The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-01
THE pAsvILLE IsvEsrIoATIos.

W.sHiKGION, Marcia 81 --fPress IL. q.
Enrignt (Shiisl. testified before tho Dan.
vile committee that he left tho opera house
with james 3. Johneon, whc, according TO
previous witnesses, Was said 20 have killed
two colorcd men during tho riot. Witness
said ha was with johnson during tho riot
and l0hns0n did uOs fro az all.
J. " Perkins (shii,) said there was tir-
Ing on both sidc-. Five or nix shots were
fired by oolored people.
a. j. Thompson saw pistols In the hands
OF oolored mtn, about rs many Ms IN tho
hands OF whites.
II. 3 Osborne heard one colOTed man say
when the officers were trying 70 dispcrse
them: I'VE mean fight" esw coloted men
with pistols; saw them fro over their Shout
dtfs as they ran; ono negro tsid lac was
mot satistsd with this thing aud should
not be until he Jaw Dsnvlle burned down.
Charles II. Conrad, tobacco mannlac.
turer, Danvile, was standing before Cap.
TEN araves with his eve on Captain Graves
pistol Mt the time he was said to have shot
George Adams; witness stated positively
Graves did not hro tho shot which wounded
Adams; he was chairman Of the demo-
cratic ward club Gnd IN position To know
there was no premeditstsd feeling nbont
the riot,
In the course of crossexamination by Mr..
Sherman, witness asserted WITH much earn
es.ness that II was mistake 10 suppose
there were pr'iudica against the negroes.
The prejudice wna against the "low.doHn
whites, the scum OF the earth that come
down there rom the north, the men who
got the negroes into trouble ana then de-
serted theu."
Senator sherman asksd II tho negroes un..
der any circumstances stood chencs OF
getting their right To elect officers, they
BEING In the msjority2"
"Yes sr.h IL they vote with me-
That Is II; II they vote with your
"You will never see /, M long Us you live. NOS
az long as live either, that a set OF men who
own property and are trying TO hllld up toe
town and husband their resources ana ac-
cumulate wealth, VINO will ever allow me-
gro.s TO come IN and oOstrol that town; you
NAV Just set that down Ne n sure thing"
That is the deliberate purpose OF the
property holders To prevent thar
III say it emphatlcslly, bat only by fair
means"
But you have already told that as ma
iority OF those who oSned property VIII nol
allow inst government 70 pass from tnclr
hands iuto tho negroes haods, and worss
still, into the hands Of this poor white
sgum?'
well, we despise thoie worse than the
nesrnes-worse than the devil.
! ID. Richardson (Tnltt) vas called; saw one
colored man aholt twice
| AftUEkt N "A tAiNfl " ~
during the night, witn others, and shots
were fred st the party and returned; wit
ness wes wounded in toe Leg his horse was
wounded by the same shot.
Green Williams, chiel OF police OF Dan
vile, was examined. Ho saw the riot IRON
q short distance, and saw the shoot
| lug from both sections: before the election
he heard Squire Toliver (colored) make
a speech Ia which he advised his auditors
te 20 TO the polls with loaded arms; the
people did not go hunting squirrels with
empty arms; the audience cheered. Wit
ness described the threat which bad been
m ade by the colored men against their fol-
lows who should vots the democratic ticket;
witness named men to whom these threats
were made and from whom he received In
formation. ,u
James Woods. city sergeant OF Danville
a republican, described his efforts to pre-
serve the peace; he was satisfied the RIOT
was sudden ebulIitiop and not premed.'
tsted affair On cross-examination witnes:
said IL would not haze been safe to call out
the colorsd militia. he thought it would
prevent violence TO put the democratic
D .rty in control; hs thought IL would as
grsvate the feeling to put colored men or
the peace guard. Adjourned.