Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-02-28

pain he was suffering. Marshall beseechcd |
him to let him alone, and in the name of |
God to send for his wife and family that he |
might see them before breathing his last |
At first this request was refused but after |
earnest entreaties the unfeeling wretches
granted the dying mans only wish, and |
Mrs. Marshall with her family of five small
children, arrived just in time to witness the
extinction of the vital spark. Mrs. Marshall
was so terribly stricken with grief at the
loss of her husband that she survived his
murder but ten days Her babe of two
years and bright little boy of six years
were laid at the side of their parents in two
weeks after their death. Mr. Marshall was
a native of the Western part of Louisiana, q
brickmaker by trade and had always been
respected as an honest and hardworking
man.
After these desperadoes had got rid of the
body of Marshall, they turned their whole
attention to Mr.. James They carried him
before the civil authorities on the charge of
enticing negroes to desert their masters
Jim Davis produced several letters, which
were known by loyal witnesses in the Court
to have been forged, and affirming under
oath that he found these letters in Mr.. James
coat pocket; the testimony was so strong
and conclusive that he was found guilty,
and the sentence of death was passed upon
him by the Judge early in the forenoon. At
nightfall mob broke into the Jail, and
dragging Mr.. James to the nearest tree,
hung him on the spot. After the body had
been suspended fifteen or twenty minutes, it
was cut down, and eight or ten blood
| thirsty fellows removed the corpse to the
interior of the Jail. In few minutes DIR.
Huson, of Orange, and another doctor of the
same town. assisted by the crew whose ma
licious perjury on the witness-stand had
| been the cause of the sentence, began to mu-
| tilate the body, and while doing so gave
vent to the most horrible sentiments
| DR.. Huson cut out the heart and placed it
in glass pickle jar filed with Louisiana
| whisky, and this murdered mans heart has
been seen by various persons since his exc
cution, and it can be seen to-day in the
drug and paint store of DR.. IIuson, in the
town of Orange. After this they actually
tried out all the fat from the flesh, and divi-
ded it among each other for the oiling of
their firearms. One of the doctors, not
IIuson, secured the head, and carried it
home, telling his wife to boil it until all the
flesh should drop off Mr.. Plummcr could
not at the moment recolcct this brutal doc
tors name, but the wife refused to have any
thing to do with the head, and was horror
struck at the barbarous sight Her husband
compelled her to place the skull in large
copper kettle, and boil it for several hours,
when he took charge of it; told his wife he
had long desired an Abolitonist's skull for
his study, and now he had got one.
Charles Saxon, a most inhuman man and
daring robbcr, gave a ball week or two
after the murder in honor of the Vigilance
Committee, whose business was to clean out
all anti-slavcry people from TeXcs. He in
vitcd all the Secesh of Orange of both sexes
to the ball, and as an induccmcnt to attend
the assembly, he told them he should exhi-
bit a genuine yankee" skull He had
borrowed the skull from the doctor, and
fastening it to shelf placed a candle in
each eyc-sockct, and while most of the
guests looked on with cxultation and salts
faction to behold the Yankee head, he made
the remark that yankee candlesticks were
n decided improvement over the old fash
ioncd ones" The females who mingled in
this wicked orgie were the lowest creatures
of their sex, as might be expected. The
next morning Jim Davis and Saxon tied the
pieces of mutilated flesh in a meal bag and
threw. it into the Sabine river. supposing Of
course that when the tide flowed it would
float of. but the bag kept floating to and
fro for two days, until Mr. George Knee
|
went to Saxon and Davis and told them il
there was any law in the land, he would
instantly prosecute them if they did not
remove the remains from the river and bury
them properly. t...
Fearing this threat from Knecland, who
is an earnest Rebel, the scoundrcls buried
the portions of the body.
The following persons will vouch for the
truth of the statements | have made
Mr.. Marshall, mechanic of Orange, ant
Mr.. James of Galveston, recently returned
from California; John Livingston, DaviC
Livingston, Samuel Livingston, ship carpcn
tiers in Orange, Texas, three brothers Mrs
: Nancy Jane Jackson, mother of Mrs. Free
land William jackson, her son, employe,
in his fathers saw mill at Orange. GOWN!
Wilson Plummer. Mrs. Plummer, and Al
bert Plummcr, their son, narrated to m
while stopping at Pilot Town, the foregoin:
particulars Mr.. Plummcr is New Eng
lander. and was born in the town of Addi
! son, Washington county, Maine. lie ha
been in the employ of the United States a
light house keeper at the Texas Light" ol
the east bank of Sabine Pass, for the pas
? four years.