The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-12-06
Whita Fenan Accuses Haiie Han aud
a Negro Ct an Awful Crime.
HOST FLENDISH TALE
The Story, According to Reports, is
Doubted, However, by Many. People
at Cainhoy-LittIe Excitement at
Wando River Village Over Alleged
Victims Story.
Victims Story.

The News and Courier says Cain
hoy, the little town at the further.
end Of the Wando River which has
furnished so much.news Of a startling
nature in its history, now sends a
tale OF a white woman criminally as
saulted few miles from the village
and left on the public highway after
the deed was accomplished.
The woman IS the wife Of we'll
known resident Of Cainhoy and the
vicinity and she herself told the story
to Magistrate P. r. Donnelly, OF
Cainhoy, according to reports from
the town Monday morning. The crime
is said to have been committed on
Saturday night and as result OF the
woman's statements, it is reported
that steps have been taken tc place
white man and his son and negro
under arrest.
The stories which were told by peo-
pie coming from Cainhoy were to the
effect that the white woman told a
tale Of a heinous crime to Magistrate
Donnelly. She said, according to the
reports, thatsshe had been at home
Saturday night with. only her baby
and that at about 10 o'clock some one
had raped on the door. She said
they asked If her husband was in,
and, upon her replying to the con-
trary, the men outside said: you're
d-n liar and came into the
house.
The woman said, a, ,rding to the
reports, that WI en- she found the
men meant to do her harm, she Of
fered to give them 500 to spare her
life, and that they took this and took
$500 more from her. She IS said to
have identified negro as the man
to whom she handed the money.
There were several men in the crowd,
white and coiored. according to her
reported story.
TIE men then took the woman. It IS
alleged, out into the woods and Grim
inally assaulted her, keeping her IN
the woods all night and placing her
on the road early in the morning.
The woman is said to have stated that
they bound her with ropes before TAX
ing her. from the house. -
She went into Cainhoy, from which
place her home is about five Eciles dis
tant, and there told her story, She
is said to have charged the two white
men and the negro with having part
In the affair. It. is said that bad
blood existed for some time between
the two white men and the negro on
one side and the woman's husband
on the other.
Although from the woman's re-
ported. story she had been most bru-
tally attacked, it is said that out
wardly she shows no signs whatever
Of injuries. This has led a number
of people to doubt the story, espec-
tally in view OF the emphatic denials
of the men concerned.
Contrary to what might be mag
ined, it is said that there is not much
excitement in Cainhoy as the result
Of the occurrence. It is stated that
many people do not credit the alleged
victim s story, believing that she had
not been attacked at all, in view~of
the fact that the woman's condition
is apparently normal and that the
accused men so confidently deny the
allegations. Latest reports from
Cainhoy stated that the three men
were being kept under guard, al
though they were rot locked up This
report could not be confirmed.