The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-02
ANO THREE OTHER MEN
ISSUED ON AFFIDAVIT OF A NE
GRO POLITICIAN.
SAYS THEY COMPELLED HIN TO RESIGN
He Was Registrar in Roseneath Township. War
rant Returnabla Before Judge Mont
gomery. The Negro is rot
Going Back.
Seeing themselves beaten,

Seeing themselves beaten,
Failing to scare anybody with threats
of Federal troops,
Finding that taking down negroes and
putting up white men at the last moment
Doesn't work worth cent,
The Fusionists have now decided to
exhaust the judiciary to maintain negro
supremacy in North Carolina and keep
themselves in power.
Capt. Buck Kitchin, the old Halifax
war-horse and implacable enemy Of Re
publicanism, has been chosen as the first
victim.
With him is to be taken his son and
son-in-law and some close friends, five in
number. They are to be arrested at
once by the sheriff and brought before
a court charged with a misdemeanor.
And who brings this charge? Afri-
canus Bluejean Holton. On whose state
ment? A negro politician named B. b.
Steptoe, registrar for Roseneath town
ship, Halifax county.
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and spent the day with Chairman Holton
and George White, the niger Congress
man. As result of this bad associa-
tion the following affidavit was last
night made by him before Justice Walter
A. Montgomery, of the Supreme Court
of North Carolina:
State of North Carolina.
Before w. a. Montgomery, Associate
- %1o nt1rt al
Chambers in the City of Raleigh, No
vember 1st, 1898.
B. B. Steptoe, being duly sworn, says
that he was duly appointed by the elec
ton board of Halifax county as the Re
publican Registrar for ROseneath pre-
cinct in said county for the genera
eiection to be held on the Sth of No
vember, 1888, and has been performing
the duties as such registrar.
That on the night of October 10Th
1898. about the hour of 10 o'clock p. m.
after the said B. B. Steptoe and hi.
family had retired. w. III. Kitchin
Claude Kitchin. DR.. A. G. Liverman
Thomas Fenner, Il. L. Whitehead, Joil
Gray and others went to the house o
the said affiant in the county of Hall
fax. North Carolina, armed with gun
and pistols, and demanded entrance. an,
upon being refused broke open the doc
with scantling by breaking the latcl
and forced their entrance. In the mean
time the said affiant had crawled under
the house for protection. The said par
ties. after searching the house. raiset
Il plank in the fioor where they found
affiant and demanded of him that ht
come out. The wife of said affiant at
tempted TO make an outcry when the
said A. c. Liverman seized her by th,
throat and told her that if she did not
hush he would kill her. Then they de
manded of said affiant his resignation
as registrar of said precinct w. I'll
Kitchin said they had been sent there
by club of 265 men to demand of him
his resignation and that if he did not
give it they would kill him, but if he
would resign they would not hurt him
ClaHde tenn demanded that he write
1t out and said. write to S. M. Gary
Clerk of the Superior Court. I hereby
tender my resignation as registrar 70,
Roseneath Precinct" and ordered affi
ant TO date and sign it. which he did
Claude Kitcren then took the paper af
ter which w. Fl. Kitchin said. "If vor
ever tell it we will kill you in less thar
twenty-four hours. and we will do if il
it takes lis twelve years. and If We
thought you would tell it we would xii
you now in self defence" He then SAID
he would file the resignation day O,
two before the election.
That affiant was forced TO give this
resignation through fear Of being killed