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As soon as the crowd left the court house in search of Warren Tyler, Aaron Moore, who had pretended to bo dying, crept down the stairs, and though wounded in the arm and side, made good his escape from the city, and up to the present time, has succeeded in eluding bis pnrsuers. Night now began to descend on the disturbed town, bringing with it the additional »ear that under the cover of the darkness, the negroes, who had taken refuge in the surrounding swamps, might return and overpower the whites. The telegraph dashed its messagesin every direction, every train brought reinforcements, and by twelve o'clock, several hundred armed men were in the town. Sturgis’ house was surrounded: he was dragged from concealment, and in spite of his abject prayers and promises, would have soon followed his negro dupes to the “ land of shades,” but for the intervention of his brother's wife, a beautiful woman, who made a personal appeal to Capt. Henderson, who was in commandof the party. The chirairic Southerner had never turned a deaf ear to a woman’s prayer, and now unable to refuse her request, took Sturgis under his immediate protection, under a solemn pledge from him that he would return to Connecticut, aud nover again show his face south of the Ohio river, bound himself to see him safely to the ap-train on the Mobile and Ohio mad. The men acquiesced to the will of
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Athens Southern Watchman
Athens, Georgia, US
Wed, Mar 22, 1871
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