The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-05-23
The Murder OF the HGeynOId :
BROTH y. by "a Deputy anit~d
$G.fes NHarehaI n Kentucky.

~I.fes HarshaI in Kentucky.
Brief mention has been made in tele-
graphic reports of the killing of the Rey
nolds brothers near Glasgow, Kentucky,
by United States MarshaPs posse, the
particulars of which are related in tn.
Glasgow Times. edited by Dr. j. d.
Wood, gentleman of high standing who
formerly resided in East Mississippi.
The particulars are herewith appended.
When it is remembered that the killing
was without the shadow of provocation =
that it was done in cold 5lood in the dead
hour of night at the door-sill of the vic
tins and in the presence of their families
and without the incentive of chronic
feud and a sense of long accommodating
nnavenged wrongs of every description
the imagination can conceive, it will be
readily seen that it exceeds in crimnality
the worst that can be said by the most
jaundiced partizans in reference to TIE
Kemper affair of April 29th, which was
no more nor less than the sequel of the
assassnations that had been prey iously
committed.
We have copied the statement in re
gard to the Glasgow atrocity because the
meager mention in Geographic reports
has excited inquiry concerning the de-
tails and to show that Mississippi is not
the ouly region where human life has
been unlawfully taken, and that its effect
upon the mind of the average Radical
partizan depends very much upon where
the thing occurs and who are the
sufferers. For instance there " Is.noth
ing like Radical howl few years ago
when young Dawson was entrapped and
killed by Gilmer and others no clamor
for their trial and punishment--on the
contrary Gilmer was made a sort of god Of
Radical idolatry and was elected to the
State Senate, as a mark of consideration,
AMI Chisolm, who was his best friend and
Sheriff at the time, was put on the Re
publican ticket for higher honors. Nor
was there the slightest manifestation of
displeasure in that quarter over the kill
ing of Ball, a Jealous young Democrat,
by a band of brutalized negroes during
the same regime and when they were
being trained in the idea that a Southern
white man had no rights of life or prop
erty that negroes were bound to respect.
So far from demanding the punish
ment of the officials who murdered the
Reynolds brothers in Kentucky the other
day, the Radical organs have dismissed
the affair with the slightest mention,
and Radical officials are exerting them
selves to procure the release of the assas-
sins But the facts will speak; and they
point a moral and adOrn a tale of Radical
hypocrisy:
As the Federal authorities have seen fit.
in accordance with their inviriable custom,
to disregard the State authorities we are
left to give the facts us detailed by the
Reynolds family and by the parties charged
with the outrage. The Reynolds are in
dustriouS peaceable citizens, and as game
as men are ever made, and their statement
credence. They say that on Sunday night
about one o'clock, Mrs. Reynolds was
awakened by kicking at her door. Hearing
the noise she called her son Tom, who with
his brother Ike, sleeping in the room
in the rear of their mothers. Tom went to
the door and opening it, Inquired what was
wanted. The man at the door said he
wanted some water. Reynolds told him to
go around to the back porch and he would
hand it out to him. The Marshal said he
wasn't going around the house, but tod
Tom to bring it out the front. Tom told
him he wouldn't do il, when he was seized
by the shoulder or arm and violently pulled
out, and as he went he made lick with his
fist to free hims IL, when he WAS shot. His
brother, Ike, coming up about the time Of
the scutfle, on attempting to free his brother
from the assault, having nothing, however,
but his hands, he was shot, when the assail-
ing parties left hurredly.
The story on the other side is that on call
ing az the door, Tom came out and was
asked to bring some water out to some pris-
oners, and on refusing and telling the mar
shall to 90 round to the back door. the mar
shall reached out his hand taking hold of
Reynolds said, ''1Ou wouldn't resist an
officer. would you :" when REYNOLDS struck
him a blow in the face which staggered him |
badly, when he fired on Tom and Ike re-
spectively. The Marshal claims that lie was |
told tn 1t the Reynolds boys were guilty of
connection with Illicit distiling and that
was his purpose in going TO Reynolds.
Under the statement OF the Marshal, the |
shooting was an outrage of so grave a char
acter as To startle every conservative mind |
in the country. There was no act of extern |
uation connected with the affair. even adj |
hitting everything stated for the defense. |
The Reynolds declare most spIemnly that |
not word about resisting officers or in /
regard to ssillicit distiling or violation of /
law" was uttered, or that a single word |
about writ was mentioned.
There was a calm heroiSm in the con duet |
of Tom and Ike Il aynolds after being shot |
by the United States deputy MarShals which |
is worthy of record and which stamps them
as young men of the tenderest consideration
when in the family circle. Tom, though
shot through and through, and his bowels
aud kidneys wounded, and Ike shot in the
aw and with the bullet buried in his neck
concealed their real condition from their
mother and sisters and sent them back to
bed with the impression that they had re-
ceived no damage. They went to their room
and stripped off their clothing and Ike,
though badly wounded, tenderly wiped the
blood from ToeI's wounds. dressed them as |
best he could, put him to bed and sljIped !
cut and started for DOCTOR: The nam IS of
Tom and Ike Reynolds will go upon record
as two OF the most heroic spirits that have
lived on Kentucky soil.
tfTREBLAH," of Terry, in the New Or