The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-11-13
Negro Farmer in Newberry
County Cuts His Throat on
Account of the Low Price
of Cotton
NIGHT RIDERS IN ANDER-
SON COMMIT OUTRAGE
Ginnery Burned at Batesburg-
Wor2an Appointed Bond Clerk
in State Treasurer's Office

Eatr6hurg, Nov. S-The gin house
and contents Of w. X. Shealy, one
'n'le east "f Batesburg. was destroy
| e& Ivy fire Thursday afternoon. en-
| failing y loss Of between $4,000 and |
$4,000 with no insurance.
Mr.. ,Sheniy was operating ono
stand plantation gin. using a kero- |
aenc tractor for power. The fire ori
ginated in the fuel, and was acci~ !
dental.
Anderson. Nov, S.--Dtve Benson !
and SaIn henson, two negroes, w..re |
rruely bc aton last night by unknown !,
parties. They say that they were ,
walking along the raVca hiEhw1v no:
far from th"ir homeywest uf the city !
| four men in an automobile came
| along and grabbed them and placed |
drove to an uufrequented place and |
took them out and gave them |
| beating. After this they w re- driv- |
on TO RoyatOn, Ga, but when the ulen |
| got there. thcv srcmcd to change |
their minds and turned around and !,
drove back and put the negroes out
Kin about mile from their home. |
They live on the Byrum place. Mr.. |
Byrum said that they came to his !
! place about , o'clock this morning |
and were 60 badly beaten and in !
such n p'tiablc condition that he sent |
for a physician.
The ncgl ocs refuse to sny who !
their assailants were but say there !
were two white men and two |
negroes and that thy were told that
Ii they gave any names that they |
would be killed. Thy are afraid to |
| tell
The officers thought that the |
| negroes might have been beaten on !
| account OF the raid recently made, |
but they Cannot account for the two |
white men, Offers arc working On
some clues
| Columbia, Nov. 9-Coiiection3 BY
| the state game warden for the month |
! of October reached a total Of S19.973.-
45, according TO W., II. Gibbes,, state !
game warden. These figures are for
the snle of licenses and funds from
fines collected by magistrates. Consid- |
ering the fact that the dove season did
ot open until the middle Of October
| the Collcctit have BEEN line. Mr.. |
4ibes said yesterday e -"
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/ Iaurcns, Nov. S.--Prvate" Roscoe
Williams of the Eleventh infantry. !
Camp Jackson. Columbia. was found !
! dead in hiB room ut the Iaurcns
hotel this morning. The autopsy by
local physicians showed that the col !
| dierS death was caused from a dose OF
carbolic> acid which from all the
evidence was sell administered, The
coroner's Jury returned a verdict to
day,s y -
| Newberry, Nov. S.--Waltcr Suhcr !
q negro about 25 years OF age,
knocked Hezzie Gallman, a ., negro
about 2S. In the head with An axe
Sunday morning on Tom Deden-
| baugh's place, "a. the house Of Beck !
| ey Downing. Il negro woman. No one
saw the killing.
The shorif arrested Suber Sunday
and committed him to Jail Gallmnn
died Sunday night and the lnauesI
was held Monday morning at
O'Clock. I Suber has been committed |
to Jail on tho charge Of murder.
ANt"USITN, NOV. o,--Sulnp lj6TDGTG |
n well known negro OF saluda coun-
I ty, near Colemans, about Ia. miles
from Newberry attempted suicide
with q razor at his home Sunday |
@hcut II O'clock He used a sharp !
| razor with which he cut both sides
nf his neck, tn" instrumcnt going
| clean through his throat. but did not |
reach either hIgular VeirI
The cause Of the rash act, accord |
ing 20 Herbert himself was the low
price Of cotton and his inability TO
! pay his debts He in about G5 years
OF age and lives on lands Of Harry
| Strother
| Herbert died 1T the Good, Sanal;-
tan hospital in Colyumbia early last
night, He was brought here for
| treatment Sunday night, and an op-
GRAFTON was performed vest >rdaT at
ternoon.
| Columbia, Nov. 9.-RiChland cuuu.
| ~ of1iciaJS Nv, sim i,voSt;uofir II,