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Farmer Watches for Thieves and Shoots One. A dispatch from Swansea, says: Mr. Eldridge Hutto had been miss ing fodder from one of his outhous es at Wednesdy night he and one of his neighbors watched the house and some time during the night they saw two persons come up to the house and Mr. Hutto halted them. One of the persons spoke but the other snapped a pistol at Mr. Hut to, which Hutto returned by firing at him with a shotgun. The entire load entered the body of a negro named Joe Jones just below the right shoulder blade. Jones, with the aid of his compan ion, walked about 60 yards from the place where he was shot and died. The killing ocurred five miles west of Swansea.
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The Times And Democrat
Orangeburg, South Carolina, US
Tue, Jul 14, 1908
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