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,v-aeiyofD-dID3tilfrigyrt!eceid11110isityrd6P-Qea8t8)TVtMias Martha Schofield has written a letter to a citizen of Troy in response to an inqui^r of his as to the truth el her remarkable letter in the New York Tribune. She Bays her letters were written under the most conscientious motives, and after special efforts to get the exact truth in every particular. Subsequent inquiries, she adds, have revealed only this mistake, that instead of one mother having three sons killed, it was two sons and one grand son. She then cites this new case: “Last Wednesday important papers had to be taken to Columbia as evidence of intimidation at the polls ; a colored man started on the morningtrain, 20 miles below; he was told by tome white men who went into his car that they knew his errand, and if he did not leave the car he would got killed ; he left and walked to another station j took the n'ght train before morning, and not far from Columbia the same set surrounded him, picked him up bodily, carried him out, and started with him to the w*—£8 jt,happened two of id- Viends wore en,^ . * gathered a small force andft T„* ted in pursuit. The whites heard them coming and went back to meet them, leaving two men to guard him. They said, ‘Let us kill the d—n n—r.’ They had taken his large pistol, told him to step ten paces *and say his prayers quick.* He folded his arms, then put one hand on a small revolver in his breast pocket, and at the ninth step turned and fired; missing, fired again, and as tho weapon they had taken from him snapped, the colored man’s fire struck one in the thigh. He dropped his pistol to put his hands over the wound and the man escaped. He was well acquainted with the try and started aoross. w-’* - u?o miles to reach a static .home, which- V1 h‘mas the ,,dS 8 *°ing *° «°to • * lends who left to pursue hearduring, and not being able to find him,telegraphed Bad news. He went toColumbia next day with some soldiers.The conductor was not in his car andcould have done nothing.”a*
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Harvard Independent
Harvard, Illinois, US
Wed, Dec 13, 1876
Page 6
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