The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-01-22
Ku Klux Prisoners.
THEIR APPEARANCE IN NEW YORK
THE PARTY EN- ROUTE FOR THE
pENITENTIARY.

Saturday morning. at a few
minutes before noon, the steame
James Adgcr came to her moor
ings at the foot of Warren street
New York, having on board th'
Ku kIux prisoners lately sen
fenced by Judge Bond in Colum
bia. The New York Herald says
The vessel was encrusted fore
and aft with a thick coating O.
ice, which made her decks as slip
perry as 4 skating pond, and or
which the sailors repeatedly fel
while handling the ropes which
were being used to moor her tt
the pier. Ten ku klux prisoners
were found in the second cabin
who were on their way to The
Albany penitentiary to undergo
various terms of imprisonment
The party looked jaded and worn.
having all been great martyrs tc
sea sickness. AS soon as the
steamer was moored the party
landed on the pier, headed by
SOUTH CAROLINA MARSHAL
and two deputy marshals, their
rear being guarded by several
members Of the river police at.
tachcd to harbor police boat Sen
eca, which was lying off in the
stream, awaiting their arrival at
the adjoining wharf, belonging to
the Narragansctt Steamship Com
pany. The prisoners marched
with downcast heads to the end
of the pier, where a number of
colored men were at work moving
bales Of cotton,
WHO sCoWLED AT THE PARTY
as they went by, and several of
them remarked they supposed
they were being taken to the
Tombs, which was the proper
place for such murderous individ-
uals. AS the prisoners passed in
to West street the procession of
sleighs, freighted with merchan-
disc, swept on in the even tenor
of their way, while their drivers
were unconscious of who the
strange-looling individuals were
composing the small procession,
while on the sidewalk the shiver.
ing pedestrians rushed along,
looking neither to the right nor
the left, but all impelled by the
same motive, viz to reach their
destinations quickly. Leaving
the street with it's snow hum
mocks, and it's roadway with the
snow Of fully a foot in depth,
through which the sorrowtul par
ty tramped, the wharf of the Mar.
ragansett Steamship Company
was reached, and when they had
arrived at the further end a halt
was called by the marsballs.
THE PARTY GAZED WIsTFULLY
across the broad expanse of the
Hudson until their attention was
called to the evolutions of the
police steamer Seneca, which was
seen fighting her way through
the ice to the end Of the wharf to
take the party on board and to
transport them to Forty-second
street, on the East River, where
they were to be taken to the
Grand Central Depot, and for
warded by the afternoon train to
Albany. At last the trim little
steamer buffetcd her way through
the ice and was close to the pier,
from which a plank was thrown
out, and in a few seconds later
the prisoners were on board the
Seneca.
CAPTAIN FRANK sPEIGHT, THE COM
MANDER,
stood on the deck and instructed
the prisoners to move aft. Thi:
was promptly done, for the mer
were glad to escape from the colo
and pitiless blasts which came
sweeping across the Hudson. AT
ter the prisoners were duly placed
in safe keeping, one Of the South
Carolina marshals jocularly re
marked to the prisoners, awe
have come to put you boys among
white people, eh ?'' while another
individual remarked, "You're 60
ing into an awful tight place, my
lads" The prisoners to whom
these would-be facetious remarks
were addressed, received them il
different manners. Some tried t.
smile, as if reckless as to whar
fate might await them, while 9th
ers uttered suppressed oaths
doubtless wishing the United
States authorities
EVERYTHING BUT A HAPPY NEV
YEAR.
The following is a list Of th'
ten prisoners
Rev. John Ezell, Of Macedonian
Baptist Church, near Lewiston
Springs, Spartanburg County, S
c.; married and has children.
Alfred Lemaistre, Union Coun
ty, S. c.
John Whitlock, Union County
S. C.
Marion Fowler, Union County
S. G.