The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-02-29

OuSplIhCy W make TIE PROOF ON me-
Respectfully submitted,
Calvin Logsdon.
A VISIT TO THE PRISON.
Visiting Logsdon late, yesterday AZ
ternoon, we were shown to his eel IN
the Jail, secure by means Of thiak stone
walls aud II heavy iron window From
what we had heard we expected 70 sec
a man much different than was his mp
pearanco. A young man with black
hair and eyes, fair complexion, and Of
rather medium height, with q handagc
round his brow, answers his description.
THE CONDEMNED MAN.
Logsdon, who will be twenty-one
years Of age on the 18th OF June, 1872,
is the oldest brother of eight children.
of whom two are girls and six boys,
His fathers name is Philip Logsdon
and formerly resided in Fentress coun-
ty IN this State, but when Calvin was
quite young removed to near Houston
vile, in Lincoln county Kentucky. In
the summer OF 1868, Calvin left his
Kentucky home and went to visit his
grandfather, Wm. Brown, living twelve
miles north Of jamestown, Fentress
county. Here he did some work for a
northern man named Edgar Miles, and
thon went on a dear hunt in the noun
tains, where lived II cousin of his named
Hatfield. He left on Tuesday, and on
the following Thursday night in No
yember, 1868,
a HORRIBLE MURDER.
was committed in the n~eighborhood of
his grand-father's. Three mangled
bodies Of the Gallovav family were
found dead with evident m,rks of rude
ness and fisndish brutality on tie old
lady, Jane Galloway, her daughter and
r little grand child only three years old,
were found lying in the house where
the family had lived.
The murderer had knocked another
member Of the family, James Galloway,
only seven years of age, IN the head and
left him for dead. According to Logs
don, the family did not have O very
good reputation, and, although, it is
said that the object of the murder was
for money, yet this could not have been
the case, as they were in stringent cir
cumstances, going about the neighbor-
hood asking for sewing. This he states
as having hearl only, and does not give
it as his wi personal knowledge. He
was not acquainted with the family
never had been to the house. and ONLY
knew by sight, the murdered woman,
Amanda, whom lie had nee seen at
church. The family lived on Wolf riv-
err, about seven miles from Were lie
wa borr. Leaving Fentrcss county
Tuesday, Logsdon walked toward home,
but stopped on Saturday and Sunday
with n friend living on Green river,
near Pelley's mills, Casey county Ky.
Sunday he attended Salem chdrch, in
the neighborhood, and left next morn
ing for his home twenty miles distant,
arriving at home in the evening, where
he was arrested the next day, on the
charge OF the murder.
AN EvENTrUL PRISON LIFE.
Logsdon gave the correspondent the
particulars of his life since his arrest on
the charge Of the murder. He narrated
the particulars of his three trials. result
ing each time in a conviction Of murder
in the first degree. He also told about
his escapes and r%ecaptures.
HIS FATHE AM MOTHER
are now livingin Knoxville. The former
is q cripple having had his leg and ribs
broken by being thrown from a horse
His mother has been oil invalid for
years, and neither as yet know the sad-
ness their hearts must bow in the death
awaiting their son. Though poor and
afflicted with disease the affections for q
son still have life enough to feel the
misery and anguish that soon must
wiring their hearts. Logsdon is IN in
telligent man and we have given his
history as related by him yesterday.
Upon leaving the jail the prisoners face