Year: 1879

dDout IOuT U ClOCk, Wuou MI mColol
, land was sent for by the Sheriff an
: told to go out, saying that if he di'
} not he would be disobeying the law
He had no more than got out of tn
, door when they shot him four or fiv'
times and killed him."


Mr.. Chisolm then described the xii


ling of his younger brother Johnnie


and his father and sister, and said:


SIN the meantime my sister had beer


home and secured some ammunition


and brought it back to the jail. My


mother and Younger brother, who were


at home and who had gone there tt


look after some things, seeing Mr.. Nc
Clelland shot, returned to the
Jail. My brother stopped at the house
of colored man between the Jail and
home, and the mob rushed to the jail,
when the Sheriff gave them the keys ia
the lower door. They broke in the
door at the head of the stairs and fired,
and at the first shot my brother John
ME was shot through the hand. Sew
eral shots were then fired, when my
brother was killed, his heart being
shot out. My father, with my gun,
which had been taken there by Mr..
McClelland, killed one of the mob by
the name of Rosser. The other guns,
upon being discharged, were found to
have all the shot drawn out and only
powder loads in them.


"When Rosser was killed the mob
rushed out and began setting fire to the
Jail. My father said he would rather
try to fight his way out than be burned
to death. He took a gun and, with my
sister mother and myself, carrying the
dead body OF my brother, we started
down stairs at the foot Of which Henry
Gully rushed out in the street to shoot
my father. My sister called to him !:
"Mr. Gully if you want blood kill me;
don't kill father for he never harmed
any man." He deliberately turned the
gun from my father and shot her--shot
her whole right arm to pieces. My
father was then shot through the graf
ing of the door. He walked out and
was shot four or five times, making II
wounds in all. My mother and myself
placed ourselves over his body so that
he would not be shot again, and my
sister went to the door to ask for help
to carry him home. The answer they
gave was:


TO SHOOT HER AGAIN.


Two of the mob, however, came in, and
with their assistance We carried him
home. The house was locked up, and
We had to carry him in the back way,
being followed by the mob. We lifted
him through window and placed him
upon bed. A pallet was hastily made
by my sister, and We telegraphed to
Merden, Mississippi, for a surgeon.
The mob continued il town, declaring
that if my father did not die they
would finish him. Gov. Stone visited
the town, and being asked by mother
for protection, he told her he had order
ed the Sheriff to protect her. She re-
piled that she did not want any pro-
tectien from sheriff that had helped
to murder the family.


"We had to get permission from the
leader of the mob before we could send
my brothers. body to the family bury
ing ground, about 20 miles distant.
Capt. Shaughnessy visited my father
in company with Mr.. McMichael, both
of them being from Jackson, Mississippi.
At the request of my mother, Capt.
Shaughnessy said he would get some
friends and remove my father to place
of safety. He returned to Jackson and
asked permission, but this was refused
on the ground that it would disturb
the peace of the county. A few of my
fathers friends stayed with him to pre-
vent any further attack on him until
Sunday, the 18th Of May, when he died
On account of sisters condition, we
were obliged to keep the news of his
death from her. He was taken away
on Monday, and buried by the side of
my brother, none of the family being
able to go.


My sister died on Tuesday about half
past two o'clock, and was buried on
the Thursday following. During all
this time there was not minister that
came near the house nor offered theil
services at the grave. The excuse CIV
en- for this was that my father and Mr..
Gilmer had killed John Gully.


JUDGE CHIsoLM INNOCENT.


CATER their death, Walter Reilly, a
negro from Tennessee, was arrested for
killing Bob Dabbs, at De Kalb, several
years before. He was tried and con-
victed and sentenced to be hung. After
he had been sentenced he acknowledged
killing Gully, saying he had done it
for whipping which Gully had given
him before he left De Kalb. Walter
lived in De Kalb until the time of Dabb's
death. The whipping spoken of was
one given by Gully and Dabb's in
back room of Dabb's grocery, and he
killed Dabb's a day or two afterwards
and then left the county.


"Eyery attempt was made to get
Walter to say that he was hired by Mr..
Gilmer and my father to kill Gully.
He was promised his life, and a respite
of thirty days was given him BY the
Governor at the request Of Gully's
friends, thinking, perhaps, in this time,
he would be persuaded to say that he
was hired to do the killing.


"Ths day he was hung, for more
than an hour, the mob by all manner
of questions and promises tried to get
him to implicate my father and Mr..
Gilmer, but he refused, saying that he
alone was guilty. A reporter OF the
"Cincinnati Gazette" was present and
noted the proceedings and published
them afterwards.


"Four months after the killing, in
dictments were found against five or
,; y, of %ba most prominant man tor fnur.