Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-26
DARING OUTRAGE.
! Train on The Memphis and
Chic Railroad Stopped by
Armed and Disguised
vr Men.
IL Is Searched by Them at The
Point OF The Pistol. 81
A Revenue officer Shot by one
: of the MaraudefS--9ne OF
the MaSkeFS also Shot.

We learn by passengers vino arrived
by the 2:30 train on the Louisville road
yesterday morning Of one Of the most
daring Outrages that has happened in
Tennessee in some time, being no less
than the surrounding, stopping and
searching of the train at Milan, by band
Of twenty armed and disguised men, at
halfpast eight o'clock Saturday night.
The affair as near as we can learn, was
as follows:
Some days ago Mr.. Hahn, United
States Internal Revenue Assessor or
Collector at Milan, arrested man at Me-
kenzie for running an Illicit distillery.
Apprehending trouble, he determined to
take his prisoner to Milan, and brought
him aboard of the train for that purpose,
putting him in the baggage car in charge
ofan assistant, he going in the same. car
himself.
When the train arrived ut Milan the
conductor, Mr.. Hudson, was seized by
one OF the men, who forced him at the
point of the pistol to precede him
through the entire train with his lantern,
the masked desperador scrutinizing
every passenger closely. In the sleep
ing car the same operation was gone
through with, and in one Of the hunks
was the Rev. Mr.. Police Superintendent
Pearne, asleep. The masker pOked his
cooked pistol into his face and reused
him, but on catching sight of his nose,
pulled it (the pistol, not the nose) back
and passed on. One Of the passengers,
surmising what the procedure meant,
told the masker that if he was looking
for Hahn and his prisoners he would
find them in the baggage-car.
On this, summoning his other men,
the leader Of the band went to the bag
gage,car, which was closed, and de-
manded admission. Hahn or his assis~ |
tant opened it, and as they did so and |
discovered the gang Of masked men
the situation in moment, |
The assistant sprang out and ran off. |
being fired at by the whole body as he |
did so. He was seen to fall, but whether
MORALLY wounded or not the passengers |
could not say, Hahn, being armed,
rashly fired into the crowd, and one OF
the gang fell; (our informant being also
ignorant of the extent Of the injury.) In
an instant the baggage car was riddled
with their shots, and in the midst of
their fusilade the prisoner leaped out
and made his escape. The conductor,
signaled the engine, and the
traiR moved off rapidly, bearing Hahn on
it, strange to say, unhurt.
These are mere outlines. We have
for fuller details, but up to
writing they have not come. A dispatch
was received during the morning, how
ever, stating that all was quiet at Milan.
We have no doubt that the Radical
press will try to make out this to be an,
other Ku-Klux outrage. We are re-
Iiably informed, however, that the Or
sanizaticn is composed Of Illicit distillers,
and has its ramifcations all through
Central and Eastern. Tennessee. We
hope the villain who was shot by Mr..
FL Hah hA Kas 0PlEa T"uy9assd5 f"rtReibhs 'UGH
not very elegant expression, on the rest
Of the gang-MemphiS Appeal, May