The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-28
KU KLUX KHAN.
Fresh Outrages by the Craft in
North Carolina.
A Farmer Wounded and His Wife Killed in
Cleveland Coun;y-A Man Whipped-An Old
Negro Riddled With Bullets-His Step
daughter Inhumanly Whipped-An-
other Negro Featsn and Ills Arm
Broken = Great Excitiment
Among the Citizens

RALEiGH, N. c., Aprd rs, 1871.
Notwithstanding the State laws, matt 0nal enforce
ment laws Ku Klux laws and eycfy Csnel possible
known preventative, The. seli-styled "weird and
mysterious craft that sees with the eyes OF Argus,
thsl~zfles upen the lightning's lurd glare, and
Which strikes and is seen no more''-the Ku Klux
Klan-stll continue their midnight outrages In q
number of counties in this State. The counties OF
Cleveland ana Rutherford have recently been the
scene Of some Of the most barDarous deeds yet
chronicled as having been perpetrated by
these moss troopers and midnight assasslns In
Cleveland, not ten days SINCE party wearing the
characteristic and hideous disguise OF the khan,
which consists Of o flowing White robe reaching
nearly TO the ankles, surmounted by headdress Of
spiral shape from the shoulders upwards, tcrmi-
mating in large, waving plume, with projecting
dark coored horns on each side IN front, monster
nose OF a glariDg hue, eyelioes marked with fiery
lines and a mouth extending across the whole mask,
displaying an enormous row OF teeth, appeared at
the house OF farmer. The door was Knocked at,
and in sepulcural tone Of voice he ordered TO
come forth. soon he appeared, followed by his
wife and daughter, when a voey was fred by the
klan woundlng the farmer
KILLING Ills WIFE,,
but fortunately missing Ills daughter, About the
same time another farmer was cruelty whipped, and
the members OF the klan engaged IN this operation
were identified by his daughter, and have since
been arrested ana held to ball for trial. II is alleged
by some that these outrages were committed by par
ties from South Carolina on which state the coull-
Ties OF Cleveland aud Rutherford border: bur this
Is mmaterial so long as the outrages continue, Tor
they are certainly perpetrated by and with
the consent OF the members OF the organiZa-
ton living in the immediate neighborhoOd,
II not by their actual decree and instruction.
Later information from the counties Of Hal-
nett, Chatham ana Cumberland 20 to show
The Ku kluX are as active and daring there as
No later tnan Thursday last u large detachment of
them, wearing the usual fegaa and insignia OF the
order, Went 10 the cabin VI an aged negro named
George Mathews. Without any snperhuous cere-
mony the cOloged pairlalch--ior Mathews was over
nifty years old-was ordered 10 leave mis- bed, and
with Still less ceremony was dragged from his nut
ami was fired upon,
FltTY-EI6HT BULLETS
entering his body, when was thoroughly riddled
and he was lett a corpse at his own door. Not con-
tent with this demoniacal outrage the incarnate
nends then took Bella Mathews, the step-daughtcr
OIL the murdered man, ana cruelty
WHIPPED HER,
Tor what cause Is not known. These latter facts
have been testified To before United states Commas
soner Shaer OF this City dogether with sr another
outrage 10y the same band. William Mclean, another
negro, was
INHuMASLY BEATEN
the night Following that upon which Mathews was
murdered, and his stepdauglter whipped. Mclean,
when nearly half dead, managed TO escape from the
gang, one OF his arms being broken. None OF these
parties have been arrested, their disguise being so
complete as TO bafne recognition and subsequent
identification. The citizens OF the neighborhood or
AL classes and colors have united TO hunt down aud
summary punish the nurderers and outlaws.