The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-24

friend who had gone there armed to
shield and protect these enemies 10 the
peace, life. and property of that com
munitv. and hence they became a prey
to the necessity of letting no guilty
men escape.
NO INQUEST WAS HELD,
as the Coroner recently held one in a
case of a violent death, and the county
would not pay for it on the ground that
the manner of death was known To
rybOdy.
The two principal actors who preeip
italed this community in tbs reign of
blood, were from childhood known for
their violence Of temper and insult
ing dispositions, and known far beyond
the county limits as
DESPERATE, BAD Me-,
and not subject to curbs. Ed was a
bar-room bully, who boasted to ;he
Mavor, recent y, that he and his brother
had six sho!guns loaded seven inches
deep, and that they would carry some
white men with Them.
These men d few weeks since, when
hey were arrested, applied to Col. w
u. Helm to befrend them, but he told
them that he could not and that their
course was TOO reprehens;ble for him to
take hold Of it, and advised them TO
peaceably and quietly leave the commu-
nifty; but this they refused TO do, and
since that time they have grown b0ldsr
aud bolder, Until in vindictive, mis-
chief making spirit, bad Mr.. Liddell and
six gentlemen, who had no connection
with his personal difficulty, arrested, all
for no purpose but to insult, incense
aud outrage, not these men alone, but
the entire law-abiding people.
Adam Brown, the father of the de-
ceased, was born free, in Tennessee, and
WAS OF INDIAN EXTRACTION,
being considered three quarters breed.
lie had all the characteristics in appear
ance, temperament anG general attri-
butes of that people. he moved to
Carrollton prior to the war and engaged
in blacksmithing, at which he made
money enough to be considered rich
He purchased and operated two planta-
tions and good store out of this source,
:,
involved in bad investments was unable
to stay the loss of fortune which over
took him, aud he died without a dollar
His death followed from a shooting
difficulty in 1872, in which he was
wounded by Tandy Oury, of the Carroll
ton Conservative, living but a short
time thereafter. He had been in two
other shooting difficulties prior to that
time, in each receiving wounds sufficient
u have killed any ordinary man. Mr..
Oury killed him ia refdefense. as Adam
had snapped his pistol, if not freG it,
twice at Mr. Oury
Juliet Brown, the mother Of the de.
ceased Ed and Charlie Brown, and wife
of Adam, WAS born a slave, but her
father being thrifty and allowed by his
master the opportunity, made money
enough to purchase her freedom and
that of her brother prior to the war.
She, like Adam, comes from the Indian
race, being about half breed. She has
large cheek and jaw-bone, aud is what is
termed "raw boney.' Her father, Ell
mond Richardson, purchased in Carroll
county her freedom from his master,
Alfred Jackson.
There are three daughters to Adam
and jules, who are considered con-
spicuous in their near approach in ap-
pearance and temperament to that people
from whom their ancestors draw the
major part of their blood and resemble
in many ways
a BEAUTIFUL INDIAN sQUAw.
They have long, glossy, black. curly
hair, and large black piercing eyes, full
of resentment and fash carrying un-
relenting and vindictive hatred to that
enemy who crosses taeir path.
The two sons, Ell and Charlie, aged
respectively p and 24 years, lost no
quality of hatred, vindictiveness and
unforgiving defiance and terrorlzing
that marked the fretful and adventurous
life of their father, but accepted end
sought every available opportunity to
afFront and bully the white race, never
having single serious conflict with the
negroes, but always aggressive t0a degree
of bitterness to the white people.
They were devoid of all religious faith
and secuted the fear of death or the
future.
Ed. few wears since, bad difficulty
with Levi Bagley, who raised shotgun
and told him not to come nearer; but it
brought no halt, for with the gun di-
rected toward him, and snapped once
twice, he, unarmed, grappled with his
antagonist.
These brothers were scarcely ever or
friendly associations with each other
except when one or the other was in
yolVed in difficulty, then the bitter
fight of one became that o. both. Even
the mad expression Of one to child wa;
emphasized by the other.
The reporter had less than two hour:
in which to gain the facts of the tragedy
and catch the train on the jackson road
fourteen miles away, consequently hi
! investigations were limited. The fact
as given above, however, are CLEANED
from white and coIored people alike, ane
there was no dissent from the opinion
that the Staying Of the BroEn brother
was a necessity for the peace and ordei
of the town.
Carrollton IS a small interior town
with a dozen or more merchants ane
about 500 people, and the old home o
United States Senator George and Stat
| Treasurer Hemingway of Mississippi.