Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-15
THE BAKMORE Mystery.
No Reliable Information.

e.
The subject of Detective Barmore's cap
ture continued to be freely discussed yes
terday, and nearly every other man we
met upon the streets had something to
say about his mysterious disappearance.
As on the day previous, there were many
rumors aAoat concerning his fate, but up to
this moment we are unable to give any.
thing reliable. When the train passed
Columbia yesterday evening at o'clock,
a report had reached that place that the
body of an unknown man had been found
on Duck river, some distance from the
city. The Coroner had summoned jury
and proceeded to the place designated, and
if he made any discoveries we have not
been advised of the fact.
There is one thing nearly reduced to
certainty, and that is the fact that the out
rage must have been committed by persons
unknown anywhere about Columbia. 1t
is stated that a party of men in disguise,
hailing from the neighborhood of Decatur,
Alabama, have been raiding through
Maury and Giles counties, and it is limited
that this was the party that got Barmore.
1t is also said that suspicious characters
had been seen about Columbia two or three
nights previous TO the capture, and upon
this information report has been circu-
lated that the men in disguise who took
| Barmore from the train were dressed SINH
lar to the Indiana Ku-Klux, who not long
since hung the Reno brothers and Ander-
son, at New Albany.
Among other things mentioned in con-
nection with Barmore's capture, the idea il
advanced that the whole thing was only a
trick concocted by the Detective himself
probably with the view of perfecting ar.
rangements for the detection of crime in that
locality. The following communication,
which appeared yesterday in the Press and
Times, itself smacks little of the mystic.
rious, but facts already developed in part
dissipate the theory advanced by the au.
thor:
1t is strange that every one seems to
be 80 excited over the supposed fate OF
| Barmore. Now, has anybody calmly
reflected on the probability of the whole
| story being a candrdg To q common
| person like myself the story looks Wild
An individual commonly seen on our
| streets suddenly ceases to be seen, and con :
temporaneously with this disappearance
some one unknown starts a rumor that he
has been captured by Ku-Klux in mys-
terious manner out at Columbia, at one
o'clock in the morning. The conductor Of
the train from which it is alleged be
was taken knew nothing of it; the engi-
neer knew nothing of it; the brakemen
knew nothing of it; the station agent
knows nothing of it; every one at the de-
I pot is ignorant Of it. In fact on this partic-
l ular night there was no one at the depot
to see anything. None of the passengers
knew anything of it, but it is said that
passenger saw Barmore taken out by the
Ku-Klux, and the whole thing looked up
on as a matter of course by all on board
| the train. There does not appear to be
any proof in the world that Barmore was
on the train at all. There is no proof that
| he left Nashville. There is nothing TO
| show that he was in Pulaski. There ia no
statement made by any one who preiends
| 10 knolU that he was taken off the train.
The rumor looks, TO my sober judgment,
| as a huge canard. THOMAS.