The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-10
HOW TO GET UP A LIE.
A Deputy U. 8. Marshal's Report ON
Ouachita.

the Senate upon the re-assembling of
that body. 1t will be seen that Shear
man speaks of men and transactions in
this parish as If he had been here.
Perhaps he has, but we are constrained
to say we did not see the man, or learn
that a man of such fertility Of imagina-
ton was within our borders. Elimi-
mated of its falsehoods, his report could
be reduced to twenty lines. He was, ac-
cording to his own statement, a skulker
and sneak, and Of course could find
to .particularize his misstatements, or
to refute the charges of this hired spy,
but simply to reproduce his paper for
the qualification of number of people
who are curious to see what the man
Shearmau's report really is-and hear
it is, as made to Marshal Wharton:
iSir-In obedience to your instruc-
tions, I left the city of New Orleans,
La, on October %, 1873, arriving at
fifth instant; called on Mr.. Dinkgrave
in reference to the business in hand.
He told me could accomplish nothing
as the whole northern portion of the
State had been terrorized to such an
extent for months before the election
(by the bulldozing element of the
White League partly and is proven by
the recent murder of Daniel Hill and
Herman Bell, two colored mechanics
of Monroe, who were murdered in o.
tober because they were Republicans,
as well as numberless others who have
laid their lives down for their princi- |
pies. Notwithstanding Mr.. Dinkgrave's
admonition, arrived in the city of
Monroe on the third of November, and
went to the Ouachita Hotel, kept by
Mr.. Julius Ennemoser, telling him
had letter for Judge Ludeling,
which 1 wished to deliver. He told me
If was in any manner connected with
politics he would prefer that would
not stay ut his house, but that the son
of tho judge would be at the house
some time during the day and he
would inform him that wished to
the judges son, and with him called
upon Judge Ludeling. After making
detour of considerable extent, to
avoid observation, we at length reached
the home Of the Chief Justice of Louisi-
ana, and there l found the Judge,
guarded by a few friends, brought to.
gether by the common danger which
menaced them, afraid to venture abroad
for fear of being assassinated. After
having read my letter, Judge Ludeling
informed me, as I was subject to his
orders, he ordered me to leave Monroe,
Ouachita parish, instanter, as could
accomplish nothing in the presence of
an organized body of the White League,
that every stranger who arrived was
watched, and that if my presence there
was suspected Gas it doubtless was) it
would only add to the embarrassment
of their situation, which I soon found
was true, for upon returning to the no.
tel and retiring about II p. M, q friend
who had been out visiting some friends
called at my rooms and asked me
where had been. Not wishing to in
form any one of the purpose of my
visit, replied that I had only strolled
out for short walk. He replied that
there must be some mistake, as some
gentlemen who called at the residence
where he was visiting stated that a
stranger answering to my description
was seen going and returning from
Judge Ludeling's residence, and told
me to be on my guard while In Mon
roe. was followed, whenever I ven-
tured out, by two men one of them 1
found out to oe named Buck Goodman,
of Richland parish.
The leading spirits in the organized
opposition to constitutional law are
Capts. Theobalds and Mcleod, to-
gether with Phillips, Judge Slack Jessie
Warmack and McEnery, brother to
Gov. McEnery. Those men are the
moving spirits of the organized oppo-
sitlon to constitutional law. 1t is these
men who caused the killing, as have
been informed, of Daniel Hill, who,
being shot in October, called in physi-
clan, who, upon extracting sixteen
buck-shot from his body, told him, rs
Others, that he would live, went to his
mousse at night and killed him in bed,
wounded as he was, and then took his
partner in business, Herman Bell, and
Killed him. 1t was they who caused,
as am informed, the four men incar.
cerated in the Jail to be taken theretrom
ana hanged. was informed by per-.
son (whose name I can give if necessa.
ry) who was acquainted with two of
the victims, Beatty and Brown, aud
saw them the morning of the hanging,
after death, that oakum chloroformed
was stuck into their mouths, and a wit.
ness can be produced who will testify
to knowledge of some of the persons