Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-10-02
wA1HAnrA SOUTH CAROLINA wnIsNspAY OCTOBER 2 1912.


lelleu across the road In several !
places, and in others logs were piled |
up as barriers.
Late last night before the main !
body of the mob dispersed an attack !
was made upon the office Of the Vag- |
ener Edisto News, weekly news
paper, which Long established about !
year ago and which has been edited i
and published by him during his res
idence In Wagner.
with brickbats, sticks and stones |
the windows and doors Of the shop
were battered in, and the front of the |
Office completely wrecked.
Two Other Arrests.
The sheriff this morning arrested
DR.. o. B. Portwood and Hays Gun
ter, of Wagner, and brought them
with him to Aiken, placing them in
jail with Long. These men are
| charged in the warrant on which the
arrests were made with being acces-
| sories to the crime with which Long
Is charged, 1t being alleged that DR..
Portwood, who Is prominent citi-
zen Of Wagner and who operates
| drug store there, gave Long the pis-
| tol with which he shot Pickens Gun
ter. Hays Gunter, it is alleged, had
hold Of Pickens Gunter when he was
SHOC ny LOuS.
With his stocking feet against
smouldering fire in q waiting room
at the Aiken county Jail this morn
ing, Hugh Long, whose stormy career
since he took up his residence In
Aiken county a little more than a
year ago, led to the sensational events
Of last night, this morning greeted
two newspaper men who called upon
him. He was smoking a corn-cob
pipe when his visitors entered.
What he had passed through dur
ing the previous twelve hours told
plainly upon him-he was haggard
and worn, still little nervous; but
he smiled pleasantly and introduced
his fellow prisoners, Dr.. Portwood
and Hays Gunter, to the newspaper
men. Long said that he had no state
ment to make at this time. When
told that the mob had practically
wrecked his newspaper shop, he re-
marked. "I am not surprised. ~ 4
S Hard lyS had the q sheriff reached
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bled town%is still bad and growingl
worse. The sheriff was requested to
return to Wagener at once and bring
with him the entire rural consta bu-
larry to preserve order. Two deputies
were sent at once to the scene and in
another automobile went Robert l..
Gunter, Solicitor Of this circuit-a
cousin Of Pickens Gunter-and Mayor
Herbert Gyles, Of Aiken. No definite
word has been received here to-day
from Wagener as to the condition of
Pickens Gunter, who, however, is so
desperately wounded, being shot
through and through, that the physi-
clans entertain not the least hope for
his recovery.
The fight between Long and Gun
ter occurred about 6 o'clock yester-
day afternoon on the main business
square Of Wagner.
Pickcns Gunter Dies Of Wounds.
Wagner, Sept. 30.-Pickens N.
Gunter, president Of the Bank of
Wagener and an extensive planter,
died tonight at 7.45 o'clock from the
effects OF a gunshot wound inflicted
Saturday afternoon by Hugh G.. Long,
intendant of Wagner and Represen-
tative-elect from Aiken county. Long,
in company with two constables, es-
capped a yioelnt mob and is now in
jail at Aiken.
The death Of Pickens Gunter has
been hourly expected since he was
shot. Mr.. Gunter was a man Of con-
siderable means who lent himself to
every movement for the welfare Of
WAGNER. He established the bank
Of which he was president, was asso-
ciated in other local enterprises, and
owned two large farms. His fellow
citizens held him in the highest es-
TEEN. He was 43 years Of age and
had lived in Wagner all his life. Mr..
Gunter leaves wife and three chill
dren, two daughters and one son.
Town Very Quiet.
In Wagner to-day it was difficult
to imagine that vengeful mob could
have inaugurated a reign OF terror
here Saturday night, defying the She
| riff and forcing him to resort to a
ruse to get Long to Jail. The little
town was quiet to-day. 1t is true
that groups Of men on the public
square were still discussing the shoot
ing, for the affair stirred the sur
rounding country. The only visible
signs left by the mob were the bro
| ken show windows in the office OF
| the Edisto News, of which Long was
| editor.
1t was stated here to-day that the
| sole reason for Longs escape Satur-
| day night was the fact that he took
refuge in the house OF his neighbOr,
Henry Gardener. Consideration for
Mrs. Gardener, an invalid, is said to
have prevented the mob from storm
ing the house and dragging Long out
at any cost. The house in which
Long lived since coming to Wagcner
is about 100 yards down the same
street from the home Of Gardener in
which he took refuge after leaving
the scene Of the shooting. Garden