Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-22
A Brutal Monster, BushVhseker and
Assassin Gagged o.. Last-His
Grimes ard Infamies.
Arres' 'f Douglass, the Murderer Of the
Negro Ben Price, of Calhoun
County, Mississippi.
jail Delivery at JacksOnpOrt, Ark
Prisoners on the War Path-Man
Shot-PrisOners ReeaptIred.
BLOODY MONSyEzs

no" a S-IddietOn and Field. Turner /:
" -iotenous desperadO. During the wal
ne led a band Of guerrillas, who operated
both IN Virginia and Kentucky, robbinl
and numbering all persons suspected o
.sympathizing with the south. In Har
Ian county, Kentucky, on the Virgins
ilhe' nVed an old man named Jane.
middleton, q respectable citizen, whose
soss, David and William, enlisted in
the southern army. In lS63 Turner
with his bushwhackers, secured that
county. Old Middleton left his home
and fed into Lee county, Virginia.
Ihey brought him back to Harlan coun-
", where they tied him TO tree, cut of
ms ears and nose, and tore off his nails,
oesldes Otherwise mutilating his person,
sIler which they sat around him watch
Ing MIN slowly die Of his sufferings, the
object OF their ribald jests and most in
human torture. David and William
Middleton, learning of their fathers
fnghtiui death, returned home bent on
revenge. Here Turner succeeded in kill
ing David Middleton, and then escaped
with his band FROM the vicinity.
GUILTY OF MANY BRUTAL MURDERS
Turner is charged with thirteen mur-
ders. Ore Of his victims was the sheriff
OtIee county, Virginia, whom ne caused
10 be stripped and burned alive in a
mud-hOle.
Until the close Of the war Turner's
name was terror to the country over
which he and his band of outlaws
rasmed at viii, killing or maltreating
s-se5 deienseless, but avoiding always 2
onfiict with q body of armed men like
themselves. He spared not women nor
children, and no one was ever known 10
experience mercy at his hands.
AFTER the war Turner returned to his
nome IN Lee county, where he became a
farmer de could not refrain, however,
from deeds Of violence, and more than
once Ie had to flee from his home to
eYao e the officers Of justice.
WILLIAM MIDDLETON MURDERED.
In 1872, William Middleton, accom-
panied by a man named Fields, travel
ing on horseback, came to the place
where Turner lived. At the public inn
Turner learned the direction the travel
ers Were to follow, and taking with him
Frank Pace they lay in ambush for
them. Building fire in the road, they
took their places in the brush, and as
the men passed on horseback and came
into the light they were shot down in
c'ia blood. This last outrage so shocked
-Be community that they rose in arms
zud pursued the murderers until can
lured. They were carried in irons TO
clay county to await trial. From there
they were sent 10 Lexington for safe
keeping Until October, when they will
be returned to Clay county for trial. /
where il is hoped they viii get Justice |
tempered with 8 halter.
TATL 3ELEyERY.
rom the Jackscnp0rJ rA.k) Statesman
Our usually quiet town was thrown |
into quite z tremor Of excitement on I
Saturday evening last, about half-past I
seven or eight O'Clock, iy the ATTEMPT
oi some OF the prisoners confined in the 4
county jail 10 make their escape. I'll
seems that one Of the prisoners, q large, 4
puuy Llshman, named nike, who has
Deen cJnfined here for the last eight OF 4
nine months upon the charge Of having 1
committed a murder at or near Grand 1
T.aze, became somewhat tired of prison /
die, and had for some time past medi- /
tated making his escape, and only await /
ed favorable opportunity 70 execute his /
intentions. This opportunity presented /
Itself on Saturday last. When
THE JAILER,
as is bis custom, went IN on this even /
ing 70 lock up the prisoners, he was set |
upon and knocked down by "Mike," /
who at the same time very graciously 1
relieved him of his revolver. Having |
thus succeeded in overpOwering and dis j
arming the jailOr, mike" made his way
out 70 the street. By this time, howev- |
er, the jsilOr had risen TO his feet and /
called for assistance. A colored man /
called Brock, passing by at the time, I
Vnrnz m
called to him 70 "haltv' but that was I
entirely foreign 10 "Mike'sn intentions 1
Is he was not just then in a halting hu-
NOR. Fearing that Brock might impede /
MS progress and perhaps prevent his es-
cape, he called into requisitiOn the re-
NOlvef he had wrenched from the hand .
ol the jEilOT, and fred upon him, the
bal! striking him in the hand and abdo-
men, antiicting painful though not NOR
tai wounds. Becoming thus master Of
the situation,
"MIKE'
made for the woods. The alarm was
Immediately given, and quite number
ol our young men were soon mounted
upon "barbed steeds,n armed to the
teeth, and hurrying hither and thither,
reminding one very forcibly Of the arri-
val o. courier in war time. and the
c1mmOtiOn incident thereto. Eeverthe-
tpss, the boys were 81. "a out upon the
different roads leading ON town, and
Il would have taken a nan Of far more
ssgScity than "Mike' POSSESSES to have
eluded them. mike" was captured ON
SEuday morning about eight miles from
town, aud brought back to his old quar-
ters, where he viii most likely remain I
until his presence is needed ia court
Taking warning by the past, the jailor
hss taken all necessary precautions to !
prevent ike occurrence. "Miken is a !
bold bad man, even By his own show
ing, and il IL to be hoped that he viii
nOtsOo be turned loose upon the COM ,
munlty. We have no disposition TO
pre-iudge his case-indeed, we would
not do s0-but the world would be bet-
ter OFF without such men.
THIS LITTLE "EPIsoDEu
would be incomplete, did we fail to no. 3
lice another actor who participated {
IN Saturdays proceedings. We mean
Miss Nancy Henderson alias Billy AM
derson, and how many more aliases we ,
are not al present advised, also an in
mate Of the jail, charged with carrying /,
off a couple Of "halters," !" with horses at ,
one end Of them. Miss Nancy, since
her confinement IN Jail, hes been neces-
STATED 10 wear the kind OF apparel
befitting her sex, but on Saturday she
dOnned her male attire, and concluded !
that she, too, would take an airing.
Y akihg her way TO the door she passed
out into the street and passed by several
persons unsuspected. But Nancy had
no intention Of leaving Jaeksonport for
a while yet, and when bedtime ap-
s.I 11.a ha-fr arad gvrffah
for lodgings in her old quarters. She
was taken in and cared for. There were
several
OTHER INMATES
in the jail, but none Of them made any
effort to escape. preferring 10 remain in !
their own quarters until discharged by
due process of law. The prisoners con-
fined in the Jail have been treated with
uniform kindness, and it is TO be regret
ted that their own bad conduct has COM {
pelled the jailOr to keep a stricter sur
veilance over them. We are not Of I
lOse who, because a man is a prisoner,
think that he deserves no better treat 8
ment than dumb brute. Bad as men
may be. and frequently are, they are
mot all evil" There is still some
latent good in all, II We could but touch E
the right chord. For this reason we re-
gret that extreme measures have to be s
resorted 20 in order to keep them secure.
aURDER WILL OUT.
From the Calhoun MISS Times.l =
IL win be remembered by some Of our Z
readers that some time in January last I