The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-04
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.THK STArE OF MIssIssIPPIl
Ken per County
Before ln", W. w. Chisolm, Judge of.PIo-
bate, in and Tor said county, personally came
Perry Moore. to me ~well-kuewn as : just
and reliable citizen in said county, who,
after being by me duly sworn according to
law, deposeth and says, that he was with
the United States forces under the command
er0eneraI Snerm an, Ia the county of Laud-
efdaIe, in the year (ls64) eighteen hundred
and sixty-Iour, in said State of Mississippi.
on or about the 10Th day of February, OF
said year, on the road leading from Marion
Station to- H%iIlsboro, in Scott county,
Mississippi, and he, the aforesaid, saw at
one Whites gin, on said road, about eigh,
or ten miles from Marion Station, the said
United States forces put fire 20 and burn
one hundred and eighty-four bales of lint cotton
$50, belonging to Robert J.. Moseley.
They, the said United States forces, stated
and told me it was by order of General
Sherman.
PERRY MOORE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this, the
TsEALl ID day of February, a. d. 1867.
w. W. CHIsoLM,
Probate Judge.
THE FRAUD ACKNOWLEDGED.
i certify that the foregoing is q true copy
of the original papers, aud that the name
subscribed thereto, purporting to be the
genuine signature OF Perry Moore, is a
BASE FORGERY, AND so ADMITTED
TO Me BY w. w. CHISOLM, at the time
| arrested said papers in hi hands. Said
Chisolm was at that time Judge of the Pro-
bate Court of Kemper county, and l was
Clerk of said Court.
GEO. L. WELSH.
h DEKALB, Miss, Sept. 30, 1876.
INDICTMENTS FOUND AND o STOLEN.
II DIsTRIcr-ArToExEY's SWORN STATE
MINT.
THE STATE OF MIssIssIPPI,l
kemper County.
Before me, f. NJ. Poole, Clerk of the Cir
cult Court, personally appeared, Thomas II.
Woods, a citizen OF said county, who, hav-
ing been sworn in due form of law, deposes
aud says:
1st, That, at the September Term, 1868, OF
the Circuit G urt for said county and State,
afiant was District Attorney for the 9th
Judicial District, in which said county was
lembracedend was present at sale term, and
saed npoilthe deliberstions Of tbs grand
Jury, and gave to that boly such assistance
as by law he was required to do, and with
his, atlantis, hand drew the indictments
found and preferred by said grand Jury al
; said term of said Court.
81. That, among other indictments found
/ by said grand jury prepared and framed by
I this afiant and presented in open Court, al
said term of said Court, was one, substan-
: tally charging W. W. Chisholm uith talsel,
( aud fraudaIently and Knowingly altering ano
: publishing a certdinpoper, purporting to have
8 been signed by one Perry Moore, touching
the loss Of a large lot of cottor, alleged, in
saiG paper, to have been the property of one
Robert j.. Mosely, Which said cotton was, in
said papar, charged to have been DESTROYED
BY the army commanded by Gen. Sherman,
IN the winter of 1891.
81. That, upon the adjournment of the
Court, there being a vacancy in the office o.
Clerk of the Circuit Court, the furniture
: records and papers belonging to that Office
: were, by an order of Court, placed in the
r care and custody Of the then Sheriff, Mr.. Fl
\ A. Hopper; that, between said Septembel
: Term, 1868, and the next March Term. 1869
afiant was informed by said Sheriff that hi
office had been violently opened and enter
ed and all indictments found at the Sep.
3 TENDER Term, 1865, stolen and carried off
= Since then, afiiant has had no further infor
e nation touching said Indictment, or it
whereabouts.
Z 4th. That the grand jury of the State, a
the September Term, 1868, was composed O
the best men of the county Of Kemper, am
a men of more than ordinary intelligence. ant
e of unimpeachable integrity.
9Th. That, owing to a variety of causes
! there has been no term of the Circuit Courl
: held in said county since said September
Term, 1868.
THOMAS II. WOODS.
Sworn and subscribed before me, June, -
fsEALl 1870.
F. NJ. Poole, Clerk.