The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-11-30


broke.
Are you the mother Of Newton
Taylor" Solicitor Spears, who was
conducting the examination, asked
her.
Yes" she answered and the court
asked that she speak louder that the
jury might hear.
"Is he living or dead?" came the
question.
He is dead" There was sob and
her voice wavered.
Who killed him."
William C. Faries." the answer
was clear and strong.
FAIRIES, watching her from his seat
beside his attorneys, glanced at his
accuser but showed no other sign that
he heard.
Mother is Eyewitness.
Mrs. Tylor was in the back room
of her home, just across the street
from Faries's house in Glover, when,
she testified, one Of her ten year old
girls came into the room crying and
told her that John, one Of the FAIRIES
children, had hit little Newton on the
head with a rock. Mrs. Taylor then
went out into the front yard and there
heard FAIRIES, who was in his yard
across the street, remark, This has
to be settled and 1 might as we'll set
tie it right now" While she was try
ing to persuade Newton in the house,
FAIRIES, Mrs. Taylor said, appeared on
his porch and opened fire. Newton,
the 13 year old boy, stumbled and fell
and pretty soon another shot was
fired and Claude johnson exclaimed,
"Oh!" and stumbled into the house,
to fall mortally wounded. Some time
later she heard another shot and then
she went into the house to her chill
dren; she could remember no more.
Johnson, Mrs. Taylor said, had made
no remark that she heard before
FAIRIES opened fire.
Mrs. Taylor also told of disagree
ment of some weeks standing be-
tween the two families, dating from
the time that her family stopped get
ting water from a we'll in FAIRIES
yard, which appears to have occas-
ioned the disagreement. 1t was only
q children's quarrel and only once,
she said, had she had words with
FAIRIES concerning the we'll. FAIRIES,
she testified, had told her that she
would have to stop getting water out
of the we'll and she had asi.ed him ii
he had a deed to this hole in the
ground. The dinner recess was taken
with Mrs. Taylor still on the stand,
cross-examination following upon
the reconvening of the court this az
ternoon.
On cross-eNamination Mrs. Taylor
made no change of importance in her
testimony, admitting, however, that
policeman had called at her home in
vestigating charge that her chill
dren 1 thrown rocks at the FAIRIES
children. FAIRIES, he said, had asked
the Taylor children to stay from the
we'll, but the children had continued
to play around the we'll until 1t had
been locked up by FAIRIES. She denied
all knowledge of the alleged fact that
on the morning of the tragedy the
question of shooting had been dis
cussed in a barn used Jointly by the
two families.
Perry on Stand.
Thomas Perry, star eyewitness OF
the killings, and admitted crony OF
FAIRIES, followed Mrs. Taylor, telling
how he had been with FAIRIES on the
afternoon of the tragedy when one OF
Faries's children had come to them
and reported that little JOHNNIE
Faries's head had been knocked on
by that Taylor boy" FAIRIES, Perry
said, got up with the remark, i've
tried the law and tried every way and
I've done talked all I'm going to
talk" FAIRIES then went into the
house and a few minutes later Perry
heard two shots and saw one OF the
Taylor boys fall into the house. Al
ter firing the shots, FAIRIES went over
to the we'll and unloosed the bucket
and took three sips Of water.' He
set his gun somewhere, I don't know
where" Perry said. Perry, according
to his story, was also witness to the
shooting of Fred Taylor some time
later. He was coming down the
street." Perry said, "and had turned
to go across to his house when l
heard some one say, Don't go down
there, you're going into danger.