The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-13
LYNCHEDAT HONEAPATH
FOR THE USUAL CRIME
WILLIS JACKSON CHARGED WITH
ASSATLTING YvUNG GIRL.
Taken From Officers After Exciting
Chase Through Several Coun.
ties.

Willis Jackson was swung to tele-
phone pole by one of his heels and
his body riddled with bullets.
The negro was carried to the ident-
ical spot where the crime was COM
nnitted and from there was taken to
the nearest telephone pole and swung
M BY one foot. Four hundred shots,
as near as can be estimated, were
fred into his body, Winchester rifles,
magazine pistols, revolvers and shot
guns being the weapons of death used
Mob Forcibly Takes Prisoner.
Greenville, Oct. 2C.-In the depths
of a forest, six miles north of Green
Vile. headed by Citizen" Josh Ash
ley, of Honea Path, a member OF An
derson county's legislative delegation
oTerpowered Deputy Sheriff Van 8.
Martin, of Anderson county, and Sher-
if J. Perry Poole, of GreenVdlle coun-
ty. this afternoon, and took from their
custody one Willis Jackson, a 17-year-
old negro, charged with criminally as
sau1ting the 11-year-old daughter OF
q nrominent citizen of Honea Path, at
7.3o o'clock this morning.
The trembling negro was placed in
The car in which Ashley and four 9TH
er men ,ode, and followed by a train
of several automobiles from Anderson
and Greenville counties, loaded with
determined men and bristling with
shorsuns and rifles, the ringleaders
turned in their fury and started to-
ward Honea Path.
To Consult solder Heads"
Promises were made the sheriffs
that the negro would be carried back
to the scene Of his crime and the odd
er heads" Of the town consulted as to
what should be done with him. There
is a general feeling, however, that the
negro will never see Honea Path alive.
The capture of the alleged rapist
concluded one Of the most sensational
man chases this section Of the county
has ever known. About noon today,
Sheriff Poole received word from the
Anderson sheriff that he had sent a
negro to Greenville for safe keeping
and asked that the prisoner be con-
fined in the county jail. Sheriff Poole
secured an automobile at once and
went to meet the parties, bringing the
negro to Greenville. Shortly after he
left, telephone call to his Office, from
Piedmont, stated that the automobile
containing the negro had just passed
there and that some ten machines
containing the mob, we're in close pur-
suit and not more than ten minutes
behind.
Mob Close Behind at GreenVille.
At $50 o'clock the Anderson auto
mobile dashed through the streets oi
Greenville and up to the county jail
door. At the Jail Sheriff Poole receiv-
ed a telephone message from Sheriff
King. at Anderson, to spirit the negro
on to Spartanburg. A change Of au-
tonobiles was made at the jail and
the fight to Spartanburg taken up.
Within ten minutes after the auto
mobiles bearing the negro had de-
parted, a big Anderson touring car
containing Josh Ashley and four other
men, steamed through Main street.
"Citizen" Josh clutched a Winchester
rife in his hands and eagerly inQuir-
ed where the negro had been taken.
Upon being told that the party had
proceeded to Spartanburg, the word
of command was given and the big
auto dashed On up tie street.
Within five minutes another Ander-
son car steamed into the city, closely
followed by still another machine. The
mud-bespattered occupants, upon be-
ing readily informed by Greenville cit
izens which way the negro had beer
carried, applied the power to their ma
chimes and dashed on.
Different Routes Taken.
At Greenville the mob divided, some
taking one road to spartanburg and
some another. Others took to the
Laurens road, thinking, perhaps, thai
the officers would spirit the negro tc
Fountain Inn or some station OF the
C. & W. C. railway and place him
aboard train for Columbia.
Within an hour after the negro hat
been hurried through Greenville, ths
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