The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-03
DANyILLE INVESTIGATION.


Danvllle Investigation was resumed this
morning aud TWENTY-FIVE witnesses were
sworn ut once. William B Kurtz post
master 81 Wnynesboro, 200 miles iron Dan
vile, testified that he heard al the riot on
the day after it occurred, he had been told
by the mail messenger. who was an ey-
Telegraph operator, that telegram
passed over tint wires ordering large in-
voice OF pistols to Danville. This was OBJ
jecled TO hv senator Vance aud the orjec.
zion was sustained. Kurz heard jolhiica
tion speeches after thr election, A demo.
o. aric sneaker sad lie thanked God tor tho
Dsnvllle riot: u was u blessing IN Disguise.
o her witnesses testified the Dah,
vile circnlar WAS extensively circulated
before the election aud had the effect OF
changing many votes; the demucrats re led
on he rare issue in The canvass. Tao re-
publican side suspended TIE examinations
at this poin aud Senator Vance beg The
OK animation la rebu'tnl nv calling Peter
V Boom, grocer ol Dauyille. de desofib
ed the riot; he saw the preliminary
qharre and when II termirrtsd witness
turned TO a crowd of colIred people bHd
asked them TO leave; they re ueed and ais
played pistols, saying they hsd been nlisns-
ed aud would not leave; when the firing b..
gan there we're about fifteen whites and
200 eel bred men; there was no
alignment OF tho whites heard:
have been no poss bility OF missing the
crowd OF blocks il the whites had been seek
ing to kill thu n; witness believed II to.
whites had not fred they would ell have
been murdered; the fling ceased when tGe
aeerces began to ran; eom1 negroes tnrued
Rs they ran and fred bac5; witness never
heard anv preconcerted action 10 bei"g
about the riot; In ell The mestings,
attended by witness the lpade q cautioned
heir followers 10 avoid riotng ard vi Jlence;
the election was a quiet one: there never
was queter one; witness repeatedly tired
| 10 get the coiored people To vote, but VITA
out success; they said they did not want to
vote; witness heard portion
Of Sims speech; in his, opinion
With causing the riot; witness went
out without pistol;' after the thidg com
menced he went back and got his pistol
| mt the firing was over when be got back;
George Adams had testified that witness
fred AZ him, bu. witnsss said II was untrue;
witness DID not shoot at anybody;
| W j Dance young man, aad member
Of the iirm in front of whose office the riot
took place, was called He described the
riot; be seztd his gun, cooked botn barrels
and stood in the door of the office; he
did not fire, but leveled bis gun
when he SAW the colored me
aiming their pistols; the bullet MARKS on
the front OF his Office building could not
have been made by tho from the wbi
crowd; it was in this Office, witnesses had
said, the whites went and sHppl ed them.
selves with arms, there being according ia
several colored witnesses q large quantity
OF arms and ammunition stored here;
witness said he was the only man In the
office and he kept the crowd out aud re-
fused to let anybody in sxceDt two or three
friends; there were no arms in the ONCE OK.
cept the un held bv witness and one old
pistol which was not seiviceabls; 1t wal
absolutely untrue that there wer'
arms in the Office and that the men sup
piled themselves; IL had been test fed tha
four young men were seen going into thu
office on the day of the riot with two gum
} apiece; IL was false that young men were II
the back yard Of the office that fore
noon cleaning guns; witness believed
: il the whites had not feed they wonli
hsvs been murdered by the negroes, who
fired as they ran; after the negroes bsgSi
to run the white men did not fire; witness
saw TWENTY-FIVE or thirty black men witt
pst1ls; ell he could see 10 the crowd hs'
pistols; witness was present st tne mee'
ing of his cub when the resolution passet
to Withdraw all patronage rom the COAL
,iopists.