Show I uTJlIJtTE7J MONEY FOR CHARITy ftl An Interesting story Is that of what Is known as the Prescott Fund of Prince Vllllams parish now parts of Hnmptoa and Beaufort counties South Carolina It seems that In the early part of the last century an old woman who lived alone In an Isolated portion of whai I was then Beaufort District was on her deathbed and sent for a lawyer to draw her will to dispose of the little hut and the few acres of land she hat After she had designated to whom these v ere to go the lawyer told her tnat to avoid any legal trouble over her wit she should Insert a clause disposing dis-posing of whatever else she might have overlooked She therefore designated desig-nated iliat If there should be found anythltg else belonging to her undis posed of that It should be taken In charge of by a certain prominent citizen citi-zen of OllllBonvIllo as trustee for tho use of the white poor of Prince Williams Wil-liams pariahs Then she died When the old womans household ef nw n fects wero examined for distribution as sho had directed a quantity of gold and silver coins said to amount to I about 40000 were found under her mattress It has always been believed that this money had boon given to the old woman to keep by horse thieves who either had died or been run out of the country and had been afraid to t return to get It > About the early part of the last century cen-tury there were several gangs of horse 7 thieves that operated along the coast from Virginia to Florida and It was i from the hanging of some of these men I by a mob headed by a man named Lynch In Virginia that the term lynch law Is said to have been derived de-rived Mrs Prescott lived In a very Isolated part of the district and It has always been believed that these thieves used to male her house their stopping place and gave her time money to keep and that she was afraid to tell of Its possession even on her deathbed death-bed JOV |