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Monks Major William Monks,
Governor Fletcher’s Howell county leader of bandits, we guess is not very
dead. The Ku-Klux didn’t finish him in
the melancholy manner telegraphed from Ironton to the Democrat, and so all
over the country as indicated of the lawlessness of the “secret armed
organizations of democrats and rebels” said to exist in this state. Monks in alive, we judge, and about as
lawless as when he traveled into Oregon county some months since, arrested
the Sheriff and did a good deal of deviltry in that and adjoining
counties. Our reasons for thinking
Monks alive are contained in a letter, written by A.W. Wade, Esq., United
States Assessor, who has been through Howell and other counties, and which
appears in the Texas county Record, of the 29th ult., and which we presume the Democrat would not
publish. From this letter we give the
following extract, which shows pretty clearly what manner of man Monks
continues to be. It says, referring to
Howell county: “With one exception
everything there is peaceable. An
occurrence took place there (as I am credibly informed) on the 29th
inst., in which Major Wm. Monks and Mr. George Foreman, an old and respected
citizen of sixty-five years, had a few words, when the Maj. Struck Mr.
Foreman, knocking him down and beating him almost to death. When the wife of Mr. Foreman came to the
rescue, she of course talked very much as most old ladies naturally would
under the circumstances, when the Maj. Told her she “must keep cool” (or
words to that effect) or he would “knock hell out of her.” This I give as it was related to me. It is said the old man threw up blood for
twenty-four hours after the occurrence.
I left him on Monday evening, the 24th, still unable to get
out of bed. As before stated, with the
exception of this occurrence all was quiet and peaceable in the
neighborhood.” |
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