinkage in the gums. At that
time the old woman, though about 100
years old, appeared In unusually good
health, and was able to walk about the
yard without assistance.
= Columbia special Of May 23, to the
Charlotte Observer: Ed Bynum, the
Lexington negro who shot and serious
| ly wounded Sheriff Corley Of that coun-
ty, last Wednesday morning, and for
whom posses have been securing Lex
ington county night and day with dogs
continually since, was brought to the
governors mansion at o'clock this
morning by Mr.. Jacob B. Oswald,
good and law-abiding farmer of that
county, who, with his son, William p.
Oswald, and his nephew, Tillman Tay-
lor, travelled all Of last night through
the most unfrequented portions Of the
county In two closely covered top bug
gies by circuitous routes In order to
bring the negro to safety and prevent
his falling into the hands Of the mob.
In the absence of the governor, Secre-
tary Bethea directed the party to the
penitentiary, where the negro will re-
main until his trial in Lexington. II
may be necessary to have the trial un-
der military protection, as was done In
recent case in Lexington, when two
negroes were tried for the murder Of a
white woman. Still, as the sheriff Is
rapidly recovering, 1t Is thought this
might not have to be done. The negro
was surrendered by his brother. Jim
Bynum, who lives on Mr. T. ]. Drafts
place, about fifteen miles from the
scene Of the shooting. Ed, after getting
nothing to eat from Wednesday morn
ing till Saturday morning, remaining
in the swamp all the while, he says.
went to his brothers for food. He says
the mob was watching the house close
ly, but he saw an opportunity To slip
in in the day time. when the crowds
thought he was away. Crowds had
visited the house every night. Mr.. Os-
wald hid the negro In his barn all Sat
urday, starting out with him Saturday
night about o'clock. 1t was dismal
and difficult trip they had to Columbia.
Once the buggy carrying the negro and
the senior Oswald overturned in the
darkness and painfully bruised both.
Mr.. Oswald claimed no reward, and was
turning to go home without the sug-
gestion of even reimbursement for his
trip, when Mr.. Bethea warmly COM
mended him and told him to come back
to Columbia, when the governor got
back from New York and he would be
suitably paid. Bynum, who has the
appearance Of being as much Indian as
negro, freely admitted doing the shoot
ing and as frankly confessed himself
in the wrong. II just don't know how
I came to shoot the sheriff." he said.
when the women folks, my wife and