The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-03
|Alt OF HORIZON
AWFUL BRUTALITY ppnc-
UNDER THE PEONAce
SYSTEM.
ALABAMA PEOPLE ARE AROvsfn
SHOCKING FACTS BROUGHT an
IN PEoNAGE AND cANsp,R.
ACY CASES.
0 TORTURED TO DEATH
HORRIBLE TALE ..fE!CG CIvrc a.
IDEA Or THE CRUELTLss
INFLICTED.

Montgomery, Ala, July /. - Severn,
more arrests have been made since
Saturday in the peonage and consnir.
acy asses. Among them are those n,
l.. A. Grogan, deputy sheriff of Coosa
charged with assisting in carrvin.
Emma Paesron to condition Of peon.
age which means that ne Ice, hi,
badge and his office to delude this sns
other negroes into thinking they hat
really been arrested FOR something
and of j. Wilburn Harrison. arains,
whom there are five indIctments fl,
conspiracy to injure and oppress.
Harrison is to be tried for being ons
Of the affidavit men whose particp.
lar part was to fake and trump I'D ac.
]cusatiOnS against friendless negroes
who it was desired to place or to con.
.tinue in bondage. Grogan protests
that he did nothing that he recognized
as wrong, and that if he did all The
white people of COOsa county
Are In the Same Box
with him. But there are indications
that the men involved in the conspr.
acy knew we'll enough that they were
to assist in getting prisoners fined
without a trial, then 10 dispose Of
them at an advance on the amount Of
the fine ard to Withhold from the coun.
ty treasury the money SO collected.
This could hardly appear 20 any officer
of the law as right.
Some idea of the grave abuses com.
mitted by quarry owners, Landlords,
constables, magistrates and guards in
volved in ''depriving citizens Of Afr.
can descent" of their liberty, and
which the federal courts are undertak.
ing to end a be had from the sworn
testimony Of blacks, often COrrobOr-
ated by whites-testimony on which
the grand j1ry unanimously found
n~inety-nine indictments and wanted TO
find more. If any man entertains
doubts as to the cruelties practiced he
has but to read the following story Of
a negro woman
Tortured to Death.
A negress in good health was beaten
so much and subjected to such awful
torture from 8 O'Clock until 2 O'Clock
that she died an hour later, 3 O'Clock
After being beaten until her back was
blistered and bloody, she was strung
up by her wrists, her feet being TIED
together. She was hOisted till her
fnoc hornlu touched thn Ground In
this position she was kept from ~
o'clock in the morning till the dinner
bell rang at IL, when she was orderel
cut down. She was still alive anu
went behind a log, on the brow oil a
hill, to lie down. When the dinner
hour was over the guard went up 70
where she lay and ordered her bach
to work. He mistook her inablllty "
work for stubbornness; he struck ner
on the head with his pistol. Then 10
jumped upon her stomach" ls
guard then returned to the piac'
where the other poems were at WoiA'
and
Sent Word Back
dller a while by one OF thS poON'
dering her to come on down to worn
1t was then about 3 O'Clock. The peon
said: Boss, she can't come to WON
She's dead"
The grand jury Of that county w
dertook an investigation of this dean,
At the trial the witnesses did not 'e"
anything because they Didn't want
be thrown in the river and feared wv
would be killed" The proprleals
Told us we had better not tell any
thing"
Some forty negroes and nesres's.
have been found whose grievances
to whippings have been outlaWeu !"
the statute of limitation, three y.'
The details are distressing anu "
not vary much.