Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-09
THE NORTHERN KU-KLUX.
Details of the Illinois Horror.
The COroner's JurY-Testimony OF
the Red-Ridden Mother.

/ and Otherwise tOrturlng MS child TO deatn,
shows the crime of Meera to be one of
the most fiendish and revolving in the
history of the State. Mary Meera, wife
| of the man and mother of the dead boy
testified: My husband whipped Martin
two weeks ago Tuesday night. My babe
was born on that day, and / did not see
the whipping; it was done in another
room. heard the blows and heaard the
child beg for mercy. The children then
went to bed.
About ten o'clock next morning the
child came into my bedroom, followed
by his father, who was whipping him.
He whipped him very hard with black
snake horsewhip. The child lodged
around the room 30 as to avoid the blows
and begging for mercy. The child was
completely naked, his father having COM
PEELED him to strip himself. His face
was swollen from the whipping he had
received the night before. His father
whipped him very hard for ten or fifteen
minutes. At last he stopped, and told
the child to put on his shirt. He made
an effort to do 80 and failed. His father
repeated the order, when the boy said, l
can't see it, l can't see it, can't see it.
You can't see it, responded the father.
No, father, l can't; you, father, can't;
you father-snd fell dying. The flend
then rubbed the boy with spirits, and
forced some down his throat. The child
raised his hands, moved his lips and ex-
pired. Meers then took the body and
put it under the bed where the sick
mother was lying, and it remained there
until evening, when he buried it, as pre-
viously stated.
Testimony of the Victims Sister.
Sarah Mera, daughter of the murderer,
aged IA years, testified that her father
often whipped her very severely with g
horse whip. On Tuesday two weeks ago
he brought brother in and said he had not
worked, and whipped him and knocked
him down twice. Father continued to
whip him and said he would whip him
until he could not stand up. He would
whip till the life was out of him. Two
or three times he would cay this, and
brother would plead, with father, ''Father,
don't whip me any more; oh! don't whip
me any more" He was good boy, and
when brother went to bed about 10 o'clock
he said he did not know why father whip
ped him 50. He never told stories, only
when father made him. Father would
say that if he didn't own that he did so
and 80, he would whip him, and to avoid
it he would own to things he never did.
On Wednesday got up and got break
fast ready. Father rose when breakfast
was ready. Brother got up but felt so
badly that he went to bed. Father made
him get up and go out and feed the stock,
and when he came hack father whipped
him and sent him to the field. He went
for him and brought him in, made him
take off his clothes, and then whipped
him. He then picked him up and laid
him on the stove. The stove was hot
enough to heat an iron. l was baking
biscuit. Father put him on the stove
twice, brother pleading all the while,
Father, don't burn me, don't burn me.
He screeched very loud, and the skin
stuck to the stove. His skin came off
from his back and his feet 1t stuck to
The stove. Ii smelled 80 / opened the
door, and father immediately shut it.
While brother was pleading, father said
he would burn him until he worked. l
have seen him strike mother with his
fist many times. He knocked brother
down several times with the butt end of
the horse whip. | never saw my brother
after he went into mothers room.
The Female Blue Beard.
New YORK, July Special dispatches
state that all the testimony in the case
of Mrs. Sherman, the wholesale CoHnec
ticut poisoner, is in, and the eSaminati on
has been adjourned till Monday, when
counsel for the prisoner will probably
make argument in favor of the dismissal
Of the charge as not sustained. 1t is be-
lieved in Derby, however, that the case
will go to trial, and that the defense will
be the fashionable one of insanity.
The Threatened Riot of the Irish
NatiOnaItsts.
There is every prospect of bloody
riot on Wednesday next. There no longer
seems to be any doubt that the O-ange-
men will parade and that the Irish socie-
ties will openly resort to violence TO pre-
venl them so doing. It is currently
reported that the Irish societies, to the
number of $4,000, are arming and will
appear on the 18th for the purpose of
carrying their threats into execution,
while its generally understood among the
| police and others that 5000 Orangemen
will march Oh that day, equipped to de-
fend themselves from attack.
The Sun says: ''There is also good
reason for believing that the city and
State authorities are not prepared for the
storm, but will rely upon the police. The
Hibernian Societies look upon this as
giving them direct encouragement to as
sault the procession. Many of the police
are known to be in sympathy with the
hot-heads, who regardless of the cOunsels
| of their good priests, are ready to stain
their church, break the laws of the coun-
try, and invoke storm that must ulti-
mately sweep them into ruin. Our in
formant is positive. An attack will be
made. The men who were ready last
year 10 drag dead man from his coffin,
and to pound the corpse to q jelly because
it was the body of an Orangeman, are de-
teTmiued that o Orangemen shall be al
lowed to parade in the city on July II.
| Superintendent KelsU appears TO be the
only public official who is thoroughly
alarmed. He is making dispositions to
prevent an outbreak, but it is believed
that he has no confidence in the power of
the police to do This. If blood is shed
the responsibility must fall upon other
shoulders. The good fathers of the
church are doing their utmost to avoid
trouble, but their words of warning sp-
pear to be lost. We have yet to learn of
priest in the city who does not &C
knowledge the right of Orangemen to pa.
rade with flying banners and music, and
who will not do his utmost to secure
them this privilege. The fanatics who
are arnfng, know in their hearts that
they are deliberately planning q crime
that will rock the country to the. center.
Orspgemen have the same right to pa
rsde as Gsllowglasses and Sons of St
Patrick, and that right will be maintained
if necessary, by the whole military o.
the nation.
Beaten TO Death.
| LOoKPoRT, New York, July 8.-Tht
name of the young man who was muir
derously assaulted and robbed in thi
place Monday night last is Geo Edward
1 and of GharorH 4ol -. Al,