The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-07-15
one, Cora on the other. They were not

those two men formed the awful central
figures were being completed. As the
hearse crossed SAMSON street, standing
on the boards at the windows, their
heads in the moose, they could plainly
see' the sonber vehicle as it drew its
dread length along. As it crossed the
street and receded from their sight the
boards fell from beneath their feet.
The vigilantes continued the work
thus begun, arresting, trying and fixing
the punishment OF the criminals brought
before their tribunal.
Among the arrests made by the com.
mittee was the noted pugilist, Yankee
Sullivan" He was arrested and tried
for ballot-box stuffing, crime in which
he had been 30 notorious that he feared
the committee would hang him. He
was confined in a cell after trial, and
would probably have got no heavier
sentence than banishment, but be got
scared, and at night, in his cell, COM
mitted suicide. Some one had given
him bottle of ale or porter. He broke
the bottle, and with the sharp glass cut
the veins in his left arm and bled to
death. He was found stiff and cold,
dead in his cell, the next morning.
Only two other men were hanged by
the committee. One of them was not
man in years, though monster in hu.
man form. His name was Brace. He
was hack-driver, and only nineteen
years of age. He had been tried for
murder on more than one occasion in
the courts, but escaped without diff
Guilty. When tried by the committee
no less than fourteen murders were
found to have been committed by him.
He would get a person into his hack,
drive out upon the sand. and putting a
revolver to the head of the helpless pas
senger blow his brains out. Then he
would rob him.
Hetherington was a wealthy des-
perado. He had also been tried for mur-
der, but escaped from punishment
through the use OF money. In July the
bell on the committee rooms rang out
three times. Hetherington had gone in
to the Metropolitan hotel, and had there
met DR.. Randall. Randall was standing
near a cigar-case as Hetherington ap-
preached him, taking a note from his
pocket, which he held before the former,
asking him if he would pay that now.
Randall said he couldn't pay it then,
but would fix it soon. "Take that,
then," said Hetherington, firing two
shots. In an instant several vigilantes |
- they were everywhere - gathered |
around him and took him away to the |
rooms. The cause of the ringing of the
bell was that a report had been received |
that the Flaw and order" party in |
Tended a rescue.
Brace and Hetherington were not |
hanged from the windows of the rooms
as Casey and Cora had been, but from a !
scsffold erected halfa square away in the
streets.
The little notices sent out to the evil
doers by "33" read very plain. There
was no style about them, but as a gen.
eral thing, when spotted" individual
got one of these notices he disappeared
as soon as possible, and the places that
had known him knew him no more for
ever. 1t simply said: "You are or
dered by the committee to leave in
stantiy, or in twenty-four or thirty-six
hours" as the case might be, and it was
signed "33, secretary"
The case of Judge Terry, as near as
can now call it to mind, was this: A
man named Hopkins had an order from
"33" for the arrest of some offender,
and went into business house to ar
rest his man. Judge Terry, United
States judge, interfered with the arrest
n some way; there was a scuffle, and
the Judge with knife stabbed Hopkins
in the neck. Terry was instantly ar
rested and hurried to the rooms of the
committee. Hopkins, badly wounded,
was taken with the most considerate
tenderness to an engine-house near by
Here everything was speedily fitted up
for his reception. The surroundings
were made luxurious; Indies came and
nursed him; the best medical aid to be
had walled upon him; ropes were
stretched about the building along the
streets to keep vehicles and foot pas
sengers at a distance; sawdust was
soread upon the streets to deaden sound.
The lie of United States judge hung
upon very frail tenure for days and
weeks. Had Hopkins died Terry would
undoubtedly have been hanged, and
David derrick would not afterward
nav died Mt Terry's hands.
The law and order party applied to
the commander of United States vee-
sci in the bay for assistance, saying that
the United States judge was in the hands
of rioters. The commander sent
word to the committee to deliver Judge
Terry on his vessel by three o'clock in
the afternoon of that day, or he would
open fire on the committee building.
The guns of the vessel were turned
to the rooms, and it looked
as If we were actually going to come in
conflict with the United States author
tiles. The guns of the vigilantes were
then trained on the vessel, and we sent
back the defiance that in case the vessel {
opened fire we would blow her out OF '
the bay. The committee had, however,
in the meantime, sent word to Commo-
dore Stockton, think, at Mare island,
and he recognizing the gravity Of the
ordered the vessel to leave for
The Sandwich islands, and at 3 p. M, '
instead of Judge Terry being delivered
10 that ship, she had her nose turned to
.he placid waters of Honolulu. Terry s