Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-07-09
THE CHISHOLM MASSACRE.
Important Developments Concerning the
Matter.
THE KILLING OF ANGUS MCCLELLAN.

New YORK, JULY The report of the killing
oil Angus Mcclellan, British subject in Kemper
county, Miss, at the time of the Chisholm massa-
ere, has been presented TO the Attorney General,
and will be given to the Secretary OF State to-day
l ne evidence confirms all the facts thus lar pub
iisned IN connection with the tragedy, and at the
same time develop some new facts which show
that the murder of Judge Chisholm was the result
OF deliberately planned conspiracy, and il was
intended to kill other parties arrested with him
AT the same time, the killing not the result of
any sudden outburst of popular passion or fren-
led mind, but it was deliberate murder, the pur-
pose OF those preparing the scheme being to re-
move the victims OF their conspiracy 10 order that
they might not be witnesses against them for Of
lenses for which they were indicted in state and
federal courts.
The parties directly concerned in the killing.
and those who aided and abetted them, and who
constituted all the actors in the tragedy, did not
number over fifty persons. Indictments were
found against them in state courts and also in fed
eral courts. The trials in the state courts were TO
have been held prior to the massacre, but the in
dictments were all stolen from the clerks Office
and IN consequence they could not take place
The trials IN the federal were to take place
IN May last and the witnesses against the pa rites
TO be tried were Judge Chisholm, Rosenbanm the
Hopper brothers aud Gimer. All those ind icted
were democrats, and the witnesses were republi-
cans.
IL was to prevent these trials that the conspiracy
was Piahneui It's uehoerate purpose being 10 Kill
all the parties named above as witnesses, and the
assassination of John w. q. Gully on the twenty.
sixth of April, used as pretext for the action
OF the conspiators against Judge Chisholm and
his friends.
The report states that Mcclellan, who was with
Judge Chisholm, as a frieI d, in the jail while the
mob had surrounded it, was called down bv the
sherh, who did not pretend to protect the prison.
ers, aud as he came down Mcclellan gave his gun
TO young Chisholm. When he got to the bottom
OF the stairs the sheriff locked the gate or door, so
that Mcclellan could not re turn saying that they,
| the mob, wanted him, Mcclellan, to be out OF
| there After vainy trying to return Mcclellan
went out, and after be had turned the corner and
while walking towards his shop, several of the
mos fired on him, three of the bullets penetrating
through his back, TO his chest and bowels and he
| fell forward dead.
| lie was born in Scotland in 1917, came to Nova
| Scotia in 1879 and in 1913 arrived in Maine,
where he stayed about year. In lS49 he went
to Alabama, settling in Mobile in 1855 or IS he
went.to kemPer county, Miss, and in 1857 he
| purchased some town lots in De kalb. At the
time OF his death he owned considerable property.
During the war he was q workman in the rebel
ordinance department. simply As an employee.
While working at Mobile he refused to perform
any kind OF military duty, claiming he was . Brit
| lsh subject and exempt. He applied to the Brit
| ish consul At Mobile, for protection, and informed
hum OF his enlistment in the sixty days troops of
Vi Mississippi. The consul, nov ever, refused to ex-
tend hlm protection, alleging that by English law
he had forfeited his right to the protection of the
BRITISH crown. In speaking of this action, Nc
Lellan always charged his judgment was biased
by reason of his sympathy with the Confederscy
Weather Indications for To-day.
For New England and the Middle States
lower pressure, southwesteriy winds, warmer
partly cloudy weather, and RAIN areas.