The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-09

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THREw HIS LIFELEss BODY OFF CLIFF.
of their u stols, calling him an old liar and
traitor: and at length Parker stepped up,
and with the utmost coolness shot him IN
the breast, holding the pistol so close to his
body that his clothes were considerably
burned He lay whole day aud night at
the place where he was shot, and his friends
were positively afraid TO 60 and bury his
dead body lie was 65 years of age.
This company of inhuman murderers left
their gray-haired victim weltering in his
blood. and started forward TO bathe their
hands in some other poor Union mans blood.
They had not proceeded far from the place
where they had committed their last tragedy
until they met with an old man by the name
of David Oaks, who they Immediately shot
down rs if be had been a wild beast, with
out exchanging a word with him.
portion of the Home Guards of john
son County. commanded By old Bill Parker,
went to The house of Levi Guy. He was 20
years old, and scarcely knew what either
side of the eontending parties was fighting
about The only charge against him was
that he had two sons in the Federal army,
and one scouting in the mountains, his
fourth son having died in Richmond The
old man was sitting at the table eating his
breakfast when these fiends rode up to his
door and told him they had come to take him
off He arose from the table and went out
to them. when they tied his hands behind
his back and started him on in the road be-
fore them. His daughter, being deeply con-
cerned about the probable fate of her aged
father, started TO follow them, when some of
these reckless demons rode back aud caught
hold Of her very roughly, and whipped her
until The blood ran from her arms and back
profusely. and then drove her back to the
house
They drove this old man on before them
like dumb animal doomed to the slaughter
pen for a distance Of half mile, when they
stopl ed and twisted a hickory withe, and
hung him mp to limb of tree, some Of
them holding him up to the limb while
others tied the withe. The withe was too
stiff to close tightly around his neck, and
consequently his toes touched the ground
and IA this situation he suffered all the in
describable agonies of horrible death! In
the evening the daughter who had received
such severe flagellation at the hands Of
fa II
could discover anything in regard to her
father She followed the trail Of the horses
until she arrived at the SPOT where her
father was hanging by the neck The
ground Immediately under him was worn
perfectly smooth where be had moved his
toes backward and forward while he was
STRUGGLING IN THE FEARFUL AGoNIEs OF
DEATH
She Jet him down and then returned to
the house and got her aged mother and
some children and went back and carried
her dead father to the house and buried him
the next day. Oh, what dreadful act of
cruelty to be perpetrated by civilized men
in a Christian land, where the light of the
glorious gospel of the Son of God brightly
illaminates the pathway to heaven, wherein
all may walk without stumbling who desire
TO shun the broad road that leads to hell.
Enocli Guy, son of Levi Guy, who was a
FedeIal soldier. was captured and shot at
the house of George Campbell. The first
ball tnat was shot at him wounded him in
the side of the head. He was taken of
about a quarter of a mile and shot with
three more balls, one of them striking him
in his read and the other two in his breast
His murderers then stripped him of his
clothin". and threw his lifeless body off of a
cliff Wa ch was at least 40 feet in hight
among the sharp rocks that covered the
ground below, which mangled his body in a
horrible manner. He belonged to the 9th
Tenn Cav, and was recruiting for that regi-
meni when he was captured. His recruit.
ing papers were found in his pockets
Campb,ll's house was Immediately burned
because Guy had been found there.
The next that was murdered by thes,
brutal feuds was David Guy, son of Lev
Guy. who also Federal soldier. He had
come i.af8e a short visit TO his family and
was in hls house when the Home Guard rod,
up 10 ms door. lie walked out and sur
rendered, when one OF these inhuman mur
derers drew out his pistol aud shot him in tn,
SHOULDER. lie now begged them not 10 xii
him, telling them that he was a Federal soldier
and then their prisoner. lis poor wifi,
came oat and stood like statue OF distress be
tween her husband aud his murderers. alC
begged them with fearful eyes to spare his life
and his little children. who were weeping mos
pteonsiy implored them with ali their childisl
elocuence not 10 kill their father But tn,
sorIowirl wall of the wife and the mournfu
cries of her children altogether failed t,
awaken any feeling of human pity in thes,
monsters for one of them proceeded to shoe
him in the back, and then others of the part,
sprang of of their horses and pushed his VIII.
violently away and kicked some of the children
down. They then robbed him of his none,