The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-08-08
MARK |. CAN'T WAS
KILLED IN HIS BED
4. JENKINS CAN'T IS CHARGED
WITH THE KILLING.
A Fearful Tragedy on Southern Out
skirts Of the City on Last Thurs
day Night.

Mark L. Can't, a white farmer
ebout fifty years of age, was Killed
q his bed at his home just beyond the
iollohon mill village, on the southern
outskirts of the city, at about $50
6'cleck on Thursday afternoon, and
! A. Jenkins Can't, better known as
<sDink'' Can't, aged about q years,
Apear kinsman of the deceased is in
Iewberry jail, charged by the cor
jury with the killing.
be inquest two witnesses testi-
"Dink'' Can't did the killing.
lthese was Annett James, who
the Can't home and did the
oking. Another was Ray Williams,
a negro boy According to the testl-
mony Of the latter "Dink" CAN'T got
up from the kitchen table where ne
was eating supper, passed through
Mark L. Gantt's room, loossd back at
Mark Can't in bed, went across the
hall into another room, secured
single-bacreled shot. gun, unbreeched
it to see that it was loaded, and went
back to Mark Ganttis room and did
the shooting. It was testified that the
deceased was lying in bed with his
face to the wall, and Annett James
said she Thought he was asleep The
load from the gun entered the back
of the head, scattering the brains over
the bed. &c.,.
Sheriff Buford was notified of the
killing and went Immediately to the
scene. Acting upon the, information
which he secured, he arrested "Dlnk
Can't and lodged him in jail. He found
young CAN'T sitting on the front
piazza of. Mr.. j. J. Porter's house,
across the street from the CAN'T resi-
dence. Young Can't claimed to know
nothing of the shooting, and said he
was on the piazza of the Porter resi-
dence at the time it happened. One
of the witnesses at the inquest said
that Immediately after "Dink" CAN'T
shot Mark Can't, "Dink" put the gun
down and went over to Mr.. Porter's.
It appears from the testimony at
the inquest that on Wednesday Mark
Can't had ordered "Dink'' to leave the
house, and never come back any
more, the elder Can't having become
offended with the younger on account
of the latter having driven his horse
without mis- permission. It is stated
that young Can't had driven the
horse to Columbia on Saturday night,
though this was not testified to at
-she inquest. In his testimony at the
inquest on Thursday night Mr.. J. J.
Porter said Mr. CAN'T had come home
on Wednesday afternoon from Colum-
bia, where he had been to look for his
horse, and that shortly after that
<*Dink" CAN'T came home with the
horse and buggy, when the words
passed which are related by Mr.. Por-
ter in his testimony below.
1t is said that both the deceased
and young Can't had been drinking.
Mark L. Cant, the deceastd, lived in
his home with his mother and an
other old lady, 2 near kinswoman.
|'Dink" Can't was living with him and
working on his farm. Lewie Can't,
"Dink's" brother, had been living with
chem up until recently, when he went
10 Florida. It seems that neither of
the old ladies in the house saw the
shooting.
Mark L. Can't owned a good deal
of property near Newberry, and was
in excellent financial circumstances.
He was member of Bergell Tribe,
No. "a, Improved Order of Red Men,
of Newberry, and at his funeral at
Rosemont cemetery on Sunday morn
ing the Red Men conducted the cere-
monies, Past Great Sachem of South
Carolina Otto Klettner officiating.
"Dink' CAN'T, who is in jail charg-
ed with the killing, is son Of Wilbur
CAN'T, who some time ago moved to
the place near Maxwell, Fla, where
Newberrians are interested in land
development. Mr.. Wilbur CAN'T was
wired for, and came to Newberry.
"Dink" Can't, when seen in Jail fol-
|hEing the killing, denied to the
Spaper men all knowledge of any
connected with it. saying he
OF do the killing and knew moth