The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-11-02
TEE KUKLUX.
r,RDLY OUTRAGE FOLLOWED BY
DAsI' CoWAKDLY MURDER.


Gathered in the Country Near DaltOn-
I'M rolice Captured--An Indignation
Tow" Meeting.
.otber brutal outrage was perpetrat-
,14naIton lust bef3re daylight Sunday
morning 4ho,r+.,a o;+u
5oro3 an inoffensive negro and Dru-
tally beat two others
rho law-abiding people of the city and
.onntv are Justly indignant over the out
rage. o.;,o,
hold in the courthouse Sunday after
van and one thousand dollars was sub
.ori he'd to bring the guilty parties to JUS
S.1.ord committee of three was ap-
1o;n+ed to lay the matter before Govern
" cncb in brief is the story brought to
Atlanta this morning by Mr.. Sam P.
Maddox. one of the committee of three,
and his partner, Mr.. Starr.
The Meeting EIaCS VI Oho VI OLE"
Tho Gang of Kuklux was first seen
ohont dark Saturday evening six miles
trom Dalton by MI. Reuben Keith, a
gentleman who lives on his farm near
Snring Place, but works in Chattanooga.
Mr. Keith came in on the evening
+r,in from Chattanooga, and entering
his buggy, which was waiting for him in
nation. and drove out to his home.
When nearly there he was stopped in
tbe road and his buggy demanded.
II was dark and he could not recog-
,i1e the men. bat he could see that there
was very large crowd.
He was told that his buggy was want
od IA carry sick man home and he was
nude to Get out and walk to his home
He thought it was high-handed piece
Of bnsiness, but he could not understand
II as he found his horse and buggy in
his lot Yesterday morning.
He understood it all when the news of
+he outrage in Dalton reached him.
Captured the Town Police.
About two o'clock Sunday morning the
mob reached Dalton, coming IN on Thorn
ton avenue, the main residence street OF
Of the little city in the mountains.
Each member kept very quiet, turning
out every gas lamp that was passed.
The first indication of anything wrong
was when night marshal j. G. Fincher,
and his assistant, Milligan Quillian, were
oyerpowered by gang of two hundred
men.
Each man wore a long black mask
over his face. a mask in which two holes
for the eyes and one for the nose were
cut.
Turned Them into Guides.
The marshals, with pistols pressed
against their heads, were forced to act as
guides to the lawleSs mob.
The officers tried in vain to recognize
some of the men. Ali that they could see
was that the crowd comforting together
while they were in the hands of spe-
ciaI guard was naked and that the spe-
cial guard was also masked.
A Man and Wife Brutally Beaten.
Under threat of instant death the
marShals were made to guide the mob
to the house of Tom Harlan, hard
working negro who recently voted the
Democratic ticket
On reaching the house it was broken
open, Tom and his wife in their night
clothes were dragged out of their beds
and into the yard.
Just before entering the house the
leaders of the mob lighted large torches
made of cotton dipped in kerosene.
In the fiaring light of these torches the
frightened negroes were held by some
while the others gave them an unmerci-
full beating.
They were left more dead than alive by
the inhuman mob.
Murder Most Foul.
With fiaring torches and yelling like
demons, the mob hurried to the home of
Jack Wilson, another negro who had
voted the democratic ticket.
The tiaring torches and the yell of the
crowd awoke Jack, and he sprang out
of bed just as the door was battered
down.
He made frantic effort to escape and
struck some Of the foremost members of
the gang.
This seemedtO outrage the brutes, for
they drew their pistols and shot him
dead on his own hearthstOne.
Several bullets were fired into his
brain and heart and he must have died
Immediately.
Other Houses Broken Open.
Not satisfied with committing one out
rage and with staining their hands with
the blood of an innocent man, the out
laws visited several other houses Occu-
pied by well known negroes and broke
down the doors.
The occupants had heard them coming
or had left home early in the night, and
thus the mob was prevented from doing
further deeds OF violence.
Made the Night HideOus.
After finishing the diabolical work the
gang, with boots and yells, rushed along
the streets firing pistols and waving far