The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-07
THE SWAMP ANGELS.
Burial of Colonel WiShart, One Of the
Victims Of the Outlaws.
Brutal Character of the Murdered Mans
Wounds Reported Temperance OF
Henry Berry Lowery, the
Outlaw Chief
RICHMOND, Va, May o, 1872.

RICHMOND, Va, May 0, 1872.
BY the arrival OF the Wilmington Charlotte and
Rutherford train this evening | have additional
particulars of the terrible wounds received by
Colonel Cron. M. Wishart, when he killed bV
the Swamp Angels, together with the details of his
burial. The remains were inferred In the Old
Wishart family burying ground at Lumberton, ont
Saturday afternoon. They arrived on the tran'
from Shoe Heel that morning. at seven minutes
past eleven O'Clock, and the interment took place.
at four P. M. During the interval the body OF tho
murdered exCOnfederate soldier and gentleman,
was viewed 10y a large number OF sorrowing friends
and by quite a concourse Of bereaved and outragcG
citizens The greatest feeling manifested at the
loss OF this estmable man. and there q subdued
but intense excitement visible. At the appointed
hour the remains were consigned to the grave and
then the pentup grief of the people found vent In
tears and loud expressions of sorrow.
THE APPEARANCE OF THE CORPSE
was natural 1t was arrayed In q neat but plain
alpaca suit Upon examination the fatal wOunda
proved horrible beyond conception. In the right
side there was a large and gaping hole, made by a
full discharge OF buckshot close to the body, I'M
which the four fingers of mans hand could bet
placed with ease. One of the shots went entirely
through the body from side to side making a most
CHASTITY looking wound. The right arm and also thd
right leg and thigh were broken and INITIATED.
Another shot pierced the brain, making ita
entrance behind the right ear and coming out near
the left temple. There were also several buckshOt
lodged in the left shoulder, and this latter w0un9
seemed to have been inflicted while Wishart was
Frustrated upon the ground in the last agOnies Of
death. A more brutal massacre of a human being
has scarcely ever before been perpetrated by lenda
in human shape.
THE wIsHART FAMILY
is one OF the oldest and most respected in tho
county, the parents or the deceased being now liv
ing there, and none are more esteemed and re@
spected. eYt rat
capture the outlaws and he was feared by them
more than any other man in the county He was
also engaged in writing history OF the lives and
deeds of the outlaws, from which a HERALD cOrre-
spondent made copious notes some months since
when In that section
THE CHIEF or THE OUTLAWS SAID TO BE ALIVE.
Nothing has been heard from the outlaws,
stephen Lowery and Andrew Strong, since they
committed this most foul deed. A singular report,
which brings Henry Berry L0wery the outlaw chief,
back again from the grave has reached my ears,
who has been intimate with the whole band, as
serts most positively that he met Henry Berry
LOwery, who has been reported dead for months,
on Friday, the day succeeding the murder, face to
face, and there WAS no mistaking him. This state
ment is generally discredited, and the people Of
this entire section OF country have the most I'M
plict faith In the demise of the notorious Rob Roy
Of Carolina.