The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-04

GONernor hellogg mas Issued prOCla-
nation, placing reward of $1,000
head on all persons indicted in the Con-
shatta affair, and accompanying his proc
lamation is the following statement
To the Public:
Having felt it my duty to issue
proclamation, offering large reward
for the apprehension and conviction of
the murderers on the COushatta outrage;
and that the law abiding citizens of the
State may fully comprehend the magni-
tude of the crime committed, and be in
duced to render more active assistance
to the officers of the law. ! deem it
necessary to make the following state
mcnt of these facts, rs CLEANED from re-
liable source, received at the Executive
Department:
On or about the 2Sth day of August,
1874, II band of persons belonging
to scmi-military organization.
known as the White Mems League
of Louisiana, assembled in the town
of Conshatta, parish Of Red River in
bthis State, for the purpose Of compelling
! bv force of arms the State officers Of that
parish to resign their positions. These
officers were men of good character, and
most Of them interested in planting and
mercantile pursuits. They held their
positions with the full consent Of an ad-
mittcdly large majority of the legal voters
of the parish, this being a heavily Rrpub-
lcan parish, rs admitted by the Fusion
returning boards, the only objection to
them being that they were of Republican
principles. Frank Kgertou. the duly
qualified sheriff of the parish in strict
compliance with the laws of this State
and of the United States, summoned II
posse coa,ifat,GS of citizens. white and
colorcd, to assist him in protecting the
parish officers i'm the exercise Of their un-
doubted rights and duties from the
threatened unlawful violrn ,r Of tn" whit"
leagues. His posse, consisting of 10 men,
were OvcrpOwcrcd by superior force,
assembled from the adjacent parishes,
and finally, after several rol"r"d and
white citizens had been killed, surrcn-
dcred themselves as prisoners. with the
explicit guarantee that their lives would
be spared, and if the more prominent
Republicans would agree 10 leave the
parish and those holding office would
resign their positions These >tipuIa-
lations, though unlawiully "Xuctcd, were
COMPLIED with by the Republican, Off
eisls, who we're then locked in the Jail
! for the night.
Names Of those Surrendered.
The following are the names of thoS"
who surrendered and resigned: Homer y.
Twitchcr, planter and tax collector Of
Red River, and Deputy |. s. Postmaster
in charge uf the PoStotlcc at ConShatta;
! Robert 4. Devices, Supervisor Of Regis
! ,ration. Dcsoto parish; Clark Holland,
merchant and Supervisor Of Registration,
Red River parish; W. F. Howell, Parish
Attorney and L. :. Counsellor; Frank
. :. Edgcrton. Sheriff Of Red River par
! i.h; VI. G.. Willis, merchant and Justice
/ OF the Peace.
On the following morning. Sunday,
/ the 3Oth of August these person,
were bound together tw" and two, and
conducted by al armed guard t" TN" Nc
! Farland Plantation, just over the parish
| line of Red Rive. within the boundaries
of Bassicr parish, about forty mile, east
of the Texas line; there they wcr" -"t
upon and deliberately murdered m cold
| blood. On the night preceding tn" muir
der n body of forty members Of the White
! League of Collct parish, mounted and
armed left the City Of Shreveport and
were seen riding in the direction Of TIN"
place where the murder Was subsequently
! committed Their bodies We're buried
where they fell, without inquest or any
/ formality whatever.
! fSigncdl WM. ;. hELLoGG'
.