The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-23
The Bloody Riots in Indfana...The
Assassination of Union Men by
Knights of the Golden Circle.

Last Saturday morning a number Of
men wearing butternut emblems, and
armed, rode into Danville, Hendricks
county, in this State, to hear a speech
from d. w. Voorhees,, who, it had been
announced, would speak there that day.
The demonstration created a good deal
OF excitement, as it was probably intend
ed to do, and an alteration sprang up
between one of the band and Union
man-said to have been the renewal of
previous quarrel-which ended in the
dIsplayof weapons on both sides, and
the firing of two or three shots The
K. g. G. was wounded in the hand, we
are informed. Friends on both sides
joined in the disturbance, and pistols
were freely and fatally used. Some five
or sly persons were wounded, two said to
be mortally. A little son of Mr.. With
crow, lawyer of Danville, and formerly
a Senator from that county, was shot in
the abdomen while walking along the
street near the scene of the riot. and is.
we presume, dead by this time. He was
not expected to live on Saturday after
noon. We have not learned who the
GssrnIy - o--o
prove fatal Most of the wounded were
Union men, the K. G. C.'s being armed
and prepared for fight, and of course
having the advantage of their opponents,
who were not only not armed, but had
no knowledge OF any sucn INVASION OF
their town being contemplated.
The news of the fight spread rapidly,
and the Home Guards from Cartersburg
and Plalnfeld, we'll armed, and resolved
to make traitors regard the laws, were
speedily on the ground, but the K. G. G.
had vanished. Word was sent to Gen.
Darlington, and preparations made to
dispatch a body of soldiers to Danville
to quell the riot, but the Home Guards
proved to be sufficient, and more, for the
emergency, and the troops went back to
camp
These K. G. c. were the same men
who attempted to tear down the Union
flag at Cartersburg recently, and were
prevented by the courage of a young
lady.
On the same day Saturday the 16th)
a still more atrocious attack was made
by members of the K G. c. on Union
men in Brown county. The following
account of it is from one Of the most
prominent and estimabie citizens of Mar
| tinsville.
"There was a meeting of Union men
in Brown county to-day, about thirteen
miles from this place. A number of citi
zens from this place, were by invitation
present, and among them Captain A. D.
| Burning, of the 10th Indiana, and Ser
geants T. S. Nutter and Daniels, of the
squad of cavalry sent down here a few
days since, to arrest deserters. The
Union men were prevented from holding
their meeting at the place appointed, BY
Lewis Prosser, Esq, the law and polite
al partner of James S. Hester, Esq, anC
other supposed X. G. C.'s of that county
among them Mr.. Snyder, who will be de
livered to you by the bearer After ftr Ar Ar
meeting, and Captain Cunning had com
menced speaking, Prosser and Snyde
came to the ground, and Prosser, in thu
presence and hearing Of the two Ser
geants, said "he would bet a dollar he
would kill two of them before night
Prosser had a rife in his hand, and s.
had Snyder. Sergeant Daniels beinj
near, approached Prosser and asket
"who are you going to shoot, sir, o
"what do you mean sir" Prosser attempt
ed TO shoot Daniels with the rife. Dar
iels wrenched the rifle from Prosser, whe
Prosser drew a revolver and shot Daniel
through the heart, and at the instant {
, firing, called out to Snyder: "shoot th
/ d-n son of b-h," meaning Sergear
: Nutter, but missed him. Captain Cul
ming shot Prosser, wounding him in th
3 leg, and it is supposed broke his leg, {
/ fractured the bones, and arrested Snydel
/ The meeting was of course broken u
T Daniels was of course, instantly killed.
Snyder was brought to this city yeste
: day afternoon, and lodged in jail,
5 await a trial for his deadly offenc
!. Prosser will be arrested and brought hei
i if able to be moved He was membt
+ of the Legislature from Brown count
e some years ago, and has long been know
. as the leader of the most desperately d
q fant disloyal gang of K. G. C.'s in Il
y State. Hester, his partner, was an OF
. Ger in the 22d regiment while, but I
signed because he could not be MAJ
Colonel, and came home to organize
G. C. lodges, in which he was one of d
n first, as well as most active men in Il
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