Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-05
hEI6h VI TEkkOR
Horrible Negro outrage in Ma
rlOn County, Arkansas!
Murder and Rapine
An Armed Band OF Negroes
RaVage the Country!
They Rescue q Prisoner from
the Hands or the officers Of
the Law!
Murder and Rapine
Midnight Assassination Of four
Peaceable Negro Democrats!

We learn the following terrible and
startling facts from two OF our most re-
spectacle and responsible citizens, who
only yesterday returned from the scene Of
the horrible outrages that they relate.
Were it not for the we'll known character
of our informants, we would be disposed
to disbelieve the statements ourselves
evon though we know go well the blood
thirsty, deyilish character of Radicalism.
On Saturday night last, about nine g
clock, while Judge Gatlin and Mr.. Crump
were conveying notorious horse-thief,
robber and scalswag, named Jake Thomp-
son, alias Frank Baldwin, from Kingston
to Marion, to lodge him in jail, they were
met near the house of a widow named
Wilson, By a party of fifteen or twenty
armed mounted men, who compelled them
to release their prisoner and then rode off
with him. The band was disguised, but
from their conversation, and the language
they used, both gentlemen express a firm
conviction that they were negroes. This
conviction was strengthened by the man-
ner in which they were mounted and rode.
After being relieved of their prisoner.
these gentlemen, MesSrs. Gatlin and
Crump, went to the house of Mrs. Wilson,
where they remained that night. Some
three hours afterward, about midnight,
several shots were heard in the direction
Of some negro houses on Mrs. Wilson's
place, and few minutes afterward some
negroes came to the house all breathless
and terribly frightened, and stated that an
armed band of men, on horseback, had
come to one ofthe negro houses and Gale
ont the negro inmates. As soon as they
came out the mounted men, without say
ing 4 word, shot two of the men down,
killing them instantly, after which they
rode off down the Bay Ferry road.
A Mr.. Crabtree, who lives on the road
near Mrs. Wilson, saw this band, either az
they were going TO or coming from Mrs.
Wilson's on their errand Of murder, and
from his description there could be no
doubt on the minds Mr.. Gatlin and Mr..
Crunp that they were the same parties
that had met them. They were armed,
Mr.. Crablree says, with Enfield rifles or
Springfield muskets-military guns and
accoutrements-aud from the words and
sentences he heard them address to each
other, Mr.. Crabtree was confident that they
were negroes.
On the following day no traces of the
party could be found, and the negroes and
whites were alike terribly excited over
the circumstances of the preceding night.
Nothing was done, however, and that
night about ii J or II o'clock, the same
party appeared at an adjoining cabia,
forced the inmates to come out, and DELHI
erately, without saying 4 word, shot down
two more poor, inoffensive negro men.
After committing this horrible crime the
party rode off and disappeared. The IN
fortunate survivors of the cabin last at
tackled, state positively that the band were
negroes and that they were strangers to
that part of the country.
Words eau convey but faint idea OF the
excitement which these deeds of midnight
murders and outrages have aroused in the
neighborhood Of Kingston and Marion.
ThS people are at loss 10 account for the
acts, and the general opinion prevails that
the band who committed them were sent
over By the Radicals of Memphis to terrify
the negroes into leaving their homes and
coming to the city of Memphis.
This, We have reason TO know, is the
fact, and We are prepared TO prove that
this band Of murderers are the emissaries
of W. J. Smith and his party and, more
over, that over five hundred negroes have
left their homes and fed to this city,
where they will be manufactured by the
Smith party into voters for their ticket
Memphis APPeal, Nor. 8.