The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-23
MAzoN SHOWS HIS STRIPES.
a Negro Convict's Flesh Scared AMI
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a Negro Convict's Flesh Scared anil
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| The next witness was Il negro, very
! black, named Joe Macon. He is of middle
age and most powerfully buiIta good
brick-maker and a fine blacksmith. He
was sent to the penitentiary about -
years ago for life, having been convict
ca of murder He killed a white man
named Lawrence in quarrel.
| His dgmeanOr ON the stand was such
as to convince all who heard him that
he was telling the whole truth.
Before he testified Chairman Brown
| told Macon that the committee could do
nothing for him on the one hand, and
on the other hand that nothing he might
say would ever be used against him.
This same caution is always given
to the cOnvicts who are put on the stand
to testify in this investigation.
BEAT HlALLYBURTON TO DEATH
The negro said he worked for a Dong
while under Sunmerel lie went there
from Caledonia farm No. L. He got
| there between l. and / O'Clock There
were five others with him: Frank How
aGd John Halliburton, Gus Wilson, an
ora nam named Price and boy.
where are these men now 2"
"Summerell beat HALLIBURTON to death
He beat him eight days then sent him to
MIR. Bradshaw on the railroad and
heard he died soon after he got there
left the other men | named ut North
amrton farm"
'Well, when we got to Sumanerells
farm we sat down and didn't get in line
when the bell rang We were waiting
for them to tell us what to do But
Stimmereil and Safer came around ours
ing and abusing us, and SummereH told
me to get my pants down for a whipping
1 was slow about it and he struck me
with his hand and then two or three
times with the butt end OF his whip.
hen he put the other comyicts ON me.
He whipped me- then Safer whipped me,
then Russell and then somebody else.
don't knew who | know. though that
| was whipped four times. Dolph Safer
hit me over the head with a hoe was
perfectly raw on the body. | worked
chat day and next day / was was laid
up in the hunks. | stayed there about
fifteen days. During that time they gave
me nothing to cat and If hadn't had
little money I'd Il persisted"
When did they give you something to
eat?"
AS soon as / got so / could hobblc
to the dining room"
The committee had the witness to eX.
hibit his body where he had been whip
ped and the marks Of the lash werc
plainly visible on his back and legs
Some of the scars were three inches
long. They were ON all parts of the
middle body
"Why did you pull your knife on Sum
merel?'
Il didn't do it. 1t fell out on the
ground. But tried to get to it."
''For what purpose?"
TO cut them niggers off of me"
DIDN'T EVEN RAISE THE ASHES.
Were you ever whipped by any OF
the other oyerseers?"
Il was whipped here once or twice in
1897"
Were you whipped badly"
Didn't raise the ashes on me-"
Ever see any others whipped here?"
"They don't whip here like they d.,
ON the farms. just Init you five or sir
ticks"
Did any doctor attend you at Sum
merelTs?'
mo, except that the steward fixed me
mp some kind of grease. ] showed it 10
DR.. Furgeson one day and he didn't do
anything for me-
did you know Gahe Elliott?"
Eyes. lie died right there at the
same place / was. He was transferred
from Castle Hayne. made coffin
for him."
do you know what was the matter
with him?"
Il don't know. He died in the quar-
ters there frost bitten"
''When was that?"
During the hig snow. But he didn't
die till after the snow"
Have you ever shown those marks t.
anybody beforeY'
No. I've never been asked by any
body till today"
WHIPPED OUT WHOLE SQUADS.
did you ever know them to beat any
body else like your"
''Of course | worked i'm the shop and |
didn't know what was done in the field.
But | saw what was done in the yard
He often struck them there Is or 30
lasales. And often an overseer would
whip out his whole squad"
Were You there when Jim Lowe
died?"
Eyes. was working at the threshcr
and Jim Sears beat him to death"
did the overseers whip the men in
the field without Summerell being pres
ent?'
Not so far as | know. Mr.. Summer
ell supervised the whipping. He'd 60
out ON his horse and take his strap with
him. Ii he didn't take it he'd send back
for it."
BAD BEEF AT CASTLE HAYNE