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Subject: [SCUNION] "The Free Lance" Issue: October 7, 1904
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:14:59 EST

"The Free Lance"
Issue: October 7, 1904

THE YORK COUNTY HOMICIDE
Union, Oct. 4-Fuller details of the killing in York County yesterday
afternoon, have just been received, and show that it was a particularly
brutal murder. Jim THOMPSON, after a short altercation with Isiah JETER,
shot him twice through the body near the heart, and after JETER had fallen to
the ground, fired another ball through the back of his head, killing him
instantly. Both are colored and about fifty years old.
For more than ten years there has been bad feeling existing between the
two men because of the undoubted intimacy of THOMPSON with JETER's wife, and
supposed with daughter also. Yesterday THOMPSON was at Lockhart and on
returning home took a preacher with him, and while crossing the ferry drew
forth a big flask of whiskey and in a boasting way drank deeply from it.
On arriving at the farm JETER rented from W. T. SMARR and where he with
his family were picking cotton, THOMPSON called to JETER's grown daughter,
against which JETER protested, whereupon THOMPSON said he would go to her
then and went up on the premises. The two men [cut off]

Lisa

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