The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-09-08
sEsTIA1 OUTRAGE IN WAYNE.
Five Scoundrels overpower a Camp
Of Immigrants and Ravish
Their Wives.

Their Wives.
Clifton Citizen ofThursday.
Thursday of last week, party o
twelve persons, claiming to hal
from the neighborhood of Pulaski
in Giles county, passed through
our town, en- route for Arkansas o
Texas. They had all their plunde
on a truck wagon, which was draw
by two men and two boys. Thi
human team had collars and har
ness made to tit their neeks anC
shoulders, and the wagon was rig
ged out with all the modern i'm
'provements-double trees, single
trees, neck yokes, etc. The party
reached our town Thursday morn
ing, and remained over that night
camping out in the suburbs of town
and begging cold victuals from the
citizens to live on. Al about IL
O'clock the men belonging to the
party walked up the bank to
Roach's Landing, and there finding
Roach's ferry boat, united the same
and put down the river, landing al
the mouth OF Ross creek, where the
whole party was IN waiting tc
board the boat. They were just in
the act of pushing of, when q par
ty of boys who had been watching
their maneuvers came up and ar
rested them. Then a general howl
ing was set up among the women
and children, each woman claiming
that her husband was not to blame,
that he was pursuade ed into the
theft by the others. The men
owned up that they stole the boat.
but that it was the first theft they
ever committed, that they were
driven to it on account of want,
that they had been forced to leave
their native country and seek some
other country where they could
get work to dc. aid where proVis-
ions were not so high that they
were worn out pulling their wagon,
plunder and children. With this
assurance upon their part they
we're released and permitted to go
on theig Fay-nQE rejoicing, but
suffering.
Since the above was in type, we
have learned that the darkest part
of this history is yet to be made
known. 1t appears that the party
Of men arresting the moyere, had
been following them up, seeking to
get the men separated from the
women, in order that they might
test the chastity of the women.
This opportunity offered itself when
the men left and went up the river
in search of the boat. The women
persisted that they were chaste
though poor, and repeatedly refused
the money offered them, but when
the men returned with the boat,
they were arrested, and PROPOSE
tions were made to them, if they
would turn over their wives for
the night, that they would release
them. The proposition was repeat
edly declined, but after awhile the
men consented and the women were
taken off and outraged by four or
five different men, and when these
hellish crimes had been ACCOM-
plished, the movers were permit
ted to go on their way. The above
are the facts before US as we write
early Monday morning, and Esq.
w. p. Haggard has been dispatched
for. to come in and issue warrants
for the arrest of the rapists, and
parties have been dispatched after
the movers to bring them back and
make witnesses of them for the
prosecution. The good people of
the town ara at fever heat and if
the evidence substantiates the
above account the guilty parties
will suffer all the penalties of the
law, for this darkest of crimes.
LATER.
r. Miller has just returned with
the two women and one man. The
woman VINO swore out the warrant
is by the name of Margaret Murry
The evidence was as follows: That
FIVE men whom she described, so
that it ia known that Jackson Mid
dleton, Perk Middleton, 10 Woody.
Elias Sutton and Tobias Pawley,
are the guilty parties) came to
where they were camped and made
improper demands of them, that
they refused them, and the money
they offered; that when their
husbands returned they arrested
them and promised their husbands
to turn them loose il they would de
liver up their wives-this the men
refused to do,saying they had rath-
er die. Phe mob then took oat
their pistols and threatened to blow
their husbands brains out if they
did not submit. Finally the wo-
men yielded to the hellish designs
of the brutal mob and their persons
were repeatedly violated. The war
rants were issued as above stated
and PLACED in the hands OF Sheriff
McGlsmery, but up to this time,
Monday evening, the guilty parties
have not been tound-they all hav
ing gotten wind of what was up and
''sloped."
TUESDAY MORNING.
Sheriff McGlamery and large
posse OF men secured the goods
and surrounding country yester-
day aud last night, but with no sue
cess. The citizens of this town
and vicinity have offered q good re-
ward for the capture and convic
tion Of the parties. This reward
will be published, together with
description of the men, and cent TO
all parts of the country in few
days Parties wishing to subscribe
to the reward can do so with either
sheriff McGlamery. X. Miller, Town