The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-08-22

someone else to her assistance. Her
weakness and horror then overcame
her and she tainted.
Found by Husband.
About II o'clock the husband ar
rived at the home, and found his wife
prone on the floor. Upon being re-
vived she related her nerve-racking
experience to him, accurately de-
scribing the negro. She said he was
of medium height, black and stoclsily
built; that he wore black felt hat,
white shirt and dark trousers which
were hung from his shoulder by sus-
penders and additionly secured
around the waist with a tightly
drawn belt. She said the negro was
headed toward Glendale.
Given Medical Aid.
The husband then took his wife to
the house of his father, some half
mile distant, and secured medical as
sistance. Whence he went to Glen
dale, about two miles away and re-
ported the assault of his youthful
wife.
Search Begins.
Immediately --Spartanburg was
communicated with and w. j. White,
sheriff of the county, and Moss P.
Hayes, chief of police, organized
posses and went to the scene of the
crime in automobiles. Other ma
chimes, bearing citizens of the town,
soon left to join in the man hunt.
When they arrived at the crime
shadowed home they were Argument
ed by farmers and mill operatives,
who came on foot, on horseback, in
buggies and in automobiles, carrying
in the words of member of one of
the posses, Everything from a cap
pistol to long-unused flint lock mus
kets." They were a calm lot of men,
with no buster, but with faces rigid
ly set in the determination to affect
the capture of the perpetrator of the
crime.
Reiterates Description.
When seen by members of the
posses, despite her nervetrying or
deal and her weakness the young wo-
man fought for composure and gave
the members the same accurate de-
scription of her assailant that she
had impaired to her husband when
she had come from under her swoon.
The man hunt was then begun.
Clue Found.
For some time no clue to the iden-
tity or trace of the black assailant
was found; but after time, one of
the automobiles, containing Sam ].
Nichols, an attorney of Spartanburg,
and others, came across an aged ne
gro man in the public highway near
Glendale, who stated that he had
seen a negro by the name of Will
Fair within 200 yards of the scene of
the crime. Without divulging to the
aged negro the description given by
the young woman, the posse obtained
from him, in every detail of dress and
appearance, in stature and in physi-
ognomy, the exact likeness as told
by her. The negro said that Fair had
gone to Glendale to catch the car
coming to Spartanburg; also that
Fair worked for the construction
force building the interurban rail
way, and was stationed at Spartan
burg Junction, working at night;
that his home had been formerly
near the scene of the crime. This
centered suspicion on William Fair.
Come to Spartanburg.
In the meantime the police station
in Spartanburg had been notified that
negro answering the description of
the assailant of the young woman
had boarded the 11:20 o'clock care at
Glendale and had gone to East Spar
tanburg. Two policemen. were rush
ed to that place, but the negro was
not there. Elijah Holcomb, the con-
ductor Of the car, stated that the ne
gro, answering in every detail the de-
scription of the wanted black, hao
boarded his car at Glendale, getting
of at the square in Spartanburg. He
appeared, said Mr.. Holcomb, to be
nervous. distraught and apprehensive
as If some weight was resting on hfs
conscience.