People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — RIDDLED WTH BULLETS. [ARTICLE]

RIDDLED WTH BULLETS.

Calvin Stewart, a South Carolina Negro, Killed by Masked Men. CoLumbia, S. C., Sept 28.—Calvin Stewart, the negro who murdered a white man near Langley a short time since, was captured Wednesday in a swamp above Langley by Constable Augustine. Tuesday night the constable and a few friends started to bring the prisoner to Aiken. When they had left Langley about a mile in the rear they were surprised by a mob of fifteen masked men. Before any rcsistancee could be made the prisoner was taken from them and riddled with bullets. Before being shot Stewart confessed to having murdered old man Carter at Langley and implicated Stephen Dunbar, who he claimed had aided him in the murder. Dunbar was arrested and placed in the Aiken jail. The sheriff, fearing an attempt to lynch Dunbar would be made, telegraphed Gov. Tillman, who ordered the Palmetto rifles to the jail to protect the prisoner. Dispatches from Aiken say that a mob of 150 men are reported going that way from Langley.