Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-15
The Trial of Crump-Why
the Judge Advocate
/ Resigned:
Statement of Serg't Woods.
Mayne. Disguised as a Ne
gro, Marauding Around
the Country with a
Band of Armed
| Negroes.
Startling Revelations and
More to Come.
From the Mcmpbis Appeal, Nav Il.

| From the Memphis Appeal. May u.
| According to our promise made some
tme ago, we present our readers to-day
with continuation of the exposes OF
the horrors and deyiltIies of Clayton's
murderers and thieves, perpetrators Of
deeds so dark and damnable that the
remembrance Of them will make the
word militia" odious and hateful to the
people of the South and Southwest for
all time to come-deeds, which when We
contemplate them now, and reflect that
the perpetrators not only walk our
streets with IMMUNITY, but are the honor~
| ed representatives ofthe dominant power,
make us blush for the manhood of the
South. All crimes and shames, outrages
chat would have disgraced the darkest
days Of the dark ages, have been com.
mitted openly and with the sanction Of
the highest authority.
| ! All law, and justice, and right were
stricken from their thrones and hurled
powerless to the earth, where they now
| lie under the iron heel of military des-
| potism, at the head of which are men
convicted of all crimes, thoroughly de-
PRAYED and vile, the scum of the earth
| But, however high they hold their
heads now, however brazenly they lord
| il over justice and law, however boldly
and unblushingly they outrage every
right of the people, day Of reckoning
is at hand, and vengeance is certain to:
ovsrtake them. 1t may be slow, but so
surely as God of Right lives in Heaven
| it will come, and when it does, their de-
struction will be utter and complete.
Meanwhile, all we can do is to expose
to the people their villainies and crimes,
and abide in patience till our time comes.
Our last expose proved Upham muir
derer and thief-giving the secret his
tory Of the murder of John B. Thorpe.
We have to day continuation of the
same-another link in the chain of
crimes, being .E FEEl
THE EXECUTION OF JOE LITTLE
for the murder of Capt. John Davis. 1t
will be remembered that we proved that
Thorpe was killed for having told Davis
where he could find his stolen mule. We
are now able to prove that Capt Davis
was murdered by the same hand-or
rather by order of the same man.
When Davis was murdered the muir
derer, Joe Little, was arrested and con-
fined in Marion Jail. He was perfectly
callOus about the affair, and paid no at
tention to a court-martial or its finding.
About two hours before his execution
his sentence was read to him. This was
/ the first intimstion he had of his fate.
| The doomed man could not and would
not believe it at first, but he was assured
| that the sentence was irreyOcable, and
| that he had but two short hours to live.
Being a believer in the Roman Catho>
| lie religion he asked TO be allowed to
see priest, and the request was refus>
ed. As the moments feeted by and he
saw the scsffold being made ready for
him-with death staring him 10 the
face, conscience long asleep in his breast,
awoke and with its scorpion lash began
even on earth to inflict the tOrments Of
hell upon the wretched man. The load
was too great to be borne, and he called
his fellow prisoners around him and
made the following.
| CONFESSION.
| Il came from Missouri with Upham
and Monk We belonged to band OF
horse thieves that had connections all
over the country. am still member
| Of it, Upham is the captain, and Monk
was the treasurer. When We started
from Missouri, they said that we would
come down into Arkansas and that IN
der the pretense Of hunting out ku~
KIux, could kill few men and get all
the horses and money we wanted. We
have been engaged in this ever since we
came here. ! have acted under Uphams
orders in everything. When | killed
Davis / was acting under his private or
derS. These orders were the best sort,
for we were never punished for anything
done under them. | was sure would
be protected in it. When was arrested
| was offered my choice Of q trial either
| civil OF military. Upham told me, and
so did others, that it would only be
form any way, and that | would be ace
| quilted so l felt easy and chose the mil
itary, as | could not believe they would
go back on me this way. You see they
have though. They told me all along
since have been in here, that it was all
blind, and that would be released
pretty soon. They were afraid to tell
me that l was going to be hung, for fear
would tell what | know. l am mur-
dered because | know too much. |
see it all-feOl, blind fool, that am.
Boys, all Of you, these are my dying
words They are true, so help me God"
| Our informants, who heard this are
willing to make deposition of the facts
as they are related. The doomed man
then went on, and in full and clear
manner detailed all Of the circumstances
connected with the t=f zTvs
MURDER 0F HARVEY, M'ALLIsTER AND
TIGER,
which we are in possession OF, but which
we reserve for future use. The details
are perfectly horrible, and shsw better
than anything else the character Of the
Internal villains at the head of affairs in
Arkansas Little, before being led to
the scaffold, made full confession at
headquarters, and it was taken down by
Capt. Cooke, (our informant thinks Cooke
took it down, but it is not sure.) 1t
never saw the light, as may be imagined.
Where is it Will some Of the high
toned, brave gentlemen" that the Post
speaks Of tell US ? D..
| CRUMP'S CASE.
| We gave our readers some time ago
the details of what occurred an court
during Crump's trial. There were, how
ever, certain details which we thought
best not TO publish then, and which we
give now:
During the courtmartial, Judge 7. w.
Brown, Crump's attorney, made mo-
ton TO be allowed to read certain deposit
tons, testimony Of witnesses who could
not be present and give it in person.
Capt. Cooke, the Judge Advocate was in