The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-29

of the whole affair but for the fact
that his son. C.. ]. Lyon, Jr, was on
the street along which the party came
in, and he ran home and notified his
father, the sheriH. The jaii1T is alec
night watchman, at the pumping sta
| tton and while his wife and children
were in the Jail he was at his work
more than half mile away.
Sheriff Lyon jumped into his shoes
withcnt socks, and ran for the jail.
On arriving there the front OF the Jail
was guarded and he ran around to the
bi,ck. This too, was guarded by four
MEN with shotguns who stood and cali
| co on the sheriff to halt. Just then q
| very powerful man stepped up and
| threw his arms about the sheriff pin
| ming down his arms. The mob was
| already in the jail.r
After the negro was taken, out they
! started TO take him up the Due West
| road. Members of the mob. told the
sherin that they did not intend to kin.
| the negro: The sheriff followed them
atter getting DR.. Pressly to,tgo with
him. The party halted near Long
1 Galte cemetery and carried .s5tit their
threat. Something was said about
kiilihs thelhegro and the sheriR went
np and toIH them they had said they
would not Kill him and they shouldn't
do 1t. He took the negro in charge
| placed him in an autottnobile and
| brought him back to iiail, where DR..
Pressly dressed his wounds
The crowd was perfectly orderly
except for breaking into the jail and
| holding up the sheriff at the point
of shot guns.
A reporter o fthe Press and Banner,
together with several other gentlemen
talked to the ngro Yesterday. rs
He said that he had just gone down
into swamp to tie up his mothers
COW. and that he ran up on tho rail-
| road Ia front of the young lady and,
J, she screamd; that an old negro named
G-ifln came along, and the girl said
something to him and that Griffin went
up to Honea Path and told the white
people that he had frightened the
voting lady. He said he went home
and went't someone's house to get /.
floor mop and carried 1t back home,
and then he went down to Mr.. Melvin
Ashley's. He says his father came to
him there an told him to hide In Mr.:
Ashley's barn and some white men
came there while he was In the barn
and Mrs. Ashley told them to get away.
| from the place. He said, after the
white people LETT. hfs father came to
the barn and brought him 81 and tolo
him to go to the BiRby woods and he
wonld meet him there after dark; that
his father met him in the woods ana
told him to go to Ninety Six where
an uncle lived and he would bring him
/ more money there. He says ne
walked there and that his father came
to Ninety-Six next morning and
brought his valiss and $50 more which
| he said he had gotten from Mr.. Philips
OF H5nea Path. He says Ills father
bought him ticket to Gainesville,
Fla, and that he brought the ticke;'
and yalise down to Dysons, below
Ninety-Six. He said he went to
Gainesville and a policeman was wait
ing for him at the station and arrested
him as soon as he arrived Sheriff
! Ashley OF Anderson went down for him
and brought him back delivering him
to the authorities In Abbeyille t
The father Of the negro was in tho
city yesterday and he denies pretty
huCU GNSEySilt48 tltt5 10y says. ne
says he gave him only So ana of Nine
ty Six; and he got fiTe dollars from
Mr., Phillips and gave the boy -. He
failed to explain how the boy could
4 ride to aGinesyiie, Fla, on 81. HS
denied meeting his con In the woods,
where the boy says his father told him
20 hide. after leaving the barn. He al
{. so said that he knew nothing OF the
1 boy being in hiding ct Nr Ashiey's.
John Thomas the accused. Is 2S
years OF age. tail; rather light in color.
4 Though he denies the, criminal intent,
i the girls Screams, the old nenFos tes-
tilony and the fact that ne; d man,
rer up to her. indicate that there, was
q something IN his manner that con.
yincai the girl of his purpose. The
fact that the old negro came Just then
u into view likely accounts for his stop
Il ping II IS said that he made a pref
\ y full coniession Of his p,.rppse 70 his
n VupIoTB NiOauuy Hf5tlt ~
i other very Interesting facts In connec-
Ition with the case that we will nol
! fiuota nncosrn boeAtetf s}t