The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-12-23
MORE, CRIMES
Blythe RIDERS
illnesses Tell Of Their
Visits.
SOLDIERS GUARD PRISONERS
Judge tones WIN Not Hold Court
tomorrow.
judy Agrees To suspend FOR one Day
onls--,seisn of Terror In sAs
Rselfoot Lake Dl.sr.es
Described.

/ Union City. Tenn, Dec. 2s-when
Mrs. Emma Jackson. one Of the states
witnesses this afternoon In the night
rider trial. was excused from the stand.
she turned to Judge Jones and said
- win not leave the court room with
out armed protection. / know those
! men I" -
Mrs. jackson told . vivid story Of
| ing Fred FehrinRers testimony In many
details. as did other witnesses. and
Identified BY name at least twenty-sev-
en- members OF the band. she was fol--
lowed on the stand by her daughter,
! Miss Dora jackson. an 1S-year-old giri,
l who corroborated her mother.
The last witness OF the day was win
RUSSELL another night rider. who has
turned states evidences Russell came
TO Union City after. the Rankin KILL
/ ing and made q confession He was
trembling with fear and could scarcely
raise his Voice above a whisper. The
Attorney General had to repeat most Of
| his answers in ordas that the Jury
| might hear them. He Is under constant
| guard, fearing be will be killed In spite
Of the precautions taken.
Russelfs story was practically the
same as that told by Fehr1nger ana
supported II In every detail. Cross ex-
animation was deferred until Wednes-
day morning.
Judge Jones permitted the jury in the
night riders case TO decide upon the
1 holiday adjournment Some OF the
! Jurors. favored holding court Christ
mas day, others were willing to ad-
lourn until Monday but the majority
favored recess on Christmas day on-
/ ~, Thereupou the Judge announced
that an adjournment would be taken
on Thursday until Saturday, but only
2 couple Of hours win be occupied on
that day.
The prisoners were brought into
court today handcuffed ~ pairs with
8 detail Of two soldiers for each pair,
The soldiers with rides helted at the
canTE room door ana other aoidiera.
Armed with revoivaFR met tha priso-e
nefs At the thecAlioid and escorted
them So the bar.
John shaw Testtnes.
John Shaw was the arst witness. He
was the proprietor Of q store near
Reel-foot Lake The riders forced
him to give them oil to pour on the
fish docks when they were burned and
later whipped him when he tried to 90
before the grand jury.
Shaw said that the night riders wore
black mother hubbards' and black
masks and tried to disguise their vol
ces by talking in false tones
When Shaw was summoned before
the grand jury he tried to alp into
town at night. The riders caught him
and threatened to kin him. Finally they
gave him his choice Of q switching or
hanging. He told them he was not
anxious to endure either. but if he had
to make choice. he would prefer the
whipping. He got it.
Shaw amused the court by his quaint
answers to questions of counsel At
ter the riders whipped him. they told
him to run.
ibid you run?' inquired the court.
"You oughter have seen me-" retorted
the witness.
Martin LepnaTd, another farmer, near
Reelfoot Lake. was visited by the rid
ers and given 1--WE days to move under
penalty Of being hanged. Asked IL he
moved. he casually observed. that he
was sim alive. but his home was
burned.
witness after witness told Of vista
tions by the riders but there was no
Identification and no effort made TO con-
meet the raids with the murder Of Cap
tain Rankin or his murderers.
one witness. a Mrs. Leonard. asked
how many there were In the band
that visited her. said:
ABOUT 200. reckon. The woods were
full of 'em."
the reign of terror In the Reelfoot dis.
~friet inaugurated by the riders and to
prove that the murder of Captain Ran
Kin was only an instance of the gigan-
tic conspiracy
ed states evidence. had described these
raids in detail and the host of witnesses
are now being used simply to corrob-
crate the testimony he gave.
Several witnesses we're called to iden-
tifv A map of the Reelfoot Lake district
and 10 designate on 1t the points OF the
night rider depredattons.
The proceedings become so monoto-
no,.s that the court room was soon ale
most deserted.
The AFTERNOON witnesses continued
corroboration of FerinEer's confess
sion detail by detail, raid by raid.
Old man Pagan. referred to so often
cleared up the mystery of his name
N is Harvey. He was taken out and |
ybinned He didn't know what he
was whipped with, but 1t felt pow
srfut ike a piece of leather"
THE day the soldiers arrested Gar
rett Johnson, one of the defendants. |
thew drove with him to Camp Memo
AS they passed cottage q woman saw
the prisoner, threw up her arms and
screamed Now thank God I can tell |
what know" she was taken under
guard to Union city for her own pro-
tsctfon. The woman was Mrs. Jack
son and she was called to the stand
this afternoon.
The riders came to her home forced
her TO dress and accompany them to
her fathers with her husband and
daughter. They ordered her to kill
some dogs she owned and burned her
ssther's house. She Identified Garrett
Iohrson as the leader. The riders
came back two nights later, forced
her to go to her fathers. half clad.
and said there had been some talking
done. They whipped her father and
then her sister. She heard her sister
whereupon they threatened to whip
Again she recognized Garrett John
son and several others.
third time they called to force
her to get rid OF her sisters little
child because the latter had quarrel
led with a neighbours child. They told