Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-09-12

Condition = An Alleged Investigation.
Daily Advertiser, Montgomery, Ala,l
II the statements of two Negroes.
j i'm Beavers and his wife, who occu-
py cabin on the Reese plantation. are
to be credited, a great outrage WAS
committed on the Washington Ferry
Road i'm this county, several miles
from town, early Sunday morning
THE WORK OF THE MOB
A mob of white cappers visited the
home of Beavers the man escaped but
the woman was dragged out and car
ried in a buggy to a swamp by the riv
er near the Washington Ferry and
there cruelty fiogged That she was
beaten by some one there is no doubt
the statement of u reliable physician
verifies this fact whether it was real
ly the work of white cappers, remains
to be developed by evidence, and in
the meantime the stories of the Negro
man and woman tend that way.
An Advertiser reporter learned OF
the occurrence yesterday morning
from reports which circulated in West
End. He was referred TO DIR. W. +
Sadler and called upon the gentleman
at his home, corner o: wilkerson and
Montgomery streets. DIR. Sadler said /:
THE BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
cit seems that last Thursday or Fri
day Mr.. w. T. Smith, who lives near
Washington Ferry, had some trouble
with the Negro Jim Beavers
Jim, understand was doing some
work-hoing in the garden, when Mr.
Smith reprimanded him for not at
tending to his duty properly. The Me-
7 gro demonstrated with him asking him
( not to curse and abuse him. This en-
ragged Mr.. Smith and caused him &c
t grab an iron hay fork and make lunge
8 at Beaver who received the prongs OF
7 the weapon in his left arm. And il
D trying to get the fork away from the
9 overseer, he was struck again in the
: left side over the heart
SERIOUS WOUND.
y 1.-THE first wound was not serious
Beavers came to me on Saturd ay
o morning to have his wounds dressed
6 found that the fork prongs had pene
d trated the darky's arm below tn,
:. elbow while the arm was in bent posi-
: tion, and then struck in the muscula
part near the shoulder. The wound il
: the side was more serious, the prong
!. narrowly missing the heart and wen
i into the cavity.
n while dressing the wounds Beav
Is ers expressed TO me fear of mob vio
II lence, he was afraid Mr.. Smith
friends nould try to punish him jim
70 admitted having struck MIR. Smith ant
y also having scratched him in the face
d Then he said that some of the Negroe
II from Pratt's. plantation had come t
him with the information that som
l. white men we're going to give him
If thrashing either Saturday or Sunda
r. night.
y PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE.
Ot GAS a precautionary measure ! az
vised him to take his wife and spen
i'll Friday and Saturday nights away fro
* home, his wife being in delicate cor
dition. Sunday night they were
the cabin of Mack Graham on I'll
Reese plantation"
eyes, the mob really came. Sundi
morning Beavers came to my hou
~ about O'Clock distressed and out
80 breath. Doctor" said he, ''the
! men come to get me. / heard the
- before they got to the house and Jun
"a ed out of the window they shot at n
~ three or four times, but got away al
'is hid in the cotton rows
an MAD BECAUSE THEY MISSED HIN.
nd They were mad because they couldi
ELL get me, and then they dragged 4
30 poor wife out of bed, made her get il
srs buggy in her night clothes, and to
IN her two or three miles down to t
ty river, swan on the Prattville road
an the Turner place.
II. There were about fifteen white m
A, wearing handkerchiefs over their fac
ste and all carried guns or pistols.
on
mr. TREY BEAT HIS WIFE.
They beat my wife over the head
making her get up, and then VIII
carrying her down the road, one af
the other jabbed her in the side W
their guns, and cursed her for eve
Mt thing they could think of.
T Doctor, I want you to go and
nr- her"
'cH CRIED PITlFULLY.
ap This was Jim Beavers statem
len and while making it he cried pitiful
he / went with him to my office in w
the End. where he had left his wife
there found her.
From her / learned that she had b
taken by the white cappers as her h
, band described. and certainly she
frightfully beaten. / have seen ma
:. bad cases. but without exception