The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-09-30

her he thought he had killed three OF
them. Corbett, his wife said, then
dressed and left to surrender and she
spent the remainder of the night in
the barn.
Carlos COrbett ON Stand.
Carlos Corbett testified deliberately
and calmly, giving his version Of the
killing. He cOrroborated his wife as
to his putting the pumice in the road
on Friday and as to their activity on
Saturday. He was aroused by his wife
about IL o'clock, he said, and was told
the house was on fire. He jumped into
his overalls, Corbett said, took the
loaded pistol from the bureau and
about three or four cartridges nearby
and ran out of the house tC fire the
pistol to alarm the neighborhood, but
found that the fire was in the road
and did not shoot. Putting the pistol
in his right pocket and balls in left,
he and his wife began fighting fire as
Mrs. Corbett testified, the witness
said. While his wife was sitting on
the steps and he was fighting the fire
with the water in the tub, he said he
heard an auto coming. He also heard
the statement testified to by Mrs.
Corbett as coming from the auto,
Corbett said. The auto came on up
around the fire, the witness continu-
ed, and stopped in front of his house
with one wheel about to his front
yard, the car broadside to him, where
the occupants got up and began to
get out. He thought he recognized
the voice of James Salley telling the
boys to give him hell, the witness
testified and then three or four jump
ed into the road, he said, and were
making for him, one shooting as he
came. He opened fire, Corbett said,
and Immediately reloaded and emp
tied what he reloaded with, since
after he reloaded two more men were
coming toward him from toward the
back of the car.
Shot in Self-defense.
He shot in self-defense and de-
tense of the castle, Corbett testified,
as the shots from the advancing
crowd were going to where his wife
was, too. Mr.. Corbitt said that he
did not know who the parties were
at the time and that he went into his
house and upon inquiry told his wife
he was not shot, but thought he had
killed three or four men, that all fell,
except one, who ran off. He told
how he asked his wife to get his
clothes and got his fashlight and
went out to where the bodies were
in his yard near the road. Later he
returned to his house and then went
to a neighbor's, asking her to go and
stay with his wife. He testified that
when he went out with his fashtight,
he found a pistol lying about equal
distance between two of the dead men
but did not search them, that be
brought the pistol back with him and
gave it to his wife, with instructions
to hold same until trial. A pistol
was opened in court by the sheriff
with difficulty, the cartridges were
removed, and some were empty, hav-
ing been shot. Mr.. Corbett stated that
he got some one to carry him to Co.
lumbia and he surrendered to the au-
thorities at the penitentiary. He told
of an interview he had with some
newspaper reporter at the peniten-
tiary, and that Mr.. Blease was pres
ent at the time and that he was mere
" talking to the gentlemen present
and did not know he was giving any
statement to newspaper and did not
state fully the facts of the shooting.
Columbia Newspaper Man Testifies.
The defense in reply put up W. j.
Cormack, of Columbia, to testify that
Corbett did not tell him of any of
the parties advancing upon him haV-
ing any pistol, when interviewed at
the penitentiary. The sheriff and cor
oner were put upon the stand to con-
tradict Mrs. Corbett's testimony con-
corning some statement she made to
them the next day. Both the sheriff
and coroner testified that Mrs. Corbett
was very nervous and about down and
out at the time.
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