The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-12-21

Was tkls: Wherever charges were pre-. g.
ferred against any one before the khan.
he was visited, warned and instructed 10
quit Radicalism. II he still persisted in
his offensive conduct, he was then or
dered to leave the country, and il he
didn't go. he was TO be killed. The
operations we're to be directed against
Radicals. Wesley Smith told q me that
he, Wm, Smith. VIM. White and Lean
der Spencer killed Charley Good. I
knew Good; he was q Republican, and
blacksmith ty.trade. He told me, be-
fore he was Killed, that he had been
visited by the Ku Klux, severely
whipped, and ordered to change his
politics, and said that he would not
change his politics. Itold him not to
oe talking that way in public, or harm
might come OF it, I knew nothing OF
the killing, except that was ordered
to come and assist in throwing the body
In the river. Invent out to Mr.. ..Howell's
and waited there until after the hour ap.
pointed for the meeting. as I did not de-
sire to see the body. then rode on to-
ward the place Of rendezvous and met
several OF the men coming back. They
were Thomas L. Berry. Pinckney Cald-
we'll, Wesley Smith and VIM. Smith.
They told me they had sunk the body in
the river; Broad River. They said they
wrapped it up in bagging, tied trace
chains aud plOw-shares to it and threw
it III. Then. being still fearful that it
might rise, Pinck. Caldwell had jumped
In upon and driven stakes through the
body, into the bottom of the river.
Wesley Smith told me about the killing.
Charley Good was on his way home
from doing some blacksmith's 8 work in
the neiShhorhood. When in about a
quarter OF mile of Wesley Smiths,
they-Wesley Smith. VIM. Smith, VIM.
White and Leander Spencer-came upon
him. Wesley Smith attempted to shoot
hlm but his musket snapped, and he
handed it to White, who took it and shot
Good. Good foil but was not killed, and
Wesley said that VIM. Smith finished
him with the butt Of his gun. The OBJ
lect OF throwing the body into tho river
was to imp!icate US all in the murder. I
have never heard OF the body being
found. Charley Byers told me, also,
that he had whipped Jerry Adams; that
they surrounded the house and Jerry at
tempted to escape. but, seeing them all
around, turned tc go back in the door,
and he, Charley Byers, fired over his
head to scare him; then they took him
ort and whipped hin. never heard O.
any other transactions OF the klun. I
was never on raid. 1 met party ini-
tIating Methodist preacher, in North
carolina; 1t was in the Southern part of
Hoke County. The preachers name
was James Carpenter. T was riding
along the road at night, when came up
on the party. They were off the road in
the woods. was halted, the pass word
was given and replied to and I was in
vlted up The oath they administered
TO the preacher was the same I had
taken. l knew two of tue party; Skip
and Dirk Price. This was about the 1st
of February. 1877
ger when joined the khan was that the
militia, armed by Gov. Scott, would at
tack the white people. Tho negro mill
tia were said to be armed with United
States army guns. The nearest incendi.
ary fire to me was at Mr.. Crosby's. Mr..
Crosby had his gin-house burnt. There
were current reports OF incendiary fires
about in the County. I have never
known Mr.. Whitesides as Kn Klux.
Mr.. @ ,rbin-Did you know of apy
| acts OF violence on tho port Of the mill.
tia?
Witness-Eo; and never feared them.
nor any OF the colored people around
me. There were current reports of raids
by Ku Klux across tho river in Union
before I joined. can't state the rela-
tive time OF the incendiary fires and the
Ku Kiux raids.
Kirkland Gum was the next Witness.
He repeated the testimony ho had given
in the trial Of Robert Hayes Mitchell.
stating, in abort, that he WINS initiated in
January, 1871, by Wesley Smith,, and
that the purpose of the organization was
to put down the Radical party and negro
suffrage. to be carried out by killing the
white Radicals and whipping the blacks.
He stated that he belonged to John w.
Mitchcll's (the defendant) khan, md met
him out the night of the Bill Kell raid,
IN Barksly Hill. near Bullace Greek
bridge. John Wallace WAS one of the
night hawks of the khan, and had ordered
him to meet on Bsrksly Hill. He stated
that there were present Harris Wiley,
Edward Leach, Herod Neil, Charles ".
Foster, Thomas McKeown and others:
that they did not go on to kill Bill Kell,
rs they intended. because Hugh Keli, q
brother, was present, and was not n
member of the khan, and they feared he
was there as detective. He also told
the same story about the Jennie Good
raid by Charley Byers' khan; also told
that lie had recognized Samuel G.
Brown as member by giving the signs,
and hearing him tell Wesley Smith that
he (Brown) could kill and whip more
d-n niggers with his khan than all the
rest in York.
Cros6-examinsd-I know nothing of
DR.. Thomas B. Whitesides (the defend
anti being u member. I once gave him
the signs, and he didn't return them. I
heard him once speaking of the Ku
klux; saying that it was most damnn-
BILE institution. never entertained any
hard feelings toward Mr.. Mitchell, nor