The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-07-20
THE MURDER OF MCCLELLAN,

AS Is Well huOWu, the MlSSilSSppl
authoFi iies never have investigated the
Chisholm massacre. BY request, how
ever, of the British Minister, com
mittee was appointed by the General
Government to examine into the kill
ing of Angus Mcclellan, one of CHS
holn's friends, wno was thought to be
a subject of her Majesty. The COM
mittee has reported 20 the Attorney
General.
The report shows, as has been
shown by fair minded newspapers. that
the killing of Judge Chisholm, and his
friends, his son and daughter was pre-
meditated. There were not more than
fifty persons implicated in the horrible
plot, twenty one of whom had been
indicted for violation of the election
laws, having committed outrages upon
Republicans during the campaign of
last fall, and of these twenty one, six
were members of the Gully family,
which was at enmitv with a family
friendly to Judge Chisholm. The
trials of these twenty-one were set Tor
a date prior to that of the massacre,
but the indictments were stolen from
the Clerks Office by unknown par
ties" All the indicted we're Demo
cra.s sOd the witnesses Republicans
Ii No. 10 pseeeBi these tri.ls enmiug
on ilini the conspiracy W.. formed.
lB D-cemCet the head Of ;i:e Gully
family was waylaid and shot. His
friends charged one Hopper with being
the assassin, but he was able 10 prove
an alibi. A negro was accused, but he
could not be identified. Then Ben
jamin F. Rush, Republican of KEN
per county, was thought to be the gull
ty party, as he bad been engaged in
in alterations with different mernbers
of the Gully family. Rash was shot
at several times, and once, while
standing in his doorway, was riddled
with buckshot. Finding life in Ken
per county not only uubearable. but
precarious, lie fled to Arkansas, where
he has since remained. Qa April &c |
last, John w. Gully, the man who was
shot in December, was killed. Two days |
afterward, the day of Gully's fuaeral, |
a nephew OF the deceased swore ont un |
affidavit charging Rush, Chisholm,
Gilmer. RoSenbaum, Newton aud Hop |
per with committing the murder OF
being accessories tc it. This was tie |
basis OF the conspiracy. The witnesses
raned in the affidavit all live more
than thirty miles from De Kaib, the
scene OF the killing of Gully, and all
have declared since the Chisholm mas
sacre that they had no knowledge of
tie murder, aud we're surprised at be-
ing named as witnesses.
All the indicted were leading Repub
licans of Kemper county. No evidence
has been addueed that connects them
with the murder of John W, Gully.
Rush, the principal has not been In
since he fed thence, in
December last, as was well known TO
Ihe citizens of De Kalb. John w.
Gnlly, the murdered man, was motor
ogsly bad He was man of ungoy
ernable passiops ead always was eu-
gagged In disputes with his neighbors;
was a rough, buriy, powerful man,
lnd, because of his habit of going
about with his shirt unbuttoned. ex
posing the masses of hair on his chest.
was knoHR Es The Bull of the
Woods" Once he was charged with
APE, and Rush was Q witness against
him. Later he was charged with
Intimacy With colored wo-
nan. whose husband he beat and
lrove from Kemper county. T1is ne
JFo thysl:ened vengeance upon Gully,
md, 1t is said. sss sssa in the neigh
about the tune the white rIf.
Ian was killed. This indictment of
Chisholm and his friends seems merely
O iisys been the initial step IN the plot
o murder theH. Ftess faets are sus-
aimed in the report to the Depariiasnt
# Justice. /.
On tie aay Of the massacre, Sunday.
April 20, Judge Chisholm hlfssa Of the /
ssuance of warrants for the arrest Of
himself a4d frisnds. He gent messeu-
ers to dilner and IioseubAnH2 to
ONE to De Kalb, and give thsmseiyes
p, which they did. Newton and Hop !
er were arrested and taken to CHS
Iolm's house. Mcclellan, a partner in
'usiness of Hopper. was sent for at the
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