The State April 29, 1905 Ned Mack, Colored, is Hanged for a Fellow's Murder - An Execution at Manning Manning, April 28 - Ned Mack, the mulatto murderer, paid the death penalty in the jail enclosure today at 11:21 o'clock, dying without a struggle, and the body was cut down in 20 minutes and turned over to his relatives who hauled it home in a coffin. Sheriff Gamble read the death warrant to him in the jail before going to the place of execution and after reaching there did not impose the unpleasant duty upon others, but carried out the details of the execution himself. Mack was calm and composed on the scaffold and said he was prepared. He prayed for the officers and others and warned everybody against liquor and women, which he said was the cause of his downfall. It is said that his motive for killing old Dave Connors, his wife's stepfather, was because connors had reported to Mack's wife some of his conduct proving that he was untrue to her. After shooting down Connors in the road, Linton Butler, another negro, remonstrated with Mack, whereupon he gave Butler a load of shot in the arm and later in the day fired at another negro. The murder occurred in december last, and Mack was tried and convicted in February, being sentenced by Judge Klugh to hang on the 31st of March. He was respited four weeks by the governor pending an investigation of sanity by a commission of five doctors, who pronounced him sane. The negroes generally wanted the execution and the law has been carried out decently and in order. Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. ) December 17, 1880 Three negroes, one woman and two men, who murdered Mrs. Kennedy in Clarendon County, S. C, on the 5th, were captured on the 6th and hung to the nearest tree to the place of the murder that would hold them. (contributed by K. Torp)  Newberry Observer Feb. 28, 1889 Mr. John C. Ingram Killed Manning, SC, Feb 25-Mr. John C. Ingram was instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler at 11 o'clock this morning near Summerton.  He was the eldest son of the late Dr. John T. Ingam and was about 45 years old.  Mr. Pickney Ragain was badly scaled and a negro was badly hurt. CLARENDON LYNCHING CASE - Keowee Courier - May 12, 1915 Supreme Court Affirms Verdict of a Lower Court for $2,000. In an unanimous opinion, written by Associate Justice D. E. Hydrick, the State Supreme Court late Thursday afternoon affirmed the judgment of the Circuit Court in awarding $2,000 exemplary damages to Madison Cantey against Clarendon county for the lynching of his son, Marion Cantey, there on February 22, 1913. Marion Cantey was arrested on a warrant sworn out before Magistrate L. S. Barwick, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. He was given a preliminary hearing at Paxville the same day of the alleged crime-Februry 22, 1913 and was sent up to thc Circuit Court for trial. That night the prisoner was sent, in the care of a constable, from Paxville to Manning. "When they arrived at Tindall's Mill, about 10 miles from Manning, a "mob" of eight or nine men took Marion Cantey from the constable and shot him to death. Under the authority of Section 6 Article VI of the Constitution or 1895, the lynched man's father. Madison Cantey, sued Clarendon county for $2,000 exemplary damages, and won the suit in the Circuit Court of the same county before Judge Rice.  Attorneys for Clarendon county then appealed to the Supreme Court for a new trial, on alleged errors  the presiding judge's charge. The opinion says. In part: "By Section 6 of Article VI of the Constitution, and the statutes enacted thereunder, the law-makers undertook to make a law which would at least aid in preventing the crime of lynching in this State. The Constitution provides that, in case a prisoner lawfully in custody of an officer is taken from his custody, through his negligence, permission or connivance, 'by mob or other unlawful assemblage of persons, and at their hands, suffers violence or death, the officer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and provides for his prosecution, and suitable penalties on conviction. The same section provides that, In all cases of lynching, when death ensues, the county where such lynching takes place shall be ade to the legal representatives of the person lynched in exemplary damages of not less than $2,000. [contributed by Tina E.] Keowee Courier - April 14, 1915  Negro Killed by Posse - Columbia April 10 - Joel Green, a half-witted negro, who shot Guard J. C. Hobbins, of the State penitentiary, and the bloodhounds which were chasing him near Pinewood, Clarendon county yesterday, was shot and killed in a swamp near Pinewood by a sheriff's posse this morning. The negro was said to have been surrounded and shot shortly after daylight. [contributed by Tina E.] Keowee Courier - April 14, 1915  Hobbins Succumbs to Wounds Columbia. April 10. J. C. Hobbins, penitentiary guard, who was shot down while chasing a negro fugitive, Joel Green, near Pinewood, in Clarendon county, yesterday afternoon, died at the Columbia Hospital at 5:00 o'clock this evening. His remains will probably be taken to his former home in Anderson for burial. [contributed by Tina E.] Keowee Courier - April 14, 1915  April 1 2. -Dan Gibson, the 12-year-old son of Henry Gibson, of Cordova, this county, died this afternoon after an illness of several days. Three of Mr. Gibson's sons were stricken with the same malady, which the doctors pronounced cerobrospinal meningitis, and the other two, Mack Lee and Fritz, are now desperately ill. [contributed by Tina E.]

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