Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-21
RARM0RE z.
VIVA and who He was.
"Reminiscences Of the Blessing
Detective.

The Louisville Courier Journal of
Wednesday, INDUCES ia some Ieminis-
eences Of the missing Detective, Bar
more, which viii, now that his name is
in every b0dy's mouth, be read with in
terest. It says:
Capt. Seymour Bsrmore, before his
| extraordinary abduction from q railway
tFaia by the Tennessee RU Klux, was q
man VINO had made some little reputa-
ton rs a detective, and a great deal more
as q dead beat, hut the unpleasant little
circumstance which is alleged to have
recently happened him may send bis
name down into history as one of the
martyrs, and the mystery which en-
shrOuds his fate will draw the sympathy
Of at least all who did not know him.
1t was, st any rate, bad taste in the Ku.
KluX to make a martyr of Seymour Bar
more, or to NEEDLE with him in any way.
Poor Barmore! The kicks and cuffs
he has received on all hands during his
career as y detective, whether deserved
or not, wss enough to have made q mis-
anthrOpe of the best man that ever lived,
People seemed to think be had no hush
ness to live, and even now that he is
dead-oE supposed to be-they are not
willing to let him rest. The New Albany
Commercial. which applsuded the Indi-
ana Ku-Klux, yesterday gave BarmOrs
a parting kick. It did up his obituary
in 8 hurry. It says Ct him "Barmore,
the 'detective' captured by the Tenpee-
see Ku-Klux, is the man in velvet and
q great humbug. It's hard 20 tell which
has the worst Of the bsrgsin-the de
tective' or the Ku-I&lux. Barm0re fp-
ured around New Albany until his trunk
was sold to liquidate an unpaid board
bill"
Sometime ago g reporter in Madison,
Ind, worked up q story about Barmore,
which might or might not have been
true. There was en- Injured female in
the case, and the Odium which this pub
LEGATION brought upon him nc doubt had
much to do with his emigration TO Ten
Bessee. He went to Nashville about the
time of its capture by the valorCus Joe
Blackburn, and the debut OF the Radical
Metropolitan Police. II was said he had
an eye to a position on the police force,
but this he never received, and somehow
the Metropolitans were prOverbislly
/" down on BRrmore" from their frst
sight OF hiE.
Some CT Barmorels enemies subse-
quently fabricated a story Of his seizure
by the Ku-Alux, and of his initiation
into the paddock degree. The story was
generally believed, and brought him into
ridicule, though there ws5 not 2 word OF
truth in it, as, on the night it was said
to have occurred, he was in Nashville.
Altogether, the man in velvet led a very
unenviable life, and if the Ku-Klux have
really had to do with his taking OH, they |
only freed a poor perseeuted soul that
will cry out to God against them ia the
day to come.
The Union and american of Tuesday
says: Up to this time of writing, we
have not been able to hear anything in
regard to the fate of BArmcre. Early
yesterday morning a report vas current
upon the streets that he had returned
by the early train of the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad, bat we hunted
around sufficiently to he convinced that
the rumor was q grand hoax, Yester-
day morning Commissioner Stone re-
ceived a Geographic dispatch from Ellen
BarmOre at Berrien Springs, Mich, ask
ing if any intelligence had been received
Of the missing detective. As everything
connected with the affair will be Of iny
terest, we will mention the fact that on
Sunday night last a prominent member
OF the Legislature made a bet of q fine
suit of clothes with q citizen that B ar
more would turn upn by the Ist Of
February. This opinion is entertained
by others outside OF the Legislature, and
the majority Of the people in this To-
cality are OF the same Wsy.of thinking
Here is what the Columbia Herald has
to say about the affsir. "Lass Monday |
morning our quiet big town was
thrown into quite q fever of ex-
citemsnt by the sensational story in the
Nashville papers of that morning, TO the
effect that 8 certain Nashville detective
named Capt. Barmore lad been quietly
taken from a night train, at this point,
and spirited eWsy-to nobody Knows
where. Now it was very h~umilisting to
the pride Of COlUm6ians that SO impor-
tant an event should have happened in
their midst without their having the
least intimAtiOn of il for 8 day or more
sfterWsrd. There were some who dis
credited the story altogether, and num-
berless rumOrs have been circulated as
to what became of Barmore's body, some
asserting that it was dangling from q
tree a few miles from town, and others |
Claiming that he was thrown into the
river, and his body recovered at Will
Transport. Madame R1mor and her
satellites tried to send the Coroner down
there to hold an inquest over the sup
posed dead body, and for about half q
day it was reported that he had gone;
but the Squire was too cute for that. So
much news proving entirely without
foundation, the people became st last
qnite skeptieal, aud believed nothing.
1t may be that the report OF one is cor
rect, that Barmore wss taken out Of the
car by persons in dlsguiss but if so, it
is singular, to say the least OF it, that no
q at the depot-snd several persons
were there when the train stopped
should nave observed anything OF a sus-
picious nature. il there is one witness
to testify in the affirmative, there is much
strong circnnstantIal evidence on the
--UTEx.a agI.ry