The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
FIEND LYNCHED
The Brutal Assault On Yousg White
Girl at Henea Path Avenged.
BRUTE HUNG And SHOT

Taken from Officers After Exciting
Chase Through Several Counties,
the Fiend was Taken to the Scene
of His Crime, Hung and Riddled
With Bullets.
A negro boy, about seventeen
years old, committed a criminal as
sault on twelve year old white
girl at Ronea Path on Tuesday
morning. The brutal assault occur
red about half-past seven O'Clock
some three hundred yards from the
limits of the town, where the little
girl had gone to put a COW in
pasture.
According to the little girl, she
was attacked from the rear while she
was going to pasture with COWS, the
attack being made within three hun
dred yards of the incorporated lin
its of Honea Path, and after drag
ging his little victim about seventy
Ave yards into patch of woods he
accomplished his dasstardly purpose
behind a dead log. The little girl
emerged from the woods, attracted
the attention of a passerby and gave
the alarm.
The negro then passed through the
town to a butcher shop where he
worked. He was found later at the
shop by Constable Haynes, who took
him before the girl, and after she
had positively identified him, the
constable, with two other citizens,
hurried the negro to the jail at An
derson in an automobile. The infur-
! lated citizens were searching the
woods during the while and did not
learn that the negro had been ap-
pretended until he was on his way
to the Jail.
AS soon as the dastardly outrage
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Path gathered and began a rigid
search as above stated for the hend
AS soon as it was learned that the
negro had been caught and taken tc
Anderson, a crowd left Honea Patti
for that place, bent on lynching the
dend if trey could get him in theil
| hands.
A dispatch from Anderson say:
more than a hundred heavily armed
men arrived there at eleven O'CLOCK
+ from Honea Path. Some came or
+ trolley cars, others on the train, anC
the remainder in automobiles. FIT
teen minutes before the crowd ar
+ rived at Anderson thenegro had beer
+ taken in fast automobile and wa:
speeding to the Greenville jail, thirt!
: six miles away.
. The Honea Path citizens FOLLOWED
> in pursuit. They left Anderson II
r about ten automobiles The mel
: with the prisoner arrived in Green
! Vile at ten minutes to two o'clock
The car they left IN was a fast one
+ but when it departed from Anderson
o it had no chains on the wheels. 1
, |had been raining all night and th
8 roads were muddy, heavy and slip
: perry.
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At 1.50 o'clock the Anderson au
/, .omobile dashed through the street
O Of Greenville and up to the count.
jail door. At the Jail the sheriff hat
received a telephone message from
, Sheriff King, at Anderson to spiri
. the negro off to Spartanburg.
change Of automobiles was made a
the jail and the flight to SpartanburE
4 taken up.
o Within ten minutes after the auto
o mobile bearing the negro had depart
, ed, big Anderson touring car, con
{ tanning Josh Ashley and four othe
men, steamed through Main street
Citizen" Josh clutched Winches
! Ter rifle in his hands and eagerly IL
, luired where the negro had beer
= taken. Upon being told that the par
: ~ had proceeded to Spartanbu~g, thu
9 word of command was given and thu
. big auto dashed on UP the street.
r Within five minutes another An
E derson car steamed into the city
r closely followed by still another ma
: chine. The mud-bespattered occu
: pants, upon being readily informed
/ BY Greenville citizehs which way
: the negro had been carried, applied
Y the power to their machines ant
r dashed on. At Greenville the pur
: suers divided, some going one road
: and some another.
Fl In the depths of forest six mile:
5 north Of Greenville, an armed mol
+ of twenty-five men, headed by cit
: Iizen John Ashley, of Honea Path, E
member of Anderson County's legis
5 lative delegation overpowered Dep
uty Sheriff Van 3. Martin, of Ander'
f son County, and Sheriff J. Perry
Poole, of Greenville County, and took
: the fend from their custody.
The trembling negro was placed in
5 the car in which Ashley and four
other men rode and followed by a
: train Of several automobiles from
, Anderson and Greenville counties,
loaded with determined men and
} 5ristling with shotguns and rifles, the
; cingleaders turned in their fury and
started toward Honea Path. Prom
ises were made the sheriffs that the
negro would be carried back to the
scene of his crime and the colder
heads" of the town consulted as to
!, what should be done with him.
The negro was carried to the iden-
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