Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-10-29

they would just let him go to Taze-
well he would have a few moments
conversation with Mrs. Rogers, and
then, if she did not co-robOrate all he
had said and acknowledge that all the
blame was on her shoulders, they
might kill him. but they told him
| there was no mercy for him. Jack
son then appealed to VIM. A. Cay
wood, and asked him, il heavens
name, to remember the gratuitous SER
vices he (Jackson) had rendered him.
and to interpose for his life. Bill Cay
wood replied, ED, your fate is sealed
, and | can't save you"
HORRIBLE DEATH.
The negro was taken about two hun
dred yards from the road and Mr..
Peace could not see them plainly, or
bear them distinctly, but he could
hear the agOniZed cries of the doomed
negro and see the light of the fires that
were soon built. Here another tor
ture borrowed from the ingenuity of
the Obrigines was inflicted upon Jack
son. His hands were placed in the
fire and burned until several of his
fingers were destroyed. The muscles
of his arms aud the calves of his legs
WIZ SCNCiSt, duu IluS LOT InT66 IOuR
hours be was tortured in ways which
were vastly more barbarous than the
modes of the Sioux Indians of Ameri- |
ca and the cannibals of the Pacific Is
lands. Thus is the story told. Att
length, when the ingenuity, and |
heaItIessnees and solid malice of the |
CayWoods could suggest no additional |
torture, jackson was suspended by the |
IN a no al Ii oil
as II swung back to It's place five bullets |
were lodged in the face, head and bO- |
dy of the unfortunate victim. As soon |
as their terrible work was done the |
four parties cut JacksOn's body down,
laid ii on the ground, and, placing
his hat over his face, left it, and at |
once started for IazewelI, arriving
here the next day, and reported that |
they were bringing Jackson along, |
and when on Pine mountain the night |
before, he broke from them, ran and |
escaped in the gloom and darkness of
the night.
On Friday, the thirtieth of August,
a party of road workers found Jack
sons body lying where the murder
was perpetrated, and promptly notified
the coroner of Whitley county. The
coroner summoned a jury, held an
inquest which lasted about fifteen
and returned the following
verdict: IAN unknown colOred man
burned, hanged and shot by party or
parties unknown" Then this jury
and the coroner ordered the burial of
the body, made out their accounts for
services said to have been rendered
and adjourned, when, if they had
been as anxious to get at the facts as
they were to certify to their accounts
for their services, they would have
con .inued their session at least as ma
ny hours as they did minutes, and
thereby have ascertained most of the
facts related above, when they could
have rendered verdict that would
have had some salutary effect. What
could nation do without cOrOnsr's
juries?
DISCOVERY OF JACKSON'S REMAINS.
On the morning of the first of Sep
tember Squire King, coming into
town to attend the Circuit Court,
brought the first intelligence of Jack
sons death. William Jackson, father
Of the murdered man, John Hipshur.
William Kelly, William Newly, and
a number of other men, white and
black, Immediately started to Pine
in search of the body, which
they found buried in rough pine box
by the side of the hickory to which
Jackson was hanged. On the arrival
in town of the party with the remains,
they went to the court house, which is
ust opposite Rogers residence, and
stopped the wagon at the gate of the
Immediately large con-
course of people. principally negroes,
the wagon. The mourn
ful wailings of JacksOn's wife, mingled
with the indignant cries of the crowd
Of negroes, made deafening hubbub.
lessee Rogers and William CaywOOd,
who were in the courthouse at the
line, looked Oh with apparent indiffer-
ence and Mrs. Rogers, at an upper
window of her house, arrayed in gOr-
yeOus attire, also viewed the exciting
scene with as much GOODNESS as though
such thing were an everyday occur
renee.
JUSTICE DEFIED.
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