Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-12-12
REDDY. THE ROAD-AGENT-
The Former Terror OF the FRIacn- ET.,,.
Finally En- Route to the C5anov-s
Chicago Inter-ocean

SeseeIudS WAS MI oetn bullock, Sheriff
of Lawrence County, Dakota, head-quar-
ters at Deadwood, the livlfest town be-
tween the Missouri and breakfast. The
object of his visit East is quite important
and interesting. He is after one of the
gentlemen road-agents, the Colts revolv-
er fellows that made the Sidney, Neb.,
route to the Black Hills terror to peace
full travellers year ago. The road was a
bowling wilderness for a while when
ssReddy.' alias Bob McKimmie, "work-
ed'' the stages along the line. But he
came to the end of his tether, and proba-
blv will come to the end of the tether Of
Lawrence County's Sheriff before the
winters SHOWS disappear.
'EReddy'' has turned up in Ohio once
more, and in day or two will be in the
custody of Sheriff Bullock, who has come
through from Deadwood to wait on the
pleasure of the slayer of Johnnie Slaugh-
ter, a young man whom McKimmie ruth
lessly murdered. This occurred about a
year ago. E'Reddy'' left the country after
the homicide, as the weather there was
made altogether to sultry for the health
of that individual. He skipped. The
Sheriff didn't give up-the search, howev-
er. Rewards to the amount of about 50 800
were offered for ''Reddy's'' apprehension,
but he seemed to be diving on creased
lightning, for he skipped out and wan
dered all the way from the Black Hills
until he got down into his old haunts in
Ohio. He went back to the same place
where, when he was sixteen years. of age,
he suddenly disappeared from, and turn
| ed up as private in the army. Then he
can bloody road for awhile down in the
Southwest, deserting the army, killing
his man, becoming a Utah brigand, and
ended by having fifteen years. sentence
pronounced upon him in the Mormon
Garden of Eden. But they couldn't hold
him there, and he squeezed out and was
once more on the war-path. A coupIe-of
years ago he was with the gang of cut
throats that terrorized the Black Hills for
awhile. His career of crime was again
marked with murder when he killed the
son of Mr.. Slaughter, a well-known citi-
zen of CHEYENNE. After this he left the
road and was not captured until last
spring, when Sheriff Bullock trailed him
to his old haunts, in Highland County,
Ohio. 'Reddy'' had married a respecta-
bic young woman there, and was quite
reconstructed road agent. OF course the
community sympathized with him, and,
naturally enough, looked upon Bullock
as the only rOad-agent that had ever in
vaded his quiet community. The requi-
sitiOn for ''Reddy'' from the Governor of
Dakota was all right, but the case, after
being fiji st decided by a local Conrt, was
| Eo 81, n ioI
ioned a delay of over forty days. ''Reddy"
was jailed, and was getting fat, when he
was supplied with arms and fXings by
those who aided him on the outside. He
broke Jail one night, and, in escaping,
shot one of his keepers. The road agent
was himself again. But the old desire to
get back to the scene of some of his ex-
ploits brought him to Highland County,
and was once more taken. Sheriff Bull
lock left last evening for Ohio, and will
: in ten days be on his way to Black Hills
with ''Reddy," the scourge of the road.
Sheriff Bullock is the same official who
captured the notorious ''Laughing Sam"
one of the worst characters that infested
the hills country; also Dan Blackburn,
and whole column of raseals who, a
year ago, were the pirates of the plains,
and whose taking-off would be lucky
stroke for any country they might hap
pen in on.
A Southern Editors FOrebOd tnRs.
A writer in the Columbia Is. c. Regis
ter says of Wade Hampton-who is F'cast
in the mold that gave to the world
q Washington and a Lee,'' and who 'tsits
: panoplied in his own virtue" !" where the
E'shafts of malice can not harm him, nor
: the fiatterer's adulation spoil him''-that
1 ''South Carolina dare not lose his invalu-
e able services until the great battle of 1880
is fought aud wOn." The writer, there
fore, opposes Governor Hampton's candi-
dacy for the United States Senate. The
& article continues:
If the Republican party elects Ulysses S.
Grant President in 1880, the whole coun-
try will be again convulsed by a war, the
terrors and the magnitude of which will
} far exceed the most fearful examples OF
i past history. The South, measurably re-
p" covered from her losses, having undisput-
ed sway over her entire territory, would
be united as one man to resist the inso-
lent military tyranny which Grant would
at once attempt to establish. But having
:, within her own borders a large negro
III population, ruined by the teachings OF
es the Radicals who so long ruled them, and
Is encouraged by the indictments and in
10 ducements which Northern emissarie
= would offer their ignorance, the Soutl
IL would be compelled either to remov'
:, them from the land or to exterminatt
III them. Deportation would be impossible
II because the power of tine Federal Govern
III ment would be used to prevent it. Th'
y navy would establish an embargo upoI
OI the export of negroes, and the South
. without maritime power and perhap
without maritime allies, would be unabl
I'll to remove the negroes to another countr.
f. against their own desire. The negroe
slr would not willingly leave the South, t
III which they are naturally attached, e
Is pecially as the North would probabl
ru offer them inducements to remain whic
ne the boldest pen would hesitate to utter
IS Total determination of the negro woul
thus become a necessity. This could nc
''- be done without danger to the white
Even a worm will turn when tread upol
:, The natural ferocity of the negro nature
- long subdued by slavery, at first social an
y afterward political, would exhibit 1tse
=. in the burning homesteads of the Will
man, and in other horrors too fearful
10y contemplate The work would be sho
and the end certain; but before it cou
be accomplished untold miseries woul
accompany the bloody crusade. These a
en- the dangers which overhang the COUNT