People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — STAMPEDED BY A SHERIFF. [ARTICLE]

STAMPEDED BY A SHERIFF.

South Carolina Lynching Party That Failed to Come OfT. Abbeville, S. C., Nov. 27. —An unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday by a mob of thirty or forty men to lynch the prisoners now in jail here, charged with the murder of Narcissa Bagwell, the young white woman, whose body was almost cremated in the building burned Tuesday night. But for the coolness and discretion of Jailer Nance and his father, the sheriff, the murderers would have been hanging on trees before sunrise. The mob aroused the jailer, saying they had a prisoner under commitment. The jailer, suspecting all was not well, immediately left the jail through the back door and notified the sheriff, who summoned the Abbeville Rifles, and they promptly responded. The tread of the soldiers and the voice of Sheriff Nance were too much for the boys, and they quietly went away.