The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-07-06
SLAYER Y OF DR., ,2e6NB
!. ~ eAPTIg.|lRE I B'YPOSSE
Negro Farm Hand Who Shot and KILL
ed DIR. Lawton c. Lipscomb, For
merly of Columbia, at Ninety-Six
Taken From Greenwood for Safe
keeping.


keeping.
Greenwood, July 5.-Two hours aft
Ell the fatal shooting of DR.. Lawton
G. Lipscomb, prominent farmer and
druggist of Minety-six, Pink Griffin,
:. a negro farm hand, was captured by
Z a posse of citizens headed by l.. M.
Lipscomb, cousin of the dead man,
brought to Greenwood and turned
over to the county officers. The negro
'was spirited away from the Green
). wood county Jail for safe keeping
Governor Cooper vii lbe asked to call
a special term of court to try the
negro. A full confession was made
by Griffin to his captors. David
Machen, another negro implicated,
was also carried away for safe keep
ing. DR.. Lipscorlb was shot six times,
three of the bullets taking effect in
the region of the heart. Following a
reprimand given Griffin, for beating
his mule, Griffin followed from the
barn lot and began firing when DR..
i Lipscomb was short distance from
his house. Apparently DR., Lipscomb
had turned and made an effort to
wrench the pistol from the negro's
hands, powder burns and bullet
wounds in the right hand indicating
such. He was dead when his wife
reached him. The news of the fatal
s,shooting of DR.. Lipscomb quickly
spread and fully 1000 citizens formed
a poose and literally combed the
woods and swamps for miles around.
The negro was captured on the Sea-
board railway, near AleXandcr's brick
yard, about five miles from the scene
of the deed. Sheriff Cannon Blcasc
of Newberry was telcphoned for and
with bloodhounds responded at once
When captured, the bounds were hot
on Grifin's tracks. Members of DR..
Lipscomb's family urged that the law
Ybe allowed to take it's course, and
the posse dispersed soon after the
negro was brought TO Jail.
DR.. Lipscomb is survived by his
wife, who was Miss Sallic Cathcart Of
Columbia, one sister, Mrs. G. r. Cal
houn of Nnety-six, and three broth
ers, George w. Lipscomb, T.. p. Zip
p scomb and J. N. Lipscomb, all of
Ninety-Six,
Laurens, July 5.-Grccnwood olli-
GERS who spirited the negro slayer of
- Dr. Lipscomb out Of Greenwood this
afternoon to avoid possible mob VIC.
} lence arrived in Laurcns shortly after
8 O'Clock. They also lad with them
the negro who the murderer is said
to have forced to carry him out of
Ninety Six in a car and who is said
to have informed the o GERS Of the
slayer's identity. The prisoners were
lodged IN the county Jail until some
repairs could be made on the oili-
GERS car. Then accompanied by Shcr
III Reid, the party proceeded toward
Spartanburg or Grecnvillc. Deputy
Sheriff Owings and four rural police
men who went to the scene of the
tragedy after first going to Saluda
and vicinity to assist in the man
hunt returned here tonight. DR.. I.ips
comb was brothcr-in-law of w.
ID. Byrd and was related to many
other Laurcns people.
Dir. Lipscomb was for nearly 20
years resident of Columbia and for
IS years was the owner and propri
ctor of the drug store that still bears
his name.
Coming to Columbia as Young
man he accepted position as phar-
maclSt at the state pcnitcntiary rn
der Dr. d. S. Pope and Col d. J.
Griffith, who was then superintendent
of the pcnitcntiary. He also worked
for a time in Fishers Drug store,
'atcr going into business on his own
, account, establishing Lipscomb's
drug store near the poStonicc. In
1913, his health failing, he sold his
business interest to the Wingfcld
drug store and moved to Ninctv-SiX,
. his former home, to take up life
on his farm.