The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-25

There are two indictments as to Ed Moody.
 The case which counsel for Pace elected to appeal for the purpose of testing the law grew out of the holding of Owen Green in peonage.
 Green Tells Terrible Tale. Green told a terrible story to the grand jury before which he appeared on June 12.
 His ahdavit in his own language Is as follows:
 'I first went to Mir. Faces year before last Mir. Charlie Threat. Jim Kennedy and John Pace carried me down there. was hired for wages and he hired me at MT. Pitts barroom in Dadeville. He told me that he would hire me for wages; that I could go to church any time I wanted to on his horses and he would advance me s16 to help my father pay off on a horse he had bought and he was to pay me A a month. He went down to pas after me before I had ever made the contract. 1 signed the contract With him and MT. Anderson Hardie took the con tract and then they went and put me in the lock-up at Mir Faces. Mir. Hell Brown and MT. Jim Kennedy worked me as guards I was made to do farming, locked up at nights and whipped, and MT. Jim Kennedy whipped me five times in one day. Mir. Bob Smith also whipped me. He whipped me four times. MT. Bell Brown whipped me. I was worked under guard and worked year and ten months. They did not pay me my money I could not see Mir. Pace after that. The overseers would not let me go 10 him. Scars on His Back.
 "They whipped scars on me. MT. Jim Todd and Mir. Jim Kennedy made these scars (exhibiting them.) They iaid mo up for week and a half one time. One of the scars on my head Is where MT. Tom Blassingale struck me on the head. He struck me with a stick ms s'iiine vine. and Knocked me senseless. MT. Blassingale was a guard. I was sweled up when I came to pas house and they rubbed me with liniment and the swelling did not go down in three days because was choked in the throat. MT. Jim Fen nedy choked me and jumjed on my head After I was stamped the blood came up from my lungs. I used medicine from pr. Webb who examined me. and Dr. Jim Rushing examined me before came down here. He said my lungs were affected and 1 have hemorrhages from my lungs now. I never had hamorrhages before these whippings. l bled good deal from my lungs after was wh'pr ed The District Attorney says the testi-
 mony of the negro is supported by testl- | mony of white men.
 Also Accuses Cosby. It is said that this negro owen Green l also swore that he was accorded the | same sort of treatment on the farm or | George D. Cosby.
 It will be borne in mind that Pace, G.. D. Cosby and J. F. Turner are Talla- poosa County farmers who lease County convicts and prisoners from the Dadevilie l City Council. Faces place is fourteen
 miles north of Dadeville. Cosby and | Turner live nearer to Dadeville. Jim Kennedy, Jim Todd and Anderson | Hardie mentioned in Greens affidavit are
 under indictment and have made bond. | Kennedy was formerly a Tallapoosa | County magistrate. He is charged by the government with entering into conspir- | acy with Pace and the three Cosbys to | seize negroes under the guise of law ana | deliver them to their plantations It is understood that when the conspir- acy cases are on trial Pace will be an important witness for the government. If the Court of Appeals affirms Pace's s case and the other defendants are con- | victed, 1t is doubtful if Pace will ever be sent to the penitentiary. He is In an al- most helpless physical condition. He suf- fers from a bone disease which has at- fected his feet and he walks with great l effort It Is said that he will be able to produce a surgeon certificate showing | that he Is in a terrible physical condition. Pace seemed to De reneVe0 greatly ny the court proceedings of yesterday, al- | though 1t is said the result of the cases | against him has intensified the anxiety of his co-defendants.
 Witnesses Approached. Since the investigation into peonage l practices began the Government has had l about thirty negro witnesses in Montgom- cry in a boarding house awaiting the | trials.
 | These negroes have been under almost
 constant surveillance of Government off,
 fcials that they might not leave Mont | gomery or be influenced.
 Yesterday Capt. H. c. Dlckey. Secret l Service Agent, who has had charge of the
 received information that the negro wit
 nesses had been visited by two negro
 school teachers of Montgomery who rep resented themselves as being detectives. l It was said the two Montgomery negroes | told the witnesses that they were sent to
 see them by Judge Jones.
 The negro school teachers, whose names
 were withheld, were arrested by Captain l Dickey and were taken before Judge
 Jones in chambers. They pleaded that
 they had visited the witnesses through
 curiosity and denied that they had mis- | represented themselves or used the name | of Judge Jones.
 | After a severe lecture by Judge Jones
 who said he would not tolerate any inter-
 ference with the witnesses, the negroes | were released.
 GEORGIANS FINED Sl,OOO.