Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-04
some to applaud, none to condemn;
for Pike county admires bravery and

some to applaud, none to condemn;
for Pike county admires bravery and
has rude respect for women.
The girls were bound in bonds Of
$4,000 each for appearance at court
Freeholders stood ready to become
surety for them. The girls rode out
of town through thin lines Of interest
ed folk and back to their home hang
ing on the cliffside. There, in the very
setting of the tragedy, your correspon-
dent saw and talked with them.
Fannie, whose 10th birthday will
come on June ~, while she Is on trial
for her life, Is a mere child, buoyant
and happy. She doesn't quite under
stand how the law views what she Is
accused Of doing. Possibly she doesn't
care.
II don't suppose any one could
much blame us for what We did," she
said, sitting In the swing and with lit
tie toe kicks swaying back and forth.
I'VE fought for our poor old mother,
who Is lying In the house now, and we
fought bravely, as girls or their moth
er should under the circumstances
The revenues treated her brutally.
They beat her. Think Of It! Men
beating poor old woman. Why
don't the revenues deal with men? We
people, but II the law puts us In pris-
on I don't know what we might do
next"
And these things she said as a girl
might say them-innocently and with
out boldness OF bravado.
Because l could shoot and shoot to
the spot" she continued as she lead
the way to the house, II lost no time.
Some one had to come to mothers
rescue. / was nearest. We killed
the officer; that we don't deny. We
will outlive and outgrow the charge
that the Tackitt girls are murderers." I"
The elder girl was spreading the ta-
BILE for dinner, and your correspond
ent was asked to sit by. He did, with
girl at each elbow. The meal was
dinner the girls went into the open
and the photographer posed them just
as they were, in simple frocks.
Marshal Potter says he was lucky
to escape with his life at the mountain
fight.
II escaped without q scratch" he
said, but shots flew thick and fast
around my head, and more than once
1t seemed that would have to retreat.
However, after my best man, Charlie
Smith, was shot down / thought II
DeSt 10 get out. L Qlu SO, ana aIter
everything calmed down I went back
and carried the wounded man to the
home Of a physician and had his
wounds dressed. Smallwood was hurt
but little. Charlie Tackitt escaped,
and I have not heard from him since.
The Tackitt girls are certainly brave" "
]. Mart Potter Is considered one Of
the bravest officers in the south. For
seven years he has been in the service
Of Uncle Sam, and more than twice he
has shot off moonshiners who fired
upon him. Today he Is baffied at the
thought Of Kentucky's brave girlhood; /;
Of having to fight them in battle as
he did the Tackitt girls-and yet he
says, as almost every one else, he ad-
mires the bravery Of the Tackitt SIS
ters.
II will never stand and fight them
again." said Potter to your correspon-
dent. He meant 1t. too. 1t Is said that
Uncle Sam will offer liberal reward
for the arrest of Charlie Tackitt,
brother of the Tackitt sisters, who is
yet at large. Potter says he will not
want the reward.-Sergent (Ky) Cor.
New York World.