The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-16
SAM BOOZER CONVICTED:
JOHN c. HIPP ACQUITTED

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his mothers mother. He said Mr..
Hipp unbreeched Mr.. Gilliams gun
60 see if it was loaded, and it was not
loaded, and Mr.. Hipp put it back on
the rack. lie said Mr. Hipp told his
grandmother to put the shells away.
He said at that time his father was in
the house lying down asleep. HIS
Father woke up. he said, as soon as
Mr.. Hipp went in and spoke to him,
and he was FIipp went out to
the shop, where his father wanted to
show him a broken ploW, and they
then came back to the house. and Mr..
Hipp told his father not to come out,
that the boys would feed, and his faith
er said he was going out and feed the
stock, and got the keys and started
our. He said he was in the lot, at the
trough, looking through crack, and
he described the killing as follows:
Papa got the keys and went to go
out, and papa says, Hello, Sam, and he
says, Mr.. Gillian, don't say hello to
NE
20. Was that Sam Boozer?
"A. Yes, sir; and papa says, Why?
He says, What in the hell you hone
today? Papa says, Nothing. Sam
says, Don't you come up to me. And
papa stepped up a little further, and
Sam stepped back, and Sam raised
up the gun, and papa said, Sam. l
won't come to you, and Sam put down
his gun, and papa turned around and
started to go back to the house, and
Sam shot him" He said Sam then
took out the empty she'll, put in anoth-
er shell, and went off towards the
wood pile and shot ,~lce. Mr.. HlpT,
he said, who was in the yard, but did
not see Boozer at the time of the
shooting, ran up and saw his father
after he was shot and said, 'Oh, look
here" On ross-examination, he told
of the positions Of the various parties
in the yard, and also of having heard
when he got back flvul school Of his
father having cut two negro women,
Sam Boozer's wife and daughter. He
said when his father turned back to-
wards the house, he walked 'pretty
peart,' like he was going for some
thing, and he supposed he was going
for his gun. Col. Johnstone directed
a good many questions towards show
ing that the young witness grand
mother and grandfather, Mrs. Gil
1iam's parents, and Mrs. Gillian, and
a number Of negroes were on the
premises, and that most of them were
eye witnesses, and could have been
used as witnesses.
r. NJ. Fellers.
Mr.. T. NJ. Fellers, who lived about
q half mile from the Gillian home,
said that Sam Boozer's wife and
daughter, after their difficulty with
Gillian, came over to a negro house
on the place he lived on, and sent back
TO their house for a shot gun He said
one of the women had slight cut on
her throat and the other slight cut
on her hand. Later Sam came to the
house where they were, bringing a
gun with him, which looked like a
S*brand new gum" a double-barreIed
shot gun. He said the women had a
double-barreled old shot gun, which
he took to be Sans. He saw Sam go
back towards his house, a.:a later;
heard the shooting, and he ran up on
the hill from his field and saw Sam
leaving. He said Sam left tn: gun
which he had Az his (Sam's} house.
J. S. Crouch.
Mr.. J. S. Crouch, who lived about a
half mile from the Gillian home, said
he was in Newberry on the third OF
March and went home on the 2.4S
train. He said he saw Mr.. Hipp on the
train, and saw Sam Boozer and Amos
Boozer board the train at Newberry
and get off the train at Old Town.
Sam, he said, had a bundle, which was
not very large around, but which was
longer than it was around. His rec
objection was that the train did not
stop at Helena. When Sam Boozer
got off at Cid Town, he said, he still
had his bundle. Witness said he car
ried his wife on home, threw his bum