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Contributed by Robert F. Lorick, Sr., West Columbia, SC December 2009 The below story was told to me in January of 1960 by Cora Azelees Suber Lorick, my great aunt. She said that  James David  (Dave) Lorick was killed by a young Negro man who hit him with a rock and then through his body in the Broad River. I looked the story up in two different newspapers in February of 1998.     Ref.: The Lexington Dispatch - Lexington County, SC - November 18, 1896 Mr. David (James David (Dave) Lorick of Irmo was murdered Saturday, November 14, 1896.    Ref.: The State - Columbia, SC - KILLED WITH A ROCK - Mr. David James (Dave) Lorick Murdered by a Negro Tenant - MURDERED ESCAPES - The Crime Committed on Mr. Lorick's Farm Seven Miles From the City of Columbia. (St. Andrews Area)   This Information reached the city yesterday afternoon of the murder of Mr. David Lorick on his place over in the Lexington Fork section of Lexington County, about seven miles from the city. Mr. Lorick had many friends in Columbia who will regret to hear of his untimely end. It was a hard fate for a man who had gone through the late war (Civil War) and stood the rain of bullets and the hail of shells, to be killed by a common Negro field hand with a rock, simply about a worthless cur.   Mr. Lorick's slayer is a Negro named Frank Jones who was a field hand upon his place. Jones fled immediately after committing the deed and had not yet been captured. The police are on the lookout for him here, but it is supposed that he will make for the upcountry.   From what can be learned here, Mr. Lorick was driving some hogs up to the house. A cur (mongrel dog) belonging to the Negro attacked the hogs. Mr. Lorick drove the dog away and the Negro resented it. He picked up a piece of granite and rushed upon Mr. Lorick. A lick in the back of the head crushed Mr. Lorick's skull and ended his earthly career.   Mr. Lorick is a well known farmer. He was about 50 years old and leaves a wife, (Elizabeth Esther (Betty) Swygert Lorick) but no children. He was a Sons of the late John Lorick, Sr.,  who died about a year ago (14 November 1895). (His mother Mary Ann Huffman Lorick died in 1876)   He served throughout the war (Civil War) and made a good soldier. The slayer is at present thought to be hiding in the woods somewhere near the scene of his crime before venturing out on the public highway. Those who are after him are confident of running him down.   The State, Page 5 - Tuesday, November 17, 1896 - TRACKING THE MURDERER - Posses Hard at Work After the Slayer of Mr. David Lorick - Posses are scouring the country looking for the Negro who murdered Mr. David Lorick over in Lexington County on Saturday afternoon last as told in The State. One of them, in which was the brother (Franklin Lorick) of the murdered man, came into the city. These men stated that the Negro had been tracked very close to Columbia and some one had seen him just across the bridge. They came into town to get bloodhounds from the State prison, but there were none there. Then they wired to Orangeburg trying to get some dogs there. It is stated that the Negro met two white men, neighbors of Mr. Lorick, soon after the killing. He had a gun and hunted with them for an hour in the woods. He told them repeatedly that he had killed Mr. Lorick and was going to leave, but they thought from his manner that he was joking. It is likely that the Negro will never be found again, so far as the general public is concerned.   The people over there are very much wrought up. FIRED AT HIM - Last evening Officer Thackham and several other members of the force located the Negro in this city in that section known as Logan's alley not far from the union depot. They gave chase and ran the fellow through a restaurant on Gervais Street, firing at him several times. He, however, managed to make good his escape. The police at last accounts had the street pretty well guarded and expected to catch him before morning.   The State, Page 5 - Wednesday, November 18, 1896 - THOUGHT TO BE HERE - Nothing has yet been heard of Jones, the Negro murderer of Mr. David Lorick. The posses are still out looking for him. He is thought to be in hiding in Columbia.   NOTE: My search in The State paper stopped February 5, 1998 at this point..... Newberry Observer, Feb 14, 1889 Broke his neck While Drunk ?, Lexington County, SC, Feb 8-This evening, about sundown, Mr. Ivey Bundrick, who lives about two miles north of here,-- home intoxicated, and was found after dark, where he had fallen from a - one quarter of a mile from her and broke his neck.

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