The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-12-13
shot IN COURT
A Man Trys 10 Cheat the GaIows Of The
Slayer Of His Brother
MURDERER is HANGED
It Was Thought at First That the
Negro Had Again EscA. ID, But
His Wound Was Slight, and the
Execution Of the Sentence Fol.
lowed Shortly Afterward.


A special dispatch from Washing
ton, Ca, to the Atlanta Constitution
says the climax to the murder case
OF T. B. Walker, perhaps the most
remarkable criminal case IN many
particulars ever tried in Georgia,
came "Wednesday at IL o'clock when
Walker was being resentenced to be
hanged for the murder Of Charles
Hollenshead on the night Of October
2S.
Judge 3. F. Walker arrived We'd
nesday morning at 10:30 o'clock and
at once called a special session Of the
Wilkes superior court for the pur-
pose Of passing 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 G. Hollen-
shead, Of Lincoln county, brother
Of the murdered man, attempted to
kill the negro prisoner before he
could be taken back to his cell.
Only one shot was fired, and that
took effect in the right cheek Of the
condemned negro. The court house
was well filed when the slot was
fred and CONSERVATION reigned for a
time.
A hasty exit OF a score Of citizens,
together with a 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 af-
ternoon at o'clock. His neck was
broken and he was pronounced dead
IL eight minutes.
Hollenshead suffered 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, Hollenshea5, who is
prominent planter Of Lincoln coun-
II, had joined the county officials in
the hunt for Walker and was not in
control Of his faculties.
Walker killed C. S. Holelnshead, a
prominent man Of affairs of Wilkes
county, with a load of buckshot on
the night Of October % 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 be
was taken by mob at midnight, bent
on lynching. He escaped from the
mob as they attempted to take him
from a buggy to string him up, and
was recaptured November In LIN
coin county and was taken to Atlanta
for safe keeping.
On November he was tried at the
regular term Of the Wilkes superior
court and sentenced to be hanged on
November 20.
Following the first sentence Walk
er was taken to Augusta for safe
keeping and was being taken to
Washington Oh the night Of Novem-
Der 2S for execution the next day,
when he escaped from Deputy Sheriff
Florence at Barnett.
On December Walker was recap
tured near Gibson, Ga, by ex-Sena-
tor H. a. Williams, who hastened
with him to Augusta, where he re-
NAMED until Tuesday night, when
he was taken to Washington and
paid the penalty Of death for his
crime which he confessed.