| Show SHOT TIlES TO DCVTII TIOI now n liobDralt lb I1b t dlrt Xere CILVULISTOV S C Dec 25A mob ofseveral hundred men readIed the jail at IJanrvell courthouse a 1 2 oclock this morning < wc the jailor and took out out eight negroes ne-groes charged with murder Tln > e were IWpIey Johnran and Mitchell Adam charged with murdering i man named JlelTirmin and six others charged xith thi murder of young Martiu The prisoners were taken out of town and hot t death Tlie jailer was tied and furred to ac conijanx tile ly I uchers The whole thing xx as conducted In a very ckilfu manner the eitizcns of the town not knowing inythiiig bout it A great many negroes are collected at the scene of the uchlng and more trouble is antlcljfitttl The following statement sIgned by llobert Aldrich Mike llrown jeonre l SaIL s William SicXaU and James A Jenkins some of the lot prominent Influential citl anne of Karnuill was tent to the Aeir and Courier In explanation of the horrible butchery of dcfenceliss negroes at that place last night On the 0th October l John II Heflernun I prominent young merchant and publlcplrlteU citizen citi-zen was shot down and rr ICI in Barnxxellby negroes PublIc indig natonwas rry high ThnaU oJ I x ncliln w as irequenlly made but was divertsst I1V COOLKK CJVNSEL At the list tinuof court the jury found late tills agaInst the murder eix and the caes Were continued llle and Ihejicoiile were dfcapjiolnted aol the negroes it in thought WH em loMenvU by this db > iOf > ite n of matter mat-ter ItrsOn 4 On the 19th of December James lhrown n prominent lawyer all leading citizen of Fishpond township town-ship was shot 1 ileath on his own ireuiifres bx a negro without the Iihte < t justification or excuse Tile murderer hat not bieii arrfted Oa 11 e 1ith of December while going from the tore at Martins elation 1 his house a mile an ay itobert Martin a young man of hIgh standing was followed by a negro anti hot in the hearing of negroes ulioehou > es were i around the lot where ho was shot and who aiimitted thpy Inwrl the shot and crie and none of them welt to his relief and none of them roel aL ttini t ins lousy auiiougn u lay in the road nil day and fur several hours after daylight ind In 1 PlAits fe orf aW hh lr view of ieaW It was satu > rae tonly tablisliid that his murder was the result of a conpiracy to ro rOc him in order that their licence upon the plantation of his father might lie greater The murderer that is the iiigro who fired the lot and his accessories nine In number after bein identified ae being clearly utf Ire Till CORONERS Jell xrerearreste and lodged in jail 50 rhc several brutal murders > rouiln ut white len by negroes caused a state of Indignation mid rcentim among the i > eoi > le that can be better imagined than I de nbed but cannot 0 Imagined by one lo priHut In our mldt Lat nigh Urge body of trmed men IUI ilitjiiln at about Jam called at i IhoJdl o crII creed the jailor and took out theix ninnlcrers of lIar tl and the too of lleirerman took them to tilt limit of the corporation ansI 1hot them to death This explination of the causes which 10 to the ly ncliin does not In the opinion of iaxribiditig elti zeus Ill al way jut tiieitrocious murder of the defeiiMile human beings The greatest indignition is tulIrdheth at the brutality All xias jtiiit in Jtaniwell It exening although trouble has been autlci paled and luCy y c come ANOTIItK ACcoUNT ClliCAeo Dec 25The Times has the foIovuiig account from ColumMa S C o the nelilng of eight negruea at Banmell this niurnlng Three hundred armed mel with forts masked surrounded the jail jl > t before diy light this marning allen the inmates n sleeping sjuuJly They uioxed xxilli ciu ijnand 14 in organized body The jailer was seized and overpowered iii keys taken from him the cell loors unloeked and before tile friihteuetl iiegnxn xxlthln were awakened fruin their sleep their coin were filled xrith Strange lig tIres Tily xx ere seized all carried out into the nUht Their cries for iiercy jirayersind cur a are alike unheeded by their Ilent and deter iilned executioners The body of men Is put in motion and proeeeds i quarter of a mile and hilts in the outskirts of the toun Hie eight unfortunate retches are Mcured several hundred shots are fired and eIght bxlles lie oil the earth with blood running from their wounL iterally torn to piece Such xcns the tOOtc of the temlile tngedy enacted en-acted iu the town of Iirmell tills numlllljt a terrible retribution fun lot traordlnary ofTeUM as the 1LCOrW will prove FlUE MUItS AGO five iron were lynched Iu Yorkville fur the brutal murdi of a little boy who caught them stealing but hey belonged to an organized gang vhoc members wire sworn to kill whoever caught them stealing They had comniitted several fur lers previously I Their conviction was uticerLiln and tie r oplu look tile lawin their own huasle but the tholesale lynching 1 of this mornings I s xrltiout a parallel In the records of the crimes of the state and there we re less grounds for the act than for any lynching before It is doubtful ftliecountry I can honahke record re-cord The eight negroes were charged with committingaud being fleets sony to the crimes described below On October 0th John C Heller han WI shot ind Instantly killed ill a restaurant Iu the town of tarnroll by Itiplex John on leOemnn was onu of the riniipal merchants of the town and Johnnm was a colored mm employed at that time running a gin There had been some trouble between the white man and the negro the day before and although lucre opera conlllctlng accojnts a to the difficulty it is I probable that ° Ileflermin had threatened the legroslife he had been summoned to appear before the I ton n council he day following ami had been let under 00 lid The killing took place In a colored restaurant hero jlef canon had followed Johnston Five negroes are accused of being accessories wIle were in the restaurant restau-rant at the time and xrhe lied to the swamp but were C VPTl RKD AND rAILED A large reward was offered for nil > e Johnston and he woe cap tureJ two weeks later It was discovered dis-covered that Martin was shot by a party of negroes who worked on his fathers place and whom he kept pretty close to their work and allowed al-lowed little licence It was also believed the negroes in the houses near by knew all aleut it and that was why they would not go to the assistance of he murdered man At four oclock I his morning the jailer was called by rome men who Informed him they I xvanted to lock up the murderers of I JaIIt8 P BroXVii klled lst xveek I b jy n r J Ho cne 1 the heavy i jgai j xv31 ni Jiiey overpox ereU j and fifty mm entered the jail and I t i Dfn tft tlll I txk out the following prisoner Itlnliy Johnston and MIchael Adams principal anl ostssor foc iou dr J C Ilrirmnin Ioe Bell Ilafe Momll Hugh Pure 1 bIno ft Hudson Johnmn Robert Phauix and John Jones the latter six charged with the assuslnatlon of llobert Martin They were marchltJ to the outskirts of tho town and bound to trees Masked men then formed In line a short distance oil and poured volley after volley into the OOdles offhe negroes They were litenlly shot tortecis TIle firing was lbs first Intimation I the peonlo of the rellOftl h re town hid of the trouble It seemed then as if the negroes would rise and avenge the lynching and In response to call tho Governor ordered or-dered two companies of military to prepare for service Tho white In town however have armed and I are fully organized tonight The town is reasonably quirt |
