The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-02-17

hour. He heard no cursing. but he him
self asked a convict IL he couldn't 90
any further. He said he saw no CON
victs wade any stream and saw no .4len
! who had lost their shoes or had old ones
as every man had been given new shoes
ard trousers the night before. Ra SAID
the men were al tired. as he was, whcn
they reached Marion. but nc saw none
in very bad condition from the march.
IN answer to superintendent Mann nc
said he gave the sick men milk at Ma
rion. He said he heard no complain,
about any men not getting supper. lie
vas not N charge of the commissa-v.
p. Fl. Raspberry, steward under Capt.
Lashlcy ON the march from Marion, said
to Mr.. Pharr that his duties were feed
ing the prisoners and he made the Tip
on 2 wagon with two prisoners. He said
he had orders from Capt. Lashley TO fix
up three days rations of biscuit and
meat and that threc-fourths pound OF
meat a day and one-half pound of Hour
to the meal to each man. lie saw the
men cross Toe river on the ice and there
was not more than one and one-half or
two inches CT water on the ice on the
other side Of the river. He got TO Ma
rion when the prisoners We're being placed
On the train.
H. NIL cIl ~ Il &c nv NAc
got no supper. Witness said three were
overlooked when helping unload at Ma
rion, but he saw to it personally taat
they were fed. He said Capt. LaShlcy
asked hin about coffee but he didn't see
any way to get it. lie SAID he didn't
see any way to get it made in Marion.
They had no coffee that night and none
for breakfast. He said under ,rcssure
from Mr.. Pharr, that if h. had gone to
the trouble to build a fire he could have
given them coffee, but he made no ef-
fort. The $50 c%onvicts preferred whis-
key he thought.
f. f. C~rcedmoor, a guard, examined
by Mr.. Morton, said he was on the trip
10 Marion from Spruce Pine, He walked
the entire distance. Saw no shoe!es5
prisoners. lee on Toe river was covered
with one and q half inches or two inches
of water for about eight feet. He saw
& convict start to cut across the field,
and Mr.. Boyd was the guard in front
OF him, but Boyd threatened in no way.
He saw no mon fall off the fences and saw
70 convicts sick from nausea in the
streets Of Marion. Men had plenty for
dinner. superintendent Mann asked #
after making that march he didn't sit
up all night and he answered in the
affirmative. He said on January 18th he
walked from Marion to Spruce Pine,
leaving at s o'clock and reaching lis
destination by 4 o'clock in the afternoon
besides making two stops. The distance
is twenty-three miles.
He said he wore his overcoat but it
was warm.
j. e. Hoskins, supervisor of convicts,
who had been steward under Maj Nc
liver, was along to help on tn" march.
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he said he saw no water on the ice. This
roads he said were bad and that the
c~onvicts crossed on logs when the
streams were not frozen. He heard no
oath on the trip and the food was good
and coffee hot. He said UP 20 serrn
miles from Marion no convict lad given
out. He was sent ahead then to get the
cars ready and didn't notice that the
cars were not heated until the prisoners
arrived. He thought the mud on the
march would average two inches an'
there was mud on the bottom of the
trousers legs. He said the mud was
worse in the streets Of Marion than OF,
the roads. Mr.. Morton said he asked
this because the committee had seen
some Of the streets in Marion. He said
men often appear to be exhausted Isl
to try to get a ride. Witness said he
| E6dIu SdpU- 1HtSliIty don JIG tINbOI iiis
night before the trip especially about
the sick men and the doctor said they
were capable OF the trip. He said Capt.
Lashley asked the doctor to cone back
next morning and be sure and the doctor
did so, saying the sick men were ready
for the trip.
w. T. Smith, a foreman, working fol
the railroad company, was on the trip
He made the trip on a mule and was i:
front Of the convicts the last ten miles
six or seven of which was very bad. Tn
mud was fairly deep. 1t wasn't shoe
top" but was "shoe-mouth'' deep.
The squads he saw, he thought capable
of making even a longer march that day
He saw some of the sick but they Were
not much under his supervision. OEt
complaint about shoes came from ont
man to Capt. Lashlcy and the Captain
said, III get you more shoes" He sale
he had made seventy-five miles in three
days marching with convicts in dry, dust!
roads. He helped issue coffe at Dime
time.
Robert Maynard was not on the Jan
uary march. He testified that he one
saw a guard get on a convict and star
to ride him across the Toe river, hn
: Capt. Lashley called to him and mad
hif get off. The man rode abonl hal
way. The convict offered to carry tn
guard across for a nickle, but he he oni,
got half way witness couldn't tell tn
: committee whether he paid convict Q
, not. This was the only Instance he eve
t knew of.
G. =. Huntley, a guard, who was o.
5 the trip the front squad, said not a on
t Of his squad complained of fatigue o
/ gave out. Five of his eighteen men wer
I not shackled. The chains We're no
heavy, being small but about three Q
four feet long.
-, He said he rode a mula about an hour
but let somebody have it, and someho'
he didn't get it back. His feet were We
when he got to Marion. He saw no me
exhausted.
J H. Britt. a guard who was on tn
march, knew nothing OF the sick one:
: He said he had the front squad and tW
men wanted a mule. He didn't kno'
? whether the men gave out or not. II
= said only parts Of the road were muddy
8 He said he walked in the best places b