Aiken County ScArchives News.....No Title July 14, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Angie Rapids angierapids@gmail.com February 26, 2023, 10:13 am The Aiken Reporter 14 July 1883 July 14, 1883 page 4 James Thompson, a white mountaineer, who had been in the Greenville jail nearly a year, awaiting a "speedy trial," died last Friday, and was carried in a wagon to his home twenty-five miles distant, accompanied by his wife and children. While he was in jail it was proposed to him that he could obtain his liberty by becoming informer and telling what he knew about illegal traffic in whiskey; but he answered, "I'm a white man; I'll rot here in jail before I'll tell anything I know." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/aiken/newspapers/notitle19nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/scfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb