The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-07

be If remembered was without d WAL
| rant, without a preliminary examlna-
| ton, without any threats, OF uIfuii-
ness on my part. After two months
here) [ was, on Sabbath morning,
handcuffed to a chain. Ia negro ptacK-
smith hammering the rivets until they
cut through the skin OF my WTlstS)
with six Others. gentlemen OF charac-
ter and two of them not even hu-
into another cholera breeding cage
(and here U. S. Marshal Carrow con-
fessed to me that the caplas Tor my
arrest a not yet come from Ralelgh)
| carried to Raleigh, packed with SIX
teen grown men in one filthy room III
Wake Jail, under circumstances OF III
deScribable suffering.
Then followed the farce OF a trial.
'Jeffreys'' Bond took the bench. ms
tools got together a jury consisting or
ten whites and two negroes. the city
filled up deputy marshals,' mongrel
man hunters, perjured "pnkes, and
all the army of Loganites and Scogg-
their masters dirty work in further
ance of the grand scheme of carrying
! the State for Grant, while filing their
own pockets at the rate Of s. per day.
Never has Raleigh seen such a horde
before or since.
When the trial was called my case
was dumped" with ten others, only
one of whom l lac Y e seen Gas far
as I can recollect previous to my ar
rest.) Perjured witnesses appeared
| against me. jingling in their pockets
the price of manufactured lies. One
Of these curS started a store on his
ill-got gold, while another was kicked
out of a Raleigh boarding house for
| bringing into it a yelled woman, pro-
foccod1r his Cicfor Wh0 nrnVed TO he a
mulatto. Out of the mouths Of such
| witnesses came all the testimony
which made me Tate Of the Albany
penitentiary." AS for my defense, what
could be done when all my friends
had gone to parts unknown? Even
bad they returned, their mouths would
have been closed by arresting them as
particeps criminis. AS soon as a wit
ness was MINOR h deputy mar
shals'' tapped him on the shoulder,
you cant testify, we arrest you,
alSO!'
Realizing this, my counsel chat
noble old North Carolina oma
Gov. Bragg, at their head.) decided
to fight the jurisdiction Of the Court,
the unconstitutionality OF the act, and
the farcial trial before a partizan
Judge and packed jury. It was USE
less. My conviction, If not that of
others, was decreed even before the
oAy VI Ky
have escaped; 1t was no difficult mat
ter to get out of Wake Jail. Or. I
might have bribed the jury. Capt.
Plato Durham after my return from
Albany, repeatedly mentioned to me
that two Jurors were ready to hang"
the verdict for $4,000 and when be
and certain others refused the mes
senger came back with an offer to
do it for $4,000. I do not care to
give more OF the particulars. Suffice
it, the money was not raised, the pre-
ordained verdict was east. and the
the Z. S. Marshal, having tied my
arms with ropes, despite the protest
of his deputy, iR- T. Bosher) who rec
oSnized that it was a needless piece
Of spiteful humiliation, drove me
down to the jail-sentenced for six
years at hard labor, and q fine Of
$1,000.
OF Capt. Shotwelrs prison life lit
tie is known. He rarely spoke Of it.
In it's first issue after his death, his
paper. the State Chronicle, issued by
his friends, a the following Of lis
experience in the Albany prison, to
which he was taken h~andcuffed on
the fifth Of October, 1871:
Before the assemblage his arms
were tied with ropes, and he was re-
turned to Jail. On October the 9th
he was again handcuffed and carried
to Albany Penitentiary to serve out a
sentence of six years Imprisonment
with a fine attached of $4,000.
There he was subjected to treat
ment, even more severe than any Of
his fellow prisoners. The authorities
thinking that by making his prison
life as burdensome as possible, that
he would finally submit and accept his
release On the dishonorable terms hat
had been proposed; to-wit: that If he
would give evidence duplicating other
prominent North Carolinians, he could
obtain his release. Every day for
two years he was marched 70 and
from his work, forced to keep his