Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-12-20

REVELATIONS OF A PARDoNED Ku-KLUx Pas
oNER. A Washington dispatch to the n York
Herald states that Reuben G. Young, Ka-
Klux prisoner,-who has been pardoned by the
President, arrived in that city from the Alba
ny penitentiary on Saturday, in II dying con-
dtion. He was on his way home to Youngs-
! vile, Alabama. He was Interviewed in the
| cloak-room Of the House Of Representatives,
where he was attempting to sleep The re-
porter says:
lie appeared TO sleep in death His face had
leaden, CHASTITY look, with wrinkles deeply
and rigidy set, as if void of sense and mo-
ton. My companion touched him lightly.
He raised his head slowly and cast a languid
look toward me, 1t seemed TO me the look of
galvanized corpse. He vas dressed in suil
OF homesPun. HIS face was thin and ashy,
with a three weeks beard upon it; his ewes
and checks were snnlen in, and thin gray hairs
struggled down upon his forehead He was
asked whether he was treated kindly in pris-
on He answered
"All the officers treated me kindly, exocpt
one oveiseer, who was harsh to me When |
was too feeble to work had to remain in nv
cell, which was very cold. ! sometimes asked
him to let me go to the stove in the corridor
TO warm myself but he refused. Don't he
hard on an old man, would say, but still he
wouldn't let me go out was confined in
the same cell with my son Rnggold, who is
still there. He has TO work in the shoe shop
from daylight till evening; but he has been in
good health-never missed dnv in the shoe
shop. II it had not been for him l should
have been dead long before this. He took good
care Of me.h
The dying man gave the following history
Of his case:
at was all the work of a man named Barnes.
| He is a lawyer. He hated me- and wanted to
have me put out of the way. For this purpose
he went TO John d. Young, a Ku-Klux prison
err now in the Albany peui;entiary, but no re-
lation of mine, and asked him to lurn States
evidence against me, but John refused. The
next day he was arrested and tried, and. like
me, sentenced to ten years. This man Barnes
was United States Commissioner, and had
unlimited power in the county. He was on
| the grand jury which found an indictment
| against me. They wanted to convict some
! body, and they selected me and my son, Ring
! gold 7. Young. There are now six Ku-Kl1x
| prisoners in the Albany peuitentiarv-three
| from Tallapoosa and three from Randolph
! county. One OF them, Charles Howard, is
| perfect idiot; another named Blanks, is boy
! A WOMAN MORE COURAGEOUS THAN uER Io-
vER.-The Swiss Times says thar comical
/ story is told OF couple of lovers who, a few
days ago attempted 10 commit suicide in the
Lake of Zurich, near Ruschliken, because the
! young lady's parents refused their consent TO
| their marriage. In order not to be separated
IN death the Young lady tied one of her feet
| last TO one OF her l1ver's; and they thus threw
themselves into the water. But the Young
man does not seem TO have been as courageous
or as deSlrouS of leaving this world as his
companion, and shouted for help at the top of
his voice. Help was fortunately at hand, and
they were both dragged out Of the water and
handed over TO the police, who provided them
with dry clothing and put them under lock
aud key.
The female conviets in the Maryland Peni-
fpnfiarN instn.I Of u.