The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-05-04
MURDER AT CARTERSVHLE.
One White Man Shoots Another, Who
Dies Here.
From The Daily Item, April 80.

From The Daily Item, April 80.
About $50 last night there was
shooting scrape at Gainesville that
has interest in Sumter because Of the
fact that the one shot was brought
to the hospital here and died this
morning.
The shooting occurred at the sta
ton at Gainesville between one G. H.
Finch, and one Livingston, his given
| name not being known. Immediately
after the shooting DR.. Peele was call
ed in. DR.. ]. S. Palmer afterward
took charge of the case and brought
the wounded man to Sumter for
treatment. He did it as an act of hu-
manity, because the wounded man
was a man.
Coroner Flowers empannelled a
jury at II o'clock today with Frank
O'Donnell as foreman and held an
inquest. The jury viewed the body
and then DR.. j. S. Palmer was sworn.
He testified that when he first saw
| deceased he was on ground. Exam
| ined wound and found that bullet
| passed entirely through the body, hit
| ting a store beyond. Deceased was
put upon a stretcher and carried to
| car and brought to Sumter for treat
ment in the Sumter hospital. Deceas-
ed died at 2:43 this moring, April
80. The shooting occurred about
$50 April 29.
He testified to hearing the dying
testimony of deceased. Finch said
that one Livingston shot him because
he fired" him. Finch begged Liv-
ingston not to shoot him. Three
shots were fired, one of which took
| effect. After he was shot he begged
Livingston not to shoot any more as
he had already killed him.
Livingston was working on the
building that Finch was superintend-
ing, and Finch had heard from four
| different sources that Livingston
boasted that he was working for the
money he could get and was loafing
when he could. He fired" Living
ston last Tuesday and did not see
him any more till last night at the
station where the shooting occurred
On the baggage car on the way
here the person Of Finch was search
ed and an open knife was found in
his pocket. The other articles on his
person were a pipe, pencil, watch
orange, a small box, looking like
snuff box and an unopened letter for
j. w. Harper, Cartersvile, which he
had presumably gotten from the
postoffice and had not delivered.
These were taken off the body on the
train on the way here in the pres
ence of the baggage man, A. E. Ea-
son, Mr.. p. o. Leak and the conduc-
tor on No. 55.
d. Archie China testified as fol-
lows:
This is to certify that I examined
the body of Mr.. c. H. Finch and it
is my opinion that his death was the
result of a pistol bullet wound in
right side of chest. Ball entered one
inch above nipple on right side and
passed out Of back about one inch
from spinal column, ranging inwards
backwards and downwards. l attend
ed him for a few hours before he
died"
Mr. Finch was a man about As or
so years of age, and has a wife and
seven children at Carthage, N. C. He
was foreman of construction on the
G. G. Palmer store, and Livingston
was working for him. Livingston was
young man, but nothing, not even
his name, could be found out about
him. He was arrested and lodged in
the Florence Jail.
The jury reached a verdict that
deceased came to his death from
gunshot wound in the hands of one
Livingston, whose given name is un-
known to them.
Later in the day today Mr.. j. w.
Jackson received a telegram asking
him to take charge Of the body and
have it shipped to Comeron, N. c.