The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-06-18
(By j. Irby Koon)

Winnsboro, June 14.-Three people
were shot to death, one was probably
fatally wounded and half dozen 9TH
ers were more or less painfully hurt
here this morning in battle pre-
cipitated by the bringing of Jules
Smith, a negro to Winnsboro for trial
for alleged criminal assault upon a
white woman of Fairfield county.
The dead are: A. d. Hood, sheriff
of Fairfield county; Jules Smith, the
prisoner, and Clyde Isenhower, rela-
tive of the alleged victim.
j. K. Boulware, a deputy sheriff of
Fairfield county, is probably fatally
shot.
Soon after the tragedy the grand
jury met and returned true bills,
charging murder against Clyde Isen-
hover, who at that time was linger-
ing Oh the point CT death; Ernest
1senhower, his brother; Jesse Morri-
son, a brother-in-law, and James
Rawls, the indictments charging the
murder of Jules Smith.
The inquest into the negro's death
was adjourned until Friday. The in
quest into the sheriff's death will be
held tomorrow.
Both sheriff Hood and Isenhower
were literally shot to pieces. Each
had five or six bullets in his body.
Both were shot several times in the
abdomen as well as in the arms and
hands. Deputy Boulware was struck
but once, the bullet penetrating tha
abdominal cavity and caused what H.
regarded as, an exceedil ,syyalangereffS
wound. Smith, too, was struck bua
once, the bullet taking effect just to
the left of the navel.
Many Slight Wounds
Earle Stephenson, another deputy,
was shot twice through the left arm,
near the elbow. One of the bullets
severed the artery in the arm, and
young Stephenson suffered terribly
from the loss of blood before the
tourniquet was applied to staunch
the flow. Stevenson and Isenhower
were taken to Chester late this af-
ternoon by S. w. Pryor, M. d., for
surgical attention in the Pryor hos
pital. Isenhower died at 1890
o'clock tonight.
A special train came here from
Columbia Immediately after the
shooting and sheriff Hood and Deputy
Boulware were rushed to Columbia
for operations the former dying early
tonight.
In the fusilladei many shots went
wild, striking a bystander here and
there, or burying themselves in the
walls of the building. On the stairway
up which Sheriff Hood led his pris-
Oner, the wall is splothched with
blood and the plastering is bullet
drilled. Policeman Haynes, with Sher-
iff Hood was leading the negro up
the stairway, hesitated just moment
when the firing began, and three or
four bullets were plugged in the wall
on either side of his head
b. r. Beckham, a special deputy,
was shot through the calf of the right
leg. K. l.. Kelly, magistrates con-
stable was hit in the thumb and arm.
William Morrison, brother-in-law of
Clyde Isenhower, has a bullet beneath
the scalp. Two bullets punctured the
left leg of J. w. Richardson's trous-
ers below the knee. One of these left
small mark on the opposite ankle
Alec Broome, another deputy, was
struck on the ankle by bullet going
off at tangent.
~. Il. oInlIn, VINO was standing IN
the court yard, was struck in the
side by bullet, which had spent it's
force against one of the large COL
umns of the portico.
w. l.. Holly, Judge of probate,
a\so had narrow escape. Mr.. Holly
was leaning against the door facing
of the lower front entrance to the
court house. When Clyde Eisenhower
had emptied his pistol he ran into the
building, with bullets flying in his
trail. One of these bit a particle from
the brick coping at Mr.. Holly's side,
and. barely brushing his stomach,
buried itself in the opposite wall.
There were not more than four or
five in the attacking party. Since
Smiths arrest two or three months
ago the prisoner had been held at the
State penitentiary from which he was
taken early this morning and brought
to Winnsboro by Sheriff Hood and
eight deputies. AS a matter of pre-
caution 10 or IL others had been
sworn in to assist in the delivery of
the prisoner to the court. When the
two automobiles arrived from Colum-
bia the machines were switched into