Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-08
THE RESULT OF THE HOW.
ARD AND HEMPSTRAD co.
OUTRAGE.

Thos. Wyatt (white) 3 common ruffian
no doubt, from what we could learn was :
fugitive from justice, as he had not long
been in the state from Texas; his comrades
name was Montgomery: both working or
Mr. Reeds farm, and was not even q good
liver. In the melee Of the first day, Wyatt
shot Joseph Booker dead. The mex: day q
posse of white men shot Elijah Gamble,
Aionzo Flowers and J. Booker's son, max
ing q total Of four colored men k:tled for
one white Texas fugitive from Justice,
wearing an assumed name, and to cap the
whole matter forty y-three colored men were
Afterwards arrested, and on the 18th ult
tried at a special session of the Howard
county circuit court, and disposed of as
follows. says the Center Point Tocsln:
Fifteen years in the penttentiary:
rison Marshall, Joe Hill, Bill Scoggiar,
VIM johnson, W arren Johnson.
The folio wing get ten years in the peni-
Harvey Marshall, Robert Marshall. Lud
May, Robert johnson, Willis Williams,
Starting Hendricks. James Nelson, Isaiah
Fontaine, Jim Booker. /
years:
Dave Hopson, Stuart Hopson, Allen Neal,
Mat Nelson. Judge johnson, Sussex Jeffer-
son: D: N. Cheatham, Tom Walker, Calvin
McFadden, Brown Beard.
In passing sentence upon them the Judge
pointed out the enormity of the crime, and
said they should be thankful that they es-
capped with 80 light penalty, as by being
permitted to enter plea of guilty of muir
der In the SECOND degree they probably es-
capped the gallows.
The following prisoners were discharged,
as in the opinion of the state the evidence
0VpNlf hob1 ont ~
convict of any crime. and as they had here
tofOre been well-behaved it was thought
best to turn them loose: Billy Walker, ST.,
Billy Walker. jr., Reddick Jordan. Alex
May, Bob May, Louis Johnson, Sidney
Cooper, Henry Jordan, John Mar.halI, Levi
Williams.
Many were the expressions of gratitude
that were showered upon the Judge when
the prisoners were turned loose. The old
mother of the May boys was in the house,
and when told that her boys were free she
cried in happy voice: "G!ory to God!
God bress de white folks.'' A regular
camp-meeting time ensued among the col
Ored people present.
At the afternoon session of court Julius
> Johnson was sentenced to the penitentary
for eighteen years. and Charley Wright,
Lige Thompson and Henry Carr were SEN
fenced to be hung on the 2oth of January,
1884. Their attorneys will ask the Supreme
Court for u new trial. This concluded the
prOce edings In the Wyatt murder trial so
ioA aS tuib tOuiL IL COuCeTucu. uc CASE
stands on record without an eQual,.-and
mn,h b credit Is due Howard county for the
course that has been pursued in the IN after
from beginning to end. Everything has
been conducted peaceably and quietly.
The people have been willing to let the law
take its course, bsing perfectly satisfied
that Justice would be done to ali. and now
that The ease is disposed Of every body feels
satisfied, aid hope that the county will
never be called upon to pass through an
other such an ordeal.
1t is remarkable to see a lot of men max
ing sport, as indicated by the remarks of
the Tocsin. Evidently shows low state
of civilization and what they would do
with the negro If they had their own way.
Our only hope now is the Governors par
don, except in the three cases of murder in
The first degree, and ii the supreme court
says 1t is right, as they did in the Coates
case, then we will agree with Justice Taney
that the black man has NO rights in these
United States that the white man is bound
to respect.