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.

ALABAMA-SUB-COMMITTEE. 1753
Question. Did tlh cvilence show how many were concerned?.Ansiwer. O;ly onle or two were concerned; it was not by disguised men at all.
Question. Any otlher cases?
Anster. I ldo not, rememllber any other case of killing. I have heard numerous reports of whipping by disguised 1men.
Question. You miay proceed to relate all the cases tllat occur to you.
iAnlser. WVell, sir, I ca lnot do that; I can only state that I have heard of a number
of whippings in that county by disguised men.
Quetstio. V Wer10 tlhe victimis ulliformly colored people?
Ansver. I believe tihey wNre, sir. That is ray information.
Quesion. Weret they visited generally at night? Were these whippings inflicted, I
m:an, after nilht?
Ans'cr. Yes, sir; generally.
Question. iave any of then parties concerned in these whippings been arrested, to
your knowxledig, and lroug:ht to justice?
Ans8,er. Sonme have been i indicted and arrested, but the witnesses have disappeared
from the countiry.
Bly Mr. RICIE:
Qust8iont. How did they disappear; (o you know?
Ansivc'i. No, sir. They were not fobnd by the sheriff. It was understood when the
cases wr e called that thely had goUln to Mississippi.
By MIr. UCKLEY:
Question. Didl you eve 1ttar thal.t son e colored persori s on Jnldg W ilso's p lac; were
visited e
Answuer. Ysc, sir; those'are so1me I had reference to.
Question. 1)i you ever hear that any were visited on the plantation of Mr. Cole f
Answer. Yes, sir; I have reference to those also. I mentioned tfher all together.
Qzustion. Did you ever hear of any cases of rape on his plantation?
ASswer. Yes, sir; I understood that somre parties had ravished some of the femai;1e.
on Mr. (ole's plantation.
Question. WVere those parties disguised, as you understood?
Ansuer. No; I think that some of these parties have been indicted. I am pretty
certain that they were indicted at the last spring term.
Qestion. Did you hbear that they whipped or run off the colored men, andl then coimmitted the rape?
Answner. I cannot state about that; I know it was said ithat the women were ravished.
ly the CHAIItI,:'N:
QnCestion. Colored women?
Ans'le'r. YCs, sia.
Question. I-ave the per.petrators ever bOeen discovere;dj
Answccr. There- were itndictmnts found against sot;e of ti he at tih last ter;m of the
court.
Question;. laive they been arrested, or Plcd *
Anslwero. No,' i'; I thinkl they hvl vo ild; I hav a u:derstood that tlhtiy l av, 0some of
them.
Questions. If no frtfler i nstancese (iccur t you, you imay proceed to Sa,-;i)rd County,
and state all t!h hom icides or whl;ippings th occre t lt there.
AnS.ier. Well sir thelre hi as beeni o:ne htolicide comnlitted toere that I:)now of, since
the last term of court,; not<, by a disouised band.
Qusl('ion. Give the particu1lars.
Asnslr. It was a svry deliberate murrder, according to ti i way I hai (rd of it. An
effort was nialo, toi indlict, him, but ht.ly e;uc ihinable to rget ihe win' sessCs at the laAt
grand jury. Ie will be indicted at the next.
Question. Tha t was not by a conmbinatioln?
1Answcer. No, siri; it hadl no connection withl a combinuatioi,.
Question. Do you know of any hon11,cildes co(nmitted in your county by a coibination
of menl.Answer. I only klnow of one; and if mob 1-aw would be justifiable in any instance, it was
in that. Th-'tt was wlhere a man had nrvished and killed a white woman in the neighborhood, and a body of men seized lim and shot him. HIe killed a white woman, and
it is supposed that lie ravished her andLd killed her, and then a body of disguised men.
arrested him atnd lilled ilun.
Queslion. Is that the only case you have heard of in that colty?
Ansower. I believe it is, sir, of killing by disguised men.
Questcioz. H-have you heard of any cases of whipping?
Answer. Yes, sir; I have heard of some cases of whipping.
Que'tion. Do you recollect the particulars of any of the cases