Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-03-24
AGED LADY FOULLY MURDERED
Young Negro Committed Deed
Rus.l from Mob Vengeance.

wndcsville, March 17.-Mrs. NJ.
r. scott, al S0-year-old widow, who,
with her granddaughter Of l3, resid-
ed on her farm one mile north of
here, was brutaiiy attacked while
seated at her ireside Tuesday night
about II o'clock by Charlie Logan, a
young negro. who struck her in the
head with a heavy wrench, iniliCting
an injury from which the aged wo-
Witnesses testified at the CorOncr's
inquest that Logan admitted that he
entered the home with the intention
of putting the Old lady out Of the
way and committing an assault upon
her young granddaughter, but left
before attempting to attack the girl.
Ben Massey, also cOlorcd, is he'd on
suspicion in connection with the mat
ter. The Logan negro, If not both,
was saved from lynChng at the hands
Of an infuriatcd crowd OF citizens by
the cool and determined stand taken
by MAGISTRATE J. G. Huckabee, who
let II be known in unmistakable
terms that he would brook no inter
ference with his carrying out his du-
ties as an officer Of the law. MagiS-
tratc Huckabce placed Charlie Logan
in the custody Of Constable J. NJ
Huckabec, who took the prisoner to
Abbcville Jail in an automobile. La
ter in the afternoon the magistrate e
sent the other negro. Bon Massey, to
Abbcville Jail, this prisoner being
taken on the train by Constable G.
G.. Grant
Crime Carefully Planned.
From testimony adduccd at the in
quest, it appeared thHt the crime had
been carefully planned, and evidence
uncovered prior to the time Logan
nade his confession pointed unmis-
takably to his having committed the
deed. DR.. +. 0. Fitzpatrick and 9th
crs arriving on the scene soon after
the attack upon Mrs. Scott became
known began an investigation of the
premises, with the view 0i unearth-
ing some clue as to who had commit
ted the crime. They had only the
statement OF Mrs. Scott's grand
daughter, Millie Lee Scott, that she
was awakened some time during the
night by the noise Of something fall
ing on the door and looked up from
the bed in time to see some one dart
out the door. 1t appears that the lit
tie girl retired about 10 o'clock and
left her grandmother seated by the
fire smoking a pipe. The next she
knew was when she was awakened
by the noiso i'm tn" room and saw a
man spring through the door into an
adjoining room and her grandmother
lying on the floor bleeding from a
wound III the head.
DR.. Kirkpatrick and others began a
careful scrutiny Of the premises, and
underneath window OF the house
they discovered on the ground a piece
OF freshly split fat pine. The sup
position was that the intruder had
brought this piece Of pine along to
be used as torch in seeing his way
about the house, but that upon ar
riying there and seeing a light burn.
ing in the house threw down the fat
wood and decided to work by the
light that was burning in the dwell
ing. On the ground, underneath the
window, was found indcntations in
the ground, as though they had been
made by the ends OF a ladder set up
against the house. Upon looking at
the weatherboarding OF the house,
just underneath the window ledge,
the investigators saw impressions like
those made by the top ends Of lad
to the theory that the criminal had
entered the window by climbing up a
short ladder set up from the outside.
But upon making an examination OF
the place they could find no ladder.
Had Made Ladder.
After a while tracks leading away
from the house were found. These
tracks were traced across a field and
down TO a house occupied by Charlie
Logan and Ben Massey. The white
men woke the negroes and entered
the house, to find that Ben Massey
was absent and that viii Johnson, n
ncighbor, was there with Logan. At
once the white men began to inter
rogatc them as to what they knew
about tho attack ON tho old lady