The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-27
THE BROOKHAVEN HORROR.
THE UNPARDONABLE CRIME
The Sickening Details.
IN the Brookhaven Citizen. 22d.

From the Brookhaven Citizen. 22d.
On last Saturday night at one o'clock
the residence of Mrs. III. L. Burnley. ,
most excellent and accomplished widow
lady OF this place, with an interesting
family OF four daughters, ranging from
thirteen years of age to the eldest daugh
ter, aged about nineteen years, was en-
tered by three stalwart negro men, and
the most horrible outrages were committed.
Mrs. Burnley aud ner eldest daughter, 9
most modest, refined and very intellectual
young lady, who graduated with the
highest honors of her class, year ago,
were sleeping together, when her daugh.
| ter, Miss Bertha, threw her arms around
her mothers neck, frantic with fear, and
| cried out that some person was in the
room. The room being dark, the moth
/ er, at first impulse, thought her daughter
only frightened in her dreams, and put
her hand out to quiet her. In moment
two negro men sprang forward and
gripped the Threats of the two ladies, and
at the same time the dreadful voice of
Anthony Grant, we'll known desperate
| burglar, who sometimes turks in this
community, and who formerly lived here,
but for long time evadiDg the officers
for former crimes, spoke fourth, ''do you
know what this is?" at the same time
patting the cheek and neck of Mrs.
Burnley with the cold heavy barrel
of pistol, and proceeded, ''now, damn
you, keep quiet, or | will send you to
hell, where | have sent thousands of 9th
ers,"
AT first Mrs. Burnley hoped that the
rascals might be satisfied with the theft
and robbery, and when they asked where
her morey was, she at once told them
where what she had in the house could
be found, which, when secured by the
third negro, whose entire part of the plot
seemed to be to do the robbing, called
her u liar, and demanded to know where
the remainder of her money was. Mrs.
Burnley piteousley implored them that
she and her innocent family had never
done them any harm, and that they were
welcome to everything they wanted
in the house, and also the two horses
she had at the stable, but to please
let her and her daughter, who still were
in their clutches, alone. But the hard
hearted wretches We're unmoved from
their hellish purpose. And then ensued
a painful struggle of rapacious lust, and
horror, and innocence, too horrible to re-
late.
The mother with self-sacrifcing devo-
ton, which mothers alone can exhibit in
the grandest sublimity under such Perils,
nothing daunted at the pistol at her tenn
Piles in the hands of villain, threw her
self by desperate struggle as protection,
across the form of her daughter. Nexed
at the effective opposition made by such
heroic efforts of Mrs. Burnley to save her
child, the fiends with sudden wrench of
the arm, snatched the distracted mother
with great violence from the bed to the
floor, and choked her nearly senseless,
and then x = K X X
Mrs. Burnley finding herself free for
moment, and her daughter still in the
violent clutches of Anthony Grant, she
escaped through the window and raised
the alarm, which caused all three of the
negroes to disappear in sudden haste.
While Anthony Grant and Silas johnson
were engaged in the attack of the ladies,
Dick Cooper, the third negro, was entirel vi
engaged in searching for money and valu-
ables from the ground floor to the garnet.
They took off the small amount of money
about the house, and trunk of valuables,
the trunk being found riled the next
morning about half a mile from the
house.
Mrs. Burnley's residence being on the
edge of the town on the Meadville road,
where the locality is thinly settled, the
nearest residence of any male person being
300 yards distant, and it was 10 or 20
minutes after the negroes had fed, before
any of the neighbors reached the scene of
action, and near daylight before a fully
organized force went in pursuit
THE VILLAINS ARRESTED THROUGH THE
VIGILANCE AND ENERGY OF COLoRED
MEN.
Charles Caldwell (colored Senator) got
on the track of one of the outlaws (Sllas
Johnson) at Clinton on the 18th. As
sisted by him together with young
Charles Caldwell, Eugene Welborn and
VIM. Turner, Gall colored,) Constable
Dusty, (white,) he was arrested and
lodged in Jail in this city. Here with
this aid Of Tazwell Jones (colored) the
same party got on the track of Anthony
Grant and Dick Cooper, and succeeded
in capturing them. The Sheriff of Lin
coin county, on being notified of the ar
rests, carried the desperadoes to Brook
haven Friday night.
RETRIBUTION-THE VILLAINS HUNG.
Saturday evening at 4 o'clock, with
perfect deliberation, the citizens after
receiving the confessions of the despera-
Ioes-swung them by the neck until they
we're dead, DEAD, DEAD, as retrlbution
for their crimes and as warning that
whatever else may happen, they intend
10 protect their houses from invasion and
heir loved ones from pollution.
Gov. Baxter has come before the Con-
Investigating Committee, and
aiken back in detail all the charges that
j. CLAYTON