The leader., 1901-02-20
THE MOSES NEGROES.
Their Black Record as Blind
Tigers in BrOokhaycn,

iStES III DfOOknaNGn.
Pursuant to the order of the Boar6
OF Supervisors passed at its last meet
ing, Sheriff Applewhite took Charlie,
Moses into custody again last Thurs
day morning and returned him TO tn,
county convict farm for violation o.
the conditions of his release. Though
IL mad been week since the Board
acted on his case, Moses had not heard
OF the order, and was taken by sur
prise when the Sheriff told him what
he was wanted for. He had been uu
town all the morning standing around
the corners and doubtless giving tips
to seekers after the ardent when the
Sheriff scooped him in.
The following is the order of the
Board of Supervisors, passed at the
September meeting, and on which he
obtained his liberty.
IN THE MATTER OF TIE PETITION OF
CHARLEY MOSES FOR DISCHARGE FROM
CUSTODY.
This cause coming on to be heard on
the petition of Charley Moses to be
discharged from Jail or the custody of
the county farm superintendent. be
cause of bodily intirmity, apparently
permanent, and having produced with
said petition the certificate of the
Sheriff of said county and of two
reputable physicians in reference to
such intirmity, and the said petition
and certificate being endorsed and his
discharge recommended by DR.. J. b.
Daughtry, Mayor of the City of Brook
haven, Louis Cohn, W. II. Seayey and
other worthy citizens of Brookhaven.
ard the same having been considered
by the Board it is ordered that the
said Charley Moses be discharged from
further custody on the following con-
ditions:
|. The said prisoner is to be charged
with two years at $500 per month,
amounting to $500, which sum- less
the proper credit at $500 per month
for the time he has served in custody.
he is required to pay.
=. He is further to pay all the costs
of the prosecution in his case.
3. The Board reserves the right to
cancel and vacate this order, if at any
time hereafter it has good reason to
believe that the said Moses is engag.
ing in the unlawful sale of liquor: this
order being made on condition that
the said Charley Moses refrain from
unlawful retailing.
On the payment to the sheriff of the
money to cover the items above men
toned, the said sheriff and county
farm superintendent are hereby di-
rected to discharge him from custody.
At its last meeting the Board had
good reason to believe that Cha riley
Moses had not only violated the terms
of his release, as recited above, but
that either he or some one in his
house, actually sold the liquor to Tom
Lard on which he got drunk the night
he.was murdered 1t was, therefore
not only justified in resembling its
former order, but its action in the
matter was one of the plainest duty and
obligation to the public and it is to be
commended for its promptness in
recognizing the fact.
The most surprising part of the
whole transaction is that a negro of
Charley Moses bad reputation, could
obtain recommendation for pardon
from the high and Influential quarter
referred to by the Board in its Septem
Der proceedings, aud which influenced
that body to grant its conditional
pardon. 1t is true Moses has carried
MANNED hand for several years, but
otherwise he is a stout aud able-boiiei /
negro Scores of men. white and
black. all over the country, worse
MANNED than he, are making a honest
living by manual labor. Really, the
county could far better afford to make
water carrier aud stock feeder of him
on the county farm for the rest of his
natural existence, than it can to have
him at large, running a blind tiger in
Brook haven as he has 50 persistently
done heretofore.
The LEADER has made as full an ia
ves.igation of Charley Moses record
in the Circuit Court as a whisky seller,
as time would permit, and we find the
figures in the record as follows:
INDICTMENTS.