The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-12-22

e~'.'~J ~Se 0es w oaSOoA00sS 'Wuh0u QlOs
aud when they came up, put it on his
horse, or rather mare. We rode on then
towards tho ferry. When on the way.
DR.. Whiteeides asked me- why didn't
bring some whiskey. I said: Wbv
didn't you order some3 Afterwards, +
told him did have little. and pulled
out hask, and We took drink. T
have had u conversation with DR..
Whitesides since I have been in the
city OF Columbia about my testimony.
l met him in front of restaurant. He
asked me in to take drink, which T
did; and he asked me into the back yard
and wanted to know if I was going to
come right out against him. I told him
to wait till got on the stand, and then
he would hear. A friend of his Lawson
Davis) came to me afterwards about the
same thing. I had conversation with
Capt. Mitchell, and others, in Yorkville
Jail. in reference to what had disclosed
to Ool. Merrill. told that I had made
q clean breast OF the thing. Capt.
Mitchell said yes, if You had stayed
away there might have been chance
Tor me-. know something about that
visit OF the Ku Klux to Capt. John
MitchelIs in Christmas week. There
was stranger in the neighborhood who
was suspected of being Ku Klux spy.
Sam. Roberts and some others from
Union were in search of him. They
found him at Capt. Mitchells. and re-
ported that he was all right. Sam.
Roberts and his party were members of
farker's klan. in Union. Some of them
lett their disguises with me at the grocery
when they came off tho search after the
supposed spy. gave the disguises per-
sonally to Capt. Mitchell, and he sent
them over to Parker in Union. I drank
q great deal OF whiskey while in Jail at
Yorkville, and don't know but that I
might have said something about my
having erroneously implicated DR..
Whitesides in the raid. 1 don't recol-
lect OF telling him, as went out of the
gate of the Jail, that would 20 to Col.
Merrill and correct it. I think I said
that was going to Col. Merrill's; but nv
brother can tell you what said; he was
there and knows.
Kirkland Gum was next called. and
said: [ did see John W. Mitchell at
Barksley Hill the night we met to make
the raid on Bill Keli. Capt. Mitchell
rode up with bag; the bag would hold
about twenty-five pounds of cotton. He
ea!a have some cotton here tn take to
the grocery and trade for whiskey. 1t
was the bag in which the gowns. &c.
were kept, think. At least, saw Capt.
Mitchell put one of the disguises in it
when we dispersed that night.
Amos Howell, colored, said: I live at
Sam. Howell's, in York County. The
Ku Klux whipped me- tho same night
they whipped Jerry Thompson. Presley
Holmes. Charley Good and Dave Femes-
ter. 1t was about the 25th, 26th or 9th
Of January.
Elias Ramsay deposed as follows: I
know Robert Higgins. He was mem
Der of the Ku Klux Khan; he was elected
chief of the order at Sharon Church. I
saw him, too, on the roid when Jim Viii
liams was killed. know John Miller,
too, and I saw him at the meeting at
Sharon Church.
John Robertson, colored, was sworn.
and said: l live in Chester County, now:
last winter I was living at Billy Wilson's.
in York. left there on the 9th March.
l met DR.. Whitesides at Chester, about
three weeks ago;' he told me howdye,
aud said he was glad to see me; lie spoke
about his trial here and said, if you id
niggers don't take me ont of this scrape,
I'm gone up. never heard him make
any threats against the witnesses,
Mrs. Billy Wilson was the next wit
ness, but she gave no new points, except
to Tx the date of the first raid on her
husband on the 26th Of January. The
testimony closed here.
MIR. COrbin stated that he did not
think it necessary to make any opening
argument for the prosecution, and thai
Mr.. Chamberlain would follow the coun-
sci for the defence.
Col. w. B. Wilson, of Yorkville,
counsel for DR.. Thomas B. Whitesides,
led off for the defence. He confined his
argument almost entirely to the facts of
the case, claiming the acquittal of his
client, upon the ground of his entire
Innocence OF any connection with the
ku Klnx Klan, or participation in the
slightest degree in it's ontrages. He re-.
cited in feeling terms the testimony of
Charles Leach, the victim of the special
conspiracy charged, as to the high cha
racter OF DR.. Whitesides among the CO.
lored people, for kindness and friendly
scts, giving them bis professional SER
vices gratuitously when poor, and assist
ing them frequently from his private
means. How the defendant, as proven
by Gunn, also witness for the prosecu-
tion, had denounced the organization as
the most damnable that ever cursed a
country, and that, too. to member of
the khan, and not either in it's day of
fright and panic, as now, but when it
was in the full exercise OF its terrible
power, when the bravest heart scarcely
dared whisper disparagemento of it. How,
too, he failed to recognize the signs of
the order. which every member was
bound to know, which was disproven by
Gum, the swift wituess Of the Govern
ment, and member of the very order to
which DR.. Whiteeides is accused of be-
longing. How that Davis. another mem.
ber of the same order. and witness for
the prosecution, denied any knowledge,
even hearsay, OF Dr. Whitesides being q