The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-23
LET US HAVE PEACE"
Fiendish Atrocities by Negroes in
North CaroIina.-A White Woman
Ravished by 9 Radical Pets.-Her
Two Little Children Outraged and
then Murdered blythe Black Devils,
From the Georgia Clarion.7

FROM the HSOESh NIuI lOi.
One of the most revolving outragCs
and a double murder occurred near
Swann's Mill, North Carolina, on Tues
day last, which it was ever our lot to
record, or which ever took place in any
eli ilizcd land. A few miles from the
mill, on the Columbus Road, lived
Mrs. Marks, a young and beautiful
widow lady about thirty years o! age /;
a hired woman and two children, a lit
tie boy of five, and u little girl,of Gig Vt,
living with her. At about nine O'Clock
in the evening of the 21sr inst. u loud
rap at the door of the house startl,G
the donates, who had just retired for
the night. The hired woman, who
slept in an upper room, raised window
TO ascertain the cause, and accostcd by
a negro, who said that he had u letter
for Mrs. Marks. which he had brought
from the village, and that it was very
important, and must be answered that
night. Rec gnizing him as a man from
the village when she knew, she went
down stairs and opened the door AS
soon as the door was fairly unfastened,
a gang of nine armed negroes, who
h ad teen concealed in the dark behind
a clump of bushes. made a rush into
the house. The woman fed through
a car door, and escaped into a piece of
thick woods back OF the house.
Mrs. Marks, hearing the noise, start
ed to come from her room, but was met
by two Of the negroes who seized her
and attempted to drag her toward a bed
standing in a corner Of the room, BE
ing a woman of great strength, she
struggled iearfulIy, but the rest IF the
gang coming to the aid OF the two, she
was finaily ovcrpowercd. They then
threw her tn the bed, tying her arms
and feet to the bed post with cords,
and proceeded to violate her person in
turns until all nine of them had satiat-
ed their hellish passions. While this
was going on, an attempt was made 10
violate the person of the little girl, who
was held by two of the iends in plain
of the mother, while a third one
accomplished the damnable deed, a
KIN fe Having to lie used for the pur
pose! The screams Of the child we're
which so crraged the demons
they tore her tongue from her
mCu h, and finally beat her brains out
aga nst the stone jam of the fireplace
and threw the body into the back yard!
Not content with this, they seized the
boy, and .tter tying him with cords,
proceeded TO commit a nameless out
upon h s BODY.
The woman who escaped from the
house fed toward StoyeT Station, but
The night beiug dark lost her way, and
not arrive at Mr.. Appleby's the
nearest neighbor of Mrs Marks, until
lbout two o'clock in the morning -
She Immediately gave the alarm and
Mr.. Appleby called up his men, and
after aiming them, sent off to Robert
Stoves and the other neishbors. AS
'oon as possible they all took to their
and proceeded to Mrs. Marks,
they found the house on fire
discovered the terrible scene we
nave described, but the perpetrators Of
he deed had fed. When found, Mrs
Marks was wholly iDsensible. and it
vas with great difficulty that she was
'estored to consciousness. George, the
title boy was found dead on the floor,
pound with cords as they had left him,
nd the dead body of Annie, the little
,irl, had been dragged from the yard
nto the back stoop. undoubtedly Tor
purpose of having all tro ces of their
.uilt obliterated by the fire which they
Iad set.
1t is supposed that she miscreants
Tere alarmed by the approach of the
orses of Mr.. Appleby and his .men,
nd fed into the adjoining woods,
rom which they scattered to their
ONES before morning. The whole
ountry is aroused, and it will be diff
for all the perpetrators of such a
iabolical deed to escape. The negro
no pretended to have the lettor was
,cognized by Mrs. Orally, the work
oman, as Bill B%aston, the recent ne
70 and Radical candidate for the
legislature from that district. He was
OF found the next day, and his wife
I'd that be was gone to a negro meet
g. He is probably sccreted either 10
% woods or in the huts of some of the
s of the gang, but it will be hard for
m to escape, as the whole country is
{ used. No negroes were found alb.
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