Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-18

concoct measures to capture, or :
least to discover the offenders. The
/ succeeded in tracing three of them {
their hiding place, and from out c
these they learned all about the Who'll
affair Two days afterward, O.. W
Wells, Esq, United States Attorney
came to Corinth and caused all tn
parties to be arrested and bound owe
to the next (December) term Of tn
United States district court, TO an
swer for = violation of the kuklu
act. The parties implicated and hell
to bail were George Mitchell, Georg
Wells, Charles DObbins, Jacob Nc
Glathery, J. P. GillenWaters and 10
seph Gillenwaters, brothers of JOIN
E. Gilleuwaters, the Sheriff and al
legged loser Of the money. He wa
not here when the outrage upon Bry
ant was committed. He went Il
Grand Junction the day before, anC
returned the day afterward, and i
was then, and is now, universally be
/ lieYed that this dli6j was the result
I of design. It was, and still is th'
/ opinion of everybody or nearly every
( body that Gillenwaters was not only
/ his own robber, but that he originated
/ the idea of charging the theft upoF
| Bryant, and instigated the lynchine
| of him as a mere blind. And IN the
| expression OF this opinion Dunn was
particularly open and bold, and fire.
quently declared that he was in pos
session of evidence which would
prove both facts beyond question.
Well, about eight o'clock in the morn
ing of the ninth Of August, the body
of Dunn was found lying upon his
bed, the lower half of his forehead
the eyes, the nose, the upper lip and
teeth all blown into the throat and
shoulders. 1t was plain that a dellb-
crate, cruel, cOwardly, premeditated
estimation had been committed,
and the universal question was who
did it? To solve this question, who
did it, all possible means were re-
sorted to. A coroner's jury was en-
panneled which remained in session
for two weeks, and experienced de-
tectives were brought from Memphis
to "wOrk up the case" but all to no
purpose. Although the really guilty
parties were from the very beginning
strongly suspected, It is probable
that they would have never been
known had it not been for something
very like an accident. These lived
here at that time young man by the
name of Rives, but who was gene
rally known by the name of Red. .
It Is said that he came from Memphis
and was a fugitive from that city on
account of a murder he had commit
ted there. In euumerating the names
of the parties arrested and put under
bonds for kuliluxing Bryant, omit
ted to mention this man Rives. He
also was rrrested, and gave bail in
the sum of two thousand dollars, Mr..
William Coin and Mr.. Henry Isom, of
this city, becoming his sureties. Du-
ring the investigation of the Dunn
murder he was recognized by Mem
phis detective as a person who had
fed from that city about a year ago,
under the charge of killing a negro,
and, at his suggestion, he was arrested
and placed III the custody of George
Wells, the jailer here, and one of the
parties charged with the Bryant out
rage. From Wells he made his es-
cape, and from that time until Decem-
Der led the life of al outlaw. In
December the Federal court was to
becoming uneasy about being on his
bond, succeeded in inducing him to
come IL and go with them to Oxford.
At this time George Mitchell, another
participant in the Bryant affair, was
also an outlaw, having resisted and
escaped from the United States mar
shall in an attempt of that officer to
arrest him. Learning that RIves had
surrendered himself to his bail and
gone with them to Oxford, Mitchell
-apprehensive of Rives' tirmness
and discretion, or having become wea-
ry of his outcast, skulking life, con-
trived to send a message to the dis
taict attorney and the marshal, pro-
posing to go Ito Oxford and make
full and truthful revelation of all the
facts connected with the assassination
of Dunn, on condition that he him
self should be guaranteed exemption
from prosecution. His proposal was
accepted, and this is the substance of
his testimony before the grand jury:
That the idea of killing Dunn was
first suggested by Gillenwaters TO
Rives and himself; that 1t
was discussed by them for
several weeks, during which pc
riod several different plans we're form
ed and abandoned; that on the even
ing of the murder, Gillenwaters told
them he would be put off no longer;
that they would never have n better
time than this, and he was ready to
pay them one hundred dollars each,
as soon the deed was done; that, ac-
cordingly, they went to the store of
Pat Gillenwaters and procured a gun,
which they there loaded; that they
commenced shadowing Dunn a little
after dusk, and continued until they
saw him 60 into his room, pull off his
clothes, extinguish the light and go
to bed; that they continued their
watch until one or two o'clock in the
morning, when they felt sure that
deep sleep had fallen not only upon
their intended victim, but upon all
around; that then Rives glided from
his hiding place in the weeds to the
window, placed the barrel of the gun
on the pillow, the muZzle within few
inches of the sleeper's head, and fired;
that next morning Gillenwaters paid
one hundred dollars, and told them
to go to his brother Pat for the other
hundred; that they called on Pat, but
he never paid them. When asked
what Gilleuwater's motive was for
wishing the death of Dunn, he said
it was fear, that Gillenwaters had
learned that Dunn had written to cer-
tain influential members of the legis-
lature, telling them that he had incon-
testable proof that he (Gillenwaters)
had lost no money, but had eDlDezzied
what he had pretended was stolen
from him, and therefore not to coun-
tenance the passage of n bill for re-
lief. Mitchell also stated that Gillen-
waters believed that Dunn intended
to have him indicted IN the State
courts for breaking open the jail at
JaclntO some years ago and taking
out two prisoners and hanging them.
The above ] believe is q true narra-
tive of the principal facts of the not
ed Dunn assassination certainly
one of the most GiabOical murders
ever heard Of in this or any other
country. In drawing it up, I have
carefully abstained from any attempt
at writing for mere effect. Ny OBJ
ject has been neither to declaim nor
20 argue, but simply TO narrate.
Respectfully.
JAS. E. STEWART.
CoRINTH. Miss. Julv s. 1874.
From the Washington Republican, July o.
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