The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-12-30

van AAs~AAAS VI AAAo 0SSSIO VI tAC oL1Suld
which attached to it. during the admin
istration of his predecessor, the motor
ious Cole Blease. Governor Manning,
in statement given out to the press
on the day before election, says:
II was out of the State when the
Abbeville lynching occurred. AS soon
as l learned of it I called Solicitor R.
A. Cooper and Sheriff R. M. Burts of
AbbeVille to the Office and called on
Coroner F.. w. R. Nance of Abbeville
County to comply with the law and fur
nish me with copy of the testimony
taken at the coroner's inquest. I found
that the coroner held an inquest, but
took no testimony.
Solicitor Cooper and Sheriff Burts
came to my Office and requested them
to secure the names of all parties con-
nected with this affair, those who
took part in the whipping, in the TAX
ing of the Negro from the Jail, in the
lynching, and all those who were at
the meeting reported to have been
held on the following Monday. I have
requested Solicitor Cooper and Sher-
| iii Burts to make complete investi-
cation of the whole matter and get
| the names of all parties concerned
and to swear out warrants and arrest
| them ;,- 5 -. ~.
II intend to do everything in my
power to uphold the law and let the
| offenders know that such acts will not
be tolerated, and that those guilty of
violating the law must suffer for it,
| have requested Solicitor Cooper as the
States representative and Sheriff
Burts as the highest peace officer in
the county, to leave no stone unturned
in order to vindicate the law and all
the powers of the governors office
are at their disposal in bringing the
guilty ones to justice" ...s ..-
The lynching referred to occurred
on October 81 in one of South Caro-
lina's most beautiful and progressive
cities. Anthony Crawford, the victim.
was Negro fifty-one years old worth
over 100000. He, got into row with
a white stOrekeeper named Barksdale
| over the price of cottonseed It is re-
ported that Mr.. Barksdale called him
a liar and Crawford cursed him
| roundly in return, whereupon clerk
ran out to give Crawford a beating
| with an ak handle. He was saved
from this by policeman who ar
rested Crawford and took him to the
municipal building, but when they let
| him out on bail a crowd of men took
| after him again intent on furnishing
him for daring to curse a white man.
"The day a white man hits me is
the day die" Anthony Crawford once
! said to friend. When he saw the
crowd coming after him, he went
| down in the boiler room of the gin
picked up a four-pound hammer, and
waited. The first man who came at
him. Mckinney Cam, received blow
IN the head which fractured his skull
but someone hurled stone which
knocked out Crawford before he reach
I'D anyone else While he was down
they knitted him in the back and
kicked him until they thought they
had finished him, when they permjttes
he sheriff to arrest the unconscious
Crawford on condition that he would
not take his prisoner out of town unit
they knew whether Cam would live o.
1ie
| SeAA W0oA uuA = DIS Uduly dS Ll0y
thought, but nevertheless a mob went
back to the Jail at four o'clock that af.
ternoon, took their keys and guns
away from the sheriff and jailor
dragged Crawford through the streets
Of, the Negro quarter with. rope
!around his neck, hung his mutilated
body to a pine tree at the entrance
to the fair grounds, and expended a
couple of hundred rounds of ammu.
milton at It.
On Monday a meeting was called
in the Abbeville courthouse at which
1t was decided to order the sixteen
1 sons and daughters of Crawford and
their families to abandon their $40. 000
home and get out of the State BY Nov.
ember IS. After the meeting this
mob proceeded to close. up, all the
Negro shops in Abbeville.
The Columbia State. in a powerful