The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-04-28

well Counties.
From the Raleigh On. c. Standard, April Il.
There is case now to be tried in
Wake county court wherein certain par
ties are indicted for whipping Dicey
johnson, colored woman, living in the
western part of this county. The out
rage was perpetrated some time ago.
Her husband had been accused of steal
ing, but she had always borne good
character, as we are reliably informed,
as an honest, industrious, hard working
woman. At night time her cabin was
entered by band of armed men in dis
guise. Her husband was away. but she
was taken out and beaten numerically
She received fifty lashes standing in her
night clothes, and was unable to do any
thing for her children for three days.
And this was done on the night of the
Goth of October last, and the criminals
are yet unknown.
On the night of the oath of March last
the house Of Merrill Olive, living in
Western Wake, was visited by band
of armed and disguised men. Mr.
Olive is white and gentleman of char
acter and standing. We know him well
and defy contradiction. Mr. Olive was
in the city of Raleigh at the time, and
only his wife and children were at hcme.
A window to his house was pried open.
His wife, IN the bed, asked of the mar
auders what they wanted. They wished
for Mr. Olive, but he was in Raleigh,
and after talking for while In assumed
voices, they went their way and left Mrs.
Olive in most distressed state of mind.
She saw their masks and beheld their
arms. Men who war women are worthy
of the pillory.
On the same night this same band
visited the residence of W. II. Bennett,
Esq situated in the same portion of
this county. 1t was about u o'clock
and Mr.. Bennett and his family had re-
tired. He heard noise at the gate and
barking of his dogs. Susrecting moth
ing he sprang out of his bed and opened
the door, but upon recognizing the Ku-
klux as quickly stepped in and shut the
door. Immediately they rushed upon
the piazza, struck the door and COM
handing him to get up, speaking In as
sumed voices. He refused to open the
door, and angry words followed. Mean
while his wife and children were crying
and screaming within Then the mem
bers of the hideous khan attempted to
force the door H. They dashed against
it with rails or with their bodies, but the
door resisted their efforts but they ap-
pretended danger and leaped from the
piazza, whenever they struck the door,
hoping 70 cast it open, escape into the
dark, and complete their assassination
at safe distance.
They were around the house and at an
other door also, and seemed to be in
numbers not few Mr. Bennett was
alone, save his wife and children, This
was their second visit to him. Finally
his wife got up and approached the door,
and opening 1t stood in the way. She
saw them, in disguise and mask, leap
from the piazza at her presence, but re-
turn, and discovered arms. There was
another parley, when the Kuklux said
that there were parties to be tried at
court in Raleigh for chipping Dizzy John
son, and they had come to tell Bennett
that he must go down there and help
them out or they would call again. After
other threats, they left the yard and rode
away.
Since that hour the wife Of this gentle
man, than whom there is no more hon
orabie citizen in Wake, has suffered in
body and mind until there is a serious ap-
prehension Of her safety in her already
feeble condition. From the setting of
the sun until the rising she suffers only
as a wife can suffer who fears for the life
of her husband.
Besides this is fine new dwelling
house, which Mr.. Bennett has erected, it
is feared will be burned, as one of those
warning rumors which precede such out
RACES is floating through the community
from an invisible source.
On Friday night last Deputy Sheriff
Lashley, with two other men, proceeded
to capture a fugitive from justice. Mr..
Lashley is well known in Wake county
He did not succeed in the attempt, and
in short while after the Kuklux made
their appearance, attracted by a pistol
shot from one OF his party. This is one
OF their signals in that region. 1t is said
by them that if Maroon is arrested he
viii be liberated before he gets very far,
and the threa has been made openly.
The Kuklux, as far az seen in Wake
county. ride upon disguised horses, and
are the neighbors of those upon whom
they wreak their cowardly revenge.
In High Tower Township, IN the Coun-
ty of Cas1ell, colored man has been re-
Gently whipped severely, and two in
Stony Greek Township, by bands of
masked men. On the night of the 30th
of March. in Leasburg Township, band
of forty-fye broke into the house of j.
n. Jones, q white magistrate, dragged
him out OF bed, from his family, along
the ground for fifty yards, carried him
further and gave HIM whipping Sc Sc
we're that he has not yet recovered, and
may never recover. His wife, too, like
the wife of Mr.. Bennett, suffers acuter
pangs than the bodily infections placed
on her husband. And spasm after spasm
has marked each interval Of alarm at
night time since the diabolical treatment
of her husband,
People of North Carolina, we have
told you in simple way the story of
these outrages. We have not space left
to continue them to-day. But we trust
that you will take them to your hearts,
and aid US in putting down society Of
men who murder, hang and scourge. and
who carry unutterable anguish to the
hearts OF humble women all over the
land.
Mis- SPENT EVENINGS boy who
spends an hour each evening lounging
idly on street corner, wastes in the
course of q wear. thee hundred and SIX