The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-06-01

about 8 feet loDgand tied up tight in ruiz
4 llingnoose. Undcrtbsropcw were two stabs
with a pocket knife near the jugular vein
land stab in the near region Of the heart.
On the floor was tive bloody knife. TWAS
not Stephens knife. 1t Is d long-handlcd
there but empty. He had Just borrowed
! two dollars that day to bny the necessaries
oflifc. So he wasn't killed for money.
TILE MEETING
/ In the court room Was Just above this
| and more pleasant, orderly and harmon
i0us body never assembled within the pre-
cincts of any County than was assembled
there. And here we remark that while ku
klux and leagues have been playing the
mischief In other coudties, Caswell has been
quietly submitting To the Laws imposed
| upon her, and while under the first cry of
murder as il fell from the lip, that hon
ored old warrior Of the Law, BEDFORD
1 BROWN, said to Mr.. HILL, "Sir, this will
never do! We must instantly hold an in
| dignation meeting and prove our hands
clear OF this most damnable murder.o
They did it. They meant 1t. Gov. HoL-
DEN knows they meant it. He Is no fool;
lnolstranger TO this people; he knows their
hands are clear, politically, Of Stephens
blood. Look atiu They havesleptabout
4
| heaven, with loaded guns and ferocious
dogs at their feet, for tile last six weeks to
prevent the torch of the incendiary, and
yet these same men eagerly rushed into
this indignation meeting and condemned
/ the brutality and lawlessness ofthis shock
/ ing and horrible affair.
EXTRAORDINARILY STRANGE.
Stephens came doyn strirs out Of the
court room about O'clock In the evening.
| An hour before shutdown Louisa Patill0, u
negro woman living near the deceased,
came up street and reported Stephens
| 'missingp and his wife uneasy and desir-
| ing q search. They searched the town for
him. And then his white and sable friends
wanted all the rooms in the courthouse
examined this was in the night. The
rooms were all searched except the one no
key could be found to unlock. why did
they not break open the door or lift win
dow and 90 in, IL they felt anxious about
| it?-Senior Editor.l This was about IS
minutes past9P NJ. Then thecrowd went
around TO the East window and DIR. Roam
got a goods box and placed 1t under this
| East window-thc brother Of senator Ste
phens got on 1t and looked through the
window pane while candle was held for
him shaded by the hand. Why didn't
he lift the window and look? Strange that
he did noti-Sa'r Ed He reported he
could see nothing Of him. But tile next
morning after Stephens was found drop
or blood was found on the box and Il drop
/ also that had run down the wall was on the
rock projection ofthc East window-show-
ing the blood warm when deposited. He
was probably stabbed after he was cholSed
to death, which may account for the scar
city of blood..-lSa'r Editor. And yet
/ there was a negro guard and a brother of
Stephens all the night long around that
courthouse guarding it, Did the murder
er get out at the window while they We're
there In the night? [Havinginspectcd all
the rooms scJsy did they deem II important
to ''guardp them after that?-Sifr I'd. j
| If he didn't get out I'm the night he must
have done itin the evening. The door be-
| ing locked and thumbolted inside, he un-
questionably came out at the window; ii
in the evening, where were the eyes.of the
colored lolks just over the way? and why
was he seen no one of the many whites on
the street and the court-green? Ali it's
strange, its passing strange, how he was
killed 80 secretly in that room.
STEPHENS on SATURDAY.
Mrs. Stephens, since her husbands death,
told DIR. Roam that Saturday at dinner
the reason: He said he felt badly; that
some one up street had hallooed "Shoon at
him. His wife begged him not 10 go TO the
Conservative meeting that evening. Ste
i phens told her Eyes, he must go.p Asked
her to get his Insurance Policy, and when
she brought it TO him he showed 1t TO her
and said, "Well, sif anything happens 10
me this evening You and my children are
/ provided for.n She again begged him not
to go up street, but he persisted In doing
80 and said, GIL promise you, honey, to
come home soon as the meeting breaksup.'
The cause of Mrs. Stephens uncasiness is
said to be that men had been hanging
around several nights nc their house and
as they thought with intent to Ku-Klux
Stephens. As she said "0ne night she
heard men talking and the dogs barking,
but my husband, you know, he was no
coward, and The was up and prepared for
them.n
THE EVIDENCE.
Now for the evidence given before the
Coroner's Jury. We give what was told US
and we eommeiicd,wilh evidence touching
the white man first. The strongest and the
only evidence of this sort given In Is the
following: lStill we believe the murderer
will be found out 4 no doubt he Is u white
lhnil anu ~ AheAuOct VI 1tcphct&s uNh lNit-
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TWO STRANGERS.
Last Friday week two strangers, who
were wagoncs, great big burly fellows,
We're ON their way from Dauville where
they had been to sell their tobacco. In go-
ing home they passed the house Of Mr.. Jas.
Gum, who lives just about one mile from
here, and they stopped awhile tochat with
him. They asked where Stephens WAS?
When be would come backg When he
would reach Pelham? (Afr. Gum had
told them that Stephens was then IN RAJ
leigh and would 10 back by way of Pei
ham, lie couldn't tell them. And they
asked particularly about what road he
would travel when he did return. These
stnlngers said 10 Mr. Gum It's strange
that you people In this county allow your
selves 10 be bothered by this man." Mr..
Gum then said: "iIave youany Ku Klux
In your country?n "NO." said the two
countrymen. 1--WE havn them in our coun-
try, but they say there's n plenty of 'cm in
Chatham This Is the strongest point
against the Kg-Klux.
NOW FOR THE NIGGERs.
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