Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-30

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.l
Trial and Execution of s'Sue Mum
dy."

Louisville, KY, March I5.---You have doubt
les Ere this received an account of the tortu-
nate and successful capture of the guerrilla
leaders, Jerome Clark, (alias 'Sue Mundy,')
Capts. Magruder and Henry Metcalf three OF
the most notorious and desperate guerrilas
and outlaws who have, since the commence
ment of the rebellion, pillaged towns, and in
discriminatory murdered soldiers and Union
citizens of this State. Although their career
of robbery and other crimes has for a long
time been uninterrupted, justice, which event
ually overtakes and consigns to punishment
all criminals, has at length stopped their course
of bloodshed and outlawry, and they now, in
close confinement, await the punishment which
their evil deeds merit
Jerome Clark, alias "Sue Mundy," was
bro't up for trial on yesterday, before the Mill
tary Commission in session here, and of which
Brigadier-G General Whitaker is President, and
Lieutenant-Colonel VIM Ii. Coyl, Assistant
Judge Advocate of the Department of Ken
lucky, is Judge Advocate. Tho charge to
which he (for the idea of his femininity is OK
ploded, was required to plead, was that of "be-
| ing ii guerrilla" and the specifications in sub
stance set forth, First, That he unlawfully and
of his own wrong, and without being attached
to any regularly organized and authorized force
at war with the United States, and without Or
ders from any civil or military authority, did
take up arms as a guerrilla and outlaw, and
as such rob, pillage and murder, in the coun-
ties OF Nelson, Henry, Marion and Woodford
Second, That he took up arms as guerrilla
and outlaw in the county of Meade, and fred
| upon a detachment uf regularly organized
United States soldiers, in discharge Of their
duties, thereby wounding certain soldiers of
said detachment
The prisoner plead not guilty to both of the
specifications and the charge, with the state
ment as to the second specification, that he
did fire upon the soldiers Of that detachment,
there for his apprehension, in selfdefense and
to prevent his own capture. ..'e .-lai-
| Major S. ]. Wilson, a former officer in the
Federal army, and who was in command of
the expedition for their capture, gave in sub
stance before the Commission, the following
account S-.l.
He was ordered by General Palmer to take
fifty men, proceed to APPOINT ten miles from
Bradenburg, and apprehend, if possible, the
guerrilla leaders, Magruder and "Sue Mundy"
DE arrived at the place indicated, and after
taking into custody one DR.. Lewis, who had
been tending professionally the wounded Ma
gruder, proceeded to a tobacco barn upon the
place of man named Cox, wherein it was
said these famous characters were snugly en-!
sconced. is q ut.f 6 NJ ~
His men quietly surrounded the barn, and
after cutting off every avenue of escape,
knocked at the door. They received no reply,
and they were then ordered to knock in the
door, which they speedily did with a rock. As
tae door fell the soldiers were fred upon by the
redoubtable "Sue, who had re1oiver in each
hand, and blazed away in quick succession