The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-05-21
M. L. Garrett Kills SOn-in.
: law and Latter's Father.
CAPTURE AFFECTED
AFTER LONG SEARCH
Garrett had just Finished Serving a
Term Of Two Years in the Peniten-
tiary for Having Illicit Relations
with his Daughter-Jealousy Bottom
of this Trouble.

Bishopville, May 1S.--John H.
Campbell and Aaron Campbell, his
son, were killed today by M. l.. Gar
rett, since Friday the father-in-law
of Aaron Campbell. After firing three
fatal shots Garrett dragged his daugh-
ter, bride of three days, to the
swamps a few hundred yards away
and there defies the body of men that
soon sought his capture. Garrett on
ly eight months ago completed a term
Of two years in the penitentiary after
conviction of charge of having illicit
relations with his daughter, the girl
that figures in the double tragedy of
today.
Late tonight the hunted man is
surrounded by posses, aggregating
probably $50 men. The line is slow
ly tightening and as the hunters are
aided by bloodhounds from the State
penitentiary and the State farm his
capture seems certain The dogs
picked up the trail this afternoon
and followed it until nightfall.
CARROTS daughter eluded her fa-
ther and escaped. She was arrested
by Sheriff Robert Muldrow of Lee
county, who is on the scene, and
was brought to the Bishopville Jail
by e. N. Austin, Bishopville Chief of
police.
Will Fight to Death.
According to the girl, her father
has announced his determination not
to be captured alive. He is said to
be heavily armed, having the gun
with which the two Campbells were
Killed and revolver with sack filed
with ammunition
1T is believed that the hunt has
been suspended until daybreak when
it will be resumed. With Garrett de-
termined not to be taken alive and
the sheriff's posses no less determin-
ed to bring him from the swamp, the
Lee county citizens tonight were sur
rounding the little space of swamp
that separates the fugitive from his
pursuers and waiting for the light of
the day.
Garrett was released from the pen
itentiary at Columbia July 16, 1912,
after serving two years for the un-
speakable offense for which he was
convicted. Last Friday this daughter
and Aaron Campbell were married and
took up their abode at the home of
John II. Campbell on the Rose Hill
plantation, 13 miles from Bishopvllle.
Garrett lives at Dalzell, some 16 or
II miles away.
A Morbid Jealousy.
Only the bare details of the shock
ing affair have reached this town, al
though many have gone from here to
the scene Of the double killing and
the ensuing man hunt 1t is believed
that the tragedy Is the result of the
marriage Friday of Aaron Campbell
and the daughter who had been abus-
ed by Garrett
Garrett is said to have gone to the
Campbell home about 1 o'clock this
afternoon and finding the elder
Campbell on the veranda shot and
killed him. Entering the house, he
found Aaron Campbell and his young
wife. Then Garrett, it is said, shot
his son-in-law to death, and, catching
his daughter by the hair, dragged her
to the swamp hardly more than 100
yards away.
The l -year-old bride-widow is
said to have declared that after the
double killing her father told her
his plan was to kill the two Camp"
bells, secure some money and leave.
the country with her.
AS the news was circulated posses
began to gather and Sheriff Muidlow
went to the scene For the chase dogs
were secured from both the penten-
tiary and the State farm. So success
fully was the trail followed that the
daughter came from the swamp and
was arrested by the sheriff Garrett
refused to come out. AS the girl is
quoted as saying her father will not
he taken alive, 1t is believed that the