The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20
door and keep guard. One of them
did stand in the door, but the other
was near the window and the crowd
was penned up against the door,"

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did stand in the door, but the othe
was near the window and the crow
was penned up against the door,
w. B. Hogan, special deput!
sheriff, escorted from Hyde head
quarters to the committee rooms min
citizens whose votes had been chal
lenged. He was stopped at the doc
by the policemen on watch there
"On Grace men were passed. th'
deputy asserted; Il saw Wingate
Frank Hogan and others allowed tt
enter.
"Chief Cantwell called out to thu
men (the challenged Hyde voters)
Come in you, towards, don't be scar
ed to come in heard several pisto
shots in the room. saw man come
sliding down a pole. When he got tt
the bottom Policeman Quinn and sew
eraI other police officers took holt
of him and dubbed him. / asket
who the man was and was told it wa:
Max Goldman.
George Renters took hold OF
Goldman and tried to protect him
from the policemen. Renters said
Don't strike the man. but the police
raised their clubs. / interfered anc
Policeman Dawson abused me, but
drew my pistol and showed him m!
authority as a deputy. Goldman was
pretty badly beaten and was bleeding
about the head" =.
Goldman's troubles seem to have
started before he left the committee
rooms, from which he departed by
way of a window, balcony and q
telephone pole. One of the Hyde
watchers, John J. Healy, said he was
standing in the doorway between the
two rooms ordered everybody out ex-
cept committeeman.
"Rentiers came out" Healy said,
with Max Goldman behind him.
Willie O'Brien started to strike Gold
man and Renters told him he was
too small for him to strike.
G. Simms Mcdowell saw a man
Jump from. one Of the windows, hug
a pole and slide down. "Just as
soon as. he struck the ground ME-.
said, Il saw policeman
in uniform beat him with his club on
the head several time
G. Jeff Mcdowell, general agent
for the Southern States Life. 1nsur-
ance company former resident or
Columbia-was also a witness to the
clubbing of Goldman by policemen
'I saw Goldman come out of the win
dow, without his hat" Mr.. Mcdowell
said. HE. jumped from. the Neranda.
to a telephone pole and came down to
the street. I a few seconds there was
a large crowd of pilecemen holding
their hands and clubs in the air IN
position to catch him as he came
down. Several policemen. dubbed MIR.
Goldman numerically. 1t was the
most disgraceful manhandling OF a
citizen 1 have ever seen. He was
dubbed and jerked about and car
lied off by the policemen"
Still another eyewitness to the
of Goldman was the rec
:or of st. Luke's Episcopal church;
he Rev. Louis G. Wood. Standing
1T King and George streets, Mr..
Wood heard the shooting upstairs.
Immediately afterward." he said,
'one man, in escaping, climbed down
/ telephone pole. Before he reached
he ground he was seized, and, l am
informed, badly beaten. The crowd
vas so dense and the confusion so
great that I could not see the man
when he was on the ground, but I
saw a club raised while he was being.
pulled fro mthe pole, as if to strike
lin"
John McCrady, a civil eng gineer,
Who was in attendance on the meet
ng as a witness, also beheld the
Goldman incident. "I saw Max Cold
nan standing on the little balcony
Mr.. McCrady said. "Soon afterward
saw him climbing down a telephone
,ole. Before he reached the bottom
le was seized by two pilecemen. He
vas severely beaten over the head
With a club and was bleeding freely.
George Renters, who had shielded
Goldman from O'Brien in the COM
nittee room, was taken outside under
lrrest and reached the street III time
o see Goldman clubbed. 81 saw Maxy
Goldman climbing down police, he
aid. "I saw policeman knock him
n the head with his club as he came
lown." Renters declares O'Brien
attempted an assault on Goldman
several nights ago in King street.
Goldman was bundled into patrol
wagon and taken away under arrest,
,ut was released after giving bail
md having his scalp wounds dressed.
A wild clangor Of fire bells gave
numbers of Charlestonians their first
ntimation that the half expected riot
lad occurred. Somebody in the eX-
itement turned in an alarm.
Harry L. Wilenski, one Of the men
Injured was reappointed by Mayor
trace only the night before the riot
o the position of meter inspector,
inecure he had held for a year and
which it is understood on all sides
vas in part reward for political ser
ices. -,
W. E. Wingate, big Wingate. v
las been for some time regarded as
n unofficial bodyguard Of the mayor.
II cant be positive how many
hots were fired in the committee
oom,'' said ]. Waties Waring. He
vas present at the hearing to repre-
ent certain challenged voters. He
aid that there was heavy move
nent of the men in the anteroom to
he committee room. He did not
NOW who fired the shots.
Conrad Slender, a member OF the
executive committee, described the
light as follows: .
81 was in the hall at the meeting
If the executive committee when the
shooting started. 1t started IN. the
railway and apparently shot was
ired into the committee room. I'M
nediatelv there was great confusion
several shots and presently tusll-
ade of shots. Almost Immediately.
;cw a man named Brothers, who IS
Known to be a Grace partisan, ed
'ancing towards Committeeman NC
Donald. l stood up an d waved him
pack. saying: Stop Then there was
| fusillade of shots fired and / saw
,ne man in a window on the east side
e tho room with three or four men