Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-15
KU-KLUX.
A START. he A YsTEgY.
The Masked brethren Seize a
Detective and Make way
Win Him.
His whereabouts sun Unknown
The Vehn, GerIght Revived.

n ny . D7Hu Ok mhskeQ men, ABOUT n2L-
past ore o'clock In the morning, was
general and intense. Tie streets were
rife with TumoT5 as TO his fate, but on
that point no reliable information had
resched Nashville up 10 q late hour last
night.
some went so far SIS to say that Bar
I more had been hung or shot by the Ku-
Klux, and that his measure for q coffin
, had actually beeD sent to enc Of cur IN
dertskers others reported that he had
not only been laid out, at Columbia, but
that his remains had been seen by a gen.
leman who had arrived on an early
train, while many believed the whole
thing to be a hoax gotten up by Bsrmore
! for 3 professional" Advertisement
until, finally, the minds Of the public
b3eRme 90 mysti6ed concerning the mat
ter that toward night all statements re-
gsrding it were generally d~iscredited.
That, however, Barmore was taken off
the train, at Columbia, early in the
morning, by persons in mask, is an indu-
bitsble fact, of which We learn the fol.
lowing authentic particulars from the
passengers and attaches OF the train
It appears that BsTmore having missed
the regular train here Monday morning,
got on a freighttsain and went to Pulaski
to attend, rs a witness, the investigation
Of me case Of a negro, whom he had ar
rested In this city 8 few days previous, |
on the charge of completely with Alex.
Mason, cOlOred, in the robbery of he
safe of Fisher Il Co., eolorcd, at Pulaski,
took q seat in the hindmost coach. |
douoled himself up and went to sleep. in |
which condition be remained until the
arrival OF tbs train st Columbia at half
past one O'Clock in the morning. While |
the conductor, Mr.. Thomas Moore. was
handing some ladies' GU Of the car, 9
man in 3 robe and mask, who hsd not
before been observed by any one, an
preached by rapid stridss, and asked Mr..
Moore TO let him pass, which privilege
was Immediately yielded. This was the
only one OF the mysterious band whom
Mr. Moore saw during the affair. We learn
from passengers, however, that The train
hsd no sooner stopped than Q masked
man was seen at each door, while four
others entered the ear from the west and
opposite size from the depot, through
the rear door, passing along the aisle
and punching the passengers in the
side with their pistols to wake thea 10,
the object being to get q view of
their cO~unteaaDceS. In this manner
they aroused Mr.. Henry Nelson, of
Murireesboro, who said to them that he
did not think he was the maj for whom
they we're in search. Without paving
any attention to the remsIk, however.
they next proceeded to the seat occupied
by BIrmore, who had his cap drawn
dUWn over his eyes, and was fast asieep,
tney thrust the mGZZies OF their pistols
IN his side, and with \ very quiet, though
determined cir, told him to "Eet up snd
go along with them, that they desired
10 onveT5e with him Oulside.n Bar
more without mEuifesting much sur
prise, slowly srose from his seat and ap-
peared to find &c difficult 20 use one of
MS Iegs, which he said WAS asleep. AZ
ter rubbing It with his hands for a very {
time be walked out OF the car with 8
them without Offering the least resfst,
ance. oae OF them remarked TO Bar
more, when he feigued lanaeneaa, that
Cd d-n him, they kn59 him, aud :
that he could not come that over them" :
80 quietly and adrOltiy was the whole .
managed that few even Of the pas.
wig happened ta be aTske were l
of the teri oily mysterious episode d
when hsd occurred almost before their |
very faces. c
In the mean time Conductor Moore, a
Of what was going on, and re. .
Wondering that it hss become rather q q
haoit for such p~ersonsges to pass through =
a tTajn at any time. and ct almost any 0
station along the road, cried " fall L
y and rang the bell for the train P
to move on. As this failed TO "have the ]
desired effect" MT. Moore went to the Is
engineer n asked him why he did not 2
moVeo on. The latter, pointing TO two n
lsgqised E4en, with pistols, vino stood, <
silent and gloomy a. the grave, ca the o
replied that he now had 9
Dtneg conductors who directed the move
ments Of the train. The new "Conduc- Z
" then asked Mr.. Moore if the other -
masked P4en had left the train, to which, :
having no knowledge that there hsd
been any Others about, except one he
had seen when the train first stopped, he
could make no reply. Mr.. Moore, how -
ever, requested that they would no de-
az the train. just at this juncture four is
Dr. five whistles were distinctly heard "
some two hundred yards in the rear OF q,
the train, st the sound of which the 3
masked men told Mr.. Moore that he III
so ahead, leaped FROM the Iocomo-
i've and, it is supposed, reioined their
comrades, who were by this time NOV
.ng on horseback 10 a southPssterly di-
from the depot, That ,UaS The p,
asst seen Of Capt BdTmOre! re
The passengers state that in addition q
10 the eight disguised men who were &C. :
.ual!y upon the train, they saw some f. s
zen or twenty others, in the garb of the
mysterious brotherhood, on the opposite
iide OF the traln from the depot, be-
the train On which they were =
and the accommodation train :
sblch stood on s side track. II is sup
)0ssd that while BsTmore's capture was
,eing effected, they kept themselves Sc .
,reled behind the cars Of the latter I
rain. The trsmpling and sDorting of
heir horses could be heard a short dis
snce Of. Z
Much surprise has been expressed that
10 further particulars, either as to the in
III tents connected with Bsrmors's seiz
ire or his supposed fate, have heen re
from Columbia. To Us the reason 7
8 plain enough. Tbe first intimation =,
my one in Columbia had of the affair -
vas through a dispatch 10 Mir. w. J r.
andrews, from the Banner Office, at $3.50 II
I'M, asking him to forward the full de.
ais. He replied :,
COLUMBIA, January u, 1862. v
% the Editor OF tbs Republican Banner: ST
| know nothing about il, nor had IN
card anything about it. II
WI. ANDREWS. We
Fearing that Mr.. Andrews hsd been AZ y,
by business engagements from trg
Ft6ndiDg to the matter, we made the Sc
anne request of Maj. Thos. II. McHin- ,
ey, who replied, about 8 pm, as fol-
4
COLUMBIA, January p 1869. =
o the Editor OF the Republican Banner r,
Your dispatch is the first intimation
ave had CT Barm0re's seizure. n
THOS. II. MCKINNEY.
The Agent at the Columbia Gepot also
that the Banners dispatch
inquiry afforded ths people OF Coium-
ia the first and only hint they had on the
Sc
1t will be remembered that the sffsir
at half past one O'Clock In the
forming, when the Inhabitants OF Column. q
Ia were buried in s!umbsr; no psssen- VII
ers got on the train, no one was waiting us,
'r II there was not 3 single soul about MS
depot except the agent who remain chs
. inside and saw nothing that happened, un
the few passengers who got off the @
,sin were equally ignorant. The whole a
1ing did not occupy owe three minutes,
I'd barmore's captors moved at once for
country in a south wssteIiy direction.
'nder these circumstances, Il is not ex-
,aordlnsTy that the people of Columbia II
'ere in the dark. Fer all Ws know, they
lay be in that condition yet.
When Barmore was taken from tho M