The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-05-22

| this afternoon for burial.
| Garret offered no resistance until the
posse was upon him, when he made
one frantic effort to secure his gun,
which proved fruitless, as he was
already in the hands of his captors.
All night the posse surrounded the
Mechanicsville Mill Swamp, where
the dogs had brought their quarry to
| bay about 9 o'clock Sunday night.
All night long the pursuers, number
| ing about eighty men, gathered from
various parts of Lee and Sumter
counties, waited for sunrise, so that
| they could bring to an end their sue
cessful man hunt. The dogs had
taken the trail near the scene Of the
| crime and followed it through
swamps for a distance of eight miles,
finally locating the fugitive about
two and a half miles from the place
where the shooting had occurred. AS
the dogs approached, the girl, who
| had been with her father up to then,
| forced to go against her will, broke
| away from him and made her way
out of the swamp to the South Caro-
lima Western Railroad track, where
she was found and taken in hand by
members of the posse. She reported
| that her father was in the swamp
fully armed with a double-barrelled
shotgun loaded with buckshot, and
would kill anyone who approached
| him.
It was this advice that held back
the members of the posse until day.
light before they made their final at
tack upon Garret. During the night
there was a number of shots fired into
the swamp and calls were made for
| Garret to come out and give himself
up. but save for one shrill whistle the
hunted man gave no sign that ne
heard his pursuers. About o'clock
this morning, a dozen men were Sc
| lected, and these approached from
| various directions the place where
the baying of the dogs indicated that
| Garret was hiding. When first seen
he was lying near a stump, apparent
ly in a stupor. He made no resist
ance to the officers until he was selz-
ed. when he tried desperately to get
his hands on his gun, but'it was too
late.
The news of Carrots capture
reached Sumter shortly afterwards, a
telephone message conveying the in
formation to police headquarters.
Shortly after 9 o'clock J. G. Robbins,
of the State Penitentiary, who had
charge of the dogs, and R. F. DuBose,
a former guard at the Penitentiary,
made their appearance here and gave
an account of the chase after their
arrival. Robbins stated that he was
loath to bring the dogs as he knew
the ground to be extremely dry owing
to the long drought, but he was pre-
! vailed upon to do so and was very
much pleased with the work done by
them. The dogs had been very slow
at times and at others the fugitive
had to be trailed by Mr.. DuBose, but
the chase was finally successful.
Garret was taken from Mechanics
vile to Bishopville, where he was
lodged in the county Jail. He was re-
ported to be badly lamed, when
found, owing to a fall over stump
in the swamp last night, when he was
being chased by the dogs. A peculiar
incident of the chase was the fact
that the dogs recognized Garret as an
old friend and would not attack him
in the swamp. 1t seems according to
Mr.. Robbins's account that while
serving his term in the Penltentlary'
Garret in a way had charge OF the
animals, often doctoring their
wounds and treating them for their
+! diseases, thus insuring their friend
ship, which came in we'll for him
last night, when he was tralled and
located by them.
When captured Garret was armed
with his double -barrelled shot gun
which, it seems he had never discard
ed and his pockets were filled with
shells loaded with buckshot, lndlcat-
ing that he expected trouble when ne
set out from home Sunday morning.
The gun found in the porch of the
Campbell home was that which young
romnhel1 had grabbed I'D when ne