The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1869-03-05

His Remains Brought TO Nashville
What Is 10 be done With them u
The Inquest at COlum-

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Barrnore, detective, who was taken
from the train at Columbia. on the
night Of January II BY the Ku Klux,
murdered. and SfI erwards thrown in
10 Duck River, arrived in this city
The body was discovered late Sat
urday night, aboot two miles below
Columbia. BIZ u colpred man, who at
once carried intelligence to Captain
| Freidenborg, in command Of the Uni
tod States troops at C0lnmbia
4 On Sunday Squire Woods, Of that
\ place summoned ajury aDd proceeded
10 hold III inquest upon the budy,
coupled with Investigations in the d.
rection Of ascertaining who we're the
! perpetrators Of this terrible deed, a
great many witnesses werS summoned
| and examined, and the inquiry con-
! tinued through Sunday, yesterday,
| and is not yet completed. There is
certmnly a veil OF mystery banging.
over this affair, which it seems, almost
impossible to clear up unlsss tho most
4 perseyeripg and tireless Investigation
is set on foot. Among the witnesses
! who testified before Squire Woods
yesterday was on old man who drives
u sort Of omnibus between the depot
/ and the town, who swore to having
been ut the station on the night IN
| question. he says that he was stand
ing on the platfhrm the whole of she
time that the train remained and for
some minutes aiterit started on its
way 10 Nashville, and that he saw no
.Ku Klux, nor indeed witnessed any
thing unusnalor extraordinary. Ia
fact, it tappears that nobody could be
found who knew anything about the
mattar at all If an investigation il
really desired and sought for, why not
secure the engineer, the fireman and
the conductor who were on the .rain
on that memorable night, and find out
what was done? We should like 10
know If on the night in question
mysterious sort OF u dispatch was not
sent from Pulaski tu CoIumbia to the
effect that Barmore was 10 leave on
the night train for Nashville, and
whether orpot the Ku KIux did not
act on the intelligence thus derived |
/ such dispatch was sent, who sent
itl Who received IN rs
We understand that Squire Woods
says, positively, that Barmore was not
murdered by Maury county people,
and that he will be able to show the
fact. Any showing in the direction
of the truth will be grateful, indeed,
but we are under the impression that |
neither Squire Woods, nor yet any
other Squire, will ever be able TO make
il out that Barmore met bis tragic fate !
from any hands except those OF Mau-
ry county people themselves. The
idea that the gang which dragged the
detective from the car came up on the
self-same train from Pulaski, got off
at Columbia, put on their regslia, and
then boarded the train again to cap.
thre and carry off their man. We
should like 10 know who sent the dis
patch from Pulaski 10 Nashville,
which took Barmore TO the former
place perhaps the book of the tele-
graph company might show.
There is 10 knowing how much the
Ku Klux had to fear from Barmore.
He may have been in possession ofin.
formation which wonld have enabled
him TO capture some of the assassins, |
bad bis life been spared. He was a
shrewd, sharp sort Of man and that
he had intentions IN direction Of the
Ku Klux il apparent from the fact
that 10 his satehe, which he had with
bin in the train at the time he was
taken of, opened afterwards. disclosed
q full Ku Klux regaIia What. the |
detective proposed to do with, the
ghostly vostmenis, or what he had
already done with them, is, indeed.
mystery. Whether he had possessed
himself Of the Ka Klux passwords,
grips and signals, aud designed to
pursue further Investigations, must
be left alone to conjecture.
We have digressed thus far from
what We started out TO say, because
Of the interest which the Barmore
tragedy has everywhere elected
among law-abiding and psaesAble
citizens. is ~ ID.
Bafmore was killed BY a pistol.shot
through the top Of the head, the ball
passing downward through the brain,
through tho mouth, and left lodging
in the left side Of the jaw. Thus much |
was established by the post mOrtem ex-
animation which was made under the !
supervision Of tho post commandant I
az Columbia. After being shot the ,
detectives hands were tied behind
him with his handkerchief, a piece Of
rope tied about his neck and secured
10 big rock, the whole being con. I
signed 10 the waters Of Duck River.
The action Of the current swaying the r
body backward and forward, as Il rose '
buoyant from the accumulation Of
gases, wore the rope, and the moose 4
becoming enlarged after the lapse Of
about elk weeks, slipped from tho neck I
and the body hoated down with the
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