The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-12
FIEND LYNCHED
The Bruts! Assault o. a Is
Girl al Honea Path Avenged.
BRUTE HUNG and SHOT

Taken from officers After Exciting
Chase Through Several Counties,
the Fiend was Taken to the Scene
Of His Crime, Hung and Riddled
With Bullets.
A negro boy, about seventeen
years old, committed criminal as
sault on twelve year old white
girl at Honea Path on Tuesday
morning. The brutal assault occur
red, about half-past seven o'clock
some three hundred yards from the
limits of the town, where the little
girl had gone to put a cow in a
pasture.
According to the little girl, she
was attacked from the rear while she
was going to a pasture with COWS, the
attack being made within three hun
dred yards of the incorporated lin
it's of Honea Path, and after drag
ging his little victim about seventy
five yards into patch of woods ne
accomplished his dasstardly purpose
behind a dead log. The little girl
emerged from the woods, attracted
the attention OF a passerby and gave
the alarm.
The negro then passed through the
town to a butcher shop where he
worked. He VS. found later at the
shop by Constable Haynes, who took
him before the girl, and after she
had positively identified him, the
constable, with two other citizens,
hurried the negro to the jail at An
derson in an automobile. The infur-
lated citizens were searching the
woods during the while and did not
learn that the negro had been ap-
pretended until he was on his way
to the, Jail.
AS soon as the dastardly outrage
became known the people of Honea
Path gathered and began a rigid
search as above stated for the tiend.
AS soon as it was learned that the
negro had been caught and taken to
Anderson, a crowd left Honea Path
for that place, bent on lynching the
fiend if trey could get him in their
hands.
A dispatch from Anderson says
more than hundred heavily armed
men arrived there at eleven o'clock
from Honea Path. Some came on
trolley cars, others on the train, and
the remainder in automobiles. Flf-
teen minutes before the crowd ar
rived at Anderson thenegro had been
taken in a fast automobile and was
speeding to the Greenville Jail, thirty
six miles away.
The Fonea Path citizens followed
in pursuit. They left Anderson in
about ten automobiles The men
with the prisoner arrived in Green
Vile at ten minutes to two o'clock.
The car they left IN was fast one,
but when it departed from Anderson
it had no chains on the wheels. 1t
had been raining all night and the
roads were muddy, heavy and Slip
perry.
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At $50 5'clock the Anderson au-
tomobile dashed through the streets
of Greenville and up to the county
jail door. At the jail the sheriff had
received a telephone message from
Sheriff King, at Anderson to spirit
the negro off to Spartanburg.
change of automobiles was made at
the Jail and the flight to Spartanburg
taken up.
Within ten minutes after the auto
mobile bearing the negro had depart
ed, big Anderson touring car, con-
tanning Josh Ashley and four other
men, steamed through Main street.
"Citizen" Josh clutched a Winches-
ter rifle in his hands and eagerly IN
ouired where the negro had been
taken. Upon being told that the par
ty had proceeded to Spartanbu"g, the
word Of command was given and the
big auto dashed on UP the street.
Within five minutes another An
Gerson car steamed into the city,
closely followed by still another ma
chine. The mud-bespattered occu-
pants, upon being readily informed
.bv Greenville citizehs which way
the negro had been carried, applied
the power to their machines and
dashed on. At Greenville the pur-
suers divided, some going one road
and some another.
In the depths of forest six miles
north of Greenville, an armed mob
of twenty-five men, headed by cit
izen' John Ashley, of Honea Path, a
member of Anderson Countys legis-
lative delegation overpowered Dep
uty Sheriff Van B. Martin, of Ander-
son County, and Sheriff J. Perry
Poole. of Greenville County, and took
the fiend from their custody.
The trembling negro was placed in
the car in which Ashley and four
other men rode and followed by a
train of several automobiles from
Anderson and Greenville counties,
loaded with determined men and
hristling with shotguns and rifles, the
ringleaders turned in their fury and