Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-22

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bic sentence was uttered:
To the Honorable Supreme Court, in ses
slon-I state, from the fact / am laborin.
under severe cold, l could not hear the sen
tence passed upon me by your honor, anC
only desire to say to the Court, am limo
cent of the charges. left the neighborhoo(
of the unfortunate occurrence on Tuesday
two days before it is charged the murder
was perpetrated. desired TO say this much
to the Court, and shall die, if die l must
free from any stain of blood on me, for
could have had no motive to have killed the
parties. Neither do l know who did Kill
them, and the proof that / con.
fessed the killing at any time
IS false. was stranger in this country,
some one did the killing and it was an easy
matter to single me, stranger, out, and in
their conspiracy to make the proof on me-
Respectfully submitted,
CALVIN LoGsDoN.
Witnessed by Thomas c. Martin Sheriff
Supreme court.
Visiting Logsdon late yesterday afternoon
we were shown to
HIS CELL IN TIE JAIL,
Secure by means of thick stone walls and a
heavy iron window. Being told by The
jailor that reporter Of the UNION AND
AMERICAN wanted to see him, he was
brought out of his cell into the yard. From
what we had heard we expected to see a
man much different than was
his APPEARANCE.
A young man with black hair and eyes,
fair complexion, and of rather medium
height, with a bandage round his brow,
answers his description. Informing him of
our business he at first hesitated to give
HIS HISTORY.
This, however, was only momentary, for
he did not seem to- comprehend its object,
ELECTED the following from
THE CONDEMNED MAN:
Logsdon, who will be twenty-one years
Of age on the 18th of June, 1872, and
Is the Oldest brother Of eight
children, Of whom two are girls and six
boys. II is fathers name is Philip Logsdon
and formerly resided in Fentress county in
this State, but when Calvin was quite
young removed to near Houstonville, in
Lincoln county, Kentucky. In the summer
Of 1858 Calvin left his Kentucky home and
went to visit
HIS GRANDFATHER
VIM. Brown, living twelve miles North
Of jamestown, Fentress county. Here he
did some work for Northern man named
Edgar Miles, and then went on
DEER HUNT
In the mountains, where lived a cousin Of
his named Hatfield. He returned to his
gTandfather's and after remaining few days
left for his home in Kentucky. He left on
Tuesday, and on the following Thursday
night in November, 1868,
A HORRIBLE MURDER
was committed in the neighborhood of his
grand-father's. Three mangled bodies of
the
GALLOWAY FAMILY
were found dead with evident marks of
rudeness and fiendish brutality. The old
lady, Jane Gall Galloway, her daughter and
a little grand-child only three years old,
were found lying in the house where the
family had lived.
The murderer had knocked another mem
Der of the family, James Galloway, only
seven years of age, in the head and left him
for dead. According to Logsdon, the fam
lily did not have a very good reputation, and,
although, it is said the object of the muir
der was for money, yet this could not have
been the case, as they were in stringent cir
going about the neigh
bOrhood asking for sewing. This
he states as having heard only, and
does not give it as his own personal
knowledge. He was not acquainted with
the family-never had been to the house,
and only knew by sight the murdered
Amanda, whom he had once seen
at church. The family lived on Wolf
river, about seven miles from where he was
born. Leaving Fentress county Tuesday, |
LogsdOn walked towards home, but stopped |
over Saturday and Sunday with a friend |
living on Green River, near Pelley's mill, |
Casey county, KY. Sunday he attended |
SALEM CHURCH,
n the neighborhood, and left next morning |
or his home twenty miles distant, arriv-
ng
n the evening. He was not permitted to |
emain here long, for on the following We'd
lesday he was
ARRESTED
~ Edgar Miles, in company with other per-
ons. He had few angry words with Miles
ONE months previous, in relation to some
york he done on Miles mill. Miles had
Ollowed him from Fentress county, and
vas actuated by malice and unjust revenge.
Without awaiting the regular process of
aw, they started with him
BACK TO FENTREss COUNTY.
lie was compelled to walk all the way, and
vas brutally treated by his mercileSs cap
ors, who handcuffed him and frequently
eat him with the butt end of their pistols.
This treatment was to make him confess
HIS GUILT.
This he never did and never will, for he is
innocent, and will die as he stated to the
upreme Court, an innocent man, victim
f mans conspiracy. Although bis life was
threatened, yet he, though wit
esses did swear it, never made any confess
ion of guilt. Being taken to Fentress
Ounty he was placed in Jail, from which
me began
A LONG AND EyENTFUL PRISON LIFE.
A short while before August, 1869, he was
laced in Jail at Huntsville, Scott county,
here, in that month, ne was tried on q
hange Of venue, and being
oNvICTED AND SENTENCED TO DEATH,
ppealed to the Supreme Court then in ses-
/ September, 1862 and he was remanded
IT
A NEW TRIAL.
Ehis time he was taken back 70 FentreSS
ounty and upon
HIS SECOND TRIAL
as again convicted of murder in the first
egree and again
SENTENCED TO DIE,
ON which judgment of the court he APP
ealedto the Supreme Court, then in session
Nashville. On the 18th of February,
ST., his cause was heard by this hon ,,
-able body who reversed the judgment .
the Court below and awarded.
A SECOND NEW TRIAL.
Previous to his removal from the
JAMESTOWN JAIL,
9 was made the recipient of very barbar-
IS treatment from the prison guards, whose
ames he says are John Cobb, Joe Taylor, l
I'd Upton, while handluffed and !
CHAINED TO THE FLOOR.
lille in this condition he was visited by
le above persons, who knocked him on the !
1dy with PISTOLS and frequently threatened
shoot him unless he said he had hand
the murder. John Cannatsaught, the
iler, was milder in his treatment.
A NARROW ESCAPE. 1
After being remanded by the Supreme 7
Ourt, and while on his way, under escort s
guards, to Livingstone, be was