The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-09-07

the figures added together indicates the hour
of meeting, for instance, 3x6=9 o'clock.
By PEARSON, C. J.-Hc does not know
| what would have been done to him if he
| had refused to carry the orders to Camp No.
| 10 :; he is brick-mason and duties in the
| camp did not interfere with his business as
the meetings were held mostly at night.
BY Mr. BATTLE.-If the chief was not
pgesent any one, would give the oath at the
initiation Of a member he gave the oath to
| a Mr.. Kirk patrick he was not present when
| Dr. Moore was initiated.
BY SETTLE, J.--If any member were ar
rested we were to get on the jury and act
as witnesses and swear falsely.
| EVIDENCE FOR TIE DEFENCE.
Green Andrews, examined He has lived
| in Alamance about 90 years and he is now
nearly 60 years old he has known Long
| 20 years and thinks he Uong is over 90
years old Longs character is considered
| pretty bad; he being an officer of that town
ship, have had Long before him for steal
ing; he (Andrews) joined an organization
| in the Spring of 1868, but not liking its pro-
| ceedings he never attended another meet.
| ing and advised his boys not to have any
more to do with it; the oath was to obey
| the State laws and Constitution of the
United States.
By PEARSON Chile does not recollect
any oath being administered.
By Mr.. BATTLE-He would not have felt
| himself bound by any oath he had taken
| to disregard the oath of court.
BY Mr.. BoYDEN.-He never had any diff
| Guilty with Long only as an officer and never
told him that he would stamp his head; he
| never heard anything of the letter to Mr..
| Badham; he does not recollect that Long,
| VIM. kirkpatrick and Others were at his
house in January or February; Long lives
| about one mile from his house he was q
| Democratic candidate at the last election
| for the office of constable; he is now
| deputy under sheriff Murray; do not know
that Murray was a member of the White
| Brotherhood
by DICK, 1.-THE organization was called
| the KukluX when he joined them.
BY Mr. BoYDEN-He does not recollect
| hearing the White Brotherhood, or the Con-
| stitutiona Union Guard named when he
| Joined disguises were worn on the night
| he joined, but never had u disguise made at
bis house; he thinks Jno. T. Trollinger car
ried him to the camp, and does not know
that it is the business of the Chief to carry
persons wishing to Join into camp; he saw
some Is or 90 pass his house in disguise;
never had any conversation with Trollinger,
but seen him make some signs, he never
made brags about arresting Peter Sellars,
and that he had taken pains not to arrest
the right parties he does not know that
:pf fhx
never showed him any signs; Long might
have done so, but he not knowing them, he
could not say they were Kuklux signs he
attended a meeting which he heard was to
be between Constance Whitset's and the
Poor House, but does not recollect who told
him there was to be a meeting.
ByPEaRsoN, c. J.-He heard that it was
a political organization in opposition to the
| Union Leagues, and joined it with that un-
| derstanding he did not give any notice
that he was going to leave the order; he
does not know that all of his boys belonged
to it but thinks 2 or of them were MEM
bers
| BY SETTLE, J.-He heard of the whip
pings in the county.
| BY PEARSON, c. J.-He heard Longs
statement on yesterday and thinks he gave
| pretty fair one.
By DICK, J.-Three of his boys lived with
him, one of them was watchnan at the
Shops
| By SETTLE, J.-He does not think from
the oath he took that he was bound to obey
his superior officers, it was not in violation
of the State laws but bound him to secrecy
does not recollect any penalty for violation
of the oath.
| By Mr. BoYDEN-He believes that his
sons, Ruffin, Murphey, and John, belonged
to the order, but told them all not to have
anything to do with the whippiugs; he heard
of the whipping of old man Corless but
knows nothing about it.
BY PEARSON, c. J.-He thinks it was
some time in the winter that Corless was
whipped.
BY Mr. BoYDEN-He heard his son Sandy
speak of the hanging of Outlaw the next
day after it was committed, and does not
recollect hearing any one else speak of the
hanging at that time. He does not know
who whipped Holt, Trollinger, or Sellars,
nor who burned the schoolhouse or drowned
Puryear.
By Mr. BATTLE.-Did not hear what
Holt was whipped for. Heard that there
7,
that the members of the Leagues commit
ted crimes. but not with orders from the
League, and it was understood in the coun-
ty that its members would stand by each
other, and he hopes that rape and the other
crimes were not committed by order of the
League He never heard who was chief OF
the Leagues in North Carolina He never
said that the white Kuklux was smarter
than the Leagues,
DR.. John A. Moore examined. He has
lived at Company Shops about 10 years, and
is practicing physician. He knows Long
who lives near Graham, and his character is
bad for honesty and truth, and little dis
sipated at times. He joined the White
Brotherhood and got only part of the OBJ
legation, and was afterwards informed by 6
young man that if he would come to Ger
tain pine thicket, he would receive the bal
aEce and signs. 1t was some time in Jan
uary of 1869.
By PEARSON c. J. He was told its Object
was to strengthen the Conservative party
By SETTLE, J. He never knew that thert
was twenty-five in the county before thest
disclosures were made
By Mr.. BATTLE. He never got the bal
ance Of the obligation. He was under tn,
opinion that the order was something lik,
the Know Nothings
By, Mr.. BoYDEN. About the 9Th of las
JANUARY in going to Graham to visit a sicl
person he met Boyd on the streets, who tolt
him that they were going to suspend Shoff
ner's writ of habeas corpus He got the full
! particulars from Boyd and went to Gil
brights bridge where he met crowd o
, men on horses He told them he knew
, their object, and that Shoffner was not a
, home. One of them said that he had rid
7 den forty miles to do this job, and he wa
going to see it through. He told then
| Shotfner was in Greensboro. We partet
and he went to his fathers.
BY SETTLE, J.-He told them that Mrs
3 Shotfner was about to be confined, and thei
going, there under such circumstances woult
injure her. One of them remarked tina
e they did not wish to injure the innocent
By PEARSON, c. J.-They were II or 1
, miles from Shoffner's, and not disguised.
{ By Mr.. BoYDEN might have know
some of them if it had been light The
a were coming from the direction of Chatham
but it would have been the same route
e they had come from Orange. There was n
c moon that night. He has no belief as t
4 any one of them. but thinks they were white
c He did not wish to know who they wert
d but was trying to do his duty, as the reprt
t sentative of Alamance.
It BY SETTLE, J.-One of them said if
o fooled them, they would call on me.
r BY Mr.. BoYDEN.-He was at Dani
d Worth's when Long came for him, and tol
him that his wife was sick; he started, b,
l. met Tate on the route, who told him the
real object, and ho told them he could nj