The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-08-10

across the street. This gentleman
got up and let him have ten gallons
of gas. Then we started back to-
wards Columbia.
I'VE went five m,1es. Gappins had
him stop the car. We all got out and
stretched ourselves except Fox! Then
he took the front seat and made me
get on the back seat. We started off
and went about mile. Fox said all
the rest Of you have got to get out
but me. He wanted the driver to
stop, the car so he could get out. Fox
opened the door and put one foot on
the running board. He knocked the
boy across the head. Gappins grab
| bed the boy. Fox hit him three or
flour times. and then Gappins
snatched him out of the car. Fox
run around the car and Gappins was
holding both Of his nands.. Fox had
his knife in his hand and he stabbed
him in the breast. He held it in the
breast and worked it around. The
boy was begging him not to kill him
and said he would not tell. dappins
turned loose his hand and grabbed
his throat and threw him on the
ground. Fox stabbed him three or
four times. Fox said he would cut
his damned heart out of him and
Gappins said that is all right. I have
got his money. .,l
Left Body In Woods.
They told me to get out and help
them to put him in the car. 1 got
out and they just picked him up and
threw him in the car. They got in
the front of the car and made me get
in the back, and turned around and
cone towards Leesville. S. c. They
/ cont krow how far, into the woods.
They stopped the car and took him
out and carried him into the woods.
l told them that 1 could not, and
they got out and one of them hit me
in the side and said get outs of the.
way you are not worth a damn" They
took him out and carried him down
into the woods themselves. They
were not gone bus:a little bit They
come back and got in the car and
told me that if 1 ever told or men
toned anything they would do me the
same way. We come on this way
(towards Augusta9. I think it must
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the boy looked at his clock. The boy
had said it was O'clock and time for
all of us to go home.
I'VE got to Augusta about o'clock.
We broke down about o'clock and
went on down to where the chaingang
we could get Il tire at the next station,
they said they did not think so but
said if l would phone back to Augusta
might have it sent out. Then they
said might get it at Waynesboro.
1--WE all went to the top of the hin
to see il / could get the tire and to
Scc IL COulu Wire LOT some money.
found l could not get either. They
told me To stay there and get the first
car that came along and that if l
did not get the one to walk to
Waynesboro, and to wire for money
and if l got the money to wait there
at the depot for them, and they told
me that if I told anything that they
would give Inc the same thing they
had given the boy.
Il stayed there some minutes and
a man and a lady come along, and
then l told them to tell a chaingan.
guard to come up there; l wanted to
see him. l first asked them to take
me to Waynesboro. They told me
they could not, they thought We
talked minute or two. | told him
about the trouble and he went and
called for the sheriff to come, he come
back and | went to the work place
until the sheriff come, except he and
got the car and brought it to the
work place. The number was taken
of the car while it was broke down
and thrown in the bushes, they stated,
and without the number the officers
could not trace the car