The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-02-22
THE DEADLY PISTOL.
HEARTS THAT ARE PIERCED BY
UNSEEING HAND.
Brother of Man Shot Down i'm Tim
monsvillc Exposes Pierced Hearts
i'm Far Away California.
Florence Times.


and deadly pistol against his fellow
man and violates the laws Of God
and man when he takes vengeance
into his own hands and slays for
the qualification of pride and passion
might pause if he could count the
cost of the shot. He might hold up
his hand if he could see how far
We winged messenger Of death
went after it had passed through
the offending body of his enemy but
he is blinded by passion and the
blood in r" eye lets him see only
the form of the man who has offended
him. Then weak and sickly
sympathetic jury will say that he
had done no more than they would
each have done in his place, and so
they declare that he is not guilty.
Sometimes the lawyers on the
side of the prosecution will try to
show the extent of the flight Of the
death dealing bullet but the jury is
deaf and blind to that, they will see
nothing but the fact that the man
before them is alive and that he had
done what they might do some day
and they would be glad to stay alive
so they get hold of one of Gods laws
and use it in place Of the law that
was meant to be used in such q
place, and think that they have fol-
lowed the Golden Rule" and done
to others as they would have others
do unto them.
In the following letter to the may
or of Florence asking for a subscrip-
ton to the paper in the town where
the slayer Of his brother will be
tried Mr.. f. r. Williams of Califor-
MIA gives a little light on the flight
of the bullet that killed his brother.
+. f. Williams, on the streets Of
Timmonsvlle not long ago, and he
shows bare to the mayors views but
wounds in other hearts far away but
not so far that the bullet could not
pierce them too with deadly effect.
Only extracts are given because
In some sentences the pen of the
brother gives vent to indignation as
wounded men will to cries or some
times curses in their agony.
MY poor brother left us with his
little family only a short time ago
in jolly spirits as he had just recov-
cred sufficiently from a two years
spell Of sickness to enable him again
to go to work and his wife wanted to
return to .ississippi
There is only two years difference
In our ages and 1 have been with
him almost constantly from baby
hood up to where he left Los Angeles
and l can swear he never knowingly
wronged any man or woman or child.
His record will bear investigation
back to the cradle. l challenge the
COW ard who shot this poor innocent
boy TO show up a clear record for
even a week.
My brother was working hard and
trying to support his wife and babies
who were looking forward to his
coming home and spending a happy
Christmas with them. His poor lit
tie boy 8 years old looked up to his
"padas" for everything and was
counting the days when he would
come home, now the poor littdle or
phan is back there in Mississippi, still
crying and groaning for his poor dad
dy who was shot down
i suppose it was noticed my brother
weapons in his life. He always liv-
Cd an upright christian life so that
he could look any man in the eye
and did not indulge in the cowardly
custom of carrying a pistol. He new
er permitted a week to pass without
writing his mother a cheerful loving
letter, no matter how busy he was,
always on Sunday morning this let
ter reached Los Angeles Now his
mother, filled with grief says, The
mail does not interest me now, my
poor boy is gone"
Please pardon my writing so much
but my feelings get the best Of me
here.
All my brothers folks are Southern
people and have lived in Mississippi,
all their lives, up to a few years ago.
His father and my dad also is an
old Confederate soldier, served all
through the 3 years of the Civil War.
Death at MaycsvilIc.
MaNcsvillc, Feb. 17.-Mrs. Louis
Peoples died at her hoOo about two