The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-08-03
TIE BRUTAL MURDER
OF ;, LITTLE GIRL Is QUICKLY
AVENGED lN CITIZENS.
The Firn,l> lay III Wait Cor Their
Little Victim.-lIcr Body Found
in n Fool Of Mater.
Little \ il

J Two negroes. p!eidin: Ha!7ly iof
their l;V,S. We're St:u,Ts UP by ah
i.,i,,r!a;.d moi between :'onif:y and
Da.:v. Fla. Saturday afternoon. aid
while :hev were dangling from TIE
:cnes were perforated ny the bullets
OF fr&n: .f,y ,G seventy-hve whit
men OF the surrounding country
f; The crime which caused the lynch
iuS is one o! the most brutal ever
known in that county. The two ne
srceS confessed 10 numbering itti"
:;esSie Morr!S@r. the i2-year-"id
daughter o! Mrs Mary Morrison.
who lives rear Dady. in IN. extreme
western end OF Holmes county. whose
holy was found Saturday morning
in pool o; water between the Nor
riscn homestead aad The little school
a, Dady.
The little girl started for school
Friday morning alone. tie first III
,;ma;ion o! tragedy being when
she failed 10 come home in the al
ternoon After reasonable time
had elapsed searching party was
formed and. after quest lasting
through Friday night. found the
mangled remains OF the little cir! in
a pool OF water in swamp near the
girls home.
He. body was badly mansled and
the shrubSery in the vicinity told OF
the one-sided fight Of the girl against
the TWO negro fends. After commit
ting the murder the negroes drag
ged the body into nearby swamp
and threw her remains there. where
they were found by tae searching
party.
AS soon as the significance OF the
fnd dawned on the residents. the
searching party was transformed IN
to mob searching :or the cripT:te.
The sheriff Of Bombay @as notified
and he, together with two assistants.
went to Dady where the Two negroes
were already arrested. confess
sion. giving some OF the srewsonie
details OF the criminal assault and
81 ubseQuent murder were made by'
the two men and feeling was rum
ming high by; cool heads prevented
.ynchinS cn the Ssro;.
The sheriff saw that the only
thing 20 ne DIRE was TO rush the TWO
men 70 the county Jail. and a, once
started out from Dady. bu; the res
idents. who al this time were aug
men,ed hv the arrivals OF others.
20, wind or the sherif'S plan al!
started in purSui; and overlook me
sheriff on a lonely road. ovcrpo1c'-
ing him and taking the TWO negroes
70 the nearest tree. ropes were al
ready provided fof and it was only
a shor, time before the negroes were
Swung UP.
The Two negroes were employed on
a ,c7pen.i1e camp and were know
10 ne OF bad character. They. ac-
cordirs 70 their confession. laid
along the road in wal; for the Iii
tie girl. who would be going -
school in the morning. This was az
Ter they lad looked around and
found that there was no white men
in the vicinity. The details OF the
tragedy are extremely grueSonie.
The sheriff os Holmes county ar
rived in Bombay Saturday night and
told ne full details Of n. crime.
rs far as he krew II and OF ihe
lvnching Ac"ordir. 20 ,h. s.herlf
the mob WAS in such a MOOD tha; X
could not be controlled. and he read
;lv Saw ;ha, white blood would he
sni!led II ne did not turn the negroes
over - them No further trouhl"
is apprehended hr the sheriff