HOW CRAWFORD
MET HIS DEATH
Thrilling Story of Mob Violence
In South Carolina.
NASH VISITS ABBEViLLE.
Secretary of National Association For
the Advancement of Colored People
Returns From Scene of Brutal Mur
der With True Facte—Governor Says
Law Must Be Upheld.
New York.—Itoy Nash, secretary of
the National Association For the Ad
vancement of Colored People, has per
sonally investigated and secured the
facts in respect to the lynching of An
thony Crawford, a prosperous colored
citizen, at Abbeville, S. C., last October.
Govoruor Richard I. Manning and the
citizens of Abbeville have gone on rec
ord as being bitterly opposed to mob
rule in the state.
Governor Manning, in a statement to
the press, says: “I was out of the
state when the Abbeville lynching oc
curred. As soon as I learned of it 1
called Solicitor R. A. Cooper and Sher
THE LATE ANTHONY CBAWFOltD.
Murdered by a mob of white men at Ab
beville, S. C., Oct. a, 1910.
iff R. M. Burts of Abbeville to the office
and called on Coroner F. W. R. Nance
of Abbeville county to comply with the
law and furnish me with a copy of the
testimony taken at the coroner’s in
quest. I found that the coroner held
an inquest, but took no testimony.
“I intend to do everything in my
!>ower to uphold the law and let the
offenders know that such acts will not
be tolerated and that those guilty of
violating the law must suffer for It.”
The lynching referred to occurred on
Oct. 21 in one of South Carolina’s most
beautiful and progressive cities. An
tfiony Crawford, the victim, was a Ne
gro fifty-one years old, worth over
|20,000. He got into a row with a
white storekeeper named Barksdale
over the price of cotton seed. It is re
ported that Mr. Barksdale called him
a liar, and the Negro cursed him round
ly in return, whereupon a clerk run out
to give Crawford a beating with an ax
handle. He was saved from this by a
policeman, who arrested Crawford and
took him to the municipal building,
but when they let him out on bail a
crowd of men tor after him again, in
tent on punishing him for daring to
curse a white man.
“The day a white man hits mo is the
day I die,” Anthony Crawford once
said to a friend. When he saw the
crowd coming after him he went down
in the boiler room of the gin, picked
up a four pound hammer and waited.
The first man who came at him, Mc
Kinney Cann^ received a blow in the
I head which fractured his skull. But
i some one hurled a stone, which knock
ed out Crawford before he reached
any one else. While he was down they
knifed him In the back and kicked him
until they thought they had finished
him. when they permitted the sheriff
to arrest the unconscious Crawford on
condition that he would not take his
prisoner out of town until they knew
whether Cann would live or die.
Cann wasn’t hurt as badly as they
thought, but nevertheless a mob went
back to the Jail at 4 o’clock that after
noon, dragged Crawford through the
streets of the Negro quarters with a
rope around his neck, hung his mu
tilated body to a pine tree at the en
trance to the fair grounds and expend
ed a couple of hundred rounds of am
munition on it.
A meeting was called In the Abbe
ville courthouse, at which It was de
cided to order the sixteen sons and
daughters of Crawford and their fami
lies to abandon their $20,000 home and
get out of the state by Nov. 15. After
the meeting this mob closed up all the
Negro shops in Abbeville.
The Columbia State in a powerful
editorial pointed out that, in view of
the exodus of Negro labor from the
south to northern Industrial fields and
the approach of the boll weevil, South
Carolina’s problem was to keep her
colored men instead of serving notice
on them that, no matter how Indus
trious or successful they might be,
their case was hopeless. It convinced
the business men of Abbeville that
they had lynched their own pocket
l)ooks. On Nov. 0 another meeting was
held In the courthouse, at which reso
lutions were unanimously passed con
demning the whole lynching project.
A Perfect Gentleman.
He was particularly polite to wo
men, and usually made a good I in
presslon on them. A young woman
who was visiting at the family hotel
in which he resided grew enthusiastic
about his manners.
“Oh, he's such a perfect gentleman!"
she exclaimed. "He always remem
tiers the little things which mean so
much.”
"Yes," agreed her hostess. “For in
stance, he and his wife were coming
down from the roof in the elevator
last evening. I boarded the elevator
at the fourth floor, and the instant
I entered he removed his hat and held
it ill his hand all the rest of the way
down!”—Life.
White Heather.
White heuther is not so rare as many
people imagine. Albino freaks of all
kinds of heath and heather are often
found, especially among the ling or
truck heather—Calluna vulgaris—and
more frequently on the downs of Sur
rey and Sussex than in Scotland. The
superstition that white heather brings
luck to the wearer admits of some ra
tional explanation, because a success
ful searcher would probably possess
diligence, [lerseverance, mental alert
ness and other qualities.—London Mail
Durable Hair.
Experts have found that the hair of
Japanese women is extremely long,
elastic and durable, making it superior
to all other human hair for commercial
purposes, especially for weaving with
silk into textiles.
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Daddy’s
Story—
[Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen.]
DADDY pointed to the places beside hint, and the children snuggled down
white he told them: “Once upon a time a very sad wedding was about
to take place, for an old mole who loved darkness and dirt was bound
to marry a charming little girl who was as dainty as a fairy and who
loved sunshine and singing birds. Two such different people, you see, could
hardly be happy living in a hole under the ground.
“But the old field mouse whom Thumbelisa, the bride, was living with
wanted her to marry the mole. So one day he came to fetch her. He was
dressed in Ms black velvet coat and had slicked up his hair into a splendid
mound. But. 1 am sorry to say that there was dirt behind both his ears, and
no decent bridegroom goes to his own wedding with soiled enrs.
“So it was settled that Thumbelisa was to spend the rest of her life living
underground with an old mole, where she could never see the beautiful sun
shine. She could not even go out to warm herself in the sunshine, because the
old mole was of a Jealous nuture and feared to let her up out of his home,
while sunshine sort of blinded him when he went to walk in it.
“Tlie poor child was very sad ut the thought of bidding goodby to the sun
shine. While she had lived with the old field mouse she had always been al
lowed to go up out of the hole she stayed in and look at the sunshine covering
all the cornfield near by.
"‘Goodby, you bright, beautiful sun!’ she cried, stretching out her tiny
arms toward it. She walked on a bit through the cornfield, for the stalks had
now been cut and the stubble stood like a forest of tree trunks above her head.
“ ‘Goodby, goodby!’ she cried, throwing her arms around a little red flower
that grew among the stubble. ‘Give my love to my dear swallow if he ever
comes back to this cornfield again.’
“She had once saved this swallow's life when it was nearly frozen to death,
you see, and was very fond of him.
“‘Tweet, tweet!’ sounded above her bead. She looked up. It was her
swallow flying past the cornfield.
“Thumbelisa was delighted to see her friend. She begged him to alight on
a stubble top. and she told him how she hated to have a stupid old mole for
her husband. She said she dreaded to live in a dark hole and never see day
light, and finally she wept about it all.
“ ‘The cold winter is coming,’ said the swallow, 'and I am on my way to
warm countries that always have flowers. Will you go with me? Will you sit
upon my back?’ ”
STREET LIGHTING
CONTRACT RATIFIED
(Continued from first pa«e.)
Ninth 1 104 100 4
Twelfth 9 112 92 20
Totals 1971 1173 798
These figures tell their own sig
nificant story.
The vote by wards was as follows:
Ward Yes No
First . 1,101 499
Second .1,264 719 j
Third . 585 164;
Fourth . 1,148 695 !
Fifth . 870 960
Sixth . 685 665
Seventh . 795 777
Eighth .1,178 897
Ninth ... 870 809
Tenth . 702 397
Eleventh . 953 834
Twelfth . 1,017 1,372
Totals .11,066 8,788
The Effect of Election
The immediate effect of the election
will be to secure for Omaha over 1000
additional street lights at no addition
al cost to the taxpayers. Since the
contract ordinance was to go into ef
fect fifteen days after its passage,
and was only headed off by the How
ell-Butler referendum petition, it is
presumed that the contract becomes
effective almost at once.
Beautiful Business District.
Probably the most important fea
ture of the contract is that clause
which provides for the lighting of the
important down town streets hy orna
mental iron pillars, each bearing two
lamps, four posts to each block,
placed on opposite sides of the street.
Designs for these pillars and lamps
are already made and will be submit
ted to the council.
It is freely asserted that this uew
lighting scheme, now assured by
Tuesday’s election, will make Omaha’s
* ’ r..
business section one of the best light
ed districts of its character in the
United States.
History of Ordinance.
The history of the contract-ordi
nance which was upheld by the voters
will be of interest. The ordinance
was passed shortly after the 6-cent
light ordinance, and was violently op
posed at first by Commissioner But
ler, and later by General Manager
R. Beecher Howell, on the ground
that the contract would jeopardize
Omaha’s chances for taking over the
light plant or of securing municipal
light and power by other means.
Corporation Counsel Lambert held
that the contract-ordinance did
nothing of the sort—but the campaign
against the contract was made on
that ground nevertheless. Commiss
ioner Butler, who cast the only vote
in the council against the ordinance,
drew up the referendum petition
which was circulated by the Howell
forces and sufficient signers secured
to bring about a special election.
A SOUTH CAROLINA CLIPPING
If the vote of the Negroes is to be
curtailed in future the notion that a
white skin and nothing else shall be
sufficient qualification for voting will
have to be abandoned. The makers of
the Constitution intended that it be
abandoned after the first day of Jan
uary, 1898. If the people of South
Carolina lack the courage and the
conscience to disfranchise an illiter
ate white man then they would better
cease to talk about keeping the Ne
groes or even the majority of them
permanently out of politics in the
coming years.—Columbia State.
Mr. E. W. Chiles and Mrs. George
D. Hayden, of Winnipeg, Canada,
brother and sister of Mr. H. A. Chiles
are in the city for a few days visiting
their mother and relatives. Mr.
Chiles is in the real estate and insur
