Year: 1874

"Dead men tell no tales' Is the idea acted upon
by the lawless bands In Tennessee designated Ku
Klux, ana woe unto the informer that betrays
them Detectives that hunt them down have to
summon all their sagacity to keep out OF their
clutches, and avoid the fate that overlook the
rl-starred BarmOre In 1858. The whole country at
the time was shocked, even in those days Of
bloodsned, at the secret but death. dealing blow
that struck him TO the ground At that time the
lawless organizations had grown to such magni.
tude that reward OF $500 was offered for every
one that was apprehended. Tempted by the re.
ward Barmore undertook to discover who and
what they we're. He visited different points looked
around, picked up wnat Information he could
and started In pursuit OF the Ku Klux. He was
an individual whose own peculiar character
istics would have made him remarkable in any
| community. He called himself the "Great western
Detective" OF Chicago, and was successful in
hunting down great many criminals He was
fond OF show and was very foppish in his dress.
His ordinary costume consisted OF q black velvet
suit, with broad and conspicuous trimmings coat
cut claw-hammer style. He wore heavy watch
and chain, carried large gold headed cane,
adorned his fingers with heavy seal rings, and.
most conspicuous Of all. wore large cross pin in
| his necktie OF Alaska diamonds.


BARMoREs FATE


He circulated around in Middle Tennessee, and
mask and black gown being found in his trunk
after his death 1t was supposed that he had joined
the band in order 10 more fully discover their
plans and identify them for arrest He was the
only man that had ever succeeded In
ascertaning the names of those in any
OF the organizations. He had ferreted
out many Of them, and was only biding his time
to deliver them over to the authorities. Thus
driven to the wall, as 1t were, the ku Kux had no
alternative short Of actual assassination of the
man who thus held their lives in his hands. They
summoned councils and devised means TO make
away with him IN a manner so as not to be dis.
covered. plan matured, they sent decoy des-
patch to their victim, which stated that the trial
OF negro, whom he had arrested at Pulaski was
TO be neld next DAY at that place. He took the
evening train In order to be in Pulaski by the next
morning. When the train arrived at Columbia
several men, heavily disguised, boarded 1t.
| The night was very dark and the men had been
before unobserved. They entered the car and be-
| gan looking around for the detective. AS he saw
them he instinctvey felt that he the object Of
their search, and crouched down as much as DOS
slble without attracting observation between the
seats. But it was all to no purpose, the unmstaka-
BILE garb would have betrayed him anywhere. The
men seized him and hurried him out Of the Car.
After this tidings could be heard OF the missing
Barmore for several weeks. when his body was
| found IN the bed of Duck River, SO disfgured BY
decomposition that q hare lip was the only means
by which he was identified. In the same manner
the Ku Klux will execute one Of their own number
should he betray them.


! ORIGIN OF THE KU KLUx.


The first band Of Ku Klux was formed in Pulaski
Giles county, and was organized in opposition to
the Loyal League, q secret society, composed of
| carpet baggers, scalawags and negroes. At first
they meant only to ward OF the depredations
hwt latV
defensive in protecting themselves and their
families. At this time tue band was composed, it
was thought, OF the best citizens of the STATE but
as time passed on the better class Of members
dropped out OF 1t, and 1t soon ceased to be a
M M rs ars ~ aIH & now aenomnated
| become outlaws, and keep the whole State in
CONDITION OF M fermentation s They bear the same
bastard oflspring does to legitimate child. one
OF the first obligations OF these bands is be true
ciates are and what are the rules OF the organize
tion. Like all awless bands fidelity to one an
other Is their only safeguard.


COwARDLY BUTCHERY OF AN OLD MAN.


short time since a party OF masked men went
County, M named DICK @ McKinly Nc e He was sixty 81 sears
OF age, quiet and unobtrusive and his only crime
was boast that no ku Klux should drive him
from his home. He intended staying there, max
ing living, and would attend to his own business.
This was repeated around, and q party Of men
wearing masks undertook to punish him for the
remark. They appeared at the door OF his cabin,
commenced pounding on it and succeeded in
seized an axe with which to defend himself AS
ne raised IT one OF the party, named Petty, fired
at hum s and shot him i'm in the abdomen The old
ground. Another Of the assaulting party then
ran up to McKinly seized the axe and struck him
q fatal blow on the head making q terri
BILE cash, from which the brain protruded. Not
content with this aendish act James Rush, an
ing victim, hitting him in the back while the
weapon was so close as to set his Shirt on fire and
the murder to ramble about the country and to
seek what further mischief they might hnd 1t In
their power to perpetrate.


A man named Franklin Hall was arrested BY
Sherir Gregory and Ellis Harper, citizen OF vii.
petrators OF the bloody deed. Finding nlmself in
close quarters and being pressed to make con-
iesston Hall acknowledged his own guilt, and turn
ing States evidence implicated seven other men,
whose names are Joseph Petty, Timothy Apple.
Calicut ana Carroll Reed, ali from smith and ad-
joining counties. During the ARRAY and promiscu-
Gus shooting 81 M,I John Bnsa was shot In the arm BY
ceived cut IN the knee from the axe. According
to this confession the authorities proceeded to
captured James Bush and Buiord Ualicut. Tho
three prisoners were lodged in jail at Cookvile,
| the news of Halls confession spread through the
community, and the men who were implicated
their necks. One of their own number had be-
trayed them and as they told the news one to an
trembled as they rejected that they were stand
ing over an abyss and might at any moment be pre-
| cipitated into Its yawnng depths. On Thursday
night last Cookville had its own private panorama,
similar to those whose dreadful details have be-
come SO common OF late-a panorama in which
masked men who do not dare to let the right hand
| know what evn the left Is doing, and who choose
the season OF midnight darkness, when more
honest citizens are unprepared to check them in
their dastardly career, are the actors on the one
side, while helpless prisoners, VINO are already in
the grip OF the law, are on the other There is no
hate Ike love or friendship to hatred turned, and
these men, In their blind fury cared not that less
than q week before the very man Tor whose blood
they now thrsted had slept with them, ate with
them, sympathized with their plans and pleasures
and clasped their bands In the full spirit bro ther-
hood. 1t mattered little to them now that he was
the nrst to prove false, and by betraytng them
sought to shield himself from she punishment he
deserved as well as they.


| THE LYNCHING.


| As the nocturnal cavacade rode through the
streets of the slumberng town the solitary op.