The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-02-21
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Correspondence Cincinnati Commercially
Negro Suffrage.

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! | bcspeak your careful reading of this
case--a remarkable xcmplifyiug. as
it does. several phases of Southern life.
customs harbarity and lawlcsSness.
1t was rum0red to-day that the Sheriff
and Coroner of Jasper County, Georgia,
had just been brought in under military
arrest Upon di'ligent inquiry, and from
reliable sources, | have ascertained the
following interesting facts, as connected
with and accounting for their presence in
Atlanta in charge OF guard.
la the county of Jasper, freedman
named john Brown, and his wife, Maria
asst year, contracted with pllnter
iwhitc) named Homer Barnes, to work tor
him.
Lately, Maria told her husband llat, at
diiierer times curing tie summer, Barnes
forced her to Illicit intercourse
On Monday, the 18Th inst, Barnes, who
had since married, went to Browns cabin
and asked Maria who had been telling
that he (Earnes) had been keeping her.
Maria replied that size had told her hus.
band and that he had spoken OF it. Barnes
left, but soon returned with revolver and
club. Meeting Brown he demanded whelh-
er or not he had said that Barnes had
been keeping Maria. Brown replied that
he had, and thought there was no harm in
telling the truth, whcrcupon Barnes struck
Brown with club, aud then drew his re-
volver and fired al Brown, the ball passing
through his coat and grazing his right
shoulder
Brown,then ran out of the house, fol.
lowed by Barnes who fired again, the ball
entering Browns left hip, Brown fell, but
soon jumped up aud ran again, when
Barnes fired the third shot, again hitting
Brown. who managed to gain the woods,
aud that night went to Monticello, dis
tance of six miles. Here, with three bull
let's in his body, and simply for want of
money, he was unable to obtain physician
! to attend to his wuun1s.
The next day he went to Robert Barnes,
father of Homer Barnes, related what had
occurred, and asked the elder Barnes Tor
Gods sake to get him his wife to attend
him and nurse him. Barnes, Sr., told him
to procure house and he would get his
wife for him. Brown then went to Berry
! }. gby, Sheriff of Jasper County, who
lived III the neighborhood, and procured
house for himself and family in Dghy's
yard this was on Thursday, January l6
That night Sheriff DiPby gave ball, to
which Barnes and his friends were invited.
Between and O'Clock, after dancing had
commenced Homer Barnes went to the
honse where were Brown and bis wife and
again accused Brown of talking about INN,
adding, =" intend to kill yon both"
Then. drawing his revolver, he fired,
hitting Brown in the head and slightly
wounding lin. Then turning to Maria
/ Brown, he deliberately aimed his pistol al
her breast and fired, the ball passing
| through her, kilii;g her instantly.
| Ba'n IhCn walked out in the yard, and
remarked to the shelif's son, J, hnA. Nc
CIendon and Others, that lie would like
to see any one arrest him for killing a id
Euigger, got on his horse and rode away.
The sheriff says John A. McClendon
came into the same room and said 10 him
" uomer Barnes has killed that negro
wench." lie wentout and found that 'tsure
enough he bad killed,hcr. However, he
paid no more attention 10 the matter until
! 1890 or | O'Clock, aud as the people were
Egoiug home from the ball he sent word by
one OF them to tell the coroner 10 cone aud
hold an inquest. Next morning he Qhe
sheriff having business to att,nd to, left
early, but gave instructions not to bury
the woman until the corOneT's arrival At
IL A. NJ. The coroner aud jury were on the
spor, Johu A. McClehdon, above mem
toned, being on The jury. llr
Brown was examined upon oath, and ties
tilted substantially tothe facts just related.
Whereupon the jury make the following
return
"JANUARY II, 1868.
a Georgia, Jasper County ;: H
1--WE, the jury, after being duly sworn
by w. Wilson, Coroner for said county
alter an examination of the body of Aaria,
wife Of John Brown, believe her death to
have been caused by guushot wound in
the right breast on the night Of the 10Th
inst, al the house OF Berry j. Digby, Jr.,
10y the hands of some one unknown to U.S.
Signed By the Coroner aud nine jnrymen.
The coroner advised the freedman Brown
to leave the country, else he, too, would
he killed which advice tue fEeedman lost