Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-04
MAJOR EARLE.
The writ Of Habeas Corpus.
Continuation of the Case.

The hearing of the application Of Mai
Earle for release from custody on 8 writ
Of hd6eGs corpus, was resumed in the
Court of Common Law yesterday after.
noon at 3 o'clock. Arguments were
made by Judge Wright, Maj. Beecher,
Judge Brown and Judge PIERCE, and the
further hearing was postponed until this
evening at 3 o'clock. The general Inn
preston is that Maj. Earle will be re-
leased.
We called attention yesterday morn
ing in our account of the arrest and sub
sequent proceedings, to the shameless,
cOwsrdly and lying forgery in the Post
Of the previous evening, and-We stated
hat the document published in the Post
was mutilated by the reporter (f such a
creature can be called a reporter), with
the deliberate and wilfnl intention of
~prejudicing the public against Mai.
Earle. We now reiterate this charge,
and bring the Post itself as proof of the
assertion.
The Posts most veTacious account Of
the affair is headed, in sensation style,
"The Grand Cyc1Ops Captured-Arrest
Of J. F. Earle, the Alleged Commander
Of the Ku-Klux Khan OF Crittenden
County, Arkansas Important Papers
Written in His Own Handwriting Found
On His Persona Panic Among the X.
ks in the City" After detailing the
manner of the arrest, the clubbing Of the
prisoner (which the police deny), the
Post goes on to say "Oa arriving at
the stationhonse his person was searched
and . quantity OF papers found in his
possasslon, which are OF themselves the
strongest evidence Of the correctness OF
the charges upon which he Yves arrested.
Among the papers the following copy OF
the order, written and signed ia his wi
hand, ~disbsnding the Ku-Klux Kan,
indicates that bis rank in that mysteri-
Gus order was sufficient to warrant him
in the issuing of the paper:
Hereafter the association known IS
the Ku-KluX Klan-in Crittenden
county, and all other parts of the State
will be disbsnded. This Is done in order
to and by recent enactment on the part
Of the State, in restoring civil law and
order in the county. BY order,
The Police Clerk, who copied the
from the original, failed, by over
sight, 10 take the date.
Tbe APPEALS dsnuncistion of this
unSlushing aud monstrous wrong
brought forth the following in yesterday
evenings Post:
I'VE have received the following doc
ument from Mr.. Earle, which We cheer
give place, and which he assures as
TO have been the only document relating
to the Ku KluX found in his possession {:
MEMPHIS, TENN, February ., 1869.
"a Col. Haynes, Commanding al Marion:
"Sir: / am informed, by authority
to De contradicted, that the order
known or commonly called Ku-RluX is, |
and since the 291h day Of January last
has been, wholly and entirely disbanded,
and dissolved forever, not only in Crit
but wherever il existed in the
State. This was done in Difference to the
Of the State, and for the purpose Of
restoring peace and quiet.
Very respectfully, J.F.
"I hereby certify that this is the only
found on the person of Maj. Earle,
any reference to the Ku-Klux,
and is the same one that LED to the errO-
neeus article in the Post Of yesterday,
3, 1869.
"W. G. MCLEYAINE, Clerk lst D.. Mp"
The Post goes on to say that the docu-
ment, as originally published by them,
copied by a Police Clerk. We have
the authority OF the police for saying
this is false, and that the Posts re-
porter is alone responsible for the mutt
alton and forgery kere made apparent.
"Oh, shame, where is thy blush -"
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