Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-24
TROUBLES.
One Ex-Federal Oaioer, One Ex-eOnfederate
0fseer and Seven Privates Killed n
crittenden County.

The readers of the APPEAL are Wen
informed as to the murder OF captain
McAHister, Major Harvey, William
TIGER, and others, COntederates, VINO
were butehered last February by the
militia in Crittenden county. There
is no n who pretends that these I'M
fortunate men were tried by military
court or otherwise, and all admit that
they e taken to the woods ami shot
nv these fiends in human shape. But
the history of the murder of John n.
Oroan is not SO well known. He and
several others were riding along the
Military road. and at Fifteen Mile Ba-
Won ran into a squad of militia, COM
handed by Capt. A. !. Haynes. Or
cams horse was shot down and Organ
taken prisoner. The others made
their escape. Organ saw Haynes and
called upon him to protect him trom
the violence of the negro militia.
HAYNES replied that he would attend
to his case himself; and throwing him
down. put his foot upon his neck and
shot him twice through the head
This was done in presence OF some
seventy negroes and eVeraI WH4te
men, and can be well established by
the evidence of many OF the Specta-
tors, both white and black.
Haynes was conspicuous amongst
the evil doors. His word was deaUh
to the unfortunate prisoners, and those
superior in command listened 10 MN,
and the death sentence was passed at
his behest. He derived this influence
| from the fact that he had lived in Crit
tenden county for three years, and
| knew who to kill. The other officers
who ranked him, except one, We're
strangers. The male inhabitants OF
the county were compelled TO fly for
| their lives. A requisitiOn for sixteen
/ prominent citizens was made at one
I time upon the Governor of Tennessee,
| and a second requisition for a much
larger number was made shortly after.
| NcAIIister, Harvey, TIGER, Wallace,
| and several Others had been murdered
without charges being preferred and
without trial; and there being no
| came now in view, and awaiting the
result of his acquisitions for more sub
/ iecfs. HAYNES amused himself a little
! bvraiding, and being ~inclinedto turn
a penny,O found MANY opportunities
/ Of filing his pocket. He took a horse
that belonged to Clarence Collier and
| sWapped him of for a mule. He per
| emptOrily refused to make ~reparation.
He had large heads of cattle driven to
his place and butchered. These cattle
belonged to the inhabitants of the
| county, vet Haynes got a voucher Tor
I each and every one of them. This Is
well known in Crittenden county A;
and it is also well known that on the
I coming of the militia Haynes drove
his entire cattle to this market anu
sold them-therefOre he did not own
one hOOf of the cattle for which he ob-
tanned his fraudulent vouchers,
amounting to many thousands Of dol
lars. 1t would requie pages to emu
merate all his dOings. The people
!, were by him insulted, robbed and
murdered. His bare word was death,
but. unexpectedly, civil law was re-
stszed. he was shOrn of his power,
and those whom he had run OF and
then made reduisitiOns for, returned
to their hOmeS-Clarence Collier
amongst them. His home being des-
olated. his parents gone, he stopped al
Marion for a few weeks, and while
there was repeatedly warned of threats
made by Haynes that if he did not
depart he would be killed, he persisted
in staying at Marion, and paying nc
attention to these threats. On the
evening of the 18th inst. he met
HAYNES in the streets of Marion, and
shot him. Haynes died and Collier
made his escape. The conduct Of each
party is v~ariously stated. The courts
of the county win develop the facts
whenever Collier shall be put upon
trial. We will content ourselves to
await the result without passing judg.
ment.
Haynes was the first eX-Federal sol
der ever killed in Crittenden county
by an eX-Confederate, and Wallace
was the eighth ex-Confederate soldier
killed in Crittenden county byex-Eed.
eral soldiers who have stopped in sale
county since the war; yet Radica
papers marvelat the killing of Haynes
but say nothing of the murder OF Me
Allister and others.