The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-26


offsnse beyond voting for Hon. Emory
speer for Congress last November. The
shocking cruelties narrated below occurred
in a State whcse proud boast Is that ,she Il
the most progressive and most enlightened
OF all the Southern States. Unlike many
political outrages, they were not committed
in the heat Of passion, but coolly, deliber-
,tely, in the year Of grace, 1883, six OF
Eeyen months following the election. The
extracts are from the official verbatim
s,enog. aphic report OF the evidence. Hugo
could not exceed in yividnegs the tale told
by the simple, illiterate negroes-a tale
the truth OF which was not seriously de-
MED by the defense.
TOUCHING RECITAL.
sallie Bryson, the wife OF one OF the men
ku.kluxed, stated:
81 am the wife OF Warren Bryson. On
the >25th Of July at midnight I heard q
whole passel running around the house,
and directly they said 'Hulloa, and they
said 'Hulloa' three times, and called
Brysop; then some one said .Hulloa' out
doors, and he (Bryson) says 'Hullos, and
they told him TO make up light and open
the door, He says, 4 don't care about
opening my door at night He says. you
make light and open the door. II you
don't will set your house on fire. And
he (Bryson) got up then. He didn't say
anything, but he got up and one Of the
men said, Hand me an Ak, boys Idon't
know whether they had an ak or not, but
they said, Hand me an ak and will burst
the door down My husband struck q
match and lit a lamp, and there was q crack
in the door 80 they could see The light, and
they burst down both doors, and they came
in full into the house, and filed the house.
Some,oi them had on black capB. was ly7
ing in bed sick. One them ran up to the
bed where Twas ::and pointed pistol at me
and said: Throw up your hands, CD
you,' and at the came time the house was
full OF them. And they surr ounded Bryt
son on the floor, and they questioned him
right smart, but l don't remember all 1t
was they said to him, but they said, We
will tell you what we are going to do With
you. We are going to hit you twenty-five
lashes.' They gathered around him, and
started out the do3r with him, and / raised
up in bed and one Of them came back to
the house and esid, 'G-d-you don't you
get out OF bed; you see what that d-speer is
doing for you; you had better voted for
Gambler l couldn't get up, but ] heard
one OF them cay that they were whipping
him Cher husband) out in the yard. n
20. Did you know these mena
"a. No, Sir, l didn't know marry ones
but he had black cap over his head; he
was white gentleman.
80 Won Row ynn were sirtSAp so +
"a. Yes, sir. ~
90 How old was your baby at that
time? s.
ga. II was about week old; 1 had been
able to be up once or twice"
The Ku.kluxels dragged Bryson out Of
his house, tore his shirt of, and gave him
twenty fige lashes. One Of the devils COM
planned because he was not allowed to ad.
minister to him three or four additional
''liCks," e.
FIFTY LAsH4s.
Alter giving Bryson this dose the raiders
visited another colo,ed man, Aleck Brooks,
10 punish him for,yoting for Mr.. speer. He
tells his story:
''They came over to my house there. I
was asleep when they came. had dog
that made fuss and It woke me up. They
said: Get up and open the door, / held
the door. didn't open 1t. They said ::
Open the door, but held on to it, and L
still held on to the dopr, and they ssid .It
you don't open the door, wheh ! get In,
hell will be the portion And thoy knock
I still held the door until they oyerpower-
ed me and came in anyhow. When they
came they downed me, and me ana them
scutilsd long while in the house. |
would not go out, and they pulled
me out, and Mr.. Yarbrough
eaid: You have got to go out;
take him out ofthe door, told one oil
the chiiGfento holloy, that probably Mr.
Anderson IA neighborJ or somebody might
come down there and give some help, and
would get shet OF them, but nobody came
and they hung on, and alter they had
taken me out and beat me, esys one, said
be: Now you see what your damned
Speer has done for you; your friend Speer.'
He eaid: DO you know any Of us2 l
did not cay YhetheF I did or not; did not
say anything to them. Mr.. farbrough
said: III you do know any Of us and ever
melton 1t, G-d-you, / will dig your grave,
aud the plank is sawed to make your
coffin and l will come and get YOU
Under those circumstances l was afraid to
ssy anything, / stayed about home where
nobody bothered me, aud | asked no
questions, only Mr. alexander, the man I
worked withon the came place, he asked
me did I'know him. Il said, u knowed'
NJ. Ysrbrougb i'bat u as much 81 said.
to him.
Aleck Brooks was given fifty lashes.
SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS WITH THE RARY.
Having done with him, the hends sped
acroes the fields to chaatise one Berry
Sanders, for having dared to exercise his
right Of suffrage six months before. II
seems that Berry had heard that the Ku.
kluxers wol lid be alter him, SO he and his
wife took their baby aud hid in the Yoaas
ior three or four nights. This is how
Maria, Sanders wife narrates Il:
"Bsrry had laid out three or four nights,
but that night he stayed In the house. Me
and the baby had laid out In the old field
with him until that night but he said 1t
would kill the baby, and Sd we stayed in
tbe house, and he watched for those men
to to- come, but he fell asleep. I couldn't
sleep; heard the men gohIns, walking
and talking very low, and ! woke Berry
iust before they game to the door, and they
came to The door and Raid 'Hullt! l said,
,Bud, ask them what they want, and they
said, C. d. you, / don't want you, am
after another fellow and Berry. ssid, I
won't open the door TO you, and they said,
i will fire the house, and Berry said, All
right, you eau fits II; 1t Is death anyhow
YOU can fire II, and ewill oil go together
and one Of them got 3 splinter and eaid,
Have you got match9' and one Of them
said .Yes, by God, plenty Of them, and