The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-04
LOOTING WAGED BY MOB.
The Jail and Sheriff's Home are
plundered-Stores Robbed.

result of the roting here last night
and early today there is not tlrearm
of any description to be found IN d
store in the city. Plate glass VIII
dows we're crashed in. locks forceo
and in some cases doors knocked
from their hinges in an effort to Sc
cure weapons.
Deputy Sheriff Hall, day jaller at
the county jail, declared that all prls-
oners who escaped had been released
bv the mob and that none were turn
ed out by the officers themselves.
The mob which broke it's way into
the iail and the residence of Sheriff
Cate, adjoining, was not satisfied with
damaging property, but everything or
value. including money, guns, Whls-
kew. clothing, books, were taken
Part of the jail records were de-
stroyed.
Window Bars Give Away.
For a little while the mob content
cd itself with shouting and shooting
into the air. Soon they began pound
ing on the heavy iron bars Of one
of the front windows, and eventually
il gave way. Men began swarmlns
into the Jail and the jailer and depu-,
ties we're overpowered. Heavy TIM
bers, were brought up through the
mob, passed from hand to hand over
the heads of the men. Using these as
battering ram, they attempted to
force the doors to the white cells.
Failing with the battering rams,
guns we're brought into play, and in
this way the locks were broken and
all white men confined on the upper
floors were released.
One of the federal prisoners told
the men that he did not want to es-
cape. 81 only have eighteen more
days to serve and don't want to get
into trouble" he said. A rough voice
replied:
'tGet out of here, or we will Kill
you
While the mob was releasing prls-
oners another was looting the 1ail.
Every revolver, all the prisoners
money, almost all the food on hand,
trunk of clothes belonging to the
jailer and even bed covering and
medicine was stolen.
Then after they had looted the jail
they went through the sheriff's house,
which adjoins. There they took even
the children's dresses. besides break
ing windows and deosroying such
property as could not be taken with
them
Soldiers Badly Beaten.
The first soldiers who arrived on
the scene, sixteen men and one officer,
we're overpowered. some of them dis
armed and eight badly beaten. An
hour later $50 soldiers reinforced the
early squads.
After the doors of the county jail
had been battered down a number OF
prisoners escaped through the crowd.
Among them we're several convict
ed of first degree murder and one
under sentence to be electrocuted.
Among the prisoners missing are:
Ehude Fellows, charged with the
murder of Wesley Nichols; Charles
Paul, of LaFollette. charged with the
murder of wealthy Greek, and C..
w. White. of Blount county, under
sentence to be electrocuted for the
murder of white man in Blount
county. Two federal prisoners es-
caped from the third floor of the jail
Sam Huffmaker, an alleged muir
derer from Sewer county. was among
the. prisoners who refused to leave
the jail.
On the second floor Of the jail a
batter.ng ram twelve or fifteen feet
long was found after the mob had
finished its work of searching for
Maves, who previously had been re-
moved to Chattanooga for sal~neep-
ing. When the leaders found that
the negro was not in the jail the mob
turned its attention to large GUAM
tity Of Illicit whiskev which had been
found stored in one room. The head
of a sixteen-sallon keg was smashed
in. cups were produced and the liquor
vanished rapidly. Cases Of quart bot
ties of whiskey were broken open
and the bottles rapidly carried away.
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