Nevada County picayune., 1890-04-02

bers appeared in sight, firing at the two as they approached. The doc tor and the boy mounted and lied. The boy was thrown from his horse and both boy and horse were cap tured. The widow has neither seen nor heard from the horse to this day. The mob pursued the doctor, firing as they followed him, and calling on him to halt The doctor halted. He has never seen his horse since. Ar ter robbng me of my rifle and pistol and everything else they needed, they marched to Parac'ifta. In the meantime, Clayton had sent negro company to re-enforce CatterSon. It joined him at Paraclifta; and, on the way, one of the negro militia brutally raped Mrs. Tom Brooks, a most estimable lady who resided near Paraclfta. And yet Clayton still lives, The citizens, now thor oughlv aroused, sent deputation to Catterson at Paraclfla, headed by its spokesman, Capt. E. F. Forney, to assure the general that the people were peaccable, lawabiding citizens, and asked him what more was re- quired of them than to do as the gen. eral had asked them to do, while he was camped on the Little Missouri! He gave a vague answer, and con tinued his march, robbing as he went. He next rested at Rocky Comfort. While there, he arrested two young white men named Wal lace and Cardwell, and hanged them to a black jack limb, From thence he proceeded to Richmond. Henry
 Damell, prominent farmer, had hidden out his mules to keep Cater son from stealing them. The rob-
 bers caught one of Damell's tenant farmers, an old white gentleman named Murphy, and swung him up to a limb with trace cham. because he refused to tell where Damells mules were. The thieves left Mur- phy for dead. His wife took him
 down barely alive. For weeks the old man crawled about with the print of the links of the trace chain on his
 neck. Catterson also caught an eleven-year-old white boy, named
 Billie Broadwater, who lived on MT
 Damell's farm, and hung him with a surcingle to limb, because he would
 not tell where Damel's mules were.
 With refined cruelty, worthy of
 the days of the inquisition, when the lad was almost dead, they cut him
 down. Upon his again manfully re-
 fusing to tell where the mules were,
 the towards swung him up a second
 time, They cut him down again, but the noble boy delied them to the last. Cattcrson next placed under bond, for their appearance at the next term of the Little River circuit court, in amounts ranging from one to five thousand dollars, nineteen white men and one negro. The poor Democratic negro's bond was placed at j.O00. He gave the bond in an hour. During this raid, in time of peace, more than three years after the war had closed, Catterson's men stole from the citizens of Sevicr and Little River counties between GOO and 800 head of horses and mules. When the general was asked by the best citizens what they must do to get possession of their stock again, they were coolly told to go to Little Rock and apply for them. The farmer who was silly enough to go, was asked three leading questions, as follows: lst. Are you legal voter? He answered, yes. 2nd. Did you resist Cattcrson's authority! He answered, no. Sd. Did you vote for Grant: If he answered, yes, he was told to get his horse, if he could find him, which he never succeeded in doing. If he answered no, he was told his horse was dead. While Catterson was in Seyier cOun- ty, he was jolned by about fifty of it's citizens. If there were any diff ference in the degrees of crime com mitted by Cattcrson's cut-throats, the meanest, the dirtest, the vilest, were committed by these infamous rencgades. Some of them are now living, and are known as leading members of the so-called Union La-