The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-08-28
ENDING A VENDETTA,
The Alleged Principals i'm the
Chisholm Massacre SnOftIy.
to be Tried for Murder.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
United States District Attorney
Stewart L. Woodford will leave this
city for De Kalb, the county seat of
Kemper, in Mississippi, on Monday
next, to conduct the prosecution of
the trial of the alleged principals in
the vendetta which excited Kemper
in 1877, and in which Judge CHS
holm, his son and his daughter Corne-
liza, aged eighteen years, were killed
by a political mob, who broke into the
Jail at that place. The affair created
an intense sensation at the time,
which extended all over the country,
and the feelings aroused by it have
not yet been allayed in the South. A
Herald reporter was yesterday in-
formed by Gen. Woodford that he
would meet Mrs. w. w. Chisholm,
the widow of the murdered man, at
Harrisburg, Pa, and that she would
accompany him to Mississippi to at
tend the trial. The proceedings will
take place at the opening of the court
in September. Further than this, he
said, he did not think it would be
proper for HIM to say anything on the
subject at the present time. Briefly
stated, the facts of this remarkable
case, which is uow part of the polit-
ical history of the South, are as fol-
lows:
On Thursday evening, April %,
1877, John w. Gully, prominent
citizen of Kemper county, Miss, was
assassinated by an unknown hand.
The murder created intense excite
ment and every means was resorted to
for the discovery of the perpetrator.
Two colored men made affidavit that
BENJAMIN Rashe, a white man, was
the guilty person, and that Judge
Chisholm, who ran for congress on the
Republican ticket in the Third Mis-
sissippi) district at the previous elec-
ton, his son and three men named
Gilmer, Rosenbaum and Hoffer, all
white Republicans, knew of and insti-
gated the crime. Judge Chisholm
and his son were arrested and impris-
oned at DeKalb, and Mrs. Chisholm
and her daughter insisted on sharing
their confinement. On the following
Sunday Judge Chisholm sent to Scoo'
ba for Gilmer, for whom a warrant
had been issued. On his arrival Gil
mer was arrested, and as he reached
the Jail he was set upon by mob and
killed. The jailor was then attacked
by the same mob and overpowered.
The mob Immediately fell upon Judge
Chisholm, mortally wounding him
and killing his son. Miss Chisholm,
in defending her father, shot and
killed DIR. KAISER, and Mrs. Chisholm
severely wounded young Gully, son
of Mr.. Gully, who was assassinated.
Miss Chisholm was also wounded and
subsequently died from her injuries.
Several years previous to this terrible
occurrence in DeKalh, Benjamin
Rashe, a native white Republican,
fired at John. w. Gully, who was
Democrat, missing him, but killing
his brother, Samuel Gully. John
thereupon fired, desperately wounding
Rashe, who finally recovered, This
was the beginning of the feud which
led to such dreadful consequencessand
which has since caused so much ex-
citement between Democrat and Re-
publican politicians in the South: A
trial of some of those alleged to have
been engaged in the murder took
place in the Federal courts al Jackson,
Miss, in February, 1878. Itresulted
in their release.