The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-05-30
AUSTIN CAPTURED;
DIESEN ROUTE HOME
Dramatic Details of His Capture
Related on Train-Denies Triple
Murder-HamptOn Men Cut and
SINCE Corpse and Then Suspend
1t From Tree Limb

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Murder-Hampton Men Cut and
SINCE Corpse and Then Suspend
1t From Tree Limb.
Savannah, Ga, May 2S.-Lying
on a rude stretcher of three planks
nailed together, with his abdomen
torn open by nine buckshot wounds
and his left arm broken nearly off
by a rifle bullet, Richard Henry
Austin, the alleged murdered of
DR.. S. c. Moore. Magistrate Eden
leld and Mr.. Victor Bowers, in
Hampton county South Carolina, on
the 3Oth of April, was brought to
Savannah this afternoon at 1920
o'clock by the men who shot and
captured him at Newington last
night.
The month-old hunt for Aus
tin ended last night when Sheriff
j. b. Morris, of Barnwell county,
South Carolina, fired both barrels
of his shotgun and brought Austin
to earth in the vegetable garden of
Mr.. Marion Jarrel, farmer living
near Newington, after Austin had
come up to the back door of Jarrel's
home and asked Mrs. Jarrel for
food, declaring that he was wet and
perishing.
Sheriff Morris, together with five
other men delegated to watch the
Jarrel home from among the posse
in search fAustin, had reached the
house shortly before the negro ar
rived and asked for food. Three of
the men had just left in a buggy to
take up their posts at some distance
from the house, and Austin, as he
afterwards said, came up to the back
entrance upon the departure of these
three, believing the place to be free
from the pursures.
Mrs. Jarrel, knowing that the
sheriff was in the front part of the
lot, called out There's the negro!
There's Austin!"
Sheriff Morris, despite the two
shotguns that the negro had, rush
ed through the hallway OF the house
into the kitchen. and opening the
back door there saw the hunted man
standing in the garden. Austin
thinking that the sheriff was Mr..
Jarrel, a former employer of his,
called out to Mr.. Morris to come to
him, saying that he was perishing.
Sheriff Morris, despite the two
shotguns that the negro held. one in
each hand, walked through the back
door and toward the man Then
when he was about twenty-six PAGES
iiohl HIN, NIt Sutlln lTtu Twice, the
two loads of buckshot both taking
effect in Austin's abdomen.
The negro fell to the ground
, among the vegetables of the gar
ssS,h, his two guns falling some dis
tance from him. Immediately the
wounded man crawled toward the
guns, Sheriff Morris advanced upon
him, and when within / 3 PAGES the
negro had reached one of the shot
guns and was raising il to fire. But.
unseen by the desperate, Mr.. Lutte
Stivenger had come from his post
around the back corner of the gar
den and when the negro raised his
gun TO fire at Mr.. Morris, Stivenger.
crack shot, fired the rife bullet
that shattered Austin's left arm.
The man fell back to earth, beg
ging his captors not to shoot again
Immediately he was picked up and
carried TO an clubhouse in Mr.. Jar
rel's yard and when the other mem
bers of the posse were summoned
When seen in the express car of
the train, where he was lying on the
noor covered with rough piece of
sacking, with his head propped
upon cardboard cracker box and
flies buZzing around his wounds, the
negro declared that he was inno-
cent of shooting his alleged victims
near Luray, S. c., on the 3Oth of
April.
Il didn't do it," said the man. his
voice barely audible above the rattle
of the moving train. Il didn't shoot
them white men. They was firing
from both sides at me in the bay,
from all around, and they shot each
other. i did not shoot them, boss,
honest to God"
Il just ruined and ruined until
i was tired, so tired that ] could run
no more said the negro. Il slept
in the swamps; slept in the mud
most all the time. The dogs didn't
worry me none, except when they
saw me. Then they ran after me.
But they couldn't get after me from
trailing. They didn't worry me at
all
II Didn't shoot at none of the
white men that were after me.
When shot on Monday in the
swamp the gun went off by accident.
i came into Mr.. Jerrels house be-
cause / was perishing"
The negro will be carried out OF
Savannah for clifford station. s. c.,
this afternoon in an automobile.