The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-15

he would be more anSryi ne was noI unoel
the Influence of liquor at the time he Killed the
boy: he has whipped the girls o number ol
times with q hoisewhip; he went for a neigh.
boring woman; on Tuesday morning, about
| 10 o'clock, was lken sick; the woman came
and he took her back after dinner; the boy was
healthy; meyer heard him complain unless Y
was the headache; he would have been III
years old on the l7lh of June; his shirt was
bloody, but do not know where it came from;
it did not come from his mouth; his face was
swollen in the morning.; suppose it was from
the whipping the night before; do not know
where the whip Is; he was in his right mind
he never acted sngularly; he Is man OF good,
sound sense, Steady, and adapted to money
making.
LITTLE MAGGIE.
This little girl. about seven years old, said
Father whipped brother with whip; ne put
brother on the stove; he laid him down; he
cried when he was put on the stoves there was
tire In the stove; he laid him down on ms oack
on the hot stove; brother tried to get away;
his clothes were all off: father made him take
them off himself; father hit brother on the
back and head; he hit him lots OF times; ne
threw him in the shed; he then walked 10 ana
stood bF the side of the wall; he whipped MIN
and took him into mothers room; never saw
him more; don't know what was done WIN
him; father told me not to say anything ABOUT
it or ne would punish me; I loved my orolheT;
father whipped me sometimes with whip.
SARAH ME2A
Is q very modest appearing girl OF aoouG II
wears of age She swore: 1 always llyeo al
home; father treated me well at tlmes ano
sometimes not; ne has punished me TWO or
three times; the last time IN Decemser laSt;
he did threaten me four weeks ago; L DID
work around the stable helping father; did
houseWork; about o year and half ago ne
whipped me very hard with horsewhip; not
the same whip he used on brother; he whipped
me very hard in December because had been
at q neighbours and stayed an hour; ne often
threatenedto whip me II did not DO the
chores; on Tuesday two weeks last Iuesoay;
he brought brother in and said he had not
worked, and whipped him, and knocked MIN
down twice; father continued to whip him
until he could not stand up; ''he would whip
the life out OF him." two or three times ne
would say this, and brother would plead with
father: "Father, don't whip me any more r
He was good boy, and liked him; 6rother
went to bed about 10 O'Clock; ne sala ne Gla
NOT know why father whipped him 30; ne
never told stories only when father made him,
and father would threaten that Il he did not
own. that he did so and so he would whip him,
and to avoid 1t he would own to things ne
never, did.
THE FATAL MORNING.
On Wednesday morning got up and got
breakfast ready; father rose when. breakfast
was ready; brother got up, but telt SO badly
that he went to bed again; father MADE MN
gel up and go out and feed the stock, and
when he came back father whipped him and
sent him to the field; he went for him and
brought him in; made him take off his clothing
and then commenced whipping him; ne then
picked him up aud laid him on the stove; the
Stove was hot enough to heat an IRON; was
baking biscuit; father put him on the stove
twice, brother pleading all the while, "Fatner,
don't burn me, don't burn me He screamed
very loud, and The SKIN stnck 70 Inc stoVe; ms
skin came off from his back and his feet and It
stuck To- the stove; 1t smelled, 80 opened the
door, and father Immediately shut It.; while
brother was- pleading, father said he would
burn him until ~ would work; he has whipped
me very hard, and has said he would punish
me till could not Bill up; have marx on my
arm where he struck me last December with a
horsewhip; 1t cnL through tne nesn ana was
sore two weeks; have seen him strike mother
with his fists and blacken her face; saw him
strike her number oil times; don't know how
many: mother told me TO do always what
father liked, and We always tried; he whipped
brother number of times with the butt.end
of q horseWap on the head; he knocked him
down three or. four times; the flesh nom his
back and feet stuck to the stove; he whipped
him afterwards; never saw my brother since
he went into the bedroom; did tell lady
that never expected to see my brother
again; that he had not run away, because he
could not; I was not going to tell, because
father had whipped me very hard, and was
afraid of him; mother was going to lelye one
time; do not know what the trouble was;
she shows marks where father whipped her;
he took brother In his arms and put him on
" TIE VERDICT
The jury on these facts brought In verdict
that Martin Mera, ST., had feloniOuSly, .inten-
tionally and with malice aforethouyht muir.
dered his son. Martin Mera, Jr., on the 14th
at the Circuit Court on Wednesday, the 5Lh.
LYNcHINa OF THE MONSTER.
from the Peoria Transcript, July 81
I. Yesterday morning we gave the chief partl-
culars in the lynching OF Martin Mera, at Wat
seka, on the evening previous, and have since
learned some iurlher particulars from: an eye
are far more revolving than yet published, and
some OF them are unfit to print. Two altempts
were madeto break the jail before the sue:
cessful one. On Wednesday evening mob OF
eighty-fve or ninety men, headed by DR..
Daniels, of 0uarga, went to the jail. The
sheriff refused 70 give up the prisoner, and,
upon Daniels attempting to enter, fired upon
QlQ, U6QlcIS SLEuCh ulS dIm up, WEtuCu6u
the pistol from his hand, and the mob then,
with heavy sledge- e-hammer, battered down
the door Of the cell where Mera was confined.
The poor wretch begged for mercy, but the mob
caught him, securely plnloned his arms, and
carried him into the open air. DR.. Daniels
then made a speech, stating that he had sworn
not to return home until he had hung the
man. and asked the crowd IL they would stand
by him. and also saying that he desired to
have the last pull at the rope. The crowd
-signifed their intention OF gong ahead. Dam
iels oounselled to moderation, and they pro-
.ceeded with the doomed man to tree short
distance from the town. The wagon upon
which he was seated was drawn under tree,
the rope ma6s tast to a limb of the tree and
around his neck, aud he was then told that he
might have twenty minutes In which to pre-
pare for eternity. He spent the first hall Of
the time In piteous appeals for mercy, and
several persons in the crowd britally de-
rided him. man advised him to pray, and
offered TO pray for him. He said he could
not pray without priest. Then he called on
the Masons for help, but nobody responding,
he cursed the Masons. Then he called on
the Catholics to save HIM, but one Of them
shouteds Call on God. for He alohe can save
you" He then raised his voice TO Heaven, as
previously reported. at last the wagon was
pulled from under him, and he was left hang
Ing. Al first he did not move muscle, but
alter few seconds his struggles were fearful,
until life was extinct. When the crowd had
nearly all dispersed, few brutes fired their
revovers and guns into his body. He was
lett hanging all night, his friends claiming his
hn,lc I'm tha pnprniuU Ahnut q thn,lsa nd nor.