The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-11
A sHAMEFUh MOB.
The MObbed Parties Arrested, and
the Rioters 60 Free.

1alQSF OF DUG aAs ~ - - 40
attempting to provoke him to com
nit an assault and battery.
When the warrant was being issued
By Justice Walker, the local edi.
tor of the JOURNAL seeing the
Sheriff, a deputy, two other officers
and the late Chief of Police Roystor
in the office, stepped in just as Mr.
Burns made oath to the affidavit, and
on enquiring of the Sheriff. was TOLD
that the proceedings were against thc
person who caused the Pigeon Hill
accident. where the two ladies were
hurt. Other inquiries were addressed
to other officers, and similar replies
received, and no more attention was
paid to the matter.
Subsequent events, however, prove
that their replies were subterfuges, tc
cover a piece of business of which al
who are concerned in it should b.
heartily ashamed. The real business
was the arrest Of Van der Mede, fol
an indecent reply to a haunting re
mark of Burns, and the haste anC
secrecy resorted to were in order tina
the manner in which the arrest wa
made should not be too closely scru
timed.
Having procured the warrant, j
was given TO Deputy Constable LUX
Grant, who with the persons nam g
above, went to the negro shanty oppd
site Setchell's livery stable, on SeL,%I
Street, where Van der Mede was ) |
ing married to a negro woman, al
posting a Democratic lawyer to pc
through a crack in the rear wall
the house, they waited until the pc
were married. and then the Office
rushed in, arrested the man, his ne
ly made wife, and the officiating cF.
gyman, Rev. Green Mcfarland, IF
the colored Baptist Church.
Mr.. Mcfarland says he did OF
know whether to regard the orde to
come along" as a command or am
vitatiop, until he arrived at theor-
ner of Third and Main Streets, we're
Captain Cochran, Deputy SherifFold
him he was a prisoner.
At the Justices Office Va der
Mede was fined SO %, aud perrtted
to depart, followed by what the,0w-.
Ter and Penaokrat say was large
crowd, while Mr.. McFarlau was
compelled to give bail for his ,pear-
ance this morning to answer aharge
of marrying a white to a negI in vi
olation of law, Justice Walketak;ng
his own recognizance.
Mr. Mcfarland and auotht person
say that the door of the ustice's
Office was fastened, and tn, on the
trial no one but the choicfew were
admitted. This. however, IT, Grant
explains by saying that le crowd
outside were very noisy an,had to be
kept out.
After Van der Mede al his wife
were dismissed, the crow followed
them home. laughing and FOOTING at
them as they went. Her,the crowd
began to swell, and, acco1ing to the
Demokrat. talk Of hangir was freely
INDUCED in, and bricks ere thrown
at the house by the mob Inside; and
to protect the pair from ,olence they
were taken in charge the Sheriff
and Chief of Police, al locked up
in Jail.
The Courier says thewere arrested
for violation Of the State law re-
lating to the marrisgeIf blacks and
whites and further endorses the
rioters by saying: tie dirty skunk
ought to have been tared and feath-
cred"
The warrants on wheh Mr.. McFar.
land and the married ouple were ar
rested. were sworn ,ut by Thomas
Royston and Georgef. Cochran.
Conceding the disasting character
of the marriage, ad the immortality
of the parties to tits it not little
suspicious that sue. deceit was prac-
ticed by Sheriff Miller. to avoid hav-
ing his conduct erutinized by any
b ut sympathizing yes?
Although tho )emokrat says that
bricks were throw at the house, and
the police werepromptly on hand,
there is no mention that any of the
rioters we're arresed.
1t is not littk singular that dis
turbance like this could occur and
continue from about s o'clock in the
evening until II without any attempt
being made by ne police TO quell it?
Is it not suspicious circumstaee
that officers an so prompt, to arrest
parties who ar, mobbed. and so slow
to arrest riotep?
The REIZ Day AFFRAY.-The
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