Aiken County ScArchives Obituaries.....Enocks, Daughter January 17, 1878
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Aiken Courier-Journal 17 Jan 1878
A Horrible Crime. -On the night of the 3d of January two negro fiends, named 
Dexter Ashley and Fortune Bush, entered the house of Mr. Stephen Enocks, about 
three miles from Williston, on the plantation of Mr. D.P. Sprawls, for the 
purpose of robbing him of a sum of money, which was supposed to be in his 
possession. After ransacking the premises and not finding it, they deliberately 
murdered him and his wife, saturated their bodies and the bed-clothes with 
turpentine, and, after firing this mass, they coolly locked up within the house 
an infant and a little girl seven years old to perish in the flames. They were 
arrested and are not lodged in the Aiken Jail to await their just fate, and will 
be tried at the next term of Court in Barnwell. Our reporter visited them on 
Wednesday, but they refused to give any information in regard to their heinious 
crime.

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