The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-15
POLITICS in THE SOUTH.
THE CONVICTED kv kLvx GANG.
Attorney spsr Tell, al, s,orI of the Trial and
CSAIir.iOn ofths unrdsrsrs- rs-SsatIushtOfthe
People CAAnget--SsnA.or nAhOus's Ezpla.
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WASHINGTON, D. G., November l4.-Iton.
Emory speer, United States Attorney for
Georgia, is in the city. He gives an in.
tereresting account Of hislate succeasiul trial
OF Ku.Klux. In an interview which will
appear In the Republican tomorrow, he
says the clan is not yet broken up, and pro-
ceeds: az have indictments now pending
against members Of the same band. I
made theinjured parties pull Of 'theirshir!s
in the court room, and some Of their backs
were SCARED as IL by hot irons, although
the whippings had been inflicted three
months before, go the flesh had time to
heal"
"How are The convictions regarded in
the Statc?p stltI gIs s.7L ~.
"The best thing about them Is that the
best people OF Georgia have been aroused,
and they have been approved by great
many Of the leading citizens Of Atlanta and
other portions Of the State, and / believe
that 1t is an exceedingly healthy sign"
"IIave any OF the witnesses been intimi-
dated or threatened since the trial because
thew testified 9p
"Yes; Warren Bryson, who was so badly
whipped, has been forced 10 leave his farm
and live in Atlanta, to escape the threaten.
ed vengeance OF the kinsiolks Of tho con.
yicted men. He told me that Mr.. Ander-
son, white man, and another witness for
the Government, had informed him (Bry-
sony that Mark Sarbrough and three
others were looking for him, aud had said
that wherever they found him, right there
they would leave him."
Anderson is good citizen, although
Democrat, and he advised Bryson to leave
home. Very great alarm is felt among the
colored people at the auction CT this gang.
The respectable and more liberal people Of
Georgia hsve no sympathy with these out.
rsgee, but they are certainly moet po'ent
evil, and tend more 10 degrade and retard
the colored people in the exercise OF every
right and privilege than anything elss that
could be imagined. Why, the colored peo.
pie have laid out in the woods and fields
ior weeks at time"
"Isn't colored Ku.klux rather ont Of
the general order? Irefer to Jake Hays,
the colored man." remarked the reporter.
"The colored Ku.klux lived on the land
OF one OF the Yarbroughs, and was DEM
ocrat. He was in full sympathy with the
garg.n .,a 49,. "a.
"What was tho general appearance OF
the prisoners?" ,,se...-t. G..
a msjority Of them we're above the
average, although some oi them were quite
hard and desperate looking. They ranged
in age from twenty to thirty years. They
were not all farmers. Some ef them had
good deal to do with thss sale OF liquors"
"What kind Of disguises did they usual
ly wear when on a raid?"
"Mostly black cloth faces. One OF them
wore an extraordinary cap OF many colors.
That cap was material piece of evidence
in his indentifcatiop., It was described
by the negroes beiorsit was found and
was aiterward discoverd In tho house Of
Jasper Yarbrough."
"The evidence in many places" said MIR,
speer, reyerting to the trial, twas
often delivered in true, uncermonious
style, and was affecting in its simplicity
and truthfulness. Warren Bryson, the old
colored man who was so frightlully lashed,
said "When heard 'em banging at my
doah and yellin' out open, Cd dyer, l
looked down on de foah an dere lay my
litlul baby. was aieerd dey would tram.
pie her, and so struck light, 80 dat dey
might see her an not kill my chile"