The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-02
THE BRUTAL. MURDER
OF: A LITTLE GIRL is QUICKLY
AVENGED By CITIZENS.
The Fiends Lay in Wait for Their
Little victim.-Her Body Found
In a Pool of Water. -

Two negroes, pleading yainly for
their lives, were s'.aosg up by au
.infuriated mob be sG>nifay and
:Dady, Fla, Saturday g : and
while they were danglhA so fIshe
ropes were perforated by th> SoAs 4
of from fifty to seventy-five
men of the surrounding country.
The crime which caused the lynch
ing is one Of the most brutal ever
known in that county. The two ne
groes confessed to numbering little
Bessie Morrison, the 12-year-old
daughter OF Mrs. Mary Morrison,
who lives near Dady, in the extreme
western end Of Holmes county, whose
body was found Saturday morning
in pool of water between the Nor
rison homestead and the little school
at Dady.
The little girl started for school
Friday morning alone, the first in
timation of a tragedy being when
she failed to come home in the af-
ternoon. After reasonable time
had elapsed a searching party was
formed and, after ques. lasting
through Friday night, found the
mangled remains of the little girl i'll
a pool of water in q swamp near the
girls home.
Her body was badly mangled and
the shrubbery in the vicinity told Of
the one-sided fight Of the girlagainst
the two negro fiends. After commit
ting the murder the negroes drag
ged the body into nearby swamp
and threw her remains there, where
they were found by the searching
party. -.
AS soon as the. significance of the
find dawned on the residents, the
searching party was transformed in
to a mob searching for the culprite.
The sheriff of Bombay was notified
and he, together with two assistants,
went. to ,Dady where the two negroes
were already arrested. A COMES
sion, giving some of the grewsome
details of the criminal assault ana
subsequent murder were made by
the two men and feeling was run
ming high but cool heads prevented
a lynching on the sspot. .
: The sheriff saw that the only
thing to be done was to rush the two
men to the county jail, and at once
started out from Dady,e but the res
idents, who at this time were aug
mented by the arrivals of others,
got wind OF the sheriff's plan and
started in pursuit and overlook the
sheriff on lonely road, overpower-
ing him and taking the two negroes
to the nearest tree, ropes were al
ready provided for and it was only
a short time before the negroes were
swung UP.
The two negroes were employed or
a turpentine camp and were know
to be of a bad character. They, &C
cording to their confession. laid
along the road in wait for the lit
tie girl, who would be going to
school in the morning. This was af-
ter they had looked around and
found that there was no white men
in the vicinity. The details of the
tragedy are extremely gruesome.
The sheriff of Holmes county ar
rived in Bombay Saturday night and
told the full details of the crime,
as far IS he knew it and of the
lynching. According to the sheriff
the mob was in such mood that il
could not be controlled, and he read
lily saw that white blood would be
spilled if he did not turn the negroes
over to them. No further trouble
is apprehended by the sheriff.