Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-11

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white House," and known also as a store. The
owner Of the negro. MIR. Lewis, being an %unfortu.
nate cripple, felt unwilling. through fear. and UNI
able from his lamenes, 10 follow The pafties with
GU, assistance. lie therefore went to a ~neighbor
named Waters, and induced him to start in pur.
sui, toward the white House" This place, some.
what unlike, perhaps, the practical edi6ce in
which resides our venerable chieftain in Washing
ton. was reached iu the morning at daybreak.-
About City or sixty yards from the white House"
is a stable close by was observed d colored man.
who appeared greatly agitated and uneasy about
something. His nervous actions and suspicious
movements induced the pursuers to visit the stable
and search it, too. But the search was brief, for
there they beheld what might have made their
blood run cold the object Of their search, poor
Pompey-rather his body, for the life was just 10
him, and he but barely brsathed. The body of the
poor negro was stripped naked, with the exception
Of a single thin garment ; and its appearance was
horrible to behold. 1t was bruised, beaten, man.
gled and MANNED in tho most shocking manner,
from head to foot. lie was nearly dead. Mr..
Waters instantly repaired to the house of Faux,
close by, when he found F. in bed, wrapped up in
a blanket, and with oil his clothes on but his coat.
Waters Immediately swoke the man. and informed
him that he had found q negro dead, or nearly 80,
ON his premises, and requested him to 20 with him
to where the negro was. Faulk arose, put on his
coat and started toward tho stable, remarkihg two
or three times, 1T il On atrocious act" On ari-
wing at the stable, Faux asked Waters who owned
the Niger, and what was his namef He then
wen. up to Pompey and called him BY name. But
poor Pompey made no reply. Faux then put his
hand upon him, and said be was cold, and sugges.
ted that he be placed near a FIRE. Waters then as.
sisted Faux and a negro to take Pompey up and
start to carry him away. They had gone but q
few yards with their ~mangled burden, when they
saw that life was extinct. The beaten, broken and
bruised Pompey was dead.
In the store, which belonged to Howell and Muir,
ply. was found a man named Floyd, with Murphy
and Howel-all three having slept there that night.
Opposite the store was q small building, occupied
as q physicians Office or shop. To this place the
body was conveyed. and Faux remarked that 'it
would be safe there" In one room of this shop
the floor was discovered to be quite wet, us though
water had just been used upon it. Fresh blood
stains were noticed on the floor beyond where the
water reached These were pointed out, and no
Oue Teplicu shSo Ehulk, WHO TtuhTheu lut ~
have rained during the night to wet the Dor 30
much. But the blood stains? To these no word
of explanation was offered. Mr.. Lewis then as
serted that there, ia that room, his slave had been
killed-murdered. The men present said not q
word.
Further evidence proved that two men named
Floyd. together with Murphy, Faux and Howell,
we're at the store from dark till after midnight on
the night Of tho alleged murder Of the slave. An
other most singular circumstance was also dis.
closed. When the coroner arrived to hold an in
quest with a jury which had been summoned, the
body was missing. This WAS nearly at night on
the day following the murder, and a search for the
pnrloined body wac Immediately instituted. Ii
was presently ascertained. by tracks discovered,
that the body had been taken through a door at
the rear of the house and carried of. The party
followed the tracks. BY aid Of lights, in the direc-
ton Of a swamp. The search was continued until
midnight. when it was 4 etermined to build q fire
and wait till daylight
At an early hour the following morning (the
2Oth), about four or five negroes, belonging to
Faux were discovered ploughing with mules in n
field close by, and toward which the tracks APP
peared 10 lead. Toward them the searchers went,
and soon, in the middle of the field, the dead and
~mangled body was found and it was also discov-
cred that the negro servants of Faux were endeav-
oring 30 cover up and conceal the corr Sc by throw,
ing earth upon it.
Another and very strong poin. against Faux
was that he had, previous to his re-arrest, offered
to pay 5000 for the dead negro, if Waters and the
owner of the slave would leave the State and not
testify against him. For the defence, one of the
Floyds testified that on the night Of the murder,
about IL o'clock, he heard a cry Of distress."-
He was in the store, and. on going out, he walked
over to the DOCTORS shop. where he saw Murphy
NOV in parts unknown) beating the negro with a
trace of a harness. and that he saw no one else
strike the victim but Murphy. He also stated that
he (Floyd), HOMELAND Faux requested him to de.
sis:. and let the niger 20 and when the beating
did cease, the victim "staggeredioH' to the stable.
Several witnesses were introduced to swear to the
good character Of Floyd.
Tho counsel for prosecution very forcibly and
earnestly argued from the evidence that the guilty
perpetratoT was none other than him charged in the
indictment. He presented the matter so clearly
before the jury that, circumstantial as the evidence
was it pointed directly to the prisoner and
though others might be implicated. yet the audi
ence. if not the jury, must have been convinced
that the prisoner was one OF the perpetrators of
the diabolical deed.
His honor, judge Sanders, delivered q brief
charge, after which the jury retired, but soon re-
turned with . verdict Of Not Guilty.
What comments shall he made upon this state Of
social sentiment. and the administration Of jus.
tice toward defenceless negrossf A barbarous
and cruel murder-a scourging and beating with q
piece Of harness upon the body Of a frisndlsss
darkey until weak, suffering and tortured human
nature yielded its lie and its soul to the hand of
its Creator. The inhuman perpetrators of the
awful crime. after beating manning aud numbering
by slow torture, a human being. arc free. unbound
and ~unwhipt unimprisoned and unpublished. But
tho feeling of good and %virtuous citizens is against