Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — MURDERS FROM POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

MURDERS FROM POLITICS.

Men Killed In aa Election. Day Affray In South M ** {T „ VJ . Details of the election affray at Holland’* Stare precinct. Anderson county, South Caro.lua, show that three moo were

| killed and several wounded, all whites. It j appears tliat R. G. Carter, the Reouhlican supervisor, anti James W. Earle. a Democrat, became involved in a political quarrel just outsido of the house ip which the . voting was going on. (Warier P u 'lud his pfstol and firedet Earle, hut rtiissetL him and hit Co’umbus Green, the Democratic manager, who came to the dooty IjoSep . what too troublo was. Green was instant. - 1 1» killed, Ute, bail passing through tho heart. Earle then began firing, and both lie- and Cat ter em ptied . the 1 fj- weajpuns. Dolli men went behind tho store ip reload- ] Earle rau through tho house- itnd pjicked, tip a shotgun aud poured tlie con teats into Carter. During the fusilado three bystanders were wounded, but not seriously. Carter was terribly wounded and died a few hours afterward. Ho caiuo to Anderson from Georgia several years ago, lie was ft desnerato character, and had killed a man once before. A dispatch from Anderson says that Earle died Wednesday Digbt. r.-S-.. ~ 1 " I „