Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-03-09
Tragedy.

mitted in our city yesterday, at hale
past eleven, at the Charleston dona.
where there was a government III
in progress. c. NJ. Dyer, late I,
Colonel of the 1st Tenn. CavaIr.
one of Tennessee's best soldiers .,5
one of our best citizens was Delhi
ately murdered by a negro soldier
The Colonel, in company viii
Capt. Sharp, having completed h,
purchases, went to the rear Of n.
building which contained the property
they had bought: at this place n
gro guard was. stationed, with order.
to allow no person to enter the bnir5
ing except on business. Each Of tfa
gentlemen had the necessary paDar,
in hand. to show that he was enritlo5
to entrance, and Capt. Sharp did en-.
ter unquestioned, but Col. Over. who
was Immediately following the Gan,
tain. was ordered by the guard to halt.
the Colonel told the guard he va.
after his property, at the same time
showed his papers, and then stepped
into the building, when the guard
fired upon him, shot him through tba
breast and killed him instantly.
The guard, after having done tbi.
horrible deed, was arrested by Cant
Wainwright, and sent under guard 10
his Office, there to be placed in CUSTODY
Of Capt. Abdill, who commanded Ill.,
negro's company. 1t seems that be.
fore reaching the Office, the guard
quilted him, and he was met bv h,
officer, who asked what he was dom
away from his place of duty, to which
the.negro answered, that he had been
ordered to his quarters under arrest
The officer then ordered him to 90 IN.
to his quarters, to await a further
Development OF the fact, Of which tle
negro availed himself to make hi, 6.
cape.
BY this time an Infatuated mob had
gathered, and proceeded to the oaie-
and demanded the negro, but the off.
Ger being unable to produce him. va.
menaced with threats of hanging. fir
D Elm 2 accessory to his escape.-
Through our intercessi0n. the nIa.
agreed that we, in company Of Oh.
officer, should seek him, but our seaIa
was in vain
Returning to the mob, we Informed
them Of the fact, when three or tour
of them again took the officer. to IT,
new the search, making the suc..,-
OF the search d condition Of his aw
life. At about two O'Clock. the nu.-
derer was found at the government
corral, where he had secreted him~..
In attempting to make his ESCAPE.
about a dozen shots were fired at linn.
three Of which took effect. but hone
seriously disabling him. He was al
length captured and dragged to til.
corner on which the office OF the
Ereedmens Bureau stands, where an
attempt to hang him was made. Up
10 this time he had exhibited little or
no sign Of life, and it was generally
supposed that the rough treatment he
had experienced. had proved fatal:
but upon being pulled up by the rope
he struggled 50 violently that the rope
broke, and he fell to the ground.
Jumping up, he made a desperate
to escape, but was soon over
powered, and taken to the ward in
front Of Capt. Wainwright ; Office
where. after procuring a stronger
rope, and allowing the wretched man
a few moments to appeal to the
Source Of all Mercies. the inexorajle
mob hung him to a tree. 1t WA,
fully twenty minutes before he ceased
to struggle. and fifteen minutes more
before judges pronounced the fact
that his guilty spirit had taken leave
Of its ghastiy tenement.
That we may never again have o.
caSion to chronicle the repetition OF
SO dastardly murder as was COM
nitted by this negro, We pray not to
A0u Aem 9Idood mo leV pup .In9ao
er again take the law into their own
hands, we do as earnestly hope
haorriHc (Tenn.) Commercial.
ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL.-On
Thursday Of last week, Mr.. Burt. the
allor at this place, mistrusting that
all was not right among his prisoners.
put handouts upon Hiram Wiley and
Teo. Fuller, the men who stole widow
horrlson's trunk foil Of gold and sil-
yer at Canaan last fall and made an
Examination of their cell. He found
-hese men had taken the zinc from the
'tove, and melting it in the hollow OF
stove leg, had run some formidable
ooKln@ weapons in the ashes. known
o ruihans as slung shot. They had
already affixed ligatures to these mis-