Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-09-30

STORY OF The MURDER OF AN uNoFFEND Nj caoor
TEACHEB-A PLAlN RPCITsL OF ONE ACT or PAR-
rARo POLITICS.
Correspondence of The ClnciInaii Gazette.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. Ii.
have just beon present at un interview be-
tween Mrs. Haiia. white lady whose husband
WAS murdered in this county on the 9Th inst.,
and an officer of The State taking her deposition
and the facts sworn to by her are as follows
eve lived on leased place ten miles south
OF Edwards depot, Kinds County. Have been
Philadelphia, Pa, to engage in planting. For
fonr years have been engaged in teaching =
colorod school, and my husband has
BEEN TEACHING coIonEp SCHOOL
for two years, seven miles from our home lie
Eaaaa HHr 5sfn nhNss Nsssses, ed wS'R w5aS'ra each
home from Sabbath-school, he sad he feared
We would have trouble, M ho passed two white
neghbors on the way and they barely spoke to
him. We retired that night ut tho usual hour.
We have grown-up daughter, son nine years
old, and nursing baby. At about 2 or 81
o'clock that night the violent barking of our
dog awoke us. got up and asked who wa1
there no response. Thon heard noise ON
around the house, and exclaimed, 'Oh dear
we arc surrounded Then they commenced
breaking in the door will, rail. | screamed
murder, and 80 did my children. They forced
tue door open, and RS they came IN, my oahBnt-
er and met them, and sad,
.spARE MY HUSBAND AND KILL ME.
Just then strong man seized me by the throat
with one hand and put his revolver in my face
with the other, and said, Hush Another mari
seized me violently by my arm. They chokedi
me 20 conld not speak. Then they broke the
window open, and my son and daughter ran to-
protect their father, standing near them.
"When they got the window open they fired
three shots into my husband, one passing
through his side, one through his breast and
one through his neck. Then they all hurried
away. 1 think the number of men around the
house WAS nearly fifty. When they left, found
my husband lying on the floor, under tho table,
which had been thrown upon him. He said
Mamma, help me mp get ne drink OF water.
Then my daughter and helped him on the bed,
and laid him down. We then tried to stay his
wounds We had no neshbors we could call,
and at about s o'clock
MY HUSBAND DIED IN MY ARMS.
About II o'clock that day three strangers came
70 my house armed and came in, saying they
were looking for niegois. ] said they were well
come.to search, but no ono was there but my
dead husband. They then left The road WAS
full of armed men that day, riding back and
forth. They killed two colored lnen, Joe Ste
pheus, II leading Republican. and his son. at
about IL O'Clock in the morning, only quarter
of a mile from our house, Both OF them were
filed with balls l could not get coroner's in
Grlfren furnished rude plank coffin, and wrap
ped IN bloody sheets, he was buried. AS l could
not stay in my house, had to take my family
and go ont and stay with an old colored woman,
THE ONLY PROTECTION COULD GET,
and remained with her until the i4th inst. when
/ gave mp what property We had to man to sell
and came away, and am now on my road to
| Philadelphia where my parents reside. l am
destitute of money. II they had warned my hus-
to leave he would have gone, but they gave us no
notice. / do not know what they could have
against him, except that he was Rcpubllcan
| and taught coored school,"
| The sad, sad story of this lady was painful to
hear. Her feelings were deeply moved AZ she
told it, aud her poor suffering children were
gathered about her to conirm with their tears
the heart -rending recital. Mrs. Haffa is very
| Intelligent aud highly educated Indy, and by her
bcsrtriE x,ra curverrist.sJ
I enjoyed more than ordinary opportunities. Her
| husband
| WAS AN fEoFFENsIyE MAN,
nnd mover had any Office in this Stateb Mt that Of
Justice Of the Peace, to which he was elected.
But his intelligence gavo him influence with tho
colored people, and he has boon relied upon in
that section of the country to look after Republic
can interests. Hence tho murder, following
within two days after tho Clinton massacre.
| Just now there is comparative quiet, but thou
sands of arms and thousands Of pounds of pow
der are being distributed among the white-lnera
| every day. We may at any time have more
bloody outbreak than any heretofore.
| MIssIsslppLtS.