The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-23

hhoWh " NIB puebllOueTS the name oil
the person who shot him. Why these
qucstiOncrs have not tried the plan OF
calling OF list Of names to the negro
ami asking him To make some signal
II the ,iEht name was called. is not
known. But If such plan were tried
and IN affirmative answer given by
the negro. il is doubtful il such evil
dence would be competent in Il court
of Justice.
Are Many RumOrS.
Earl Burton is the negro concern
ing whom reports were current in,
Anderson Thursday night to the cf
fcct that he lad been shot and beat
en-, and brought to the Anderson
County Hospital for treatment The
net,ro was not beaten. and he waS\not
brought TO the hospital. A Mr.. Speer
OF Lown.i"svillc was rushed to the
hospital here Thursday night for an
operation and persons confused this
fact with the shooting of Earl Burton,
spreading the report that the negro
had been brought to the hospital for
treatment.
reports were also current in An
derson Thursday night that second
negro had been shot at LowndGsvi.ie.
This report was also erroneous inso-
fur as the. statement that the shoot
ing occurred at Lowndesville. The
facts are that negro was shot in
the leg on the plantation of a white
man living between Iva and Starr.
This was the result OF personal
difficulty between the negro and the
white man who is said to have shot
him. and has no connection whatever
4 4. IL. \ Il
No Whites Arrested.
Reports were rife on the streets
yesterday that there had been other
arrests. including white people, in
connection with the murder of Mrs.
Scott. AS Il matter of fact but one ar.
rest has been made since Charlie
Logan and Ben Massey were placed
under arrest the d.. of Mrs. Scott's
murder, and this / on is Will John
son. who was arrested yesterday and
carried to Abbeyillc Jail by Magistrate
j. G. Huckabce and assistants. Will
johnson is the negro who spent the
night with Charlie Logan the night
Mrs. Scott was murdered
In conversation over long distance
telephone late yesterday afternoon
Magistrate Huckabee told The Intel
ligencer that no white people had
been arrested in connection with the
affair. AID 40 other arrests had been
made with the exception of that OF
Will Johnson.
Ugly RumOrS Abroad.
AS is usual in all cases Of this kind,
various ugly rumors are afloat. In
fact. one can hear almost anything he
wants to hear about the murder
Stories are going the rounds that
white people are mixed up In the kill
ling of Mrs. Scott, and that the negro.
or negroes, who did her to death were
paid to do so by negroes. One report
went SO fur as to say that one of the
negroes had confessed that white peo-
pie had paid him $50 to put Mrs.
Scott out Of the way.
So far as evidence bearing out these
reports is concerned, the reports are
as empty as the idle wind. There are
number of people in close touch with
the case who believe that the death
of Mrs. Scott was the result Of con-
spiracy, and there are some who be-
lieye that all the facts in connection
with hoe death have not yet been uE-
covered. But SO far as there being any
evidence In hand so far to hear out
these rumors, there is nothing to it.
Theories Of, Shooting.
OF course, every one has his theory
of the shooting of Earl Burton. Some
have advanced the theory that Bur-
ton was shot by some person WHO
was afraid that the negro might talk
andjtell something about the murder
of Mrs. Scott that would impiicate
him, the person firing the shot. There
are scores OF other theories advanced
the mysterious affair. but
theories are not solving the puzzle
and a great many of them are SO
Ridiculous as TO be almost disgusting.