The State April 29, 1905 Ned Mack, Colored, is Hanged for a Fellow's Murder - An Execution at Manning Manning, April 28 - Ned Mack, the mulatto murderer, paid the death penalty in the jail enclosure today at 11:21 o'clock, dying without a struggle, and the body was cut down in 20 minutes and turned over to his relatives who hauled it home in a coffin. Sheriff Gamble read the death warrant to him in the jail before going to the place of execution and after reaching there did not impose the unpleasant duty upon others, but carried out the details of the execution himself. Mack was calm and composed on the scaffold and said he was prepared. He prayed for the officers and others and warned everybody against liquor and women, which he said was the cause of his downfall. It is said that his motive for killing old Dave Connors, his wife's stepfather, was because connors had reported to Mack's wife some of his conduct proving that he was untrue to her. After shooting down Connors in the road, Linton Butler, another negro, remonstrated with Mack, whereupon he gave Butler a load of shot in the arm and later in the day fired at another negro. The murder occurred in december last, and Mack was tried and convicted in February, being sentenced by Judge Klugh to hang on the 31st of March. He was respited four weeks by the governor pending an investigation of sanity by a commission of five doctors, who pronounced him sane. The negroes generally wanted the execution and the law has been carried out decently and in order.

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