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A Colored Man Roughly Handled by eek a Mob.TheHFromT1F redstartTheapprLanethe £thanThetraildepcandto tlare igentHouSeveral months ago the residents of Adamstown and vicinity were greatly incensed over a threat-said to have been made against two respected ladies of that locality by a'colored man named Clarence Nelson, employed at the time at Mr. John White’s, a well-known farmer. A party of about twent)-five men visted the residence of Mr. John White and demanded of Nelson that lie leave the neighborhood immediately and made threats or lynching if he did’nt. Nelson went across the liver but after a week's absence returned. Public feeling was still against him and reached its highest point Sunday, when a crowd of men boarded the camp meeting tram 1st t near Tuscarora and treated Nelson j Mill rather roughly. Fie arrived in town J Gist on Monday and proceeded to M.tgis- • aeco trate Bcsant's office where the Stale’s' man Attorney took him hand. , CrciIn Tiie News office Nelson pre- nine seated a very delapidated appearance, the ; His coat was iu strips and tied around Estc his shoulders and his pants simplv ; 2d b hung to his person by the lining He Pea-' was bareheaded and his arm was in a - r. t. shug. Appended is the story he told .. G;‘■I was on the camp ground and -'00 about an hour before the train came the Abe Boyer’s wife’s mother and anotn- M er wornau told rae they were going to , and make a raid on mo at Adamstown as A plt; the train went back. I got on the ba-e train intending to leave it at Point of Hon Rocks. At Tuscarora they made a bar.; raid on me and i ran into the water ?eco: closet The crowd came there and Ed. a ba Nichols grabbed for me but I jumped ball out of the window and they shot at m me. After I landed I went to the Dor bushes and crawled through. The Fi train plopped and let the crowd oil on t They shoe into the bushes but I wasn't and hurt, i got to Dick Harris' and about erro: dusk they came- iu and dragged me wen out and took me apiece away. Tiicy- lt;?y quarreled whether they should, shoot gslb or hang me. Ed. Nicliols ‘-aid “.'Loot” Scand they all said “shout the FroAbner Lamar, of Lick«ville. shot me ;nm iu Ihe head and I turned around, innii They thought I w.i? dead and sa’d • .tli : that’s got Tiiin. Then Bob Allnutt 0. 1kicked me and shot me in the arm. orielAfter that I crawled through the ladhushes a got away. I reached John rheStevenson’s and called for a cool drink I ref« _of water and they told me I belter ”ig s get away. 1 left and 011 the load met L Bub Stevenson and Calhe Brooks and in a they to.d me (0 take to the tiekls. I mins heard horses coining at Three Springs and got over the fence at the oldblacksmith shop and circled around 1 M f,t i r ,until I got by the men and walked to ,,fillFrederick, reaching here about nine o’clock this morning. , I’0*'1Nelson's wound in the head is appar-; “0=t enllv a scalp wound and was not even dres=ed when he was in Tin; News of- ,1PS fice. He had seen Dr. Frank .Smith p^ who told him his wounds were not 1 ,0'x‘ dangerous. The train on which Nel- ' : son claims the assault occurred was ; ^een the camp meeting special, of which 1 Ca.pt. Jacob Michael was conductor. j I*11??1 Nelson acknowledged that the alleged 1 p attempted lynching was done on gen- | !; eral principles and said he did not j om know how many were in the assault- *weei ' Spvoins party. IState's Attorney Norwood has uot j j decided on action yet but. we have j ?r, been informed writs will be served j . *against the wonld-be-lynchers, about \ twenty in number, many of them respected citizens of Adamstown. The parties that dei.lt with Nelson yesterday are the same that ordered him to leave the countv several months araisi. the t fish : That man1iciive uue euinuy several montus ago. . Nelson protests his innocence of the s1ln°charge and says it was instigated by his wife who wanted to get nd of him for the sake of another man.deeu doze rel 0 hear
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Frederick Weekly News
Frederick, Maryland, US
Thu, Aug 21, 1884
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