The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-08-04
SEALED SENTENCE IS
FOUND IN NIX CASE
TO FACE TRIAL FOR HIS
LIFE
A FIENDlSH CRIME
Man Charged With Almost Unbe-
lievable Act Now In Greenville
Once Convicted Here
(From Saturdays Daily

almost unbelievable crime and who
seems to admit part OF the charge, wns
once convicted In the courts Of Ander-
son county but fed the county and
state before sentence could he passed.
III the offi cc OF the Anderson county
clerk OF court n sealed sentantc; now
awaits him for having cou.mitted as
sanlt and battery OF high and aggrh-
rs.aa nature.
The old charge came to llgl,: when
Greenville county authorities inter-
viewed F. F., .,Nunnally. once prosper
ous farmer OF this, section, but now an
inmate of the Greenville county home.
Nunnally says that Nix was RESPONSE
bic for his downfall. caused him to
lose his wife and all his property and
upon one occasion, in company will,
two other men, came to. Nunnally's
house and tried to kill him. This Is
the case in which Nix was convicted
here. and the musty- old court records
In the Anderson Office for the court of
show, that every WORD Nunnally nov;
tells about the case. is true. The re-
cords show that Nix and Bub Brooks
were arrested in this county and CIV
en- trial on charge OF having assault
ed Nunnally and beat him up and evil
dence. OF other witnesses showed that
the charge was a true one. However.
when the jury .refltnHed Ia verdict ef
guilty both the defendants = had /. fed
the country and they had never been
heard OF from that dayisuntil Nix was
arrested In Greenvilfe on the charge
for which he may pay his life. y
4 Pitiful Account.
The following story: taken from the
Grecnville News Of, yesterday, tells
what Nunnally knows of Nix.
Once q prosperous farmer. owner
of !. fine home and q big farm and the
head OF a happy family. but now an
inmate of the Grcenyille county poor
house, w. f. Nunnally, who says he
will be 80 years old Saturday Of this
week. tells pitiful STORY OF his fin
ancial ruin and the'iegtrangement Of
Ills family. all of which he says ]. d.
Nix, the man arrested last Sunday for
incest and murder is responsible.
Seated upon broken down chair
on the lawn facing the poor house.
pausing now and then. to gaze wistful-
ly across the hills, the, aged man,
broken 81 health and spirits, !aid hare
his past to Sheriff Rector and news
paper reporter. The sheriff had gone
to the poor house to secure informa-
tion from Nunnally regarding the past
'of Nix. According to NunnallN a
sealed sentence now awaits Nix In An
derson county. where he was triod and
convicted In his absence. N.x..it Is
said. fed from this section of the
country to Alabama, later going to
Texas and finally toGOklahoma, where
he lived for twenty years or more 4
Twenty Years Ago. =. n ):
T cit was about % years ago, when
trouble first arose between Nix and
me- the old man said. We lived In
the same ne:.hborlloOd about seven
mile: from Greerville. and were al
that time living hut ia few hundred
yards apart. Nix began to pay atten-
tion. to my wife. which I naturally re-
sented. Well-yn, nndsrstand 1.-The
upshot II II was that my wife and r
became estranged. resulting finally In
her leaving me and marrying another
man. She took practically everything
i nad except the land Itself, and calsf
ed most Of my Obi hildreTl; n; fhrn against
me- 4 We. 90 y ~
"The old mans voice wavered as he
reached this point in his story Tears
WcllCu AutO aitS eyes,
".AlonS In the fall, about 1892, !
think 1t was, I had gone; to. Cely's gin
TO see after the ginning iot anne cotton
and there met ]. q. Nix. He said he
was coming to gee md That night,
wanted to do little Trading WIth me,
he SAID, I'told him to- come ahead. u
was late when he GOT there and he,
brought another .neR with him. he
examined my pistol, which was lying
on the mantel nearby, and laid 1t
down after asking me- what q would
take for It, He than 3pi ekess yur thu
shot gun in the corner ana 0ked II
over carefully. setting behind me and
aud near the light. Before q knew
what he was about nd lsed efpe]
bodily from my chAtfs Knocked my
feet from under uies ana caiidtis Tor ~
friend to help him, About this time IA
third man. whose name have ,neVai.I
learned. dashed through the door, from
the outside and the thySa cafried me-
into the yard. Tact 'ssngS tied me-
with q rope and psuSeSdedS 10 beat me-
They used the butt end I'm scowhide]
whip. and left me pm tho Krnurd
almost dead. II <,Ss;ssss .A
W Again the old snann Eotch apas seT-
ed. and he looked saspesfsy Into ths|
faces OF his hearers most IS sliillr