The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-17
EDITIO N
HORRORS.
A Negro Preacher Torn with Iron Hook

Negro Preacher Torn with Iron Hooks
Says the Nashville Banner of Monday last:-
We learn from private letter received here
yesterday, that band of ruffians armed with
sticks and clubs, went into eolored church at
Liberty Hall, Hawkins county, East Tennessee,
last Sunday, fourished their shilellahs above
their heads, made grimaces, and laughed i'm
moderately at the colored preacher in the midst
of his devotOns. and otherwise disturbed the
peace and dignity of the congregation. When
the services had been concluded and the audi
ence dismissed and the preacher who had re-
mained behind, was about to leave the church,
he was seized and taken into the woods robbed
of all his money, stripped and whipped, and the
flesh Of his arms and back torn with an iron
hook. After perpetrating these horrible tor
\ lures, the robbers warned the preacher that if
he did not leave that section of the country
they would kill him.
A Girl Beaten to Death IN st. Lonis.
j On Sunday morning last, in st. Louis, son
of Mrs. Margaret Bauman called at the Coro-
4 ners office, and stated that n colored girl had
died at his mothers house of diarrhna and
cramps. The Coroner examined the body, and
instead of finding any evidences of these physi-
cal disorders, discovered upon il ffty-toO cuts,
bruises and contusionsl This discovery put
new coloring upon the affair. Mrs. Bauman,
woman of forbidding aspect, was taken in Gus
tody and for trial.
At the Coroner's investigation Mary Green
testiIied:-
/ was washing for Mrs. Bauman week before last;
in the afternoon was taking cup OF coffee in here
auding to the room In which the inquest was being
heidi; while here Mrs. Bauman's little girl came
in and said ''Ma, this girl is making face at me-"
Mrs. Bauman jumped right up from the table,
struck the girl with her fist and afterwards took
stick that was standing in the corner, and beat the
girl numerically over the head, making cash in
her head-there was cash in her head befOre-Mrs
Bauman telling her at the same time, g you,
Niger, will kill all you nggers! All the white peO
/ pie say that am too good TO the girl" | told her
not to hit the girl with stick but to take switch
Rauman COull
help it-she was obliged TO whip her; that she had
given her money to go to the store and that the girl
had spent the money for bread and had eaten It, II
! is no wonder that the girl did so, because she was
i half-starved to DEATH During the day, when was
here Mrs. Bauman never gave this girl piece of
bread, and the same day when came here washing
Mrs. Bauman's little girl fell down the board
Il side OF the yard Mrs Bauman, as soon as she saw
her little girl falling jumped at the colored girl and
shamefuly. believe this is the very stick (an oak
stick about two and a half feet long and an inch
thick shown witness which she used in beating the
girl. One day Mrs. Bauman went to picnic; when
she came back she beat the girl for something,
the girl all sweled and puned up and full of blood
asked her who beat her that way and she said the
afterwards that Mrs Bauman had done it, and that
Mrs. Bauman had told her if anybody should ask
her she should say that the watchmans girl had
An Entire Family Murdered.
A few days since party, q mile above Prairie
du Chen, Wisconsin, drew ashore with q seine a
couple of trunks, some bedding, and other
household goods, which have been recognized as
the property of Mrs. Hagerty, and since that
time her body and those of two of her children
have been found in the river below that place.
The discoveTyof the goods and the bodies has
removed the mystery in which her disappearance
i was shrouded, and it has been discovered that
the family were removed from Prairie du Chen
a few monshs since by one Thompson, who
4 lived short distance back from McGregor and
friends of the family had never heard of her
until the discoveries of the past few days were
made Suspicious of foul play on the part of
4 the teamster led to his capture on Sunday before
last and the array of circumstances points to
him as the probable villain who, to possess him
self of the few hundred dollars belonging to the
lady, in cold blood murdered the family and
thrust their bodies under the ice.
Subsequent accounts show that the suspected
murderer of Mrs. Hagerty and three children,
at McGregor, Iowa, has been lodged in the Du-
a buque county jail.
The McGregor Ne,1s, in connection with this
NATTER says:-"Mrs. Hagerty lived near Monona,
with her three children--two girls and a boy
Last November n man near Monona took the
family in sleigh to Prairie du Chen or at
least started to do so, since when nothing has
ever been heard of them Git is said that the
woman had $500 in cash) and that there was a
track on the ice to said lake. and that blood was
seen on the ice and snow last winter, etc. etc.
These are the rumors; whether they be true
or not we cannot tell, but there seems TO be bat
a little doubt shat there has been foul play"