The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-06-20
NEGROES TO DIE
FOR KILLING BOY.
HARRY MCINTOSH AND JNO VIII
LIAMS CONVICTED AT FLOR
ENCE OF CHILD MURDER.

The jury in the case of Harry Nc
Intosh and John Williams, charged
with the murder of little Andrew
Jackson, returned a verdict at 1l:3O
o'clock Saturday night at Florence,
declaring both defendants guilty.
Both were sentenced to be electro
cuted August 9.
In this case the reliance of the
State was on the statements of Fred
die Mcintosh a younger brother, and
William Foxworth, another hack
driver. These statements were made
in the Jail and the defense used ev-
cry effort to break them down by
testimony to show that the prison
ers had been mistreated and beaten
and narrowed into making them.
Freddie Mcintosh particularly de-
clared he had said only what he had
been forced to say and he was most
stubborn witness in spite of the ad-
roit handling by Solicitor Spears and
Solicitor Wells. He would admit
practically nothing, and the state
ments were put in evidence by show
ing that they had been read to the
witnesses in the presence of the de-
fendant. Freddie Mcintosh in his
statement said that he had seen the
two boys, Harry Mcintosh and John
Williams, pass certain corner near
the stables where little Andrew had
been looking at the auto engine
begged in the mire. Andrew had
jumped on the rear of the hack and
been dragged in by the arm by Har-
ry,who told John to drive fast. The
witness had returned home, he said,
to see them take the boy out of the
hack. John Williams held the boy,
he said, while Harry struck him
twice with an iron bar across the
back. The witness heard the little
boy call out that he was dead and
would never see his mother again,
the statement said. He saw Harry
choke the boy after he fell to the
ground. He saw them get the skirts
and wrap the body in j. and after
wards they took it and hid it in
closet until the next night, when
they carried it away, and he heard
them say that they had it safe.
William Foxworth gave pretty
much the same evidence on the stand
that he had given in his statement,
and he declared that he had been
mistreated in the Jail. He saw the
two boys come back in the hack
about $50 o'clock and take the bum
die out of the hack and put it
through the crack in the stables and
cover it up.
The State showed that the shoe
which Harry Mcintosh wore made
the very peculiar print that was
noted in one of the tracks around
the car where the body was found.
They proved fight between Andrew
Jackson and some other little negro
boys, and a threat by Harry Mcln-
tosh to hurt Andrew Jackson if he
did not let his little brother alone.
The effort of the defense was to
prove that John Williams was not
driving the hack at that time, hav-
ing been discharged, and that Harry
Mcintosh was visiting friends until
the time to go to the depot with the
hacks. and that he was there ut the
time.
In rebuttal the State introduced
evidence to show that Henry Mcln-
tosh, the father, had made promise
of reward to one negro to swear to
anything that would get his boy out
of trouble and especially that Will
liam Foxworth and not John Will
Iiams was driving the white horse
that night. They tried also to estab-
lish the fact that even though the
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