Report of the Joint select committee appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, so far as regards the execution of laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States and Testimony taken.

1434 CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Answer. No, sir; he told me he intended to kill him; and three days after he had
killed him, he told me he had done it; and he also told Mr. Anderson, a conductor on
the road, running now, that he intended to do it, and had done it.
Question. You reported this fact immediately?
Answer. Yes, sir, the next day. I was over at York when he told me; the next day
I reported it to the authorities in Sella.
Question. Who is Hardy, to whom you made the report?
Answer. General Hardy, senator of Dallas County.
Question. Has he any employment under the Government of the United States?
Answer. He used to be marshal.
Question. Was he marshal at that time?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. Did you report the facts to the marshal?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. What is his name?
Answer. Corcoran.
Question. You transmitted a report to the department?
Answer. Yes, sir; there was a commissioner in Selma at the time; I forget his name;
I reported to the postmaster and the commissioner.
Question. They took no steps to arrest him?
Answer. No, sir; none in the world. The man staid at Cuba a month after he committed the deed.
Question. Shortly after this occurrence, a one-legged man was appointed, named
Coleman?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Do you recollect to have told him that, from information you had in regard
to the Ku-Klux Klan in the neighborhood of where Diggs was killed, he had better
resign and leave the road, or else he would be killed?
Answer. No, sir. Coleman came to me and told me what he had been told, and asked
my advice, and I told him if it was me, in place of him, I would leave.
Question. What did he tell you?
Answer. He told me his life had been threatened, and the last time he said somebody
had told him to leave one of his shoe-strings with him, and if he came back any more
they would kill kim. He asked my advice then, and I told him I should not go back
any more if I was him.
Question. Did you pretend to speak from any knowledge of your own of danger to
him?
Answer. No, sir; I did not have any at all-no knowledge at all.
Question. You spoke only from what he told you?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did he tell you he had seen any Ku-Klux?
Answer. Yes, sir; he told me he had seen them twice.
Question. How many?
Answer. One only.
Question. Only one man?
Answer. Only one.
Question. Had this man Eustick left at that time?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. He had run away?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did Coleman tell you that a disguised man had come into his car?
Answer. Yes, sir; he told me a disguised man had come into his car with a repeater
in his hand.
Question. Did he ever receive any injury while he was on the train?
Answer. None in the world.
Question. He left simply on account of threats?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did he tell you this single man threatened him?
Answer. No, sir; he did not threaten him at that time; but after that he told me he
had received, two or three different times, threats that if he came back they would use
him pretty bad.
Question. Did the men tell him this themselves, or write him?
Answer. They left word with the watchman of York station, whose name was Curran.
Question. Did you talk to Curran about it?
Answer. Yes, sir. Curran told me they spoke to him about it, and he did not say
whether they were disguised or not. He told me they told him, one time, for him not
to com. back any more; they left that word; but that was on account of his sleeping
with a negro girl where he was teaching school-sleeping with a negro girl in a room
next to his wife-keeping a negro girl there to assist him in teaching the school.
Question. The threat was made on that account?