The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-10-12


11.24 o'clock tonight, Willis Jack
son was swung to telephone
pole by one of his heels and his
body riddled with bullets.
The negro was carried to the
identical spot where the crime was
committed and from there was
taken to the nearest telephone pole
and swung up by one foot. Four
hundred shots as near as can be
estimated, were fired into his body,
Winchester rifles, magazine pistols,
revolvers and shot guns being the
weapons of death used.
Mob Forcibly Takes Prisoner.
Greenville, October 10. - Spe-
miles north of Greenville, an arm
ed mob of twenty-five men, headed
by Citizen" Josh Ashley, of Honea
Path, a member of Anders coun-
tvs Legislative delegation. over
powered Deputy Sheriff Van b.
Martin, of Anderson county, and
Sheriff J. Perry Poole, of Green
vile county, this afternoon and
took from their custody one Willis
Jackson, a IT year-old-negro, charg-
ed with criminally assaulting the
11-year-old duagther of a prominent
citizen ofHoneaPath at 7.30 o'clock
lnlS morning.
The trembling negro was placed
in the car in which Ashley and -four
other men rode, and followed by Z
train of several automobiles from
Anderson and Greenville counties
loaded with determined men ant
bristling with shotguns and rifles
the ringleaders turned In theil
fury and started toward Homes
Path.
The capture of the alleged rapis
concluded one of the most sensa
tional man chases this section OF
the county has ever known. About
noon to-day Sheriff Pool received
word from the Anderson sheriff
that he had sent a negro to Green
vile for safe keeping and asked
that the prisoner be confined ir
the county Jail. Sheriff Poole Sc
cured an automobile at once ant
went to meet the parties bringing
the negro to Greenville. Shortly
after he left a telephone call tc
his office, from Piedmont, stated
that the automobile contain
ing the negro had just passed
there and that some ten machines
containing the mob, were in close
pursuit and not more than 10 min
utes behind.
Mob Close Behind at GreenviIIe.
At $50 O'Clock the Anderson
automobile dashed through the
streets of Greenville and up to the
county Jail door.
IL Within ten minutes after the au-
tomobile bearing the negro had de-
parted, a big Anderson touring car,
containing Josh Ashley and four
other other men, steamed through
Main street. Citizen" Josh
clutched a Winchester rifle in his
hands and eagerly inquired where
the negro had been taken. Upon
being told that that the party had
proceeded to Spartanburg, the word
of command was given and the big
auto dashed on up the street.
Different Routes Taken.
At GreenVille the mob divided,
some taking one road to Spartan
burg, while others took anoth-
err Others took to the Laurens
road, thinking perhaps, that the Of
ficers would spirit the negro to
Fountain Inn or some station on
the c. q w. c. Railway and place
him aboard Il train for Columbia.
Within an hour after the negro
had been hurried through Green
Vile, the lad who drove the ma
Within a few minutes after the
lad re-appeared the car bearing
John Ashley and his party rolled in
sight. The pursurers had failed
to overtake the party with the ne
gro and were evidently on their way
back to Anderson.
Forced to Reveal Hiding Place.
Upon learning of the lad who
drove the automobile being in the
! city, Citizen" Josh Ashley insti-
was chased into the rear of a drug
store, where, despite the efforts of
the police to protect him, Ashley
him.
The Lad was placed in Ashley's
machine and carried back toward
Spartanburg. According to Sheriff
! Poole, upon his return from the
flight, Ashley and his crowd forced
this lad to reveal the whereabouts
of the deputies and the negro.
When seen tonight Sheriff Poole
said: The automobile in which we
Left Greenville was making such
poor Roadway over the muddy
roads that Deputy Sheriff Martin
and /, fearing that we would be
overtaken by the mob, decided to
get out of the machine and hide in
the woods. We told the boy to
drive the automobile back to Green
vile by a circuitous route and tell
no one where he had put us out.
Mob Captures Prisoner.
"Martain and had gone about
two miles from the place where we
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