The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

commander, Gov. w. w. Hoiuei-
III. The squad of men aforesaid
we're comDosed Of negroes and Wh4Ies,
who searched and robbed the plain
tih's house While they held him prls-
oner at the Depot in Hi1lsboro, carry,
ing from his house two guns ana
a pistol.
". About nine O'Clock at night on
| the day Of his arrest plaintiff was
started out in a buggy for camp fiol-
den in the county Of CaSWell, Lieut..
Honeycut driving and an armed negro,
one of the squad of soldiers, rlulng
behind the buggy as guard.
". The plaintiff was detained IN
prison for a week or more at camp
Holden in Yanceyville and shut up
alone in a room, the walls or winch
were ain with blood or a muir
dered man, and the plalntlff charged
by the soldiers with murderlng nun,
(This was John w. Stephens. whom
Turner called Chicken
In the night time while the pla1ntlfI
was in bed and asleep. on two severai
occasions, the troops or aid klrk anu
Douglas threw buckets of water upon
him and fled without being challenSed
by the s%entinels at the door.
VI. All the rules of decency, law
and military order were
by said troops. They washed hafr
! naked at the street pumps in the
Town Of Y~anceyville. They arrested
by knocking down one Wiley with a
fence rail.
VII. The plaintiff was marched on
foot from Camp Holden to
Shops, some thirty miles, and would
have been compelled to walk the
whole distance but for a friend who
furnished means of riding.
VIII. Plaintiffs friends sued out
before Judge Brooks a Habeas Corpus
and when the said Judge ordered the
captors of the plaintiff to bring MN
the plaintift before him (the Judge)
the Defenant with said Col. Kirk had
him confined in a fowl dungeon in the
common Jail of Alamance county.
overrun as it was, with vermln and
lice.
IN. AT Camp Holder plaintiff was
forbid to speak, except to ask tor 1000
or water. and armed men with fixed
bayonets were stationed over him, to
see that the order of silence was
obeyed.
At Graham, the plaintiff was denied
a pitcher, towels, chairs and soap sent
to the Jail door by a friend. who was
forbidden by the guard to bring them
y. The plaintiff was denied water.
except in a foul and dirty bucket, out
of which he refused to drink. He was
threatened with handouts, which,
with chains, were put at his pris n
door.
ri. At Graham plaintiff was re-
1nOVe'i from one to another,
and when tired of standing. FOR want
Of chair or stool, was compelled to
seek rest by sitting or lying on the
fie or, in close proximity TO q negro
chained to the floor and sentenced t.
death for violating a .tttle gu
XII. Ali Of which actings and do
ings and outrages upon the plaintiff
were maliciousiy done, With the
knowledge, sanction and consent Of
the Defendant Douglas, he belnS suDe-
rior in command to Kirk or Honeycut
bad the power to put an END TO such
outrases and indignities upon h per
son IF the plaintiff.
XIII. Plaintiff charges that defen-
danf was seen in his capacity OF Cen
e-al in command in the various camps
established by his superior. w. ".
Holden. to-wit, at Camp Holden, Com
paEy Shops and the town OF Graham.
MY. All Of which acts and
eoiugs On the part Of the defendant
were malicious and without reason
able cause and without any lawful
authority SO to act, and asai 1st the
VIII Of the plaintiff, and these out
RACES and ~indignities continued from
day to day and week to week IN the
presence Of the defendant and With
his sanction and approval.
whereby the pla1ntlff was not only
deprived Of his liberty and property,
but was also injured in his good name
and character, to his damage OF forty
thousand dollars.
The answer of Mr.. Douglas raised
the necessary issues with the plaintiff.
The cause was removed to Warren
county for trial. One of the appear
ances was before Judge Watts (whOm
Mr.. Turner had dubbed Greasy
SAM. Mr.. Douglas being less than
twenty years old, the question came
up as to the appointment Of a guardian
ad Item. With the phlegnatic humor
which distinguished him. Mr.. Turner
arose and gravely offered to become
Mr.. Douglass guardian. steve Gas
all of us called him) sat still and an
swered Mr.. Turner's bluff with ar odd
little smile, peculiarly his own. He
aDDreciated the dismal Joke, but was