The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-12-02
HAGOOD HOME ALIVE.
Blythewood Farmer Tells Dramatic
Story of Wild Ride.

Marion Hagood, the Blythewood
farmer who suddenly disappeared re-
Gently, tells thrilling story of an
adventure with bold highwaymen who
held him up, disabled him, fed him
| on dope and liberated him during
early morning hours in woods near
Jacksonville. Mr.. Hagood reached
Columbia few days ago, showing
effects of a rough experience. he
said that he was attacked by five
men about $50 o'clock Saturday al
! ternoon and taken away in touring
car. He said he rode through the
country with handouts on his wrists
and was fed on white pills, water and
soft drinks. He said the highway
men did not give him anything to eat.
While in a stupor he remembered a
stop and heard a report. The men
in the machine had cracked a safe in
a small town a short distance from
Augusta, ne Salu
J. A. Hagood, father of Marion Ha-
good, met his son at Cayce and
brought him in a car to the home OF
a. Columbia friend. A physician was
summoned and gave Mr.. Hagood a
thorough examination. Surrounded
bv friends and home influences, Ma
rion Hagood related the story, and
his dramatic recital of events was
emphasized in the worn look on his
countenance and frame.
Met Strange Men.
Marion Hagood said he came to
Columbia Saturday afternoon to sell
cotton and remembered being accost-
ed at the platform by large man
with a red face, who asked II he
had seen anything Of three wagons.
The stranger said among other things
"It's the devil to sell cotton at such
low figures" Mr.. Hagood said he
made his deal and left. During the
afternoon, he said, he met the same
large man, who remarked, You
haven't gone home yet" Leaving
the city, Mr.. Hagood said he stopped
at Colonial Heights to get quart OF
oil. While there he noticed large
car filled with men pass the store. He
left the store and when he travelled
on the Koon road he saw machine
on the left side and man was seen
walking up and down the road. He
saw another man, who appeared to be
working on the car. He slowed down
and when the car approached the 9TH
er machine a man boarded the run
ming board, he said, and was covered
him with "a revolver.
Being in helpless position, Mr..
Hagood resolved to show fight as
bluff. and when he did the other men
rushed to the car and in another in
slant a blow landed on the back OF
his head. He said he was dragged
from his machine, placed in the
strange machine, his pockets were
rifed and one Of the highwaymen
stepped over to his machine and re-
turned in short time.
The men left the Koon road Tor
Columbia, according to Mr.. Hagood,
and he felt a stinging sensation on
his back, one of the men having CIV
en- him a hypodermic injection. This
had no effect and he was given an
other "shot." Mr.. Hagood said ne
remembered travelling toward Colum-
bia until he passed the Seaboard rail-
road trestle on north Main street,
when he fell into a stupor. The faT7
mer said every time he aroused from
the stupor he would be given two
white pills. He had faint recollec-
ton of crossing the bridge at North
Augusta and seeing the lights as the
party passed through the Georgia
city.
Hagood said they stopped when
few miles from Augusta and the men
began to eat. They did not give him
ANYTHING but soft drinks. Further on
in Georgia another stop was made,
he declared, and the men left the
machine to elbow" safe. He said
he was in such stupor that he could
not tell how much booty the highway
men took in the raid. Hagood said
the men carried supply of tools. The
touring car moved at high rate OF
speed, and at about 1 o'clock he was
allowed to leave the machine at
cross road in the woods. Hagood
saws the robbers took $500 from him.
Alone and lost, the man said he wan
dered on the road for several hours,
when he learned that he was ap-
nroaching Jacksonville. He reached
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