Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-12-30
JOHN MCDONALD TALKS SOME.
Gives His Version of Fair Play Affair.
No Arrests Yet.
(Anderson Mail, 2Sth.D

the Fair Play riot, which occurred
Sunday afternoon week ago, died
IN the Hartwell (Ga.) Jail last night.
The dead now number three, accord
ing to authentic Information, and an
| other negro, Will Gibson, has disap-
| peared. 1t is believed that he has
gone to Walhalla. The known dead
are Tom Spight, Green Gibson and
George Gibson.
John Mcdonald, who participated
in the shooting affray, and who was
shot in the right eye, has come to
| Anderson for treatment. He is now
under the care Of DR.. w. II. Nardin.
Mr.. Mcdonald talked Interestingly
| of the shooting to representative Of
the Daily Mail. He stated that he
and William (Coon) Mcclure, Wood
row Campbell, Cal Kay, Will Kay and
Gus Jones proceeded to administer
whippings to Tom Spight, who at
| tempted to set fire to Mr.. Campbell's
barn, and to George Gibson, who had
I iNololSu dI lSSL anu WHO was wanted
| for carrying concealed weapons and
on other charges.
I'VE carried Spight and Gibson
| four or five miles, down to within
200 or 800 yards Of Knoxs Bridge,
and on the South Carolina side of
| the river we whipped the two ne
groes, declared Mr.. Mcdonald.
| Just as we had finished the job, and
were getting ready to go back home,
Paul Marett drove up in his buggy.
He was not present when we whip
| ped the negroes. He was on his way
to see his girl, or somebody, and
stopped when he saw us. Soon after
Marett Joined us Green Gibson, ia
ther OF George Gibson, and four or
five other negroes opened fire on us
with shotguns. The negroes had fol-
lowed us from McClure's place, about
1--WE miles away. They surprised us
and got within 25 or 80 steps from
us before they began shooting. The
negroes had shotguns. Green Glib
son had two guns. We had pistols
and we returned the fire.
while the shooting was going On
Spight and the Gibson negro, whom
we had whipped, scampered down
and across KnoX's Bridge into Geor-
gIa. Neither one of these two ne
groes had been shot; they had been
whipped. Gibson died on the Geor-
gia side some time later and Spight
was captured and taken to the Hart
county jail, where he died last night.
Green Gibson and Will Gibson
were wounded by our shots. Green
Gibson ran four or five miles back
to Mr.. McClure's place and died that
night from the wounds. viii Glib
son was shot through the thigh, and
| believe he and the other negroes
who participated and who were not
wounded went on to Walhalla. They
at any rate"
The white men wounded are John
Mcdonald, who may lose his right
eye, No. 6 or 7 shot having been
lodged in the eye; William Mcclure,
who received between 25 and 80 No.
or shot in his face and hands;
Woodrow Campbell, who was shot in
the face and who was struck with
three or four shot IN the thigh and
by like number in the hand. and
Paul Marett, who was hit by about
80 shot, the shot scattering from his
neck down to his knees. Will and
Cal Kay and Gus Jones were not
wounded.
Mr.. Mcdonald had a telephone con-
versation with Sheriff Sid Johnson,
Of Hart county, Sunday night. The
sheriff stated that warrants for the
arrest Of John Mcdonald, William
Mcclure, Woodrow Campbell Cal
Kay, Gus Jones and Paul Marett.
charging murder, had been handed
him for service. The service Of the
warrants will be delayed temporarily
until further investigation. Mr.. Nc
Donald AYERS that the whipping of
Spight and George Gibson was ad-
ministered on the South Carolina
side Of the river, although the deaths
Of the two negroes occurred on the
Georgia side. The warrants are for
the murder Of George Gibson. They
were issued several days ago. when
the cOrOner'S iury inuuirad info cih
sons death. 1t is presumed that
similar warrants will be issued be-
Cause Of the death Of Snight