The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-06-11
MANNING, S. c.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE IL. 1913

prosecution, Tuesday, one of Mr.
Longs attorneys asked him if Pick
ems Gunter did not pass him at the
cotton platform, few minutes be-
fore the shooting took place and give
him a message to deliver to Jake
Lybrand. Mr. Harley denied this
Joe A. Garvin, of Wagner, took the
stand Wednesday morning and testi'
fed that he saw Harley and Gunte1
talking together at the platform
about ten minutes before Gunter ap-
preached Long in front of Hayes
Gunter's store where the shooting
took place, and heard Pickens Gun.
ter say to Harley:
"Tell Mr.. Lybrand the fun's going
to begin"
D. H. Easterly, who served as a
special policeman at Wagner during
a part of the campaign, swore that
while Hugh Long was away from
Wagner after his election to the
general assembly, Pickens Gunter Of
ten met the trains at the depot.
That after Hugh Long shot Gunter
he was overheard as he walked away
from the scene to say that he intend
ed to kill him (Gunter) anyway, as
testified Tuesday by witnesses for the
State, was denied by Butler Smith,
who took the stand Wednesday
morning to tell him at the sound Of
the pistol shots he stepped out of a
store to see Hugh Long standing in
the street few feet from where Gun
ter lay. Long. had his revolver.
Smith said he reached Longs side
first, when he was not more than ten
feet away from the spot where he had
shot Gunter, and took him by the
arm. 81 told him to 60 with me"
said the witness. "He said it
wouldn't do to leave there then. I
insisted, seeing that there was likely
to be trouble, and I urged him away.
He kept his pistol in his right hand
as he walked away, toward Cooks
stable. I do not remember passing
any one" Witness said he could
have heard Long had Long made
such a statement as that credited to
him, as he was nearer to him than
any one else, but that he did not
hear it. He declared that when he
looked back a crowd, armed with
shot guns and pistols, was following.
On cross-eamxinat;on, Mt. Smith
declared that he urged Long away
from the scene Of the shooting for
the sake Of peace, "to save not only
Hugh Longs life, but other lives as
well''. He said he lived then near
Wagner but had since moved, as he
heard and told some of Gunter's
friends that threats had been made
against him because he had saved
Hugh Longs life.
The Morning Session.
The morning session opened with
the testimony of DR.. Frampton Wy
man and Dr.. Hastings Wyman Jr.,
who examined Long when he was
brought to the Aiken county jail.
They testified that Long had a con-
fused wound on the left side of the
head caused by congested blood;
there was also evidence Of blood set
tied under the eyes caused by severe
blows, also confusion and scratches
on the throat caused by mans fin
gers. The defendant was Wednesday
morning examined before the jury,
the physicians declaring afterwards
that there are still evidences on the
scalp Of confused wound. DR.. R.
B. Jennings Of Columbia took the
stand to tell of an examination he
made Of Hugh Long when he newly
elected legislator was carried from
Aiken to the State penitentiary for
safe-keeping when it was feared a
mob would lynch him if he was kept
at Aiken. At that time, declared Dr..
Jennings, Long had bruise on one
side of his scalp and there was discol-
oration beneath both eyes.
The defense introduced Wednes-
day morning testimony to show that
Hugh Long was followed over the
country while making his campaign
last summer.
Robert L. Ho!seback and S. R.
Freeman testified that Pickens Gun
ter, DR.. L. B. Ethredge and "a man
named CAN'T" went to the Warren
Vile campaign meeting and "tried to
get several men to break up the
meeting. An effort was made by
them, the witnesses declared, to howl
Long down when he spoke. Will
Owens corroborated this testimony,
and said he heard Pickens Gunter
during the course of Longs speech
say out loud:
, That's a lie, and if you'll
get out on the ground and say that,
off comes your head"
This remark was occasioned, the
witness declared, by reference made
5y Hugh Long to his political oppo-
nents at Wagner, who, he had de-
clared, had tried to rule him while
he was intendant and had fallen out
With him because they could not do
so.
G. W. Anderson told of the War
~enville occurrence and said that
pickens Gunter threatened Hugh
Long at that time "if he would go
back to Wagner and say that.
The State objected and attorneys
for the prosecution we're sustained by
Judge Gary when attorneys for Long
asked W. c. Fawls of Wagner If
Pickens Gunter did not state to him
that anybody who would vote for