New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-19
AY OUTRAGEOUS PERsECUrIoN.

A NEGRO RECEIVES THiRTY-NINE LAsHEs AND ~
THROWN INTO JAIL FOR fNTOPMiNG AGAINST
IIoUOR syLLER-sERioUs CHARGES AGAINST A
VIRGINIA JUsTICE--AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY
PETERSBURG, Va, Sept. lS.-lu an interview
with Colonel James ID. Brady, Collector OF Internal
Revenue Of the III District Of Virginia. the follow
ing facts have obtained in reference the Of
the United states against william H. Pond, of south
amp;ou County. whom Attorney General Devens has
instructed United States DlstrictAtoney Lewis to
prosecute upon the charge OF obstrucnS the course OK
jlstlce befoIe the United states Court.
Upon the complaint made before Commissions Gala
CHER on July 10 last by j. Z. Davis. coOred Pond
arrested charged with violation of the United states n-
ternal laws Upon the testimony Of Davis aud
hls wife Commssl0ner Gallagher sent Pond for ria TO
| the United States District Court Pond immediately
made complaint before Justice or thls el'y agalnse
DAVIS obtaining goods under false pretence which
case was ried OciOresJustce David H. KinOud anc was
dismissed Davis was thereupon rearIeStei upon
ior o, 4oIln"g 90 Ws ,eyTiek due Nov@mSer next on
hoe bepre TO 1 ivs Ts red before jus lee Knoad who
sentenced receive thrtynlne 'asbes, aud TO bo
conned jall months The ashes were administered,
a d he il at present confined IN iai AT southampton.
Deputy Collector Hyde. VINO investigated the case re,
uor that he is very confident that DLyi whipping and
| i1prlsonment were solely due his having
! ported Pond to the United States authortes tor
States States tbat when Justice Kinoud PRONOUNCED
the sentence upon yIs, the latter sali he would nx
Davis he would not report another man of sell
ing liquor. ID putty Collector j. W. iorey. VINO also ~,
| Iteu the reports tndt IdNls was
upop charge which Justice Kinoud knew c1ud not bo
sustained tact tnaV the same Ju tice some
months previously dew up the contract between Davis
aud Pond; DAVIS refused counsel before tho
Justice VINO tried HIM that an appeal was refused INN
TO the County Court; t1at DAVIS was carried through
| the county hound with rope around ms hsnds sna
passed again around body pnionng his arms; and
that the sentence OF confinement IS una wiul.
Justsce Kinoud, a statement hled WITH tne paper
denies the truth OF the charge made by DAVIS ana say
that he Davis guilty and sentenced him 20 oe
whipped and confined upon the testimony 81 eoioied
| man named Myrck tho charge or obtaining
| goods under false pretcDces. Colonel Brady Ior-
| warded all the papers TO the Treasury De-
| partmcnt at Washington on July 20, aud under
| date OF August 81 the Acting Commissioner
of Internal Revenue wrote him that 1t was suggested to
the Secretary of the Treasury that IN the opinion OF this
office the OF such grave and dangerous cbar-
acter effect upon tue administration of Justice IN
portion Of the court as To cal or tue cai atc-
| tinn and action Of the Department OF Justice.
| Davis reported September last inat he had been
twice shot ail, aud that they thrSafcnd 10 Ourn
| him. Judge Hughes OF the UnHed states District
Court Of the Eastern District of virginia, has Issued
writ OF habeas corpus al tsfdcaHdtm for DNis 10 ba
| re,easeu from jail and he wtll appear before United
states Commissioner Gallagher today to testify IN ME
| benilt.