Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1872-01-12
Confessions.

took place, as we learn from tho PhoentD:
{}hr. Chamberlain, for the District Attor.
9Gsy, requested that sentence might be passed
upon Alexander Armstrong, convicted at the
April term Of the court, 1871 ), Of robbing the
The Psiscnsr n Ewas 6 called Sto the bsr of
aud aftef q fsw feeling re}iarks byt
JAdgo Bryan. tonching his youth, his honest
ptfcntageyand the great temptations to which
hqshad beon subjected, was sentenced to Gvel
years inprison nent in the house of correction
1fsNew York.
9W@. Jolly, fSpartanburg, pleaded guilty
t4thes charge of violating the Ku Klux Act.
|! stated that he was a member of Horse
Creek Klan, and had been on one raid. Jo-
slab Massey was chief of the khan Robert
Strusgs Initiated him, and h. joined from
fear Of being whipped. Lewis jolly, Tom
Rrice and Memory Humphreys were with
Him on the raid.
f9Alfred Blackwell was next called, and also
blended guilty. e-stated that he belonged
ott1orsc Greek Khan, and had been on one
mid agaipst Reuben Phillips, whom, the
Tisonef said, he and his crowd brushed
,sJudee Bond Why did you whip him?
B We'll, he had whipped another
ln,ah' s steer to death and threw him in the
SsBfanch.
Judge Bond - How did you know he did
lt5Witncss Sam Sarratt saw him do it
Phillips was colored man. was forced into
the organization through fear of their whip.
ping me
Wm + Ramsay next came up and pleaded
guilty He said belonged to the Horse
Geek Kan. There we're some twenty or
thirty inch in the khan. [ attended three
meetings.. There was scarcely anything done
Jhage Edwards, Alr. Cantrcll, Mr.. Tate,
SGball Scruggs and Mr.. Peek were the ex.
eohtive committee. who met and ordered what
wss t. be done.SI was on the raid against
! Mnben Phillips; that was the only one. =
Lsjdincd from fenr OF being whipped if
atsysd out.
Thomas j. Price next came up and pleaded
Esfay iIe slid II am tween nine years
old aud live in Spartanburg County. [
didn't belong to any kIan. Gilbert Sarrntt
swore nie in was on two raids 1t Was
no k!nn in pnrticunr-just picked up
crowd. There was chief along-Rohcrt
Scruggs The first raid was on negro wo
man; the second was on Charley Frrnandrz's
faulty. We then went on to Jack Snrrat's,
aud tnok his wifc aud son and daughter, aud
gave them a light whipping. joined from
fear of being whipped, or so'ue other harm
being done me. understood that Banks Lyle
was the chief Of the County. don't know
him.
Taylor Massey was next called aud pleaded
guilty. lie said he belonged to Horse Creek
I<lan, and had been on two raids. The first
raid, nothing was effected The second was
on james Gnffncy lie was black mau, ,
aud they whipped him for stenling.
King Edwards next came up and pleaded
guilty. lie said: joined tho klan in March
last. reckon joined through ignorance.
Alfred Harris initiated me. was on the
raid on John Harris, crlorAd man We
Whipped him-gave him about sixty licks.-
We whipped Mnj. Cash and Bynum Hum.
phreys We whipped the last because Of his
whipping white boy.
Christcnburg Tate was next called up and
pleaded guilty. He stated that he was from
Spartanburg, and had joined the klun in
January, frou fear, He had been on three
| or four raids. The first was on Richard
Roberts, for ceiling whiskey on the Sabbath
Day, near church; then went in and whip.
ped boy for not obeying his mother
| Jesse Tate next came up and pleaded gull
| ty. He said he had joined the order iu Jan.
uary for self.proteotion; had never been on
| any raids, but attended several meetings.
There was nothing much done at the meet
ings. Somo new members were initiated,
and there were consultations about what
should be done whenever there was any wrong
thing done in the ncighborhood. There was
one rid made in North Carolina. 1t was
ordered by the cyclops, Banks Lyle; at least.
| 7 have heard him called that here. The fact
is, have heard moro about cyolops and such
things since have been in Columbia than I
ever heard while was in the khan.
Judge Bond ordered t!'at the last named
prisoner be released on a bond Of $500, to ap.
pear at the next term of the court.
Frederick Paris was next called up, aud
plead guilty. Hc stated that he lived in
Spartanburg and joined the khan on March
80, 1871. Had been on two raids; whipped
Bynum Humpreys; didn't talk to him any
thing about his politics; the next we whipped
was John Harris, then Mat. Soruggs, May
Harris and James Gaffuey.
| Wm. Robbins was nexs called and plead
guilty, He was poor, half.wittcd fellow,
and could not artioulate inteligibly. His in.
/ terpreter stated for him that he was poor
man, who hired about for a living, and haG
been whipped by members Of the Horse
Greek Klan before he joined.
Judge Bond stated that tho court would
hold the sentence of the prisoners under ad
visement.
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