Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-12
lie pEVIL,s ELeoW.
The Murder Thsrs.-.Ths Finale OF the
Tragedy.
Some Of the Parties Examlned Before
Squire Winters and Bound Over
10 the Sam Of $4,000 Each.


In the Sam Of $4,000 Each.
y We reclted yesterday the facts incident
70 the death of Mr.. Ksefers and of VIM.
= Ferguson. 1t was stated that Mr.. bar
= den bateman was going with his son
3 Toney to his farm for the purpose Of re-
moving Ferguson, a trespssser on the
D property; that when Bateman. sr.. en-
] tered the house, Mrs. Ferguson drew a
70 pistol on him and called tor help: that
Ferguson appeared in the brush not far
. away and fired upon two gentlemen.
Messrs. Mills and Ke6fers, who were bard
B by on horseback; that Kesfsrs fell
dangerously If not mOrJally wounded.
that Ferguson was fired upon and nsd:
that q man named Copeland, who was
with Ferguson, shot and wounded Mr..
Toney Batemsn. All these facts have
been confirmed. Yesterday afternoon the
Oil City, Captain Randall, came into DOrt
having on board the body Of T. L. Keaf-
ers, VINO died about four o'clock Tuesday
morning. The body Of VIM. Ferguson
was also fOund Tuesday in the cane. not
very far from the place at which he was
shot,, as already detailed. The wounds of
Toney BatemaBa are severe. He wasshotf in
Ine neck by spent bail and also in the leg.
Mr.. H. Bateman and Mr.. Archie p. Mills
whose account Of the affair, already pub-
nshed by US, is fully confirmed bv s1bse-
AuDAG uoNbA8Bl4Cuka ChLub 70
on the Oh City for the purpose Of surren-
dering themselves to che sheriff. The
extent to which Mr.. Batemsn acted prop-
erly in entering the house which the wife
OF Ferguson occupied, is the only cause
OF any doubt as 20 the perfect prOpriety
OF Mr.. Bateman's conduct. He is a peace
aDIs, good citizen, Of 1rreprOachabIe char
acter, as We are informed. Keefers' for
tune was q hard one He had nothing
whatever to DO with the mattHr
and was, by accident, in the road when
Bateman started TO the house occupied bv
ferguson. 10 is not known whether
heeIers was killed by Ferguson or Cone
land. Copeland has not yet been cap
tured or ound- He, too, may have been
killed. Mr. Kesfsrs' body will be- buried
this morning. He was Ormsrlv emploved
as a collector by the Southwestern Pub
llsnlng Company, and subsequently, was
IN the service Of COWpsrtbWaite, Chairman
81 Co. He was not mora than tyyentV-h va
years OF age, and OF excellent good sense
n intelligence.
THE EXABuNATToy BEFORE JUSTICE
WINTERS.
About ten o'clock last night. 'SGuire
Winters held an examination in the Office
Of the Criminal Courtroom, upon the
prisoners, II. f. Bateman, S. S. Batemau
and A. +. Mills, who had been brought TO
the city by Deputy Sheriff Fraime and his
assistant, Mr.. Taggart. The only wit
nesses examined were these two gentle
men, and they had nothing, Of course. to
lmpart, except what they had heard ont
at the scene Of the tragedy. The hrst
examined was Mr. Taggart. He simply
detailed how word had been carried in bv
a messenger, on Monday night,
to the Sheriff, detailing the main
facts Of the killing and asking for
officers OF the law 10 20 out there; they
started out Tuesday morning; they found
Keefers dead at Bateman's: found Mills.
BaJeman, and several others there: found
out that Ferguson and Copeland had done
the shooting; they stopped at Bateman's
that night; in the morning Yesterday
mOrningl went to Mrs. F~srgus0n's house.
and after looking round a while. dis
covered the body of Ferguson in the
cane-Drake about fifty yards from the J
house; he was dead she said she could
not find him; there Wss a shot gun lying I
by his side; We examined it afyeFward
and found one barrel empty. the other J
loaded and cooked ! did not examine for
wounds; saw none. (
What is the charge against these ]
men?
Nothing Of my own knowledge. only -
learned icOm others what 1 have said. q
They themselves confess that they shot
az Ferguson, and some of their shots q
must have killed him; Mills told me 7
Ferguson came toward him with a shot j
6N-H ANNNN-' "@a AA1 AA5A sADu III ALE ] -
scutte, l think we found wounds on y
him; the body Of Ferguson was found 3
fifty yards from the house, 7
THERE WE'RE TWO PARTIES, \
the Batemsn party and the Ferguson 8
party; there was a Ferguson on the -
Ba5em2n side also. "
Deputy sheriff Fraim was examined
and testified at length as to what
he saw, and had been told about this san
culinary He said that on ar A
irving at Bateman's house thew all seemed =
excited. They feared an attack. We
a dead man lying in the house; we
sent for a magistrate, and found OUt that
he lived in another county. y
Horrlgan-L Let me stop you right
We're they not glad TO see your
Yes, they were anXiOu to see US. in ~
fact, they had sent into she Sheriff 3 d
)thce for US; we discovered a ueighbOr- 9
f5ud was existing there; we went
20 ~tergusOn's next morning; ] old
IaggarJ to take a look around with q,
he young man who had come for T.
and they found the body Of Fer
yusOu in the brake; I told Mrs. Ferguson
hat her husband was dead. While we
we're there, a squad of about eighteen
nen rode up; tney all had s~hOt-guns;
hey had come from Upton county, and
inquired for Bsteman; / told them
THOUGHT H WAS OVER. hi
said that Bateman had been sent to "
demphis under charge of an officer; Fer "
was shOt in the left side, up near w
be shoulder; there were nine buckshot on
.oles IN him IN a space which 1 could ~
over with my hand; he was shot in ~
rOnt, some of them passed right through: u
hey must have been from a shotgun or vi
rom q pistol of small Calibsr, but thew ~
ould hardly be from the pistol; there ~
,ere nine OF them in him; 1 examined ~
be gun which We found by his side; one ie'
ariel was discharged; the other had a De
barge in it and was on full cock; the bar ~
81 had the appearance as if it had been ~
ischarg6d in that affray; I could not m'
5arn who fired the shot that killed Ksgf- uhi
rs che was evidently killed by the Fer ~
usOn party az far as l could learn from Cn
JnvsrsatiOns 1 had he was killed a mo- 1
lent before Bsteman was shot; Bateman "a
nd keeters, l think, had both been shot
5tOre Ferguson was shot; judging from -,
le Surroundings, what / could hear and 81
l the circumstances, Ferguson shot 0O
eefers and Bateman both; I think he
Id more arms than we found there:
ON what they told me Bateman must
ave been shot while he hsd one foot on
10 door step and the.Other on the ground,
andiug in the door, with mis- side toward
5Tguson; | did not eXamins his wounds;
icy are probably bUckshOt; they are \
Oublesome, I should think; I under SIN
God this to be on Mr.. Batemau's place: in
wss "a last years t~ensnt;" the n
'stiie demonstration which l observed -
as one Of the prime causes for bringing ~.
men into tOWD; if l had not brought -
en- awsy l think there would have been ~
work there within an hour; the -
from Bstemau's TO FergusOn's is II
a mile. Then followed a long state go
5nt of the 80
WHOLE HISTORY OF CASE, one
rich it is necessary to abbreviate. 1t CAV
pears that Ferguson and his wife, iesss
40 were strangers, cane down -
Q river; that Bateman made a anu
with him TO work ten acres of N
ld up there for half and half, to be Stnt
iuted in cotton; that when the cotton GGz
king came around Ferguson would not tlen
* it, but attempted to sell out. He IN C.
an went to the elbow" 70 chop: after trad
nd he came back and settled himself in meT
other house, at the other end Of the rem
while Bateman had made arrange tisiI
lnts for gathering the crop; that Bate shoI
N notified him to leave; that he hesi- ton
ed; that Batemsn and others visited The
3 house on Saturday last and found
rgusOn missing, but left word with FL
wife that they must leave or l.
next day, but qualified it 245
s. Ferguson was very abusive en-,
her language toward him, and called run
q a son Of a BIB; that on Monday
nut noon, four of them went to FsrQn-
Is house, the two Batemans-fat6er IT,
son-Mills, and a person called John s,J
about whom there was not -,
CHI learned, and attempted to get in: H.
s. Ferguson objected; she attempted to tbar
" a pistol; ola Bateman seized her by
hands, and young Bateman wrunr
pistol from her; that in the scufie
was thrown upon the floor, and hav- ia