The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-06-15
Negro on Way to Trial Slain and Alleged Leader
of Attacking Party Fatally Shot.
THE GRAND JURY TAKES IMMEDIATE ACTION
Though Mortay Wounded, Sheriff Hood Takes Man
of Attempted Criminal Assa ut Into Court Room
He Falls Dead in Dock.

his stomach, up the steps of the
court house and into the room and
pushed him into tie dock before he
succumbed. AS he fell to the floor
he said to Solicitor Henry, "They
have got me at last" The negro pris-
oner lived only about ten minutes.
Sheriff Hood, Deputy Sheriffs j. r.
Boulware and B. r. Beckham were
taken to Columbia on a special train.
reaching there about 1880 o'clock.
operating table several hours and
eighteen perforations were found in
his intestines. He was given every
attention, but his condition from the
first was hopeless, and he died to-
night at 1850 o'clock Deputy Boul-
ware has only a fighting chance for
recovery, the bullet having lodged
in the pit of his abdomen.
ISENHOWER SHOT SIX TIMES.
Clyde Isenhower, said to be the
principal in the fatal tragedy, and
Deputy Sheriff Earle Stevenson were
taken to Chester on the afternoon
train. DIR. S. w. Pryor, their physi-
clan, said that Isenhower had been
shot six or seven times, and had
thirteen openings in his body. Deputy
stevenson will probably lose his left
arm.
The other deputies received only
slight wounds. Ernest Isenhower. n
| brother of Clyde Eisenhower. and
Jesse Morrison. brother-in-law
were arrested this afternoon and
lodged in Jail, charged with the
shooting. Other arrests are expected
to follow. The grand jury has taken
charge of the situation and is making
sweeping and rigid investigation
Foreman j. III. Coleman and his asso-
| ciates listened with serious attention
this afternoon during the charge nv
Judge wilson and the general opin-
ion is that those responsible for the
aHalr are going to have to answer
for it,
Clyde Isenhower, said to be the
principal in the shooting, was far
mer, and resided in the Wartereo
section, about seven miles from here
/ He has a large number of brotbers
one OF them, Ernest, who is in iail
charged with taking part in the at
TACK, has been teaching school in
Clarendon county for two wears An
| other brother is a rural noIicema,
another town policeman here and
still another pastor of a string n,
baptist churches in this countv
/ Clyde Isenhower was put in the bae.
gage car OF the north-bound trai,,
'his afternoon and taken to a hospit
al In Chester. He was accomnaniad
oy MS wife. His aged mother was in
tears when the train pulled out Ry
his side on another cot was Eor,e
stevenson, one of the deputies who
had helped defend the prisoner
pieeoing from the bullet wounds in
MS left arm. Jesse Morrison the
brother-in-law, is said tn he from,
Great Falls, in Chester county.
STRONG CONDEMNATION.
The people of Winnsboro ar,
strong in their condemnation of the
affair. and are demanding a vigorous
prosecution of the guilty parties
| They say that it has put a stain on
their town, long known as a place
where law and order prevailed and
proud of their untarnished record in
the past. They declare that the moi
was composed of less than half .
dozen, none of whom were Winns.
boro people. They do not hesitate to
say that the whole thing as planned
conspiracy which they can find has
only been paralleled by the HillsvilIe
Va, tragedy.
The shooting took place at IL
o'clock this morning and by noon the
I townspeple were possessed of their
accustomed calm. a seemingly deadly
calm which foretold determine.