The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-25
KuKLuxIsM IN aEoHaIA,
Marked Men Make y SAIidnight Raid ON u
CoIored Mans House,

ATLANTA, Ga, September 24.-The Con
aitution this morning states that Butler
Coles, colored, was before the Governor te
complain Of the commission ol a piece o.
lawlessness which occurred at the home o.
Luke Monroe, an old colored man, in Cobb
county, on Tuesday night. The scene ol
the midnight exploits OF the masked mob
was 6ve miles south OF Roswell, Cobb
county. The result OF the raid was one
wounded negro, who is at the point Of
death, and others severely frightened.
Coles told the following story: "When
reached home It was past midnight, and
was told some men had been there and
asked for me. When they found was not
there they went away and did not return
that night. On Tuesday / met colored
preacher, who told me some white men in.
tended to cause the arrest OF Steve Travis.
Luke Monroe Is an old man, who lives five
miles South Of Roswell. He is over 100
years old, and my wife Is his grand-daugh-
ter. l live with him, and have six chill
drep, my oldest being boy Of 10. The
persons have named are the only ones
who live at the house OF the old man, which
is little tworoomed house, that was
bought for him by his young mistress, Mrs.
West, now q resident Of Philadelphia.
"0n the night Of which / am telling you
Steve Travis was stopping at the house.
About midnight ifteti or twenty
meu appeared in the yard and began to
strike on the door. ! got out of bed and
started to the door. Just as got to the
door some one on the outside bit it, and
It began to open. caught 1t and opened
it, and as I did 80 masked man put a gun
In my face, and fell back into the house.
They walked into the house and demands
ed to know who was there. told them
there was no one there except the
family and Steve Travis. They asked for
Steve to get out OF bed, which he did.
They ordered my wife to make a
light, which she did. They then
told me to open the other door Of the
house, which l did, and several other men
who were in the yard came Ill. They or.
dered me and Steve to dress and go with
them. They managed TO get Steve out Of
the house; and ! was looking for my hat
when l passed near my shot gun. |
grabbed tue gun and declared that would
shoot the first man who put his head in at
the door. When Isaid hat, they said they
would burn they the house. down il | did
not come out and surrender. heard
them getting splinters together, and
when heard that 1 told my wife TO holloa
murder, which she did, and as soon as she
did the crowd started oil. As they started
offI heard gun.shot
Everything got quiet on the outside OF
the house, aud We stsid in for an hour.
After a while we hes,d some one calling
outside, and it turned out that It was Steve
Travis. ! told him that could not come
out 10 where he was, as l was afraid that
some OF the men were on the lookout and
would shoot me. My wife and children
went into the yard aud found Travis lying
on the ground with a bad wound in the
small ol his back, where they had shot
him. lie was taken iuto the house and
there stated that as the crowd started of
with him they put him ahead and shot him
aud left him on the ground for dead.
There were l2 shots in the wound, and the
chances were that the man would never
get over the injary."
Gov. Mcdaniel will investigate The case.