National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-14

reprimsuded for q i'd Niger" Truax
swears out warrant In Virginia for the same
offence. This warrant Is placed In tho hands
OF John III. Sartin, constable, who imme-
diately summons an armed posse, and before
light on Sunday morning, February Is, 1879,
surrounds Quander's house. Inow beg TO call
attention to the warrant. that those DESTROYS
may know how little the life and liberty of
Virginia's sons is respected by some Of the
people now holding power.
FAIRFAX CouSrY-to wit:
40 az or any ono Of The CoNsdbks Of TIC County 81
Whercds, John Truax. Of said county. has this day
made complaint and information on oath before
me- THOMAS j. Brown, a Justice OF the Peace Of
the said county, that Julia Quandor, Joseph Guam.
ger ana an unknown person on the lith day OF
February 1879, in the said county, did uulawfully
aud feloniously take steal aud carry away seven
or eight chickens, of the value Of two dollars aud
eighty cents, OF the goods and chatels OF him, the
said John TruaN.
These are therefore, in the name of the Com.
monwoalth, TO command you TO forthwith ap.
prehcnd and bring before me, or some other Jus
uce of the said county the bodies Of the said Julia
Quander, Joseph Quander aud the unknown per.
son, To answer said complaint, and to be further
dealt with according TO law.
1879.
(sEALl THOMAS P. BROWN up.
Endorsed. Executed February 16, 1879.
JOHN II. sARTIN, Constable.
After shooting Quanders house to pieces,
breaking the windows and DOORS and setting
FIRE TO II, shooting out the eye of Que of his
sons, and wounding five out of seven members
of the family present, and without reading the
warrant, Felix Quander, the subject of this let
ter, his sons, Felix aud Joseph his wife, Julia,
sem, aud daughter, Julia Quander, jr were
all arrested and CARED before Squire J. Owen
Kirby, who, sitting with Squire Brown, was
compelled TO dismiss the charge as not proven;
but lest the Quaudcrs should escape, they were
honnh ~, tbn criminal N
officer. This was the first charge brought
against any of the Quandcrs for larceny, theft,
or anything dishonest, roguish, or off-color, ard
this was not against Felix Quander, now desig-
mated tho negro thief" rough" &C., &c.
The next dash was warrant, by Mr.. Conner,
to find part of harness, and if found, TO ar
rest Felix Quander, sen., and Felix Quander,
jr. The officer who served this warrant, Issued
July %, 1879, by j. Owen Kirby, Esq, ar
rested old Felix and his wife aud took an old
harness that Felix has been using, rs he eau
prove, for nearly six years--at least three years
before his accuser came into his neighborhood
Squire Kirby heard the evidence for tho State,
refused to hear the evidence for the defense,
and, as he afterward explained to d. W. Glas.
sic, of Washington, there was no use hearing
the proof, as Connor aud his witnesses ident.
fed the harness refused an appeal guaranteed
by Virginia laws, aud ordered the prisoner to
be whipped out of hand.
This, and only this, is the negroes offending.
For this he is driven from his home, aud for
this the forces of Alexandria are invoked, aud
poor old man Quander is shot to pieces.
Quander remained In Washington until
Saturday night. His wife had come TO mar
ket, as usual, with truck and he thought 1t
would be proper and safe to return home with
her. But ]. Owen Kirby, the constable who
had assaulted him for refusing to let the OIL
Ger seize and sell his only horse
o,,h cnx, hnI LIT It'd, 81
sent to the penitentiary for resisting an
officer subsequently sat and heard a
charge against his wife for stealing chickens,
and falling to get evidence sufficient to con-
Wet her, bound the entire family to the crimi.
nal court for resisting an officer, whom there
was no warrant against them aud no necessity
to resist, and later heard II charge of stealing
harness--refnscd to hear evidence for the de-
Tense or grant an appeal from vile, malicious
decision rendered by himself.
Quander, 1t Is true, when he saw tho officers
coming, ran and attempted to escape, but was
shot down like dog and subsequently, when
about to fall, or WAS falling through loss of
blood, was knocked down by blow on the head.
Quander has taken 10 mans property has
never assaulted any one has never raised his
hand or voice against any one except in self.
defense. and then more in the nature of an es-
cape than an assault
Some of the better citizens of Alexandria as
sured me to-day that he WAS II good quiet citi-
zen, much abused, and that they would defend
him with their word and some means. The
better class of citizens are not, as / learn, in
sympathy with these outrages upon this old
man, but the old story isagain repeated" The
good work single-handed, while the vicious
and wicked conspire together and overcome
them" Quander is still in the Jail under the
kind-hearted, humane jailor. b. r. Cline, who
treats the old man more like wounded brother
than vicious man, and the treatment of an
eminent surgeon whose name has escaped me.
Squire Kirby came to the Jail to-day, not
withstanding that Quander is severely
wounded aud battered, aud demanded his per-
son that he might be whipped the thirty mine
lashes we'll laid on :" but the surgeon refused
to let him be removed.
d. w. CLASSIC,
Now Attorney for Quauder,