The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-10-15
WILL FAIR INCIDENT
AGAIN REPEATED
Young White Stone Woman Claims to
Have Been Threatened by Another

white woman living near White Stone
who preferred charges of criminal as
sault against Will Fair, negro, who !
was subsequently acquitted by jury, |
again aroused the countryside near
White St)ne Friday, September Is, by
alleging taht she had seen negro
crouching in nearby corniie!d and
| by finding a note nailed by the back |
door which threatened to exterminate
the whole family. The authorities OF |
ICherokce county were comm Lnica.ed
with at Gaffney and an automobile
containing bloodhounds and officers
was hurried to the scene. The man
in charge of the bloodhounds refused
to put them on the scent after an IN
vestigation had been made. ii il sal
that the fathcr-in-law of the young
woman and his family intends to move
west but that the young woman de-
sircs to 20 back to Georgia, her
former home.
1t is said that on September 2G
| while the fathcr-in-law and his sons
were away from the house working
in the field. and she and her mother
in-law were in the back yard wash
ing, the young woman looked up and
claimed to see negro standing in
nearby cornfield. She claimed that,
when the negro saw her, he crouch
ed and hid from view.
1t is claimed that the two women
ran into the house by way of the back
door, all other entries to the residence
being locked and otherwise secured;
that, as the younger woman reached
the back door, she saw note nailed
beside 1t. She is alledged to have ex-
claimed:
Wait. here is a note. Let's see
what it says"
1t is said the note was written in
the handwriting of an uneducated
negro, and read substantially as fol-
lows:
I'VE are going to get the whole
d family. So look out y
1t is further claimed that the alarm
was given to the men working in the
field and they communicated with the
Cherokee county authorities in Gaff-
ney, asking them to bring blood
hounds to the scene, instead of mott
Tying Spartanburg county officials.
An automobile, containing Ian
frum Allison, captain of a chain
gang; ID. f. Lipscomb, county super
visor, and j. L. Moorehead, with
pack Of hloodhounds. hurriedly left
Gaffney and went to the scene of the
alledged trouble. When the machine
arrived. the occupants found about
90 men on the spot, but the tracks
or the negro could not be found.
1t is claimed that, after Mr.. ALI
son mad made an investigation, he
told the fatherin-law Of the young
woman that he could not put his dogs
on the trail unless he was assured
that criminal assault had been at
tempted. The father ib-law was in
Sistent that an attempt to trace the
negro be made, but Mr. Allison would
not acquiesce. He claimed that his
dogs always ran down their quarry
and he might get an innocent white
man or negro. The father-in-law,
turther insisting, is claimed to have
told Mr. Allison that he was paying
for the hounds and expected them to
be put on the trail; that -'they had
lost the other negro and wanted to
4
get this one" Mr. Allison replied by
saying that he would take no money,
and would not run his hounds. The
party then went back to Gaffney.
The people living around Glendale
and White Stone say that the negroes
OF that section, since the WEI Fair
trial, Will not go around the resi-
dence occupied by the young woman;
that they give it clear berth.
This same matron, some time aago,
preferred charges against Will Fair,
negro, claiming that he had crimi
nally assaulted her. The negro was
caught at the union station in Spar
tanburg the same day and lodged in
jail. That night mob surrounded the
jail and attacked it with dynamite in
an endeavor to get the alleged at
tempter of criminal assault. Only the
firm stand Of Sheriff White and band
OF deputies prevented a lynching. At
the trial viii Fair was acquitted of