The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-15
,RI0TOUS RED MEN,
DIsclpL'NERs BEING DISCIPLINED.
Celebrated Trial Progressing At Clafksburs.
Members OF this Order Of Red Nen Charged
With Nail Robbery-JujEe Jackson a
W. Much Malgued Transformations
Special Correspondence Of the ln,clllgcncer,

Special Correspondence Of The lnteillgcnccr,
CLAKKsHugG, W. Va, December 49,
There Is no little excitement In this staid
old town over the trial Of three alleged
mail robbers, which begun in the unite,l
States District Court yesterday. This is,
per!mps, tho most important trial thlt h,e
taken place in West Virginia for years.
The Government considered It ofsuilicient
Importance to appoint General Gotr as
Assistant Attorney General Of tho United
States to ail District Attorney Flick in the
trlal. General Coil and Judge Flick arc
both on hand, and the defendants are rep.
resented by Messrs. John J. Davis, John
Basel and A. f. Hus,cd. There IRE about
one hundred and thirty witnesses in attend.
ancc, divided about equally between the
prosecution and the defense. The Clarks.
burg people generally seem to be interest.
ed in the trial Of these cases, rs the Court
room is constantly packed with listeners.
The particular feature involved In these
cases Is their connection with the secret
organization in Barbour county, known as
the "Red Men," 1t Is pretty generally
known throughout the State that the good
county Of Barbour has been almost com.
pletely overrun. by the Order Of Red men
Tor several years past. They hive cut a
wide and .dissraceflll swath in tue affairs
OF that county for Il long time. Disguised
men travel around at night, take people
ont Of their beds, cowhide them, drive
them out OF their neighborhoods and
thrush them around generally. It IS said
that no small number OF men who lave
hitherto been esteemed us good citizens,
have been directly or indirectly connected
with Tins order, and 1t is. thought that this
trial will make some interesting exposures;
hence the great interest manifested by the
public generally. -
1t is charged by the Government thnt
September Eth last, Albert Price, Noah
kittle and Jacob:lIuilman, near Eelington,
Barbour county, in whit Is known us
"Brown's Woods" stopped by force OF
arms, William Francis, the mail carrier,
and ripped and robbed the United States
mail Of money letters amounting to
about S4O0. The case was worked up by
Inspector Shallcross, and the parties were
arrested by Deputy Marshal W. W. Teter.
They were lodged in JUL ut Clarksburg,
and one OF them, Albert Price, who is well
related in Barbour county, succeeded in
giving bond, and was released. The bond
was fixed ut $4,000. The other two pris.
oners were unable to give bond, and have
been in jail since their arrest 1t will prob.
ably take two weeks to try all three OF the
cases, as they are to be tried separately.
." ABOUT JUDGE JACKSON.
In speaking about the business OF the
United States Court, am reminded of a
recent article or two III the Cincinnati E,,.
qairer and Wheeling Register, in which it
was stated that the Hon. J.-J. Jackson was
not popular with the lawyers. have been
in II situation 10 know something abou,
this matter, and nm trunk to say that the
charge is untruthiul and unjust. Judge
Jackson is one 1.-THE most faithfuland indus.
trions jnrists that know oi. He is also
Il man of excellent, i may say, superi.
or nttalnments as Il Judge; and he
Is kind and generous TO fault. lie has Il
strong following for u United States Sena.
torship, and, if chosen to that exalted po.
sltion, I hazard nothing in saying that he
would take high rank as a Senator. In both
character and ability be would be dc.
cided improvement over any man who has
filled that position from West Virginia
these many years. It seems thut several
penny'a.liner's in the Sinte are trying 10 in
jure the Judge by misrepresenting him be-
fore the people simply because he is prom.
inehtly spoken Of as a probable United
Senator. Such things are very, unjust and
reflect no credit upon the newspapers that
use such means and manners to injure a
prominent and worthy citizen.
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