Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-01

law in Missouri. lie had known different
rebels have attention paid To them in Mis- |
souri,, and he never knew any man to SUIT I
fer for II there, or even arrested. lie
thought ] was mistaken about the law: l
urged on him to stop it, md referred him
to his family, that they would all be ruined,
and for him not to do IT, told him about |
his daughter, that she was very nice, and !
for him to wait until she was married. He |
said that he had no chance to prevent II
then. | advised him TO take his horse and
20 and see Duncan lie said that Duncan
ran about so that he didn't expect that he
was ut home. | told him to stay at Dun
cans house until he come, and to see him
and stop it, He said it was out Of
save his life If he could he would, then.
He said they might be prospecting for him
then. That they were to start that morn
ing, and that it might be done then. i ad-
vised him then to 60 to Reynolds, and he
said that Reynolds and him were not
friendly, and didn't know whether they
would let him say, and that he might get
there about the time the thing came of. l
missed some of the conversation, at the
time he was talking about the price lie
said that he had been telling Duncan he
could have anything and everything he
wanted and thought he could keep him
even, but he got ahead of him three and
four hundred dollars, and if he didn't get
him to do this business he would loose it,
and he was to have had it done long ago,
was to have had the old rebel killed long
ago. He had been paying him and Dun
can had been travelling about and hadn't
done nothing he promised to do Some
lady wanted goods the other day but had
no order from Duncan and she didn't
| get them, and then Duncan came
with her and they got II whole lot
of things, and he was not going
to pay him anything more, unless he
done what he promised o. do. He grum-
! bled ut Lum for letting her have the
things Lum said how he had told him to
! let her have the things if she fetched the
order, and that the woman brought no or
! der, but that Duncan came with her, and
Lum thought that was as good as an order
He was talking Of not paying no more for
he hadn't done nothing. | told him if
Duncan was the man | thought he was he
would have sOmething-money, goods or
blood. Ayres then said if he would do
what he said he would, he would pay him,
that is if they would do what they promised
to do. He said, at the start, about giving
Duncan s contract that Duncan had said
that he would take nice young man with
him. That he was raised at the head OF
Mountain Fork. and that Duncan had
found him ut Coal Creek. That he had
been gone from the country, and had not
long been back, whom Duncan was wel
acquainted with. Ayres said he had met
and had an interview with Duncan and
some other fellow IA few minutes before.
asked him if it was Webb. because | haC
been in Knoxville and had gone out
on the cars with Webb, when he just re-
turned home so he said, and he came ant
satsby me andiasked about his folks.
know where he was raised 1t was som,
! time before, but not exceeding year
Ayres said he thOuy ht that was the name
but he wasn't acquainted with him. liz
: said that be had nothing to do with him
and didn't expect to have. That he would
! never give him a cent for what he was L
do. lie said that Duncan said he Duncan
: was to give him $780, but that Duncan wa
Z his man and that he had nothing to d,
with the other man, but Duncan was t
take n nice young man with him, and th2
, they were t. start this morning, and tina
this young man was acquainted with tn
. business, and had been in the business be
: fore. He said they were to go on in Rey
! nolds' neighborhood and get close, SO tha
they could see in the house, and see VIII
was there, and then wait until the peopl
I would quit passing and then they were {
! 90 in and arrest the old man and pretend t
= have a State prisoner, and tie him befor
Z he could have time for the second reicC
! ton while he was submissive, and the
j they had him. Then this young ma
> was TO attend to the old lady; t
= ask her if she had mes
4 house, and take her out and 10 attend I
= her-to ravish her. Ayres called it YER
= vulgar The old man would lit lie wa
> to kill her if she didn't submit, and the par
u ties were to kill them in any event. Tn
= Young man and the old lady were to z
' back in the house after the ravishiHg, an
: then he was to tie her to the bed post, an
!. to turn the old man down over the chair.
II believe he said to tie the old man down, an
: to shoot him in the lower part of the bow
: els sufficient to kill, for man never e
3 well who was shot in the bowels in I'll
army. They were TO stand over him unit
= he bled. and died slow and suffered I'll
y pains his father had to endure. And thu
i he was to ravsh the old woman again b,
~ tore him, so as to aggrayate the old maj
~ for Reynolds was ambitious and it wouI
make his blood boil. The nice young ma
: was TO do this again. He started to so
Z, something about how the house was to
v set afre, but both brothers got to talkin
- but they were TO have what they coul
!. make | can't connect this part ofthe COZ
~ versation, there was more of it, but this
u the substance of what was said. Lum did n
:, say anything, but both argued that the
u were not accountable. / thought that 10
= was under the influence of liquor.
- that ever saw him that thought he WI
u tight told him at this time that he wou
u be the worst ruined man in the countr.
"a That they would break his neck, and l a,
y vised him to go off, if that WAS his cond
= ton. to go away. Lum. then got mad,
!, seemed mad He said that had been picl
~ ing Joe, and jerked his pistol out, at
les laid it on the counter, and said that it cou
o. I. not go off that way. and that / would hay
u to settle IT, That had been talking abol
4 hanging, breaking necks innocent peopl
rs and all that, and that he was the worst O.
rs rebel in the world. told him that l ha
- not been picking Joe When Joe came il
"a to the contract before this, Lum told j,
Z not to tell it, and told Joe that l didr
o. care about hearing it, and / so stated it
" Lum then, and az ked him, why he didn
re- stop Joe from telling it, That was VIII,
"a lie was so boisterous. They both want,
n me to keep it a secret. l told them that
10 didn't reckon would have any occGsiC
n to say anything about it. They said Du
~ can was desperate man, and that
re had been there a while back, and Tn
.. Duncan had wanted 10 come down and r.
u me, thought that had money, and that
a5 might have killed me and my family Al
Gu burned Inc up; and they had prevail,
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