Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22

the shooting Boyett oiuded the officers and
made his escape. He went 10 the mountains
where no remained for some time ana then
made his way to Memphis, whore NO was
arrested. His arrest was brought about ns
a letter sent 10 him by some OF his relatives
/ In this county. The letter was addressed 70
1 Albert Cobb, the name Boyett had assumed
/ IL happened, however, that negro OF thai
name lived In Memphis, and got the letter
When he read IL he showed tto Detective
Pryde. who placed Il back In the post-omce
aud watched until Boyett came IN and called
for IT, Marshall Jackson had already sent Q
! description OF Boyett 10 Pyrde. Az much
Indignation was caused by the murder In
the neighborhood, IL was deemed safest not
TO keep Boyett in the Rutherford county
| Jail. He was, therefore, confined In the
Davidson county jail until the time OF his
| trial arrived. As soon ms the trial was con-
cluded Boyett was taken back 90 Nashville
for safe keeping, pending the effort being
made by his counsel TO secure him n new
trial.
| Dickson Press: while section foreman
Lynch. of the N. & T. Ry., and his men, who
are colored, were returning home from their
work about dark Tuesday evening, the hand
Station, precipitating Lynch and three OF
his men to the ground, distance of fifty
feet. Lynch skull was broken and he died
at seven o'clock Wednesday morning. Two
of the others who were injured are momen-
tarily expected to die. We have not ascer-
tanned their names. This affair would be
terrible had 1t been accidental, but the con-
clusion is forced upon us that it was done
fxrc a
was driven between the ends of two rails.
and the purpose for so doing was to wreck a
train. The perpetrator of this devilish out
rage would not put the county of Hickman
to the expense and trouble OF a trial, II
caught, for We think the citizens of that
neighborhood would be certain to give him
his just deserts" The American of Monday
gives the following account of how the per-
petrators of this evil deed were found out
by Detective John Dayis, who was sent. out
by the General Manager to work up the
case: "The detective spent some little time
about Graham's Station, which is the home
of the section squad. He finally heard that
colored boy, fourteen years old, had been
heard at Nunnelley's, about five miles from
Centerville, talking about the tragedy, and
saying that he was with youth named
Jim Harris, who derailed the hand car by
driving a spike in the cross-tie near the
rail. This boy seemed fearfully excited by
the scene he had witnessed while concealed
with Harris, and described in an awe
stricken sort of way the groans of the three
colored section hands and Mr.. Lynch, the
foreman, as they lay at the bottom of the
chasm. The detective found the boy, and
after getting his statement, went to Nun
nelley's where Harris was employed digging
ore, and arrested him. Harris being con-
fronted with so direct an accusation of his
crime, confessed all, and said that he was
hired by John Hanna, a colored man, to do
the work. The price of this dastardly deed,
he said, was French harp, which Hanna
promised him. Mr.. Davis had already sus-
pected Hanna's guilt, as in looking for
motive for such a deed he had discovered
that Hanna, who was recently discharged
from the section squad by Mr.. Lynch, had
threatened the lives of the three colored men
who were thrown from the car. He had
accused these men of criminal intimacy
with his wife, and the trouble created at the
abode of the section hands at Graham Sta
ton, by this woman, had led to Hanna's
discharge. Knowing that his presence about
the railroad would be noticed, and excite
suspicion, Hanna hired Harris to put into
effect his fiendfsh scheme of numbering his
former boss and fellow-workmen. Harris,
stupid fellow, was silly enough to take the
child into his confidence, and led him by
the hand across the trestle at the time of
driving the fatal spike, which threw the
hand car and killed Lynch, and wounded
the three section hands,"