Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-29
BLACK BROTHERS
Who Prefer White Wiyes--TwO Cases
that in North Carolina and
Georgia
Have Aroused Public Attention and
Started the Question, sis Miseege-
nation Possible. ,"

The Charlotte Observer prints several
stories of life in North Carolina, which
bring into prominence some OF the worst
phases of the race problem in the South.
The people OF Matthews Station We're con-
siderably exercised recently over the ar
rival in that town Of a well-dressed, coal
black negro man. accompanied by a young
and handsome white girl. The two got off
the train on its arrival ut Matthews from
Hamlet. and made their way to a negro
cabin near by. Such an occurrence as this
naturally excited the suspicious OF the cit
liens of the town, and when, ashort while
afterwards, the negro appeared in the
stores making purchases and exhibiting an
unusual amount OF money, they decided to
investigate the case, as they felt satisfied
the girl had run away from her home,
wherever that might be, with the negro.
While they were discussing the advisable
ity OF arreSting the parties, the negro went
TO the house where he had left the girl
and packing up two valises started out
on the dirt road in the direction OF
Charlotte. The girl was seen to go
out On the railroad. 4 party of citizens
at once followed the girl, and saw the
negro join her on the railroad some
distance ahead. Seeing the citizens ON
ing, the negro picked up his valise and
fled, leaving the girl on the track. She
was soon o~vertaken and given into the
charge of Mr.. Joe Duncan, the town mar
shall. The girl was weeping bitterly, and
for some time would not answer a ques-
ton, but finally she told them that she
had been A~erpersuaded, and had run
away from 1her fathers house in Moore
county the night previous with the negro.
Her fathers name, she said, was Eli Nc
Leod. \ telegram was sent to him, and
an answer was shortly received requesting
them to hold the girl, who was really his
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negro. MIR. Mcleod had been hunting for
her, and t~elegraphed that he would reach
Matthews on the first train. Capt. ID. X.
F. Everett, conductor of the Carolina Cen
trail train, says that the couple boarded his
train at Hamlet, and he noticed their queer
actions and surmised that something was
wrong. The girl is only sixteen years old
and is said to be fine looking. When she
arrived at Hamlet she wore a shabby dress,
but shortly afterward came out in fine
Sunday clothes, wearing among other
jewelry, a gold necklace, and was
otherwise stylishly dressed. Though
every means of persuasion were used,
she s%tubbornly refused to relate any of the
details of her abduction, only repeating
that she had been "ov~erpersuaded," and
had run away the previous night with the
negro. From an envelope found in the
girls possession it was ascertained that the
negro's name is Frank Hallman. He is
very black, low, thick set, wears a fine suit
of clothes, Derby hat and gold watch
chain. In displaying his money in the
stores it was noticed that he had two
twenty and several ten-dollar gold pieces,
besides two thick rolls of ~greenbacks, and
it is evident that either the negro or
the girl got the money from Mr.. Mcleod,
though that gentleman slid nothing in his
telegram about having been robbed. As
soon rs the fact that the negro had escaped
became known the citizens formed small
searching parties and put out on the hunt
for him. One party arrived in Charlotte
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and about
1 O'Clock q messenger arrived in town and
informed them that the negro had been
captured at Mr.. G. H.. Wolfe's, about five
miles from the city, where he had been
caught taking a nap. h party i'm
mediately on learning this left Char
lotte for Mr.. Wolfe's house to
join the captors and the captive,
when a party Of citizens from Moore
county took the negro and the girl back to
Mr.. McLeod's home, at Keiser. 1t was
feared that the negro, on being captured,
would be lynched, but wiser counsels pre-
vailed and il was decided to turn him over
to the authorities of Moore county. About
sixty people from Moore county came up
towards Matthews Station, but most of
them stopped at stations along the road
and rejoined the party on their return
from Matthews with the prisoner. Her
father, Mr.. Eli Mcleod, was with the party
that came up from Hamlet. The negro,
Frank Mailman, had been in the employ
of Mr.. Mcleod and had been paid up on
the very day that he left with the girl.