The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-08
CRAZED WITH DRUGS
Two MULATTO BOYS SHOOT Up
HARRISON, MISS.
Kill SEVERAL PEOPLE

and One Colored Woman is Shot
Down by the Drug Crazed Fiends
Before They Are Cornered in a
House and Killed.
Two drug-craZed mulatto boys,
| brothers, began a reign of murder at
Harrison, Miss, early Sunday morn
ing that ended only after three white
men, three negro men and a negro
woman had been shot to death, sew
eral wounded and the two boys
lynched. The trouble started at about
two o'clock Sunday morning and con-
tinued intermittently until ten
o'clock Sunday, when Walter Jones,
the elder Of the two boys, who start
ed the firing, was lynched just after
| the soldiers arrived. His brother,
Will, had been shot by citizens earl
ier in the day. Soon afterwards per-
sons who had barricaded themselves
in their homes began to emerge eau
tiously from their hiding places, and
by noon the town was quiet. No
more trouble is feared.
The dead: Sheriff G. B. Hamnett,
of Jefferson County, shot as he was
leading a posse to where the negroes
were hiding; former Constable Frank
Keinstly, shot at his home after be-
ing called to a door; Claude Free
man, white, OF Fayette, shot at rail-
way station while waiting for train;
Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse
Thompson and Thead Grayson, ne
groes, killed during promiscuous
shooting; Walter and Will Jones, ne
groes, lynched.
Wounded: Orrin ellis, former
sheriff, shot in shoulder and may die;
E. B. Appleby, conductor Of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail-
road, shot in breast, leg and arm,
dangerous; William McCaieb, shot in
leg d thigh; William Keinstly. son
of Frank, shot in hand; William Den
mis-, shot in leg; ". c. Bond, shot in
leg.
| After it was assumed the death
list was six the body Of Teller War
ren, a negro, was found in a hut in
the negro quarter where Walter
Jones first began firing. Evidently
Warren was one of the first victims
| but just when he was shot 1t is not
known. Twenty persons were injur-
ed, sixteen Of them being negroes.
None of the negroes were dangerous
ly hurt.
The shooting was started by Wal
ter Jones in the negro quarter, where
the negro woman and Thead GTayson
were shot and killed. Walter then
went to the home of his mother and
aroused his brother, boy eighteen
years old. Together they went
through the main street of the little
town firing at every one in sight. Cit
liens aroused from their slumber by
the shots peered out of the windows
and then hastened to cover.
The two boys, soon after leaving
their home, went to the home OF for
mer Constable Frank Keinstly, who,
when he replied to, their call, was
shot through the head by Walter
Jones. Death was instantaneous.
Keinstly's son, William, grabbed for
a gun when he saw his father fall.
Before he could fire he received bull
let in one of his hands.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
depot is near the Keinstly home and
the two negroes walked in that direc-
ton. A train had arrived from
Natchez just few moments before
and E. p. Appiehy, the conductor,
was standing at the station talking
to ". C. Bond, the fagman. With
out warning the two negroes fired on
them and both fell.
The boys then directed their fire at
Claude Freeman, who was waiting
for a train to take him to his home
at Favette, Miss. He was killed.
The negroes turned to the train, fir
| ing into the cars. Passengers became
panic-stricken. A sleeping car from
Natchez, left standing at the station
until the through train from Mem
phis to New Orleans arrived, was
target for the fire of the negroes.
Many windows were broken but no
one in the car was hurt. The two
slayers made their way to a cotton
seed house nearby. 1t is believed
they then realized the wholesale kill
ing could not long continue without
opposition, and determined to make
their last stand at the seed house.
Frightened citizens by this time
had telephc- ed for Sheriff Hammett
at Fayette. Summoning former Sher-
II ellis to acconintnv him, Hammett
started for Harrison on horseback.
. arriving about ti"e o'clock. A small
crowd Of men were firing into the
seed house, but no ore had ventured
to lead the posse to tie place. TAX
ing few men with him Sheriff Ham
| nett started toward the building.
Seeing this move. it is believed, Wal
ter Jones crept to tall grass nearby,
and as Hammett appeared the negro
fred, killing him instantly. A shot
from the seed house brought down
Gillis.
By this time the countryside had
been aroused and farmers came pour
ing in from every direction. Every
one opened fire on the seed house. A
call was sent to Governor Brewer Tor
troops. Finfing his hiding place too
precarious Will Jones started to run
towards a coal shUte nearby, but had
gone only a few steps when a bullet
ended his life. A rope was placed
around the body, it was strung up to