The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-09
Wound PROVES FATA.
MIR, PICKENS N. GUETER DIED
on MONDAY EVENING.
Hugr C. Long, DR.. o. B: Postwood
and Hayes Gunter Are An In the

and Hayes Gunter Are An In the
Aiken Jail.
The States correspondent writing
from Wagner says Ar. Pickens n.
| Gunter, president of the Bank OF
Wagner and an extensive planter,
died Monday night at 7:45 from the
effects OF a gunsnot wound inflicted
last Saturday afternoon By Hugh c.
Long, intendant OF WAGNER and rep
resentatiye-elect from Aiken county.
Long, in company with two consta-
bles, escaped a violent mob. and is
now in the Jail at Aiken with DR..
O. B. Portwood and Hayes Gunter o!
Wagner, who were later arrested on
warrants charging them with being
accessories to the shooting, which has
resulted fatally.
The death Of Pickens Gunter has
been hourly expected since he was
shot. The local physicians and three
surgeons from ColuE bia, who attend
ed him, held out absolutely no hope
of his recovery. How is Pickens
Gunter?" was the question on the lips
OF ere!y citizen Of Wagener. The late
Mr. Gunter vas man OF consider
able means who lent himself to every
movement lo7 the welfare OF Wage
ner.
He established the Bank of Wage
ner, was associated in other local
commercial enterprises, and owned
two large farms. His fellow citizens
held him in the highest esteem. He
was 43 yea. S OF age and had lived in
WAGNER all his life. Ar. Gunter
leaves a wife and three children, two
daughters and one son. Three broth
ers, Dr.. william Gunter OF Gafney,
DR.. n. O. Gunter of Wagener and DR..
Samuel Gunter of Alabama. survive
him.
| In Wagner Monday it was difficult
tc imagine that rengeful MOB could
have inaugurated a reign OF terror
lhere last Saturday night, defying
Sheriff Raborn Of Aiken County and
forcing him to resort to ruse to
get Hugh C. Long, the intendant OF
the town, who wounded the late Pick
ems Gunter. to .ail. The little town
was busily quiet Monday. 1t Is true
that groups of men on the public
square were still discussing the shoot
ing, the eye-witnesses and the near
eye witnesses found ready audiences,
! for the affair stirred the surrounding
country to its depths. The only visi-
hle signs left by the mob were the
broken show windows in the Office OF
The Edisto News, Of which Hugh c,
Long was editor.
1t was openly stated in WAGNER
that the sole reason for Longs es-
cape Saturday night was the fact that
he took refuge in the house OF his
neighbor, Henry Gardner. Consid-
Grafton for MIS-. Gardner, an, invalid,
i2 said to have prevented the mob
from storming the house and drag
ging Long out at any cost. The house
IN which Long lived since coming to
Wagner Is about a hundred yards
down the same street from the home
cf Mr.. Gardener, in which he took
refuge after hurriedly leaving the
scene of the shooting.
! Mr.. Gardeners house Ia in cot
ton field on the outskirts of Wagner,
Long and the two eonstables who &C.
companied him must have spent some
tense moments in the open field at
ter they left the house, guarded by
the mob Saturday night, before they
reached the comparative shelter OF
the woods about quarter Of mile
distant and started on their long
walk for the jail in Aiken. The e1-
isting conditions in Wagner last Sat
urday night were epitomized by a
downy-lipped stripping Of the town
when he said to-day, Everybody had
EN- er gun"
The causes which led to the diff
Guilty between Hugh c.. Long and
Pickens N. Gunter are buried in a
muddle of local politics and were not
q. all related to the question at issue
last summer in the State primary.
Mr.. Long came to Wagner in Sep
-embe 1911, started The Edisto
News to boost PRIMARILY the move
nent for a new county with WAGNER
for its court house town. He moved
to Wagner from Bennettsville but a
native Of North Carolina. He is
IN attorney, man Of some parts
and forceful speaker.
Mr.. Long was elected intendant OF
| WAGNER and ran for the legislature
last summer. 1t was during the lat
'er campaign that the situation in
WAGNER became acute. Long was
warned not to return to the town, af-
:er he was elected to the House in
he second primary, but did so last
Wednesday week when his oppon-
mt from Wagner for the House, J.
:. Lester Busbee, had been declared
elected in the third primary:
Accounts Of the affair between Mr.
Gunter and Mr.. Long last Saturday
cfternoon differ in several particu-
l7rs Hayes Gunter, distantly related
TIE late Pickens n. Gunter, was
7res;ed On warrant charging him
ith having a share in 1t. DR.. o. B..
ortm cod was arrested or similar
large. The facts in the case will
| ot be known until after the coron-
IS inquest.
! telegram received by The State
! ue~7ay night from Bennettsyille
| said that the many friends Of Hugh
long in Marlboro county regretted
he affair in Wagner and that sew
oral hundred prominent citizens Of
the county where he formerly made
1is home would gladly certify to his
high character.