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Show A Lilrl Kilted by a Youth. Coli:mbia, S. C, July 17. Information Informa-tion of the killing of Annie Hoyd, a young girl, by James Watson, a youth ot about 17year, has just reached hero from ono of the remote sections sec-tions of Laurens county. The young people were seated on the piazza of tho Boyd's house. They were alone, the other members of the Hoyd family being be-ing within . doors. It appears that w hen Watson came to the house that evening he brought a gun wifi him. The couple had not been on the piazza many minutes before the father and brother and Mrs. Hoyd heard the report re-port of a gun, followed by screams from the girl. They rushed out, to .find Annie lying on tho lloor, shot' through the stomach. She made no statement and died shortly afterward. after-ward. Watson looked at the mortally wounded girl and asked her father if she would live. Upon being told that ho did not know, he shouldered his gun and left the house. He has fled the country and cannot be found. There is no explanation of the shooting. |