The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-05-20
DEGENERATE FATHER
DEALS DOUBLE DEATH
NJ. L. GARRETT, AFTER BLOODLY
DEED, AT BAY IN SWAMP.
Kills SOn-In-LaW And Parent-Releas.
ed From Penitentiary After Sem
tence Unspeakable Crime.

BlShopvllle, May l8.-John H. Camp
bell and Aaron Campbell, his son,
were killed today by NJ L. Garrett,
since Friday the father-in-law Of
Aaron Campbell. After firing the fatal
shots Garrett dragged his daughter, a
bride of three days, to the swamps a
few hundred yards away and there de-
fies the body of men that soon sought
his capture. Garrett only eight
months ago completed a term of two
years in the penitentiary after convic-
ton of charge Of having illicit re-
lations with his daughter, the girl that
figures in the double tragedy of to-
day.
T ! Late tonight the hunted man is
surrounded by posses, aggregating
probably $50 men. The net is slow
ly tightening and as the hunters are
aided by bloodhounds from the State
penitentiary and the State farm his
capture seems certain. The dogs
picked up the trail this afternoon and
followed it until nightfall.
CARROTS daughter eluded her ia
ther and escaped She was arrested
by Sheriff Robert Muldrow of Lee
county, who is on the scene, and was
brought to the Bishopville jail by E.
N. Austin, Bishopvilles chief of po-
lice.
Will Fight to Death.
According to the girl, her father
has announced his determination not
to be captured alive He is said to
be heavily armed, having the gun
| with which the two Campbells were
killed and revolver with sack filled
with ammunition.
1t is believed that the hunt has
been suspended until daybreak when
it will be resumed. With Garrett de-
termined rot to be taken alive and
the sheriff's posses no less determin-
ed to bring him from the swamp, the
Lee county citizens tonight were sur
rounding the little space OF swamp
that separates the fugitive from his
pursuers and waiting for the light OF
day.
Garrett was released from the pen
itentiary at Columbia July Is, 1912,
after serving two years for the un-
speakable offense for which he was
convicted. Last Friday this daughter
and Aaron Campbell were married
and took up their abode at the home
of John H. Campbell on the Rose Hill
plantation, 13 miles from Bishopville.
Garrett lives at Dalzell, some Is or
II miles away.
A Morbid Jealousy.
Only the bare details of the shock
ing affair have reached this town,
although many have gone from here
to the scene of the double killing and
the ensuing man hunt. 1t is believed
that the tragedy is the result of the
marriage Friday Of Aaron Campbell
and the daughter who had been
abused by Garrett.
Garrett is said to have gone to the
Campbell home about o'clock this
afternoon and finding the elder
Campbell on the veranda shot and
killed him. Entering the house, he
found Aaron Campbell and his young
wife. Then Garrett, it is said, shot
his on-in-law to death and, catching
his daughter by the hair, dragged her
to the swamp hardly more than 100
yards away.
The 1S-year-old bride-widoW is said
to have declared that after the double
killing her father told her his plan
was to kill the two Campbells, secure
some money and leave the country
with her.
AS the news was circulated posses
began to gather and Sheriff Muldrow
went to the scene. For the chase
dogs we're secured from both the pen
itentiary and the State farm. So sue
cessfully was the trail wollowed that
plays America" the people shake
hands with each other and their