The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-28
NEAR LYNCE4ING
NEAR ABBEVHLE.
Sheriff Lyon Taken Unawares By
Men Who Took Negro and
e MutiEassA Him
bbeyille Press and Banner.

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Monday night at about 12: so o'clock
a party Of some hundred men or moresl
flSd Into hbbeville in Duggies and au !
ton6Riles 10 take John Thomas. tho
tlsKIp PcGlseu OF attempted assault on
q l4tye9r=6ld white girl near Honeai
PATH ht~fiom the county jail.
ShsriR Lyon lives on the opposite
side sof; tie esquarc from the jail and
would have been in blissful ignorance.
Of the whole affairs.but forstas fact
that his bon, G. J. Lyon, Jr, was on
the street along which the party came
lsissssisais Do Efan home and notified his
iatneT. the sheriff. Tae jailer is also
nlght watchnian at the pumping sta
tlon 9nd While his wife and children
were In the Jail he was at his work
more THAN half mile away.
%Sherin Lyon jumped into his shoes
wsthci1t-@ socks, and ran for the jail.
On arriving there the front of the iail
was guarded and he ran around to the
back. This too, was guarded by four
men With shotguhs who stood and CALI
ed on the sheriff to halt. Just then a.
very powerful man stepped up and
threw his arms about the sheriff pin
ming down his arms. The mob was
already In thesHail. 4
=, After the. negro was. taken out they
started to take Him up the Due West
Tead! MembeTst of the mob told the
sheriff that they did not intend to kali
the; negro. The aheriff followed them
AFTER getting Dr. Pressly to go with.
him. The party. halted near Long
Cane Cemetery and carried ont their
thfeat:3 Something was said about
killing the negro and the sheriff went,
np and told 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 automobile and
brought him back to Jail. where DR..
Pressly dressed his wounds =.
The crowd was perfectly orderly
except for"breaking into the jail and
holding up the sheriff ut the point!
Of -shos guns.
Areporter o fthe Press and Banner,
together with several other gentlemen
ta1ked to- the ngro Yesterday. |.
He said that he had just gone down
m1toSa swamp to tie5 up his mothers
COW, and that he ran{up on the rain
road tns4font o. the Young lady, ana
shs screamd; that,an old negro named
Grimm came along, and the girl said.
something to him and that Grimm went
UP TO SHonea- Path ransf told the white
people that he had frightened; the
young lady. He said he went home
and went TO someone's house to get ~
floor mop and carried IL hack home
and then he went down to Mr.. Melvin
Ashley 'si He seys his atherSeam to
him there an told him to hide in. MFR.
Ash hleg's ! barn and some white men
came there while he was in the barn
and Mrs. Ashley told them to get away
.ff0ntSS place. 4e SAID after the
las1Yite obie leffss a.lRfs fafIlaf scama itns
the barn and brought him 80 and TOLD
/ him to so 10 the Bigbx woods and he
! Tp1ld tleet him there after dsrgS that
hiS father met him In the woods ang
| foId I1n to 30 to Ninety-5iy Wnerc
an utscle lived and he would bring him
more money there. He says he
walked there and that his father came,
to Ninety-Six next morning and
brought his yalise and $50 more which,
he said he had gotten from Mr.. Phillips
OF Honea Path. He says his father
bought him "a ticket,to Gainesville,
Fla and ihat he brought the. ,dcse;
and val sse down 30 v Dysons, below
Ninety Six He said ne went to-
Gainesville and policeman was wait
ing. for him ct the station and arrested
him saS. 5S1n as be- arrived. Sheriff
Ashley of AMI Aerson went down f0rfhfniI
and brought him back delSYsFihg him
to the authorities In AbbeSfile.s ~ lyI
3 The father OF the negro tFds IN tiig
city vest rsay and he denies bsettp
much hing the bDy Eays FaF
Rays hj ave him sIY 30 aIid at Nine
ty Six; and he got ave dollars from
Mr. PHILIPPE and gave the boy Sa, He
faalsd. TO explain how the boy could
ride tO- RGineSYil ile,- IF Ia, on 81: - HSss1
denied meeting his son In the wopdss
where the boy says his father told hirIs
to hide, after leaving the barb. 3 He all
Aps aid that he knew not hing Of the
hoy being In hiding at Mf. Ashley's. q
John Thomas, the accused, is %
fsars OF age. tall, rather light in color
iyiiopEh he. denies che criminal ihtants
tie girls screams the old Iegro,s tes-
ltsmony nd The fact that he, d man.
ran up to her, indicate that there was
concerning ID his manner that consI
yiIicad th~ Sirl of his purpose. The
ss;ycs that sae old negro came DUST then
iht0 lew tiBklv eeedunts for his stop
ping. 1t, IS said that he .made q pref
u 9iIl- con- session of, his purpose TO his
captorS Monday night and lie told some
other yefs ateresting fsets Ii conn
tied with tlle case that viii not
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