The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1878-05-15
A KG-KLUX TRIAL.
Hvo Bond Perverted Justice III Noras
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[Esfrast from The letter If cSsphin X. A.

Extract from the letter Of Captain X. Al.
PR 'at's.'. 9 Shotwell.l l.4i t''
On the 5tR or july 1 wasarresied with
out warrant. by gang of soldiers and scul-
lawags twho grossly insalted MY venerable
father 90 bis denianGing 10 see their capias}
was ibrowninto u filthy iron cage. sogeth-
er with murderers, three negro felons and
y citizen. packing eight adults into spaco
less t,aIivlgbt. iest square pi the hottest of
weather. d, the iorirost story IL u brick
Jail aud with only about Two gallops Of wa
Ter daily among oil. This treatment Of
me, he IL remembered. wus without war.
rant. witheht d preliminary examination.
without any threats. or unYulyness on my
pare. Aiter two months u torture (nos
to be even limited ut aerel was. on Ssb-
beth .fAuynirg. handcufcd 10 chain. Ia me-
gro Blacksmith bammering the iiyets until
Ithey cut through the skin of my wrisis)'
with SIX others. gentlemen Of character and
two Of them not even ku-kiuA. was drags
ged 10 Marion. ihi nst into aboiher cholera
breeding cage. (and Here U 5. Marshal
i'afrow corissseo TO ME that The cspiss for
Emy arrest bpd hUt yst eomc from Raleigh
carried 10 RaIsigh, packed. with iG. grown
men in, one 6ithy room in' Wake jail. under
circumstances Of understandable suffering.
Then followed the farce Of trial. JEFF
freys' Bold took the bench Ibis tools got
together jury eUns sting Of ten whi.es an6
two negroes, the city filled up deputy mar.
shaIs, pioDglel man hunters, periured
'pukes, asd all ,ke army Of Eoganites ami
Scogginities swarriiing ID eager hase 10
their masters dirty work nj furthcrsncc Of
the grand schetie Of sarrying the State for
Graut. while filling their own pockets at the
rate Of IS per day. Never has Raleigh
seen sscb horde before or since. '*~A ~:
Wien the trial was called my case was
'lumped' with tell others. only one If whom,
| had ever seen las far as ! can recollsct)
previous to my arrest. perjured Witnesses
appeared against me juggling 10 then poek..
cts the price Of manufactured lies. tine of
these eurs started Store On his III got goId,7
while another was kicked out of Rnleign
boarding house for bringing into it yeiled,
woman. proIessed.y BIS sister, who proved
to be mulatto' 0at Of ths mouths Of
such witnesses came allthe ,estim6ny which
made ne late Of tie Albany peni ientiary.'
AS for my defense. what could be done
when alI my friends had gone to pur.s uu-,
known? Even bad they returned. their
mouths would have been closed BY arrest
Ing them as Paraicep cJinlinis AS soonss
a witness was summoned the deputy n,ar-
shals' tapped him on the shoulder. You
can'ttesrify VIC arrest you sisoI, e~oa.4-
Realising this. my counsel THAT noble old
North Carolina Roman, Gov. Bragg. at
thei: head. decided to fight the jurisdic-
tion of the Court. the uuconstitutio..ality
Of the act. and the farce trial before par.
:izan Judge and packed Jury. II was uses
less. My conviction. if not that OF the 9th
crs. was Jecreed even before the day Of my
arrest. True, ] might have escaped ir
was no difficult matter to get ont Of Wake
Jail. Or. | might have Dribed the jury.
Capt. Plato Durham. after my return from
Albany, repeatedly mentimed 10 me that
.wo jurors were ready to hang the verdict
for $1,000 and when he and certain utLels
refused the messenger came hack with an
offer 10. do il f,r sl.0O0. ] do not care 10
give more "f the particulars. Sufire il.
the money vas not raised. the pre.ordsin-
ed verdict was east, iihe verdict which
Judge Scbsnek says was Just, and entire.
ly right aud proper.l and then the u. T..
Marshal. having tied my arms with ropes.
despite the protest Of his deputy, ta. r..
BOshcr. y who recognized that u wsss need.
less piece Of spiteful humiliation. drove ms'
down 10 the jail--sentenced for six years
at hard labor. aud 6nc uf 5000. Not
excessive : indeed.