The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-12-09
A Mau flys 10 Cheat The Gahous Of The
Slayer, Of His Brother
MURDERER is HANGED
It Was Thought at First That the
Negro Had Again Escaped, But
His Wound Was Slight, and the
Execution OF the Sentence Fol-
lowed Shortly Afterward,
lowed Shortly Afterward.

lowed Shortly Afterward.
A special dispatch from Washing
ton, Ca, to the Atlanta Constitution
says the climax to the murder case
OF r. B. Walker, perhaps the most
remarkable criminal case in many
particulars ever tried in Georgia,
came Wednesday at II o'clock when
Walker was being resentenced to be
hanged for the murder of Charles
Hollenshead on the night Of October
l2S.
Judge B. F. Walker arrived We'd
nesday morning at 1890 o'clock and
at once called special session of the
Wilkes superior court for the pur-
pose of passing a second death SEN
tence on the negro Walker, who was
brought from Augusta by automo-
bile at daylight.
After the sentence Of the court
had been pronounced and the time
fixed for Walkers execution at 2
o'clock Wednesday, John c. Hollen-
shead, Of Lincoln county, a brother
Of the murdered man, attempted to
kill the negro prisoner before he
could be taken back to his cell.
+. Only enc shot was fired, and that
took effect In the right cheek of the
condemned negro. The court house
was we'll filed when the shot was
fred and CONSERVATION reigned for q
time.
A hasty exit Of a score Of citizens,
together with yell of where is
Walker" gave the impression that
the negro had made another sensa-
tional dash for liberty. "
The negro was only slightly
wounded and was rushed from the
side door to the Jail adjoining the
court house by Sheriff Bobo, where
his flesh wound was dressed by the
county physician.
Walker was not sufficiently wound
ed to interfere with his legal execu-
ton, which occurred Wednesday az
ternoon at 2 O'clock. His neck was
broken and he was pronounced dead
il eight minutes.
Hc1lenshead suffered a physical
and nervous collapse after the shoot
ing in the court house and was taken
from the building by several friends.
He had since the death Of his BROTH
er advised that Walker be given a
legal execution.
During the last search Of four
days and nights, Hollensheaa, who is
a prominent planter of Lincoln coun-
ty, had joined the county officials in
the hunt for Walker and was not in
control of his faculties.
Walker killed C. S. Holelnshead, q
prominent man Of affairs Of Wilkes
county, with a load of buckshot on
the night Of October 2S at Hollens-
heads store near Washington.
He was captured the same night
about ten miles from Washington
and was delivered to Deputy Sheriff
John W. Galloway, from whom he
was taken by mob at midnight, bent
on lynchlng. He escaped from the
mob as they attempted to take him
from a buggy to string him up, and
was -ecaptured November in Lin
coin county and was taken to Atlanta
for safe keeping.
On November She was tried at the
regular term Of the Wilkes superior
court and sentenced to be hanged on
November 20.
Following the first sentence Walk
or was taken to Augusta for safe
keeping and was being taken to
" Washington on the night Of Novem-
ber 2S for execution the next day,
when he escaped from Deputy Sheriff
Florence at Barnett.
On December Walker was recap
tured near Gibson, Ca, by ex-Sena-
tor II. A. Williams, who fastened
with him to Augusta, where he re-
mained until Tuesday night, when
he was taken to Washington and
paid the penalty Of death for his
crime, which he confessed.