Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-03
A RLOOnY REvENnr
Just RetrlbutIOss for Horrible
CrimeALetter from Pulaski with a
Confederation OF our Former Ac.
count

CVEEVDOEsOh OF our FORMER Ac-
count. ...s.
From our Pulaski Correspondent.
PULASKI, June 3O.-Near the usually
quiet little city of Pulaski. in March last
a respectable widow lady and her daughter,
living to themselves, were visited by 4
| negro, at a late hour of the night, who
threatened to take their lives if they re.
| fused to succumb to his desires. A despe-
rate struggle ensued between the parties.
and the rayisher was nearly triumphant,
But as he Aeld, with his iron grasp, Mrs.
---- to the earth while the daughter
shrieked at the top Of her voice for help,
God in his mercy brought help, for the
neighbOrs heard the pitious cries of the
girl, and came to the rescue. The negro
was captured in few days after, although
he made his escape upon the night of the
commlttal of the crime, and lodged for
greater safety in the Lawrence county Jail,
our Jail here being considered unsafe, bat
fEpm their in someway he managed to escape,
and was afterwards reCaptured and lodged
in Jail in Pulaski, where he hasremained for
sometime past. Last night about the hour
of twelve or one, the Gathering of horses
feet were heard coming into town in every
direction, but not the sonnd of single
human voice, They were divided into
small squads of four or FIVE, one of which
approached the Jail, and knocking at the
door, told the keeper that they had priE
soner whom they wished to incarcerate
The keeper seeing the party in dis
guise from the upper story of the.
house refused TO open the door, whereupon
a signal from the party brought man with
an ak, who struck the door two or three
blows with the intention Of breaking il
down. The keeper seeing that he was
powerless, told them TO wait until he
could descend and he would unbar the door,
which proposition they accepted AT an
other signal the house was filled with the
party and they demanded the key 10 cell
No. /. The key was produced, and where
upon they entered the cell alluded to, and
calling the negro by his name, Simon
Peters, told him they chad come for him..
A rope was placed around his neck and they
quietly left the Jail, having treated the
keeper with the utmost politeness II is
thought by the keeper that Immediately
after their exit from the prison, the cuIprit
slipped The rope from his neck and broke
TO run, but he had hardly advanced any
distance before forty or fifty shots were fred
at him IN quick succession, fifteen or twenty
Of which took effect, causing instant death
In less than three minutes time after the
firing, the parties doing the shooting were
gone and not sound could be heard. The
whole affair was shrouded. in the deepest
mystery, and was transacted in lees time
than it requires to tell it. This morning
Mayor Balleniin caused an inquest to be
held over the dead body. The affair is
much to be regretted by our citizens, both
white and black, and is attributed alone 70
the excited anger Of the friends of the out
ragged ladies. Although there were several
other prisoners in the Jail none we're allowed
to escape. More anon. GILES.
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