Show COUNTY murderous mob at the last list novem ber elections in mississippi I 1 api by ad preas to the aleua NEW ORLEANS feb IS 18 alie subcommittee of the senate to investigate gt the coilah copiah county bliss miss out rages resumed the hearing of testimony today to day david belt bell colored testified ed he lie was showman of the republican pub lilan executive 0 committee occo alah county he lie saw raw armed men riding about all night before election ills house was visited by a party of about 25 men they took iho he election tickets ho lie had for distribution away from him and dest destroyed roved them they were mixed axed tickets lien ilen publicans public ans and independents and the name of miller a democratic candi date was on them the witness was now Asai assistant stant sergeant at arms of the mississippi senate lie was siren the position he thought through the influence of II 11 N miller whose name was on his lickei ticket the witness declined to give the names of the men who took the tickets away from him he ile supposed hem them awal to be e a lot of drinking fellows he denied having offered to testify for the democrat the witness voted the independent 11 publican ticket on election day aa as did ia most of the colored mea men in his neighborhood who were not intimidated mrs wallace colo colored widow of thos wallace testified that on friday night before the election about one a party of armed men came to her house and asked w who ho lived there the husband replied thomas wallace they eaid raid they had a warrant for hia his arrest A man outside said lie was west dunbar sheriff of osyka finally the browa crowd pushed tho the do door or open an and d went tb rough gli the house they att attempted heave d to throw a rope over glicr r husbands us neck when he lie threw up ina ills hands asking what they meant to do A roan man then shot him in the neck several shots were then ared fired one of the shots st str ikins her in the arm and passing into her husbands neck which killed him the men then then went away she know who they were after her husband was killed she went to the woods and remained there until after the election handy fortner colored testified he was the fai stone bulldozed the crowd came after him two weeks loa before the election they came tj to hia hir house about 10 at uno one sid he be imd had a writ for him for bt ealing a anle the witness continued they came inand in and curved and said they had come for me they made me cross my hands and follow them some of them were masked and some painted they took me out in the woods and made pollard and west colored men at my house follow when they got to where a large crowd was they pulled down lay illy breeches breech es and stretched me out on the ground they made pollard bit rit on my head and west on ray my feet and commenced lashing me tho tile pain ainars was so ao great that pollard and west s t cou could d ri not ot hold me still th the 0 mob would lash them until they held me steady there were 10 men in the crowd 13 of whom took part in whipping ping me they kept up until my gody body had no feeling and I 1 ceased hallooing hallowing hallo after this joe reese struck truck me forty or fifty licka licks with a strap trap my back was nothing but 0 one no bruised mass rheinen the men ceased and threatened to shoot my brains out I 1 told them I 1 waa was going to vote the democratic ticket and they said if I 1 was within miles of there next day they would kill me the they eaid said the same thing to pollard and vest 1 I then left my house and r remained antho in the woods four weeks my ily cows were destroyed and four bacs bees of my cotton the sall slept I 1 anthe alie woods for sometime some time after the election as the mob continued the visits I 1 To Te Saulsbury the witness eaid said he had sued ailed a man named thompson of claybourne Claybo urno co and had beaten him in the file suit and thought this was the reason he was whipped by the mob ischam gilmore jack thompson and C L oliver colored all testified flea substantially corroborating the other amne witnesses ases regarding the reign of terror prevailing rov ailing in coilah copiah co T W bondurant white R tepu bli can an testified to the reign of terror in co copenh p inh co preceding the late election george ani M hamilton white of hazelhurst testified concerning the killing of matthews fat on election day by wheeler democratic challenger |