The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-08-16

band and asked what thew killed
sam for; asked Dr. Alexander. They
sad they killed him beclus. thev were
afraid he would tell about KILLING bis
brother. They killed my husband ~
/ obeying Governor Amcs ORDER. and
they cannot find anything he did. He
/ didn't DO anything 10 be- killed f,r.
They have got bis pistols there, aud they
Won't give them 10 me. / have asked /
don't know how many times.
Ann Hodge (colored) sworn and ex.
amiued:
Queslion-How old are You. Au-
swer- Eighteen years Old
q Have YOU been marrcd2 A. Yes.
sir.
9 WHAT'S your husbands nance A.
Square Hodge.
q Whore 30 you live now a. Eight
miles below Raymond.
q. DO YOU know anything about the
Clinton riot last September, A. WAS
not there. / know my husband came
home he was there.
g. What day of the week was thau
\. On Saturday The riot was ON
Saturday.
q. Did your husband come homo to
your place? A. Yes sir, he came homo
Saturday night, I'm the night
q. Was he hurt? a. lIcNas shot iu
the arm
Q. Could he use his arme A. No.
sir he could not use 10 at all. lilo had
il in a sling.
q. Did he tell You how hc got hurt'
4. Only that he got shot. That Is oll hc
told me-
q. Did he stay at homo that uights
\. Yes, sir
q. On Sunday morning what hap
pened? n. The white people came there
after him in the morning.
q. Who were they a. Henry Quick,
Willy Locke, Bryan Mcdonald. John
Mcdonald, George Allen, John McNeir
and Allen Grafton came.
q, ANY more. A. No, sir; / did not
know any more: Two or three ] didn't
know them
q. Did they have horses on como ou
foot. a. All riding.
.. On horses? a. Yes. sir.
q. Did they have any guu.2 a. Yes.
sir gums and pistols.
q. They came TO your house. a. Yes.
sir.
q. Who was ia the house besides
A. Me and my brother there
and another brother
q. Who is he; \. John Jones.
Who else? A. My other brother. lew
IS, and brother William and my mother
and little children.
q. How many children A. Five of
them.
9. Have you any children yourscIf2
\. Yes, sir; ! have TWO
Q. Did these men come i'm the house
A. Allen Grafton and John McNpir
came in. The rest staid around tho
house.
q. What was done2 4. They made
my brother como out from undcr tho
oed--my brother John-and asked
where Square was, and said, "Is be i'm
The room - aud did not tell, and Said
lid not know, at first. Then he asked
if they had been at the Clinton riot,
and | said that I did not know Then
he said, IF you don't tell, / will shoot
your God damned brains out" They
made him come out from under tho
bed, and started % shoot under tho
put the children under
the house she was scared and put the
children under the house, aud they gone
around. There is two doors i'm tho
house. They had pistols pointed under
The house, and ! told them that nobody
was under but tho children. Then they
came into thohouse, but could not find
square, and they went out right where
he was, and snatched of the weather
boards, only one in the room, and the
other went outside the door and snatch
ed the weatherboard and turned back
the he'd, and made him come out. and
called him a damned son of bitch, and
said he must come with them. Mr..
Quick says 81 told YOU this; If you had
listened to me you would not have como
to this % and they told him To pot his
shoes ON, and ! got Thorn and said 1 will
put them ON and had To- put thom
On, aud could not tie them very well;
and some one said "Lct tho God
damned shoes be; he don't need my
shoes" ! put my brothers cont on him,
and they carried him before them.
.. On the horse2 A. 40, Sir; no
walked before Thorn away toward Ray
mond
.. Now what happened! a. Nothing
else
q. What became Of your husband
4. They killed him. ! never did find
him for n week, until the next Satur-
day.
O. Where did you Gnd him! a.. Near
about a mile and ii half TO the last bridge
to Raymond, in the swamp.
@. You found his body. s.. The buzz
yards had eat the entrals; but from tho
body down here Indication 10 was as
natural as ever. HI. shoes were tied just
as | had tied them. The skull bone was
on the outside of the grave, and this arm
was out slightly and the other was III.
Some we didn't find. We picked up the
rings Of the backbone. We got the
and there was the hat hang.
ing up, and this ring was put on the treo
and the back enc was on the ground
this one.
The outragcs were generally confined
to the Republican counties whore 10 was
necessary 10 overcome the Republican
majority BY unlawful means, bat in two
or three counties, as Wilkinson and Is
saQuena, there was comparative peace at
the election and during the canvass.
Captain William A. on.somery,
leading Democrat and commander Of
five military companies, with the de-ig-
nation in rank 0f Major of Battalion,
testified taat in some Of the counties there
was no military organization; that in
those counties the Democrats did not try
to carry the election. This appear- to
have been true Of the two counties
named but since she Overwhelmingly,
ia December and May-great outrage,
attended with violence and murder, have
been perpetrated, and evidently with
the design Of eyorawing tho colored yo-
tiers, and preparing them to submit 20