The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-02-03
VOL. ~. NO. A
DETAILS OF MARL-
BORO SHOOTING
Harrington and Peele Fill Each OH
er Full of Holes

rec Dee Advocate.
Will c. Darlington and Bart Peele
were both shot and seriously wound
ed at the home Of Barrington's wife
on Broad street about 10 o'clof
sunday night. Both men were take
70 the Clio hospital Enquiry at ths
hospital yesterday afternoon brought
the information that Mr.. Peeie vas
doing well, with a fair chance of re-
covery, but that Mr.. Darlington was
delirious and restless. His condition
Is regarded as critical.
The Barringtons and Mr.. Peele
are all originally from Brightsville,
In this county. Mr.. Peele has been
conducting barber shop in Ben
nettsville, on Broad street
Mr.. and Mrs. harrington have not
been living together for some time.
Mr.. harrington went to North Caro-
lima and Mrs. harrington sold her
farm in Brlghtsville and bought q
house on Broad street, next to Wat
sons livery stable, where she has
been living with her little daughter
since the first of last year. The
have several grown children q.
some grandchildren.
Mr.. Peele had a room at Mrs. Bar-
rington's. 1t is said that Sunday
night Mr.. Darlington and his son
Henry went to Mrs. Barrington's
house and called Mr.. Peele. He
went to the door and, sensing trou-
bic, went back and got his pistol.
AS he went the Barrington's opened
lire and he returned it as soon as
he could get his pistol. All of the
shots were fired in rapid succession.
Then the Barrington's went out and
got in car and rapidly drove away.
Mrs. harrington ran out in her
night clothes, calling for the police
"A crowd quickly gathered, and Mr..
Peele came from the rear of the
house to the front yard In his night
clothes. DR.. Strauss examined him
and found that three balls had en-
tered his body, all from the rear.
one entered about the shoulder
blade and came out in front, pierre
ing the left lung. Another went to
the upper thigh and came out in the
groin. A third entered the back of
the neck and lodged in the Jaw.
from which it was extracted by DIR.
Mahoney at Clio, after he was taken
there by DR.. Strauss and B. F. Whit
ner.
AS Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Stanton
and B. L. Stanton were coming from
toward Tatum about IL p. M, at ID.
K. McColls siding two miles east OF
Bennettsville, they saw a car stop
ped and man sitting in it groaning.
One OF the car wheels had caught
against the railroad iron, turning
the car up the railroad track and
smashing the wheel. They asked the
man II he was hurt in the wreck, and
he said he was, and asked them to
take him out of the car. They made
a h 90 AZ
ions and laid him on it. They asked
him his name, and he said il was Nc
Caskill from Moore county. He said
that A. D. Darlington, who lived q
few hundred yards away had gone
for doctor.
Soon A. u. harrington and DR..
May arrived and the Stantons were
surprised to learn that the man was
Will Darlington and had been shot.
DR.. May, B. l.. Stanton and others
carried him to the Clio hospital. Two
balls had entered the center of the
chest, going through the lungs. One
of them was lodged under the skin
in the back. There was also q
wound in the side and one in the
arm.
A 32-twenty pistol was found in
Mr.. Barrington's car with two car
lIluSes empty. Inc 81 pistol OBJ
tanned from Mr.. Peele had three
empty cartridges.
Several ball holes in the walls of
the hallway and front porch of Mrs.
Barrington's house give evidence OF
the battle that ragged there for few
moments and which was heard for
several blocks.
No warrants have been issued Or
arrests made.
Mr.. harrington was severely
stabbed in the lung in affray in
Brightsville several years ago, when
John Odom was killed. He was then
in a serious condition fer several
weeks