The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-12
new OUTRAGE IS
REPORTED FROM
SOUTH CAROLINA
Mob Awakens Family by Shoot
ing Through Doorway at
Midnight.
BABY AND Wife BEATEN
Tries to Fasten Murder on Man
Who Shot to Defend
His Home.

New York, May ia story Of
mob outrage committed by white
men of Saluda County, South Caro-
lima, upon a peaceable and well-to-do
colored man, who was robbed and
then sentenced to death, and for whom
new trial has been ordered by the
State Supreme Court, was made
public today by the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement Of Colored
People. The story is given in
letter written by the man, Elliott
Culbreath, as follows:
Asleep In Bed
"My trouble arrived on the 4th
Saturday night in November 1920.
l was in my bed asleep and mob of
white"men came to my house and
started shooting and why they did
that I don't know. They never seen
said hello or anything and they broke
the back door open. My wife and
children were taken, both-and my
wife and children began screaming
and yelling and my wife was holding
the front door and one of the children.
One woke me up. They were shoot
what the mater was and they said to
me, there is a crowd out there after
you. I ran to the back door and they
shot at me and ran behind the bed
and got my pistol and shot 2 (shots)
out Of the door. But l did not hit
anybody. When they stopped shoot
ing they ran to the woods and stayed
there a quarter Of an hour and
heard them coming back.
Searched Alley
"They called my wife and asked
her, hadn't they killed me and she
told them, no; he has just left here
and they went behind the house and
looked in the alley. And they found
one of their men dead and they said,
thought that I had killed the niger;
| shot the wrong man. My wife told
the next morning (what had been
said) and they beat her and put her
in Jail and kept her there three
They told her if she told
what they said, they would kill her.
"That morning they run them all
away from home and beat them all
and the little baby was crying for
bread and they knocked a hole in my
baby's head with a pistol. They stay
ed there and ate my food for two
weeks. They left their automobile
and slept there. They got there at
IL o'clock at night. If they had call
ed me I would have gone anywhere
they wanted me to. Because I never
done anything to anybody. My pistol
was 80 (calibre) and the man was
killed with 38. You see that there,
was no way for me to kill that man
and the paper stated that he was kill
ed with 80 calibre. They came
over here to the state penitentiary
three times trying to make me tell
them who done the killing. They are
now Furnishing me for it and know
they punish me for what one of their
own men done. They said / shot
him through the crack and there is no
crack in my house. I asked the lawy-
er to 60 to my house and look because
there Is no crack in my house.
"They whipped all the colored people
SO that they all are scared to do any
thing to help me. I had about 300
acres of land and I only tended to
a 3 horse farm for myself and / work.
ed 5 horse farm for the white
folks and let the best of my land lay
out. had not got anything out of
the 5 horse farm that / worked for
and l ran an 8 horse farm in ALL"