New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-20

corn with feavy already ripe Now ana tneh 'nei'
was a house of logs implanted boards ny 'no o"u
side. We met few horsemen and noticed 'uas o'o'y
man carried revolver ut his waist or on DIS s"uuo uo
We stopped to see the rude church whore the sne p
his prisoners while waiting for darkness ""u sd" '"o
place IN the road where Ave OF his posse STOOD
in the bushes and In the air and where tho sherh
and clerk fell upon their dcfenceieSs PRISONERS WIN 'e
guns and revolyers u was iae "heh We reonou
Dover. The little village, grouped about It's
Court house and sending three or four streets sag
Cling out into the dark woods for short distance al
fordcd no tavern The stores closed and the place
looea deserted man standing on the streetcorner,
i'm answer 10 inquiry for lodgings, directed us 70
large white house hill, quarter OF mile OIL where
he thought we could be accommodated. The owner OF
the house proved to be hOsptablc as we could WISH
and we were seated at the supperabe talking OF
the recent exciting events and of the Governors threats
OF martial law. Our host man OF wealth ana III
| fuence who had been determined opponent OF oe
cesson but like many other Union men had followed MS
State rebellion He said that the merchants In inc
village had sent away their most valuable goods IN an
| tcipation Of the arrival Of Gov. Hadleys militia
| and that nearly all business had been suspehueu
since the murders were committed. The oitizens hau
armed themselves to guard the town. for rear 'oa o
county officers would return and take other men i'o
the woods and kill them they had done with Haze ana
Tucker but they had contemplated any awiess
act. They objected strongly to having the Williams VINO
| had murdered their neghbors coming back TO the
Courthouse 20 act county officers, but 10 aVo'u
trouble with the Governor who refused TO remove OF
suspend Them they willing to consent 10 TINS uht
the men could be tried For the sake of peace they had
gone further than could be expected The wife OF our
said that she and other ladies OF the village MAJ SC
creed their silver jewery and other valuabies ex-
pecting that the militia would ransack their houses
After breakfast this morning walked over to the
public square. A group OF men were sitting upon INC
porch in front Of OF he stores, discussing the all
absorbing topic.
THE PEOPLE GENERALLY ARMED.
A younR man Of small stature came up loaded with
two enormous navy revolvers "Why does that man
carry those ugly looking things strapped to him here IN
town on sundayi" asked one OF the older men In the
group, He has just in from the country was
the reply All the young men have been carrying arms
their defense and to protect the town since the
murder. They did not know what moment the Sheriff
might make a raid us with his assassns" Two men
riding up mules while we were talking and dis
mounting joined the group. Each carried heavy re-
volver. Others in sngly by twos all armed In
the same way, until there were, perhaps, 30
| men in the crowd. There some ugly
faces among them. and II physognomy can be trusted
their would have taken keen pleasure in using
their weapons upon the detested Clerk and Sheriff II
they could have met them Most Of the were plain,
honestfaced people, bowever-farmers from the neigh
boring country, merchants and other village folks
| Toward noon the two men, Hale and West who escaped
out Of the hands OF Sheriff to tell the dreadful tale OF
their companions fate came in to SEQ me- had sent
word to them night before wishing to hear from
their lips the oftrepeated story OF the murder
Mr. Hale is an intelligent Woodworking farmer, 60
years old who never had lawsuit quarrel in his
life and is spoken Of by all man Of truth and In
tegrity. His son was OF the men killed. Mr. West
Is younger man, of good appearance and fair ineni
gence. learned nothing from them, except that
they why they should have been selected
| as victims Hale and his we're taken from their
had fha
of Hales wife, and overtakng the party at Dover had
protested against prisoners being taken out Of the
county, The Sheriff then arrested him. saying, Since
you so mighty smart you may go along too"
| APLAIN STATEMENT THE OUTRAGE.
Ihave taken great deal of pains to get at the facts
about this murder because they illustrate the condition
to which politics have been brought in Arkansas by
carpetbag rule, and show tho character of the men
selected tools of the central ring TO do its work in
the different counties. The gist of the Pope County
of office expire, and nine tenths of the people
determined to put honest men IN ther places aces con
election, and they could hold over. They take
plot The Deputy fires at his hat and coat one evening
and SAYS he has been bushwhacked. The Sheriff Clerk
arrest men against whom they have personal
grudges but not finding them At home they taaS others
of the prisoners and datey start FOR the state
that the prisoners were Shot by their friends They
raise hue and cry that the county is in insurrecton
the insurgents. cannot believe that this stupid, bar
piece of business planned by beside
the rufans who carried it out Nevertheless the people
OF Pope County, with almost nnanlmity, convinced
that the plot formed nj Little Rock by the Ring that
| controls tho State Government. They think scheme
laid TO try the effect of martial law one county,
and In the event OF its to put II in force in
several of the strong Democratic counties BY permitting
election at all in these counties and by fraudulent
istratiOn aud ballotbOx stufDg in Others the Ring
they believe hoped TO perpetuate their reign for four
years in spite Of the immense majority known TO be
against them the State am prepared to think the
Arkansas Carpetbag Ring capable OF anything in the
waY OF fraud and theft but cannot believe them guilty
of the monstrous crime of numbering innocent men as
means Of carrying out their political purposes The
outraged people In this county whose neighbors have
been butchered by the officers of the law, paid for
tectng hem and whose heads the Chief Executive
of the state has been brandshng his threat OF martial
| law while hObnObbing with the murderers, well
think however that they have good reasons for the
opinion that all the trouble and alarm that has come
upon them was devised by the corrupt and desperate
politicians at the Capitol do not quarrel with them
abOnt their belief II had lived here through four years
of carpet bag rule doubtless should believe they do
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