Daily Republican., 1879-09-10
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DE- KALB, Miss, eept. 8 The taking
Of the evidence in the trial Of Henry J.
Gully for the murder Of Cornslia CHS
holm, on April 70, 1877, began at 8
o'clock this morning. Seventy witness.
~, 80 for the State and 80 for the de.
fence, we're sworn and put under the
rule and excluded from the Courtroom
Mrs. Chisholm, the first witness, tssti-
fed that an excited crowd Of men en-
tered De- Kslb on the evening Of April
2Sth, 1877; 1t was largely increased on
the following morning Sinclair, then
Sheriff, arrested her husband on the
morning Of the 10Th. .sU
He asked to bs placed under guard
at his own house, and sought an in
slant investigation Of the charges
against nim; armed men kept coming
around the house; the Sheriff, Sinclair,
oonvsrssd with them, and then talked
TO Chisholm Chisholm said to one crowd,
''You oowardly scoundrels, you will
kill me before evening, but before you
do 1t, will make some Of you bite the
DUST" Sinclair came to my husband at
about II o'clock and said, ''They say
you must 60 TO jail;" Mcclellan, myself,
NY sons, Clay, Jonnie and Willie and
daughter Cornslia, accompanied my
husband 70 Jail; We were clin ing to
him to shield his body; Mr.. Nose.
Icy and Mr.. Ovsrstreet went inside
| tn Jail with the party and the
door Of the lower floor Of the Jail
was locked behind them; the family
went up stairs and the door was locked
on the inside; was sent home BY my
husband on an errand ! heard firing
as Icams back toward the jail saw old
man Mcclellan fall, pierced by several
buckshot, behind the jail rushed in.
side the Jail and found the stairway full
Of men; Rosser was At the :op Of the
stairs and William Gully trying to
break the lock Of the upper door with
axes my daughter CorDelia, son John
and Mr.. Ovs,street, were holding the
door on the inside my daughters face
was bleeding Rosssr said to my daugh-
! ter, damn your soul I'll blow out
your brains II you don't get out Of the
way !" Rosser fred the first shot thro'
the broken lock which severed my sons
hand from the arm the door was here
opened, and my little boy fell, shot
through the heart; then some one
fred from the inside, and Rosser
fell d. ad; two men caught him by the
heels and dragged him down stairs; my
hus band was bswildsred At the death
of Johnnie; 1 and my son Clay carried
the dead 10y down stairs; Cornslia aud
father came down stairs; Henry J Gul-
ly came up and raised his gun; l closed
the grated door at the bottom Of the
stairway; my daughter clasped my hus'
band around the neck Gully fired
through the grating in the door my
daus hter screamed II am shot," Judge
CHR holm opened the door, and a. he
stepped out Harry Gully came ont of
an adjoining room with another gun
and fired again ut HIM and he fell; Clay
and assisted my husband in reaching
home; my daughter was bleeding
in the face; her eyes were blackened BY
q blow; she was shot In the
rist, in the ankle. and in the heel;
she was shot by Henry Gully; she died
on the 18th OF May; she died from the
Effects of her wounds; Mrs. Chisholm
prod ucrd Cornslia's bracelet, which
was broken and driven into her arm;
also i've buckshot taken out Of her bo
dy. Cross-rx rxamined Mrs. Chisholm
stated that she brggsd Rosser, ny the
God that made him, the mother who
bore him and the wife whom he loved,
70 be satisfied with tb. blood Of Gilm-r
and Mcclellan. He replied: "Jchn
Gully had wife, and he would shoot
any who stood between himself and
Chisholm"
The defence asked the question, "Did
she not know that Cornelia died from
the effects of an operation, &c.!" Wit
uess said she did not know. In rela
ting the scene connected with the death
of her son Johnnie, Mrs. Chisolm faint.
ed. When asked if Sheriff Sinclair was
not ov-rpowered by the mob, she said
ehe could not tell whether the Sheriff
commanded the mob or the mob COM
mand-d the Sheriff. DR.. Chamberlain,
who waited on Co,nelia Chisholm, tes-
titled that she died Of the effects Of the
wounds; that one of the bones of her
leg was injured and two Of the bones of
her arm were broken by bnckshot, and
that she was wouLded in the face by
some blunt instrument and that no
trea ment could have saved her life.
Charles Rosepbaum testified that he
came TO town with Gilmer, in custody
of Deputy Sheriff Britton, followed by
eight armed men saw many others in
town with guns as we walked towards
the Jail saw Virgil Gully shoot in the
back Gilmer hollered, "Oh, Lord, I
am killed." and ran down an alley,
where he vas followed and despatched
by the shot gun Of Virgil Gully.
Rosanbaum corroborates the state
ment of Mrs. Chisholm as to scenes in
the jail at an alarm of fire. Witness
ran out of the Jail and did not see the
shooting Of Chisholm and daughter.
Representatives of the press from
New York, Chicago, Vicksburg and
New Orleans are here. ]. 8. Morris ia
maj hing n mOst viporOns prOsocutiOn.