The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

I q. You say they took this man out about
three hundred yards?
A. They were about that distance from
the house when left them
! @ While you were there be was not killed
A. No. sir.
! @. Did you hear shots before you got
away?
A. I heard firing.
| @ Right there where you left them?
! A. No, sir !; didn't hear firing where ]
left them.
@. Was not the man killed =?
| A. They said he was.
/ @ Who said he was?
! A. heard several of the company.
| @. That same party
! A. No, sir /: didn't hear the same party
I heard some men say so afterward | just
went around and came up back, and heard
several men say afterward that the man was
| killed.
| @. You don't know where be was killed
except by information ?
A No, sir.
@. Was It reported in your company that
he was killed +?
A. That is what heard.
VIII any one claim that this poor wo-
mans story is not substantially true, or
will it be pretended that this is a pro-
duct Of the courage mill ?"
ISAAC MosgLY (colored) sworn.
Question. Where do you live
Answer. lives out beyond-yOu may say
between the Two roads-between the Ben
ton road and the MiIldale road.
Q. How far from town
A. About nine miles.
@ How old are you, do you suppose
a. am said TO be fifty.
Q How long n we you lived there
A THIS coming May, thirty-threo years.
@ HOW long have you lived in the county?
A. Ever since 1914 ever since came to
this country.
Q Do you know of the killing Of any black
men?
A. never seen none.
q. Do YOU know of any found killed?
A. Yes, sir ; Joe Cook, out bevond by
Banks, and George Shepherd, and Emanuel
Toelss, who lived on Mrs. Widow Blacks
land. George Shepard, he liyts on Bill
Wad eigh's place, about nile and half
from here.
@. Did you see the dead bodies
A. Yes, sir | seed them
Q. When did you see them first !?
A.. About week before Christmas.
Q We're these all colored men?
A. Yes, sir.
This was The week before Christmas !;
remember the "war" was the 7th of De-
o~r-, or 81 ss1ysc Moan s,-ern killad-dllr-
ing thot week, and buried the week be-
fore Christmas.
Q. You understood they were taken there
to be killed?
A. Yes, sir.
O. Do Won know who took them there
A. | will tell you the man that sent for
George Shepard, that was Captain Hogln
For at the time that they went to George
Shepard's house George said to Mr.. Harris,
What do ydV want of me !; you are going
to kill ne p Re says, 20, DO, George |
| am not going to kill you ; 1 just want you
to tell me all abont what you were doing on
the Jackson road" And they took George
Shepard there. Captain Wilmore, who
lives on Oak Ridge, he came to my house
hunting round ON Sunday.
Q. Hunting arms?
A. Yes. sir.
Q The Sunday after the fight in Yicks-
burgh
A. Yes, sir.
Q What did he say?
A. | asked him his name, and he told me-
| told hum, What are you gong to do With
George" aud he said he was not going to do
anything with him, only he wanted him to
tell what he knew. "We are not going to
kill him at all; am going right back"
And when turned round they had went
back and had taken George up to Mrs. Fox's
and Mr.. Burns's store, and they killed him
| Bill Wadlegh went up there Che lived with
Bill Wadleigh) and asked if they would turn
him loose. ana they said :hey would; and
Captain Hogin, he went off and Captain
Reed went of ; and Captain Alexander Ho-
gin went of; and then the other men took
George and carried him off and killed him.
Captain Alexander H0gin went for him
George SheparD in the night
@. You saw all these three men lying dead
within abort fifty yards of each other?
@. What DAY did you see them after that
Sunday?
A. Isaw them on Wednesday.
Q. What kind of place were they in?
A. There was cane on one side OF the
lroad.
@. We're they in the cane?
4. George Shepard was lying rlght in
the road, and the others right on the side OF
the road.
@. Next to he canes
A. Yes, sir. Their wives had gene up
there and gotthem taken up and buried.
Q. Ana you say you think they had been
killed
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How?
A. George Shepard on this part of the
head Indicating forehead was shot off. and
cid man Joe Cook was shot through the
neck and his throat was cut. Emanuel
Tooles's throat was cat. George Shepard
was shot through the head; his head was
shot all to pieces.
Q, Was his balm coming out :?
A. Yes, sir.
@. And Cook aad his throat cut?
A. Yes. sir: he WAS Sh0f and then his
throat was cut.
@. Where wal he shot !?
A. UP near his neck here, indicating j
Q. How was the other one, Tooles, shot!
A, He was shot near about the same way,
and his throat was cut, and then his ears
were cut off ana Cooks ears were cut off.
We had terrible time of it out there.
could not stay ii my house at night.
@. You think that there are colered men
hiding yet 4?
A. Yes, sir they are afeard now to come
home to their families. | heard them say
| ain't going to tsll you nothing that | didn't
hear--I heard them say these words myself.
that they wanted to kill of all the colored