Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-09
The ChOctaw Outrage against
Humanity.

turo OF OF Other lea0lng cOiOre0 cltl-
zens at Butler, Choctaw county. On
the contrary as the facts slowly arr
revesled the whole affair assumes
more and more the dark, forbiding
and wicked aspect Of q vindictive po
litical plot, planned with attempted
cunning by several leading Democrat
ic politicians and defeated candidates
in the late election. They inaamed
the passions and prejudices Of suffi
Gent number Of the white people by
thus basely exciting their fears and
thus executed this disbolicsl plot and
foul murder which has disgraced
the State in the eyes of the world.
For further information to, our
readers on this remarkable occurrence
we make the following extracts from
N exhaustive aud truthful review oi
the affair in the Mobile Gazette of the
SD.
We continue this article with the state
nent made to the editor of the Gazette by
Noses Turner, of Choctaw county, now in
Mobile, referred to in the papers purport.
ing TO have been found, as Captain Moses
Turner" He says:
On the morning of the 18th, there came
20 his house, Bill Curtis, Sid Prince and
hree other white men whose LANES he did
.ot know, each armed with shotgun. He
sv them coming. closed tho door, hid
,imself away. and instructed his children
o say, # any inquirers were made for him,
hat he had left the place. Bill Curtis in-
luired for him and the children said he
uad gone away. Curtis told the children
10 tell him that he must be certain TO call
md see him that day, as he wanted to see
him. They then took their departure.
This Sidney Prince was prominent
candidate before the Democratic conven
lion that nominated Col. Herndon at Jack
son. which was held two days after the
hanging OF Jack Turner, and the man who
adjusted the rope around Jack Turner'S
neck went to that convention to help nom
mate candidate for congress.
The night previous to this call on Moses
Turner. there was protracted religious
meeting at or near Mt. Sterling, at a color
ed Methodist church, which had been il
progress nearly week. At that church
news was received that two hundred armed
white men were at Mt. Sterling and that
more were coming. and that these met had
made inquiries for Jack Turner and Nose
Turner. They said they were hunting
"niyger> meat" aud Jack Turner, espec
tally Nothing WAS said of an insurrection
or the finding of any papers The state.
,nent made in one OF the papers purporting
to have been found that Nose Turner wa
in DeSotoville, getting up conspiracy to
massacre white people can be silenced by
the truthful declaration that Nose Turner
had not been in DeSotoville for twenty -sis
years.
The statement that Fred Barney as Sec
retary wrote what purports to be record
of meeting to talk about the massacre o,
white people, bears upon its face the i'm
press Of untruth, as Fred Barney is All ed
ucated man and not illiterate as these pre-
tended records would show.
Aaron Scott. Fred Barney, Peter Hill
Jesse Wilson, Zenson Coleman, Lymu.
Wilson. JEFF Rands and Willis Lyman, who
were designated as captains in the trumpei
up records and arrested and thrown int
Jail, were all active and influential coloret
men in their beats, and it was an objec
for the democracy, beaten at the polls, t.
get them out of the way.
Jack Turner was hung from his own cart
and the rope was 80 long when 1t wa
stretched by the fall that his feet dragged
on the ground Men quickly mounted tn
tree. united the rope and and heavy. stronI
men. pulled on the end of it and raise
the limp. dangling form. His last request
were to have his body decently buIie a
Mt. Sterling and that his wife would com
and kiss b, M once more. But, instead @
grsring the request. the b.. of n =
rode over his lifeless rem aims with th
more civilized bl ct-s of asIses end br lise
the lifelecs end beple- bod Of the mur
dered man.
How the Six Others Were Tortured
Jacks captains were more or les
scourged. One was treated to the indigni
~ of being hung M by big toe and tar
ribly tortured. Still be reflssd to .squeal.
They all prefer death t, giving up the q,
cret it is morally cert lin thsy carry Wit,
them. Meridian Mercury.
What COrstituted ed Him a .Iurbulen
and Dangerous Chara ctr"
and "Firebrand."
The New York Times deriving its itfor
nation from Mr.. George Turler, Of Mont
gomery, says:
Turner was negro without educai ON
but of great native force Of character. H,