The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-07-06
NEGRO STILL EELD
IN PENNSYLVANIA
GOV. BRJMBAUGH WITHDRAWS
REQUISITION FOR JOE GRANT
Attorney General and Governor Wire
Pennsylvania Officials Con-
cerning Matter.

withdrawn the requisition warrant IS
sued by former Governor Tener of
Pennsylvania for the return to South
Carolina of Joe Grant, alias Fred
Brown, a negro, who has been indicted
by the grand jury of Edgefeld county
for the alleged murder Of ]. F. burst
at Johnston, April IA, 1906. Counsel
for Grant Lave made extraordinary
efforts to keep him out of South Caro-
lima, their major plea being that if
brought here for trial he might be
lynched The federal district States
court of appeals of the same State re-
fused writs of habeas corpus to Grant,
and the case was taken to tie United
States supreme court, which sustained
the lower courts. The mandate of the
supreme court was forwarded to the
United States circuit court of ap-
peals at Philadelphia June 80.
Thomas H. Peoples, attorney gener-
al, this morning wired the attorney
general of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg
requesting q hearing. TIE wire says:
Have just been advised by Asso-
ciated Press report that Governor
Brumbaugh has withdrawn reQuisition
warrant for Fred Brown held at
Philadelphia and wanted in South Car
olina for murder. This office wishes
to be heard and asks that you kindly
arrange for Gearing before the gov
ernor and have prisoner held pending
hearing. Please advise me by wire if
hearing will be granted and date of
same"
Governor Manning's Wire.
Governor Manning this morning
wired Governor Brumbaugh as fol-
lows:
81 respectfully ask that you grant
the hearing in the Fred Brown case
asked by Attorney General Peoples of
your attorney general"
When the attorney generals Office
became cognizant of the action of
Governor Brumbauga, George Bell
Zimmerman, solicitor of the 11tn ju-
dicial circuit, who represented the
State at the hearings before former
Governor Tener in 1913, was commun-
icated with and was advised to be pre-
pared to return to Pennsylvania
should Governor Brumbaugh grant a
hearing. "A deputy from Edgefeld
county was prepared to leave within
the next few days to bring Grant back
to South Carolina for trial.
G. Edward Dickerson, counsel for
Grant, in lis petition to former Gov
ernor Tener, contended that, because
of public utterances of former Gov
ernor Blease, if the negro was brought
to South Carolina for trial his life
would be put in jeopardy because of
the probability of lynching. To his
return were appended newspaper clip
pings giving extracts from Ex-Gover-
nor Blease's Richmond speech, his
offer of reward for a portion of the
body of Richard Henry Austin, tie
negro VINO was alleged to have muir
dered Fred Bedenfeld and others in
BarnweH county during 1913, and
other alleged radical utterances Of the
former chief executive. A man giving
his name as DR.. William A. Sinclair
and who swore during the habeas cor
pus hearing in Philadelphia that he is
native of Georgetown, this State,
testified as follows in describing the
alleged treatment of negroes in South
Carolina:
Sinclair'S Testimony.
"I know they were treated very bru-
tally whilst I was down there, whilst
1 was in the city. But, your honor, if
l may say it, it would be utterly i'm
possible for this man to have a fair
trial in South Carolina. There is not
a colored man in the county of Edge
field that would dare come to that
court house if that man was being
tried to say one single word in his
favor, not single one. If he dared do
it, he wouldn't stay in the town over
night. If 1e did he would be dead in
the morning"
Joe Grant, wien he lived in John
ston, was barber. It is alleged that
Grant shot J. L. burst to death in
Grants barber shop On the night Of,
April IA, 1905! The negro made his es-