The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-03-08
Negre Who Killed Policeman Guunels
Lynched By Georgia hob.
SHOT CONDUCTOR ALSO
He Was a Mulatto. and His Body
Was Found and Identified in an
Atlanta Morguc, Where 1t Had
Been Sold for Ten Dollars Big
Reward Had Been Offered.
Reward Had Been Offered

4 spec!s! dispatch from Atlanta
20 the Grenav;ile News says: Arthur
Young. lyached with another negro
murderer az Wa.rentoo. Ga. last
Friday afternoon. being taken from
the Jail BY RI in.a-!a;ed mob. board
ed Georgia train q; Camak las:
Wednesday and when questioned by
Conductor ". ". Thompson and a
railroad detective pulled his pistol
from his poke, and fred. killing the
conductor The negro was h!msess
wounded BY passengers and captured.
lie has long lis, OF crimes IN both
States. He was traced 5@ Green
VILE authorities to Augusta. who just
missed him before the !yach;nS. HIS
body was sold 20 the Atl;n,a College
OF Physicians and Surgeons by the
sheriff OF Warrentoa. He Was recog-
nized from scars a2d wounds by On
Ger Rector. who will carry the body
70 Greenville tor purposes Of tdenti-
aca;!on and reward. The negro had
many aliases and was known 20 have
been one OF the most desperate char.
ac,ers. He probably feared arrest
for the Greenville killing when he
shot Conductor Thompson. as &c
provoca;ioa was given.
In commenting on the above dis
patch the Greenvilie News says:
That the man who engaged IN the
desperate pistol due with Policeman
8. V. Johnson. in the passenger sta
ton OF the Colum b!a and Greenville
di-;sion o: the Southern Railway. BE-
tween ESQ and O'Clock on the
morning o. Friday. February 18th
shooting two pistol balls into the
body OF Policeman Oliver S. Gun.
ne.s. wounds from which the Office!
died several hours later. and p!erc'
ing the ri:ht leg OF OMcer johnson
with third pistol ball. was mu-
la:to negro by the name Of Arthu:
Young and that that negro was ONT
OF the TWO negroes lynched By
mob Of citizens OF Warren county
Ga. after midnight Of last Friday. Is
the verdict OF P!nkerton detective
and officers OF the Greenriiie police
department. who have been working
on the mysterious murder case STAGE
the day the crime was committed.
The last link in a chain OF ev,.
dence which has been Winding ahoni
the murderer OF the policeman was
forged a: midnight Friday night whe1
Cali Officer OF the GreeNv!I!e police
department Hendrix Rector te!e-
phoned from Atlanta to Chief OF Po
lice z. Fl. Kennedy that he had found
the BODY OF the man upon whom the
crime there had been f1ed IN the
possession OF medical college II
that city. the body having beer
brought to Atlanta from the scene 0.
the lynch!ng in Warren county aac
purchased for $40 By the medica-
school authorities Omcer Recto!
stated that he had secured posses.
sion Of the negro's body and wonic
bring It to Greenv!.le this afternoon
on Southern train No. IS. Cpcn the
arrival OF the officer here with the
corpse the Greenville police arthorl.
ties and the P!nkerton detective vii
take charge OF the remains The
body will be preserved in a local
morgue and witnesses will be called
from several towns about Greenville
to identity the oody as that ct Arthu,
Young"