The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-06-20
JiILER AYERTS LYNCHING.
Single Handed, FOilS Plans of Cole
ton MOb.-PrisOner Charged with
Threatening Whites.


jail here on Friday night just came
to light this morning. On account OF
the taciturnity of the officers of the
law, the attempt to take Obbie Boges,
colored, from the Jail and lynch him,
was not made public until this morn
ing, after the prisoner had been trans
ferred to the penitentiary, in Colum-
bia, for safe keeping.
Lucas Padgett, dep1ty sheriff of COL
Teton county and keeper of the jail,
lad quite stirring time with the
would-be lynchers, when in the early
hours of Saturday morning, crowd
of about fifty came to the jail and,
by sending forward one of their num-
Der who was we'll known, received
admission into the jailer's quarters of
the prison.
Deputy Protects Prisoner.
Threatening to enter the room,
where the wife of the jailer was sleep
ing in order to secure the keys 10
the cells, the crowd was held back by
the deputy sheriff at the point of the
gun, and seeing the determination of
Mr.. Padgett, they finally desisted in
their efforts and left the jail, but
threatening to return later.
The trouble was started by the ne
gro, Obbie Boges, beating his wife
severely, for which he was placed
jail. The warrant, however, was
withdrawn, and Boges returned to his
home, near Stokes, in this county, to
find that his wife's father, it is said,
had carried his wife away by force
and with her had taken nearly all of
Boges's worldly goods.
Wounds Father-in-laW.
Becoming enraged, the negro went
imms sdiately to the house of his Wife's
father, a. d shot the old man, infiict-
ing painful, but trifing wounds. He
then went to the town of Stokes,
where, acting on the advice of the
magistrate, who had been notified of
the occurrence, Mr.. ]. M. Bennett, a
prominent citizen of that town, at
tempted to arrest him.
The negro resisted, and attempted to
shoot Mr. Bennett. after a struggle Mr..
Bennet secured the gun of the negro,
an old-fashioned muzzle-loader, and
held Boges while the wife of another
we'll known citizen made him fast with
ropes. After being securely tied the
negro made threats against the entire
settlement, stating that he would kill
the entire crowd as soon as he could
get out of jail, and it was these
threats which later led to the at
tempted lynching.
Deputy Sheriff Padgett, being noti-
fed of the arrest of the negro, went
early Friday morning to Stokes, but
on arriving there the person who had
the negro at first refused to turn him
over to the officer, but after much dis
cussion decided to do so, The negro
was then brought here and lodged in
jail, and it seemed that nothing more
would be said or done about the af-
fair.
h At 1 o'clock Saturday morning, OFF,
Ger Fsdgsts8pened the jail door lead
ing into his living apartments, after
someone had knocked loudly thereon.
With a rush, more than ten men en-
tered the apartment. Threatening to
hold the officer while others entered
the room where the jailer's wife was
asleep, the crowd was about to put
such plan into effect when Mr..
Padgett hastily regained the entrance
to the room, and held the crowd back.
Threaten to Blew Up Jail.
Through their spokesman, the crowd
then threatened to blow up the back
of the jail and secure the prisoner by
that method, but Mr.. Padgett urged
them to go away. Seeing the grim de-
termination of the officer, the crowd
left jail, and after holding a con-
ference returned and notified the Off
Ger that no further attempts would be
made that night.
Later on Saturday messages were
received by the officers in which it
was stated that the crowd would try
again on Saturday night. This led to
heavy guard being stationed in the
jail all night, but Sunday came with