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Show MAN AND WIFE LYNCHED. I South Carolina Mob Avenges the Cruel Mnrder of Prominent Farmer. W. C. Jay, a .prominent young farmei living near GreeVwood, S. C, was mur dered in his own yard by a negro, Oliver Wiedeman, or Wiedeman's wife, both of whom live on the place, and a few hours after both of the negroe were lynched by Jay's infurited neigh bors. Mr. Jay, on returning home Friday Fri-day afternoon, heard Wiedeman abus-ing abus-ing or fighting his (Wiedeman's) wife. He went to the cabin and ordered the negro to be quiet. Immediately afterward after-ward Mrs. Jay heard the report of a gun and saw the two negroes running away. Calling for her husband, she re. ceived no reply, and, on looking around the yard, found him dead in a pool oi blood. The warning was quickly given and parties were soon scouring the country in pursuit of the negroes. They were captured, and before the coroner's coro-ner's jury, both acknowledged th deed. The man, however, said the woman did it, and the woman accused the man. While in the custody of a constable on the. way to jail they wer stopped at the Winterseat bridge "by a crowd of infuriated neighbors and friends of Jay, and both were lynched each accusing the other of the crime |
