The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
Bloody Work at Holly Springs

We copy from the Reporter of last
Friday the following article concerning
the killing of Mack Hill:
About six o'clock Tuesday morning
last, as Mack Hill, the guard at the
Jail, was making bis usual rouHd ana
attending to the prisoners under his
charge. be as attacked by Perkins the
colored man who is under sentence of
death on the charge of murder, and
knocked senseless to the floor Five
prisoners made their escape from the
jail, having fired two shots at Capt Fur
the jailer, as they rttreated from tue
jail yard 20 the open field in the rear
fhe alarm was promptly given and in n
few moments q large number of citizens
Of both races assembled upon the spot
and went in pursuit of the fugitiveP
One by one they W re picked up until
about clock when the last one miss
ing, the desperate Perkins, was captured
and placed again securely in his cell.
The Sheriff and the posse who assisted
in recapturing the criminals, deserve
great credit for the zeal and promptness
with which they performed their duty
Mack Hill ia believed to be mortality
wounded. Since the above was In type
Hill has died"
Here is full and truthful account Of
the bloody sequal to the above as tele-
gFapbed from Holly Springs to the Mem
phis Appeal:
| HOLLY SPRINGS MISS, October S.-This
place has been the scene of bloody work
during the past two days, Last Tuesday
morning at sunrise three negroes con
fined in the Jail overpowered the guard
and escaped, forcing three other negro
prisoners to 60 with them. Mack Hull,
n negro. one OF the guard, was brutality
beaten, and died at fur clock in the
afternoon All the prison rs werH Tr>
captured in hour or two. On We'd
nesdHv morning the cOToneTS juTy.Te-
turned a verdict that Mack hill was
killed by J m Perkins, William Ravens
wood, and Dick NTH, the three prison
ers. Last night a mob of masked ne
groes surrounded and for ed the Jail,
took therefrOm Perkins and RavenswOud,
carried them three quarters of mile
from town, and shot them TO death. This
morning their bodies we're found buried
in the sand in he bottom Dick Smiths
very fortunately for himself, Ial
been carried to the Penitent'ary Tues
day evening. Perkins was under sem
tence Of death for killing a negro wO-
man two or three months ago, four or
five miles from town. Not q single
white person was engaged in the affair
ut any time The only difference be-
tween this and the Trenton affair, is
that in this negroes only are concerned.
Grant, suppose, will order the Uni>
ted States marshal to arrest the conspir-
ators and try them by United States law
as be did in Tennessee. But the cOnsPir-
ators are not white men in this instance,
negroes are to be punished now, aud
not whites.
Speaking of Mack Hill, the Reporter
says:
"Mack Hill the assistant jailer who
received fatal injuries from the Jail
breakers, died of his injuries on Tues
day evening last Mack vas one Of the
most popular Go!OTed men in Marshall
county, respected alike by the whites and
by those of his own race. He was a
good officer, kind in all the relations of
life and he dies incurred by commun-
ity that never knew any Ill of him. Feace
to his ashes
VIII Grant, Attorney General Wil~
liams or the United States MarshaIs treut
this as they did the Trenton affiir?