Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — The McDow Trial. [ARTICLE]

The McDow Trial.

T. B. McDow, charged with the murder of Captain W. F. Dawson, editor of the Char leston News and Courier, was found not guilty. Mr. McDow la the hero of the hour-. His parlors are crowded with people offering him congratulations; they are irag'anc with ffoweis presented to him. A great many people are visiting him with congratulations who a week ago exDressta the utmost reprehension. The result of the McDow case, beyond any manner of doubt, has root in the time-honored prejudice in South Carolina against hanging a white man. There is added to tne situation a multitude of enemies of Captain Dawson in politics. But the congratulations of McDow are only one part of the community's Sentiment. There is another side to" it It won Id be nothing surprising if within a week or two McDow Should meet his end. Captain Dawson’s friends were legion. Among them are numbered ‘members of the beat families in South Carolina. The precedent of non-punishment has been confirmed by the verdict in the case, and many a man about town has left his home of an evening of late with "special precautions,” in his hip noeket