The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-27
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF
FAIR PLAY TROUBLE
THIS REPORT STATES THAT
NEGROES WERE BEATEN
UNTIL DEAD.
WERE DRUNK.
Story from Walhalla To a Green
vile Paper Goeos Into
Detail.

The following account OF the recent
trouble at Fair Play when two OF
more negroes were killed and several
wounded and some four or i've white
men wounded was sent out from Wal.
halla and published in the Greenvillc
Daily Piedmont of last Thursday:
No official information has as We,
Deen given out as to the deplorable
tragedy that took place heal Fair PIa,
during Sunday as the result OF which
TWO negroes, Green Gibson and his
son George, are dead and a third. Tom
Spright. is said to be seriously injur.
ed. having been beaten up. Spright Is
In the hands of Sheriff Sidney John.
son or Hart county, Georsia, who Is
keeping him safely until the trouble
at Fair Play blows over.
Detailed information rage riding thc
horrible affair is hard to get and there
are nan rumors concerning the trou-
PIE. from sources deemed reliable,
this information Is given:
1t seems to be the general op,n;on
that whiskey is at the bottom Of the
whole CHASTITY AFFAIR. While the kill
ing or Green Gibson took place IN The
afternoon of Sunday the beginning OF
Tue trouble was early r. the morning
wnen woodrow Campbell, who lives
near Iownville, went TO the home of
rom Spright, awakening him and
.eiiins him, Get Up from there and
lets go to Georgia." Tie negro de-
INJURED. but he was taken ANYWAY
and it is said that the white man
compelled three negro men to go along
and do the beating of Tom Sp?jght,
Inc crowd seemed to Increase in size
as the party moved toward Georgia
Whlle the angry crowd wa3 standing
In the road near Knox bridge. Georoe
Gibson and his brother came alonr In
a buggy and asked the white men IN
let them pass. They informed the re-
groes thai they knew when to let tEem
so on. About this .ime one of the
white men walked up to the tuegv in
winch the negroes were riding and
said: We want this one," ,erkirt
george Gibson from the buggy and
hitting him over the head with pistols.
he and Tom Spright were carried
across the bridge to the Georgia side
and the negroes were whipped Nv the
three negroes brought along by Camn.
BELL being given in the ueighborhood
OF 300 to 400 lashes each with ueey
traces. They would whip que ,while
and make the other stand a.ide and
get sore, rs they said, and ihen win
nim again. Finally both negroes fell
exhausted.
The negroes were carried by white
friends to the barn Of Mack Craw-
ford, about a quarter of a mile away,
but died some time during Sunday
night. Spcight also spent the night
In Mr.. C~rawford's barn, In the mean
time. the young Gibson negro. who
was accompanying his brother George
turned his buggy around and went
back for his father, Green Gibson,
who lived on Allen Marret.s place. The
boy and his father soon returned with
shot guns to the bridge, where the
men We're still engaged ON the opposite
side OF the river in beating George
Gibson and Tom .Spright. Green
Gibson, the father ef George Gibson,
and his younger soa opened fire on
the crowd with shot guns while they
were still beating George Gibson.
Some 20 or 30 shots were exchanged
between the Gibsons, who were under
cover. OF the bridge and the white men
or the. Georgia side. The Gibsons fin
ally retreated from the bridge. The
white men followed. In pursuit and
late In the afternoon Green Gibson
was shot to death on the place of
Magistrate Mcclure and his body was
seen by numbers of people who pass
ed, lying out In n cotton field on the
Mcclure place. His shot sun had been
taken away from him and beaten 10
pieces over his head and was living
broken by his rigid form. The body
remained where 1t fell until Monday
night or possibly longer. The white
men who received injuries In the fray
are reported as follows: Magistrate
Mcclure, who Is said to haSs about 80
shot in the face and head; woodrow
Campbell and Marett, both ouiy
slightly wounded by scattering shot.
and John Mcdonald, who Is said to
have one eye, shoI out. Z.
Sheriff John W. Davis OF Occnee.
has been on the scene now for the
past 4S hours. hut no word has come
from him save that at present All IL
quiet in the Fair Play section.
Tom Spright farmed with woodrow
Campbell the past year In Anderson
county and is said to have made a
'goocs crop and had on band at the time
no was taken TO Georgia III bales or
cotton. Green Gibson and his boy are
said to have been hasdswofkirg peace
able negroes. a. A s
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