The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-02
Negro Who Killed Policeman Gunnels
Lynched b7 Georgia Mob.
SHOT CONDUCTOR ALSO I.
he Was Mul!atto, and BIS Body
Was Found and Identified in an
Atlanta Morlue, Where 1t Had
Been Sold for Ten Dollars Big
/ Reward Had Been Offered.

"a Reward hau been OueEeue
a special dispatch from Atlanta
to the Greenville News says: Arthur
!, Young, lynched with another negro
murderer at 7Warrenton, Ga, last
Friday afternoon, being taken from
the jail by an infuriated mob, board
ed Georgia train at Camak last
: Wednesday and when questioned by
Conductor W. w. Thompson and
railroad detective pulled his pistol
from his pocket, and fired, killing the
conductor. The negro was himself
wounded by passengers and captured.
He has a long list Of crimes in both
States. He was traced by Green
Vile authorities to Augusta, who just
missed him before the lynchlng. His
body was sold to the Atltnta College
of Physicians and Surgeons by the
sheriff of Warrenton. He was recog-
nized from scars and wounds by OFF,
Ger Rector, wto will carry the body
to Greenville for purposes of identi-
fication and reward. The negro had
many aliases ard was known to have
been one of the most desperate char
acters. He probably feared arrest
for the Greenville killing when he
shot Conductor Thompson, as no
proyocation WINS given.
In commenting on the above dis
patch the Grt4snville News says:
"That the maa who engaged in the
desperate pistol due with Policeman
B. v. Johnson, in the passenger sta:
tion of the Columbia and Greenville
division Of the Southern Railway, be-
tween $3.50 and 8 o'clock on the
morning of Friday, February 18th,
shooting two pistol balls into the
body OF Policeman Oliver S. Gun
nels, wounds from which the officer
died several hours later, and pierc-
ing the right leg Of Officer Johnson
with third pistol ball, was mu-
iatto negro by the name OF Arthur
Young and that that negro was one
of the two negroes lynched by a
mob of citizens of Warren county,
Ga, after midnight of last Friday, is
the verdict o.. Pinkerton detective
and officers cf the Greenville police
department, who have been working
on the mysterious murder case since
the day the crime was committed.
"The last link in a chain of evl-
dence which has been winding about
the murderer Of the policeman was
forged at midnight Friday night when
Call officer of the Greenville police
department Hendrix Rector tele-
phoned from Atlanta to Chief Of Po-
lice R. H. Kennedy that he had found
the body of the man upon whom the
crime there had been fixed in the
possession OF medical college in
that city, the body having been
brought to Atlanta from the scene of
the lynching in Warren county and
purchased for $40 by the medical
school authorities. Officer Rector
stated that he had secured posses
sion of the negro's body and would
bring it to Greenville this afternoon
on Southern train No. 3S. Upon the
arrival of the officer here with the
corpse the Greenville police authorl-
ties and the P:nkerton detective will
take charge OF the remains. The
body will he preserved in a local
morgue and witnesses will be called
from several towns about Greenville
to identity the body as that Of Arthur
Young"