The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-29

aui Organized for Murder-One OF
Them Makes n Clean Breast of the
Plot.
Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock,
Detectives McCune and Hastings, with
Officer. Welch, Holland, Smith, and
Gallagher, surrounded house on Court
street, extended in the rear of the
Charleston depot, and arrested a negro
named Steven Terrence, alias "Twine,"
who was one of the gang who, some
weeks ago, shot Mr.. Alexander on the
Pigeon Roost road, near Camp Creek
bridge, and set fire to his house. When
the officers first obtained entrance to
the house, the inmates tsome fifteen or
twenty negroes) persistently denied
knowing anything about the party they
were in quest of; but short search
soon revealed him curled sp under
trundle bed with little negro boy one
side of him, a girl on the other. On be-
ing discovered, he stoutly averred that
he was not the man they were looking
for, but another man altogether"
Finding that they were determined to
take him, any way, he at last admitted
his identity, and on being carried to the
station house made clean confession
of the whole affair, which for the re-
markable statements contained therein,
we give in full. The confession proves
the statements made and reiterated by
the appeal, that the negroes In ana
around the city were armed and organ
ised, in regular bands, to murder ana
plunder the white Conservative citiseRs. 1t
was made by the prisoner in the pres
ence of this reporter, and Detective Nc
Cune (others being present also), under
no restraint whatever, and of his own
free will. "That night" (the night OF
the Alexander affair.", "Dock Woods
called us together-tive of us-and said
we must 60 somewhere and get some
meat. After we got out a piece on the
Charleston road, one of the men said,
Let's get calf and so home Dock
Woods said. There's no use of having
any foelishness about this thing. / come
to get something, and am going to get
it, | and Aaron Gallagher started to
90 back, but DocB Woods said he was
captain, and he and Joe Webb and Jim
Shapfiin got mad, and so we went on
with them. When we got to Cane
creek, said let's 90 to this mans house
ons. Dock Woods said, No, i came for
money; Pm going to his house for that;
he has got plenty" Question by re-
porter-"We were all armed. Dock
Woods was the captain. Aaron Gala
CHER had n gun, and the balance of us
had pistols. Dock had always been at
this thing. had only been on one ex-
petition like this before. This was my
second trip. We went up to the house
easily, and Dock Woods posted one of
us on each side of the house, like regu-
lar sentinels. After doing this, ne went
to the door on little porch, and tried
to shove it in, and called to the man to
come out. He would not do 1t, and
Dock left the door and went to the win
dow by it, and as he did so the man put
his gun out of the window and fred it
off Dock left the window then and went
to the sunrise side ofthe house, and pick
ing up a sort of young tree, smashed in
the window on that side. After he did
this he told the man to come ont saying
IL he did not lie would set the house
a-fre and burn it up. The man reason
ed and begged with him, but Dock took a
bunch of dry fodder, fastened it on the
end of pole, set it ATTIRE and showed it |
into the house. i did not like this, and |
hallowed, let's go and get some chick
ems, and leave this business But they
would not let me, and said, we must
have money, that's what we came for.
After this heard gun fired, and ran |
into the house, which they had already |
broken into. Aaron Gallagher had fired |
the gun, and the man-Mr. Alexander
was lying GU the floor bleeding. Aaron !
ana Jim Shapilin had a trunk broken |
open ana was going through it, Dock |
vas hurryinG them up, and when | |
came he cursed me and told me- To 90
back. He said that that woman bsd
gone to arouse the neighborhood. Tbat
was the first had heard of woman
With this l went out, and p,etty soon
they all came out aud We hurried off
home. I went to Arkansas the next day
and staid there awhile; then l came
over on this side and went down into
Mississippi; but l did not have any rest.
had to come back" Question by re-
porter-"We are regularly organized.
The first principle was not to take away
from, or harm the Union men or cOlored
people, but to get these rebels wherever
"O SNulu' ny ICuCIo VIC iuSdu buSSS
men that are working against Grant,
aud are going to vote against him. We
believe that is the right way to break |
them all up. am Grant man, and / !
am going to vote for him. That way to |
serve the rebels is the only way to
Dreak them up" 1t is proper to state
that the prisoner thought that he Was
detailing this to Radicals, and that this |
candid confession of the motives. with
ms declaration of the intention to vote
Sr Grant was sufficient palliatios of
the crime to secure his EASY discbarge
Conservative men! Democrats, Whit
men Voters of the North and the EaSt
and the West, are you prepared to cast
your ballot for man, the representa'
tive of a party, under whose banners
and by the teachings of whose higb
priests, such devillsh, inhuman, aud
outrageous means are resOrted to to Sc.
cure political victoryi
l..