Deseret Evening News | 1907-01-15 | Page 6 | Peculiarly Atrocious Case of Negro Peonage

PECULIARLY ATROCIOUS CASE OF NEGRO PEONAGE WashIngton Jan department ot of Ju Justice today toda i gave Out a Ing n a 1 peculIarly atrocIous case of at peonage alleged to 10 have occurred In III count MI Miss R to before a 1 United States Stales com cam Don Dan January a negro lit III debt to 10 Levi D B Carter n a white funnel farmer wa vaua bound and beaten beMen into un by Carter and some com Coal The next day Carter threat eneil ened to hang January Ito he con to be sold with his and amId PatrIck another white farmer made the tho purchase payIng Canter 1 Carter nod two accomplices were Iteld beld for the jury but bul Patrick was dIms as Ito he hud had not forcibly do dl the tho Moody declares that tha corn com communities whIch would t cases enolS tire about years behind In cIvIlIzatIon and tind warns federal agaInst IU in III prosecutions prosecution of oC such cases