The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-15
TEE TENNESSEE TROUBLES.

GOV. 8RGwN ACTIVE IN PURSUIT OF THE MUF-
DERBRs-A LAWYER WHO .HIJSTIRTEs TEE
ATR0e-TY-TRGaL OF JULIA HAYDEN's AS
! sASSINs.
MEnsEIs, Tenn, Sept. s.-Gev. Brown is in
the cityFor the PuTy ose of sebtaining azditiouaI
detective force to ferret o1t the parties who
took the colored prisoners Srom the IRE ton Jail
and Murdered theEa. Nelson McGhee one of
prisoners taken fEeEa the jsiR attke time and the
Acknowledged leader of the negroes inrtheir or
ganiEation. has written a Letter to his wife from
Hickmsn, Ky. bron this fact tits believed that
the other nine likewise escaped las no trace of
their. bodies has ever been found. The grand
Jury at trenton are using every exertion. Gov.
BrownSays he ascertained who the men were
who took the prisoners out and imurdersd some
of them.
NASHVILLE, TEN, Sept. s.-The Union and
Amerieen jackson, Tenn, special last night
says that Judge Csfthel reached this place
journed Che Circuit Uourt, in order TO return to
Trenton and protract the session OF his court
Internationally long TO allow the grand jury
time ane opportunity 10 follow up their investi-
gationsaato the recent disturbances in Gibson
county, leading to the killing of the negroes
Brown has been at Trenton for severaidays past,
and is urging the authorities to xtrsordinary
a an Sde mt %e oud
ed, is dicussed on the street here
70 the effect that Gen. Alex.
prOminent lawyers of Tennessee, has been re-
tanned at fee of $4,000, TO defend certain par
are arrested. Gen. Campbell has been heard to
remark that there are two sides to the question,
and that wi4en the facts are known, the hus-
hands, fathers and sreihers throughout the
coantry, north and south, whose blood wOuld
curdle at the thought OF their wives, daughters
and sisters bezng held in the eoerced embrace of
these black lastful Drutes, will regret the |
sheef iron thunder they Imagine the occasion |
has justfhed The preliminary trial OF Pat Ly- |
ons and Bowen Saunders, the alleged murderers |
of Julia Hayden, the colored school teacher of |
Trousdale county is now in progress in Lebanon,
Tenn. Jordan, stakes & Sons, Tarver 4 Yalladay
and Martin Beard, attorneys, represent the |
STATE, while Inompson q son ana Il. Cantreil
witnesses have been summoned by the State, |
and but few on the part of the defense. Indig- |
Trousdale and Gibson counties are being held in |
different counties throughout the State.
ONE OF THE NEGROES ALIVE AND IN JAIL
ARREST OF NUMBER OF THE SUSPECTED |
MURDERERs.
MEMPHIS. Sept. lO.-Douglas Jameson, one of !
the negroes taken from the Jail at
Trenton by the mob, is here in |
refuses to allow him to communicate anything, l.
but 1t is believed that it was from disclosures |
following Avalanche special from Humboldt |
were made. The special says that Lieut.. White
all, with squad of United States soldiers from
the barracks there. proceeded to Kittlesvlle last
night under instructions fdeputy United States
Marshall Talbot, and arrested five men for COM
plc1ty In the Trenton massacre. They were
brought to Humboldt to-day, and put under
guard in the barracks Two of the parties for
whom warrants had been issued came in to-day
and gave Themselves up, making seven now
under arrest. They will be taken TO Memphis
under guard tonight. Efforts were made to
taze the same parties out under writ
OF habeas corpus. but the circuit judge claimed
no Jurisdiction. 1t is said that the warrants are
out for at least 100 men on suspicion, put this is
only rumor. The grand jury is now in session
at Trenton, and from the number of persons
summoned before them it is presumed
they are determined to ferret out
the parties. The Appeals Mckenzie
special says that the names of the par les ar
rested are Joseph Hale. two Morgans, G. Fly,
James Warren, Spencer Eldridge and Ferd. Hud
son. The Others are not known. Ten o. the
ne groes taken from the Jail are said TO have es-
capped. 1t is thought here that the men arrested
are innocent l.