Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-07
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.

AT En- WEN IESnSs
Jim Lowry was arrested in York
vile yesterday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff Quinn and Constable Horace
johnson, as the slayer of Chief Of Po-
lice Shelton Jones of Shelby, about
twenty years ago.
Jim Lowry is a copper colored negro,
with straight black hair and thin
black moustache. Except for his nose,
which is rather fiat, his features are
those Of an Indian. i.
He admits that he is Jim Lowry, son
of Cash Lowry Of Bethesda township;
says he was wo liking as a laborer at
monazite mining in Cleveland county
at the time that Jones was killed; but
denies that he was in Shelby at the
time of the killing or had anything to
do with 1t. The late John r. Logan,
who was sheriff Of York county at the
time was always of the belief that Jim
Lowry, son of Cash Lowry, was the
man who was wanted in Shelby.
The prisoner was sitting in the ante
room Of the sheriff's office when the
and Sheriff Quinn was talking to the
Shelby authorities over the telephone.
Jim Lowry has a barely perceptible
knife scar on one side Of his face said
Sheriff Logan. Close examination of the
handcuffed prisoner showed a small
fe scar about two inches long on the
right side of his face. II got that at
dance at Gastonia," said Jim. This
fellow had bad teeth said Sheriff
Logan. The prisoner had no teeth at
ALL II had to have my teeth pulled out
on account Of rheumatism" he said.
1.-THE man we want was about feet IL
inches" according to the Shelby sher-
iff. Measurement Of the prisoner
showed he was 5 feet 6.
The prisoner said this was the sixth
time he had been arrested on account
Of the Shelby murder. He had been
arrested twice in Cherokee county,
once at Jellico, Tenn, and twice in
Kentucky. Each time officers who
knew the slayer of Jones turned him
loose, and Officer Carroll, who had
been sent to Jellico after, him gave him
a certificate that he was not the man
wanted, but he 'Josed" 1t.
Are you willing to go with the off,
GERS to Shelby for identification?" ask
ed Sheriff Quinn.
"They have always been sending a
man. to identify me. l would rather
they would do that. / would not mind
going up there except that 1 might
have trouble, before they got me iden-
titled"
Sheriff Quinn told Lowry that there
would be no DANCE of violence wheth-
er Lowry was the right man or not. II
do not know what might have happen
ed if they had got you along about the
time Of the killing; but l don't appre-
hend any danger now
The reporter suggested to Lowry that
nobody would harm him until after the
death of two mighty good white men,
and both Deputy Sheriff Quinn and
Constable Johnson promised that they
would bring him back safe, unless the
Shelby authorities decided to hold him
as the man they wanted. But if they
do hold you they will give you a fair
trial." he was assured.
Lowry reflected very seriously for a
few moments, and then he said:
"All right, / will go with you"
AS soon as they could make a few
arrangements, MesSrs..
Quinn and Johnson put the negro in a
Ford and started with him for Shelby.
According to Sheriff Quinn's recollec-
ton the outstanding rewards, for Jim
Lowry amount to $500. Jim Lowry
appeared to be quite familiar
with the case and he said the rewards
amounted to $3.50.
Jim said that he left this country
about twenty years ago, came back
once and returned after few months.
He came back again about two years
ago, and since then has worked one
year with Mr. J. +. Carson of the Del
phos neighborhood and another year
with J. Il. Watson of the McConnells-
Vile neighborhood. He said that he
was IS or 40 years old.
There were a hundred or more peo-
pie in and about the sheriff's office at
Shelby when Deputy Sheriff Quinn and
Constable Johnson arrived there with
their prisoner last night. The crowd
included a number who well remem-
bered the slayer of Policeman Jones
and they were quickly agreed that Jim
Lowry is not the man.
Jim Lowry was brought back to
Y Yorkville last night and turned loose,
relieved negro. His only fear had been |
that he might become the victim Of an
excited mob.
"Well. it is just this" said Sheriff |
Quinn. This negro is Jim Lowry. He
answer; the description given by the |
Shelby circular not only in all the
of appearance; but in
lame. The trouble is that the Shelby |
people evidently described the wrong
nan at the beginning. That is the
Jnly way I can account for it." And
I'll those who are familiar with the
acts, are agreed that the sheriff has
{ down about right.
The following account Of the murder
s from the Yorkville Enquirer of Wed
lesday, August 7, 1901:
Chief of Police p. S. Jones, of
Shelby, was murdered in the discharge
If his duty last Sunday morning at
bout o'clock by negro man named
lin Lowry.
1T seems that a number of negroes
we're gambling in house near the
south Carolina and Georgia Extension
lepot, and Chief Jones accompanied by
J. NJ. Ford, went there to raid the
,lace.
Just as Chief Jones opened the door
.owry commenced firing and two shots
Ook effect in the chiefs body, in the