The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-06-23
WHITE NAN LODGED IN JAIL.
Charged with Criminally Assaulting
Several Colored Girls in Spartan.
burg.

A white man by the name of w. n.
Kennedy was arrested at Arkwright
Mill village yesterday on the charge
of criminal assault on several negro
girls. kennedy was arrested by Sher-
if White, Captain of Police H. 2.
Hayes, Deputy Sheriff Ed Vernon
and Special Constable J. L. Williams.
These officers had been on the search
for the man for one week. They de-
clare he was the hardest man to run
down they have had to deal with in
years.
Kennedy is alleged to have been
working a scheme whereby he alb
Quoted colored girls from their home
and after getting them in the woods
attempted and in some instances did
accomplish his purpose of ravishing
them. The officers had but one clue
in running down Kennedy. He had
told the last colored girl upon whom
he is alleged to have attempted as
sault that he would kill her and throw
her in a hole where he had already
thrown three others, and that the
only way she would be identified on
judgment day was by a badge he
pinned on her. This metal badge was
a detective badge, bearing the words
''The Southern Detective Agency. %
The colored girl broke away from the
man before he accomplished his pur-
pose, and when her parents swore out
the warrant last Thursday they gave
the badge to the officers. When shown
the badge by the officers Kennedy at
once recognized it>as his own.
Kennedy claims Habersham, Ca, as
his home. He is man of rather &C.
centric habits. He lives in one part
of the city and works in the other ex-
treme. His mode of procedure in the
last case has been his method all
along. Last Thursday he went, to the
father of the girl he is alleged to have
assaulted and asked him to hire his
daughter. He told the old man that
he had plenty of money and lived in
mansion on East Main street. He said
he had a wife and one baby, and that
all he wanted the girl to do was to
nurse the infant and be company to
his wife. For a small stipend the
father agreed that he could hire the
girl. Accordingly he went by the
house of the darky to get the girl to
go home with him.
According to the story told by the
father, as related to him by the girl
instead of going home the man took
her into a woodland on Lawson's
Fork. He threatened her and when
she refused he told her that he was
not a married man, and that all he
wanted was to do with her as he
pleased. He pinned the badge on her
and said that he would kill her and
throw her in a hole. The man gather
ed rocks to throw at her and gave
chase. A white woman was in the
woods nearby picking berries, and she
asked the man what he meant and he
replied that he was going to kill the
girl.
AS soon as Kennedy learned that
the officers were looking for him he
moved. He shaved and changed his
personal appearance. When he was
locked in Jail yesterday members Of
the families of the different negro
girls whom he is alleged to have at
atmpted to assault were brought be-
fore him to see if they could identify
him. They were taken to his cell one
at a time, and in every instance they
identified the man.
Kennedy is said to have carried his
fiendish scheme to such an extent
that the negroes in certain COM
munity were terrorized and would
scarcely open their doors by day or
by night, and their daughters they
kept concealed. He was known and
regarded as a bold, bad white man.
When arrested it was proved that
Kennedy was a married man. His
wife came to the jail to see him i'm
mediately upon hearing that he was
under arrest.
Sheriff White said last night that
he wished to express his thanks to
all who had so kindly aided him in
locating Kennedy. He said that
everywhere he went to seek informa-
ton the people, both colored and
white, aided him in every way they
could.-Spartanbu Herald.
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