The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-01
The Convicted Ku Elux.

Yesterday afternoon, says the Charleston
NeaDs, band of forty-nine of the so-called Ku
Klu1 prisoners, who we're convicted at the late
term of the United States Circuit Court, held
in Columbia, arrived in the city by the 3.2O
train from Columbia. The prisoners were ac-
companied by military guard of thirteen pri-
Yates from the Eighteenth Infantry, under the
command of First Lieutenant Potter They
were met at the train by detachment from
the Third Artillery, commanded by Capt. Da-
Wis, who were to act as an escort through the
streets of Charleston AS soon as they could
gather together their blankets &C., the prison
ers we're formed between files of the soldiery
and took up their march down town. They
we're all apparently white, but more forlorn,
woe-begone, haggard looking crew could hardly
be got together Many were impcrfectly clad,
some had gaping shoes, and their persons and
clothing seemed to have declared eternal war
with such domestic appliances as soap and wa
ter. AS they entered upon the march, a few
curious urchins began to inspect them, and
soon the news, caught up from the soldiers,
spread like wild-fre that the real live Ku Klux
were marching through the city under guard
A crowd of blacks soon gathered along the line
of march, and kept following the dreaded Ku
Klux with curious eyes and questions. The
bayonets of the soldiers, however, warned the
attentions, and the cortege passed quietly and
silently along without interruption. Twenty
four of the prisoners were marched down Meet
ing and Broad streets, and put on board the
steamship Charleston, just about to sail tor
New York. Thence they are to go to the State
prison at Albany, where they will serve out
their various terms of imprisonment of one
year and upwards. In this lot was an old man
of venerable aspect, whose gray hair foated
around his shoulders in manner to claim the
pity and reverence of all beholders. He is
over sixty years of age, is the head of large
family, and has been visited with one of the
heaviest sentences, viz: Five years imprison-
ment and 81 900 fine. His name is John W.
Mitchell These prisoners will be escorted to
Albany by Lieutenant Potter and detachment
of the Eighteenth Infantry. Their names and
sentences are as follws:
Sherord Childers, Hezekiah Porter, VIM.
Montgomery, Evans Murphy, Robert Hayes
Mitchell, Wm.Shearer, Sylvanus Shearer, Hugh
II. Shearer, Jas. B. Shearer, Henry Warlick,
Miles Carroll, Eli Ross Steward and Josiah
Martin. each eighteen months Imprisonment
and 500 fine; Thos. B. Whitesides, twelve
months Imprisonment and 500 fine; John w:
Mitchell and Samuel G. Brown, each five years
imprisonment and $1,000 fine; Stephen d.
Spiawn, two years imprisonment and $50 fine;
Charles Tate and John L. Moore, each eighteen
months Imprisonment; Tibion Cantrell, Juni-
us B. Tindall and Alexander Bridges, each one
years Imprisonment; Aaron Ezel and Jonas
Massey, each one years Imprisonment and $40
fine.
The other prisoners, numbering twenty-five
men or more, were marched down King street,
and turning off at Clifford, were taken to the
Charleston Jail, where they will remain until
they have served out their various sentences
of Imprisonment for six months and under
Their names and sentences are as follows:
Napoleon Miller, three months Imprisonment
and $40; VIM. Jolly, w. Shefiin Blackwell,
Thos j. Pierce, Taylor Massey: Christenbury
Tate, Frederick Paris, Wm Z. Burnett, John
F. Burnett, Chesterfield Scruggs, Martin Ham.
NETT and Columbus Backwood, each six months
imprisonment; King Edwards, VIM. F. Ram
sey, Marion Gardner John Cantrell, Louis
Henderson, Wm D. Self, Andrew Cudd, James
Wall, John c. Wall, D. c. Mcclure, Calvin
Cook and billiard N. Cantrell, each three
months Imprisonment; Melvin G. Blackwood,
two months Imprisonment; Monroe Scruggss,
six months imprisonment and $40 fine; A. 7:
Clement, three months imprisonment and $40
fine.