The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-30

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drive over well-kept roads distance OF ten
miles, brought the reporter TO the springs. Col.
Wells denied any sensit1veness IN the matter
He had never owned but three copies of the pam
phlee These he had loaned last summer to
guests of the hotel They had found them such
interesting reading that they had failed to re-
turn them. and the Colonel was resolved never
again TO loan book, except such as are de-
scriptive of the marvellous virtues Of his springs,
and the superior Accommodations Ter guests
who come there 20 receive their Dement'S
The Colonel talked quite freely about Nv cite
Caps" There have never been any outbreaks In
his section of the county. and he only KEW OF
the performances of the gang by hearsay; Dut
roundly condemns them on general principles
and q good citizen who maintains that DIS
county is within the law. He condemns GIG
position the parf of some people TO dignlfy
neigh borhood mobs into an "organizstion, and
to credit to it the several uprisings OF the peo-
pie that have taken place within the past nfteen
years in which notorious murderers have oeen
lynched because. in the high state of public feel
Ing justice seemed to move with leaden feet.
Col Wells says that great interest 10 felt
throughout the section once everrun oy the
Knights of the Golden Circle. over the trial to
take place az Shoals, in Martin. the adjoining
county, Of Al Quackenbush. Stanf1eid. Jim
Archer and John Stone, for the murder, twenty
four years ago, Of Union soldier named James
Ballard.
Ballard was sent to his home in Martin
county. near the Orange line, ostensibiy on
furloagh, but really to capture 8 deserter. his
mission was discovered anu ms me Ioresworn
by the Sons of Liberty. Fifteen men were de-
tailed to remove him, and one morning he WAS
waylaid ana riddled with bullets. The murder
ers were not apprehended until month ago.
After they were confined in tho Jail at Shoals
Quacksnbush turned States evidence. lie re-
Gently made statement to Colonel Wells In
writing, which your correspondents was per-
mitted to see Oaackenbush after stating that
he had belonged TO the Knightg OF the Golden
Circle but a few days. says:
Il was riding on the road when Jones and
Stanfield came along hunting for Ballard. They
told me that orders had been issned to kill him.
The crowd began TO swell pretty soon until
49, nS fHQVa off hos
We went away and spent the night In an old
house In the morning we divided mp to take
different roads to lay for Ballard. Jim Archer,
John Stone, Dave Emmons, Stantled George
String and were together when we met Ballard.
Stan6eld shot him first Then Ash Shields shot
and then String fired. Ballard fell off his horse
dead, and then Stanfeld came up to me,
snatched my gun and fired another shot into the
dead body. didn't sec Stone fro. Ash Shields,
George String and Emmons are now dead"
This trial will be of great interest as during
its progress the whole history OF the many
crimes committed by the Sons o. Liberty in this
section will be brought out
Returning to Paoli, your CORRESPONDENT re-
sumed conversation with Mr.. Farrell and
number of business men who dropped into lis
Office Among them were Colonel Padgett. an
old citizen and responsible ma1, and Colonel
Mckinley. of the Democrat. They went over
in detail the white Cap" performances of the
past year and condemned them in one breath.
and asked in the next. s'What can be done with
this classl'
"Do you excuse the whipping Of women4' was
asked.
Under no circumstances. was the chorused
reply 1.-THE whipping of woman undoes
ali the justfiable work of the vigilantes. wheth-
er they be White Caps or black caps. If neces-
sary woman can be warned TO leave, and she
will 60. No woman has ever been whipped in
Orange county, and if one ever is the trick will
not be repea ted. !"
Orange county did not pan out according to
expectations, and after gazing at his accident
insurance ticket which conscious re-
minder of the perils of the trip, the Hillside
md oh of fka Ts0ui A
bany q Chicago rainoad was resumed by your
correspondents and Orleans was reached with
out tho ticket being realized upon.
A wait of an hour gave opportunity to in
terview several of the citizens of Orleans.
Mayor Swallow said that Orleans had never
been visited by White Caps. A call would be
resented by the citizens. Orleans is within the
law, and several industrious colored men live
there at peace with their neighbors. Migrants
and drnnkards are prosecuted by the town au-
thorities and induced to make roads
stop-off at New Albany only confirmed the
somewhat widely heralded outbreak of white
Caps" in that city was simply the drunken
performance of gang OF hoodlums at a disrep-
utable resort The gang had descended the
house. ana declared themselves as "White
Caps" just as drunken cowboy would ride
into frontier town and declare himself as the
old original terror of the plains" This particu-
lar band Of White Caps are now breaking white
rocks in the city work house.
New Albany has been frequently mentioned
In connection with the White Caps. This is I'M
fair to the city and Floyd county It is within
the law completely is st. Louis city, and
nothing of sensational nature has occurred
there since the lynching of tie Reno gang of
train robbers nearly twenty years ago.
Not to overdo the thing and claim for sou tn
ern Indiana regard to the processes of law
that IL cannot justly claim, it must be said that
there is hardly county south of the line of the
Vandalia railroad which has hot had its lynch
ing within twenty-five years. Travelling through
this country one cannot help noticing the effect
of the railroad extensions upon the population
With the railroads come the little towns. First
a store and then a postofice; then telegraph
station, with an operator in a Derby hat and
Louisville clothes. He is the starter. and store
clothes soon have full sway among the 'solid
business men," The probable subject for a
White Cap visitation alone reni,ins picturesque
and truly rural, as he leans against the wall of
the depot and stoidly giares at the traveller just
alighted, or as he snoozes away the hours be-
tween traiGs in the shadow of the baggage truck.
Your correspondent felt it duty to run again
through the towns covered last week in Craw
ford county. At Taswell the obiging Mr..
Storr impaired the information that MIR. Van
Pei had gone to work with the Air line ballast
gang. Last Monday bundle Of switches lay at
his door He Immediately put away the two
revolvers with which he had sworn 20 exteruni-
nate the night riders and applied to foreman
Miranda for . job at 81 10 per day.
AT English il was learned that the White
Caps had not honored its citizens with another
visit. On the occasion of the brutal whipping
OF the widow Wilson and two men. they prom
ised TO return on the following Friday night
Before that date the population of English had
been reduced TO the number of four. the result
of voluntary emigration, and two men went to
work blowing who had done harder work
than to unload schooners of beer for several
years.
Nothing had been heard of the two Wrights
who escaped the White Cans, and did well to do
so, because they would have been hanged and
not whipped. The scare over the idea that they
would return and ire the town had subsidized.
and the emergency police force of three mem
bers had been reduced to the normal number of
The business men" proudly announce
that pocket-book is safe a doorstep,
anG Rha he ovvp Is 10 ,ofx he
that come every summer to she Hazelwood
Springs. fine hotel quarter of a mile from
the town is called Hazelwood It has never
been q very good Investment, to all reports.
The local paper. in announcing the pur-
chase OF an interest in the resort candidly hsad-
lines the announcement Another Sucker
Caught"
At Marengo there have been develop
ments and none We're expected. Every town