Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-10-04
ROGERSvILLE LETTER.
Who Is He Suspicious Character Arrest
ed---Other News Itemes,

RoaERsvILLz, TENN, Oct 2, '82.
MR. EDITOR Circuit Court has been 60
ing on at this place for the past week, and
is still in session. Jess Miner, who was the
leading spirit connected with the incen-
diaryism which created such excitement
several years ago, was found guilty of
tapping" Messrs. Cope & Bros. cash
drawer, and sentenced to the ''pen." for one
year. The grand jury made out a true bill
against 81. K. Sans, white, far the shooting
and killing of Andrew johnson, colored,
of this place, on the night of the last cleo
ton. Upon failure to give bond, the amount
required being $4,000, Sans was commit
ted to jail
After summoning perhaps between $50
and zO0 men, jury was at length COM
pleted, and the case of James King,
charged with rape, taken up on Satur-
day morning last. James and his brother
John have both been in Jail for
several weeks with different charges enough
against both of them to make success
full lifetime convicts. They are the "Jes-
see" and Frank" of the late gang of ''bold
bad outlaws" who have been committing
their degredations in the neighborhood of
l OSoAd, t4l5 OOOA1yy ouuoT luo udu0 VI TIE
James Regulators" They are charged
with numerous crimes, among the list, rape,
highway robbery, catching peaceabIe citi-
zens on the highway and beating them I'M
mercifully, shooting at different parties dis
turbing public worship, d O., IL c, Since
the Kings have been caught. we have heard
nothing of the rest of the gang, to which it
is said, there was five or six belonged.
WHO Is HE, AND WHAT'S HE UP To?
On Saturday evening last very suspic-
ions looking character put in an appearance
on our streets, his first enquiries being as to
where he could get good cheap lodging for
while, where he could buy good pistol;
then as to the business men and houses of
the place, d C. He wore rather ragged
clothes, Is perhaps feet, or 8 inches
high has rather light hair, wears
moustache and chin whiskers, and carried
his left hand in swing. It was thought
by some that he might possibly be John
Taylor, the prisoner released by his broth
ers en- the E. T., V. d G. R. r., short
time since. Notwithstanding this suspicion,
but taking into consideration his general
makeup" and his suspicious enquiries,
&C., Tailor Robert Cook and Capt G. G.
Spears concluded 10 nab" the gentleman"
and interview him, if nothing more. They
dkLOotCo nlll. Will ultl6 OE uO lIOuDl0, not
allowing him chance to offer any resist
| ance. Upon his person they found No.
81 Smith u Wesson pistol and a No %
seven shot revolver. Upon examining his
hand number of small sores, Just in
state of healing up were found upon the
back of 1t, looking as if the skin had been
torn off by some means; or perhaps a
charge from shot gun, after some time,
| might present the same appearance. His
case was at once reported to the grand jury,
and an Indictment made against him for
| carrying pistols, and he was Immediately
lodged In Jail. He refuses to give his name
| or whereabouts, and the only papers about
him were two or three which he has headed
way bills" which seem to give
distances from one point to
another through the mountains
of Kentucky. He has rather ''devil-may-
dare" expression about his face, and is what
one would term rather shrewd for one of
bis class. The mail carrier between here
and Jonesville, Va, says he passed him ON
the road sometime during Saturday, and he
was then in company with another man,
who was carrying valise, which the un-
known specimen" brought into town with
him, in which was found simply an old
dilapidated, weather-beate coat. From his
movements, he is doubtless guilty of some
serious crime, and while in the hands of
the law should be extensively advertised,
and turned over to parties who may need
him. He had several dollars in gold and
silver in his pocket, and $25 in gold sewed
up in pocket in his drawers, and begged
the parties who arrested him to not say
anything about his gold.
POLITICAL.
Politics seem to have become rather stale
with our people, and but little excitement
is adrift among them. In our Congressional
. race it is generally conceded that
Maj. Pettibone will be reelected
and that the star of the Mountain Boy"
has gone down to rise no more We are
pleased to learn from different sources of
the onward and successful moves made by
Captain Rule in his canvass against Old
man. afraid-of his-record Houk From all
| we can learn-and we feel so closely inter-