The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-11

about here, before the revenue laws were
passed, and I worked it for him. We
were very poor, and he could do very
little. worked on the farm all day, ano
at the still at night to make living fol
u.s.. I have often worked all day plough
ing and then run the still all night until
breakfast. 1 would be so tired next day
that I have gone to sleep in the corn-row
between the plough handles, and would
wake up only when my horse stopped al
the end of the furrow This kind of life
was too hard for me and soon broke me
down, so that I got to working one night
at the still and sleeping the next. ]
worked in the farm every day at the same
time. They 1.-THE revenue officers pressed
1 me so close after a while that I quit dis
tilling and went to hauling whiskey and
selling it in North Carolina. They found
out that was doing this, and a warrant
was issued for my arrest.
| THE FIRST TROUBLE
/ had with the revenue officers was all on
my side, as they captured and destroyed
for me one hundred and twenty-three
gallons of whiskey. Ihad paid one dol
lar per bushel for the corn that made it,
besides eighteen dollars a month to the
man who ran the still. The officers cut
up and emptied three barrels of the
| whiskey, and kept two barrels for their
own drinking. They kept these two bar
rels hid in the woods, and would come
back and get it by the jug full whenever
their supply gave out. Among. those
who got some of it we're Cle@ Cism
(Chisolm p and fellow named Hamp-
den. Several people have told me that
lithey drank some of my whiskey that was
lcaptured at that time Old man
told me, the other day, that when they
came for the last Of; it they arrested him N
and took him of, and all the officers
stopped on the side of the road and filed
their jugs with the whiskey which, they
told him, was Redmond's. They carried
of twenty-three gallons at this load.
FATHER AND MOTHER KILLED.
The next morning, it was Sunday, the
officers rushed into my house and presen-
ted their guns at my father and captured
him. He was seventy-eight years of age,
and my mother, who was confined to her
bed with palsy, was nearly as Old
Father begged them not to alarm her
she was badly frightened-and he would
surrender. They asked for me, but was
at the spring when they came up and saw
them, and so escaped. Father told them
/ was not far. off. but I kept ont of the
way, and they took him to the church
near by. They captured several other
men in the church, and the preacher
stopped in the midst of his sermon and
sat down. My father and several others
gave bail-the rest they took, away with
them, My mother was badly frightened
by. it all, and died few days afterwards.
My father had to goIto Asheyille. The
journey and exposure made him i'll, and
lie, too, died a few weeks later. f.,
r -g.ni. AFTER THE FUNERAL. a;r..
Both of them died before could get
back to them. I was then keeping out
of the way, as. the revenue officers were
watching for me every time went to see
either Of them. Ibid not see my mother
buried, but when my father died too, and
my sisters were left alone in the house, I
determined to 60 home and attend his
funeral and see after them at any risk.
On the road from the house to the grave,
when we were following his body to burial,
we met a revenue officer. He looked at
me very hard but he was alone, and see
ing that had some of my friends with
me, he passed on, and arrested several of
the neighbors who had dug the grave and
were resting on the roadside. -
After the funeral I still kept out of the
way and as my sisters were alone and
helpless, i had to dodge in and out and
try to take care of them as best I could.
This was the beginning of my troubles" !"
/ The foregoing story was told as quietly
| as though none of the circumstances mar
rated were matters of any special wonder
in a mountainous revenue district, and
my two companions seemed to listen to
| it in like spirit as to a thrice told tale. /
have no comments to make, and have re-
Trained from even the feeble emphasispf
italics. After an interval spent in con-
versation on different subjects, I led Red
mond back to the matter in hand by ask
ing what was his next "trouble." He
replied that it was :.
THE KILLING OF DUoKwoRTH,
and concerning this we'll known affair he
gave the following account:
"When Deputy Marshal Lee was dis
charged from the revenue service he had
in his possession a warrant against me,
which he turned over to Frank Case.
This warrant Alfred Duckworth, who
had been recently appointed on the reve-
nue. force, tried to get from Case, who
refused to let him have it. Duckworth
then swore he would take me, warrant
or no warrant, or would kill me in the
attempt He had taken one highfyer,
he said, tand, by God, he intended to take
another Duckworth had been almost
raised with me from childhood, and we
knew each other we'll He! was very big
oted, and was always Dragging and doing
rash things. He rode one day by his
own grandfather's house, where there
was picture of Gen. Washington hang.
ing against. the wall of room, and be
shot several balls into itthrough the open
door or window from where heSsat on bis
horse. The holes may be seen in the
picture and wall now. People told me
what he had threatened against me, but
I only said, surely he has better sense
than to try to take me without warrant.
T said I would meet 'Alf,' as 1 always
called him, and try to laugh him out Of
it. He will give me the same chance he
gives other people. A few days later
had to haul wagon load of corn and
went over to get it. The driver was sit
ting by me and on the road we saw 6
crowd coming. I said There comes the
revenue officers now.' The driver asked
What will they do?' said, Nothing
they have no warrant for me- j knew
that Case had it. They came up to vi
and stopped and we talked together abou
one hour and half.
DUCKwoRrH sULKY.
| I asked Duckworth about old times