The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-03-10

double-barreled gun, paying or agree
ing to pay the difference. That gun he
handed to a negro VINO was with him
at the time to send home to his house
a mile and a half down the road from
Newberry The negro, unfortunately
| for this rumor, did not carry that gun
home, but took it with him, through
mistake, over to the depot. When Mr..
Hipp got there he found this negro
with the gun, and he told him to give
it to another negro who would carry
! it home for him. By that time the
train had started to move so rapidly
that the negro could not get OF; so
Mr.. Hipp told him to sit still. He
did sit still with the gun in his hand
until he reached Helena. At Helena
he got off, walked on back home, and
took the gun down to Mr.. Hlpps
! house. did not bring witness that
he carried it to Mr. Hipp's house, but
Mr.. Hipp can testify to the fact that
he gave it to the negro on the train,
told him to get off at Helena, the
train being too fast at that time for
him to get off, that he did take it OF
at Helena, and when Mr.. Hipp got
home he found the gun where he had
told the negro to put it, that IS, at his
house, a mile and half from New
berry. So far as I am aware, that is
an outline of the transaction.
Il suppose we had as we'll be can
did with the solicitor and the court
both, enough to say that there has
been some disposition to make some
what of a scandal in connection with
Mr.. Hipp and the wife of this gentle
man who was killed, and that it. is
suspected or whispered, or believed,
that Mr.. Gillian had become annoyed
at this negro woman whom he cu!,
the wife of Sam Boozer, because he
suspected that they occasionally
might meet down at that negro wo-
mans house. I think it is right to
state that, because il there IS any
thing in it we want it 70 come out.
"The position of Mr.. Hipp is that he
was not at the place on the day of
the difficulty when it started, that he
went up Their on this telephone mes
sage, that he had nothing to do with
the trouble, was in the house at the
time that the trouble took place. or
just coming out of it, hearing the
quarrel out there. and that he has
no more to do with 1t than any other
person who might have been about
there, and that he did not furnish that
negro any gun-that he bought the
fun for his own purposes at his own
house, and I suppose was just ex-
changing a little oneIbarreled gun
that had become unfit for his chill
dren-they had passed beyond its use,
and he was exchanging it for a
double -barreled shot gun, which shot,
gun never saw those premises. The
negro did shoot Mr.. Gillian with the
negro's own gun
Col. Johnstone said he did not feel
the evidence was sufficient to hold Mr..
Hipp at all, and he felt he would be
justified in asking for discharge, but
he was only asking for bond, being
ready to meet any charges which
might be made.
Solicitor Cooper said he had tele-
phoned to Coroner Felker to secure
afidavits, but there had not been time
to get them here as yet, and then the
question as to whether the hearing
should be continued or an amount
fixed, came up, as reported above, Col.
Johnstone stating that Mr.. Hipp was
a man of some property and could
give any reasonable bond. and his
business arrangements were such that
he could not leave if he wanted to;
land of course he does not care to,
said COL Johnstone.
Jno. K. Aull.