Randolph County AlArchives News.....Capture of Ku Klux Outlaws.  June 10, 1871
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The Selma Press June 10, 1871
Mr. William Wood, tax collector of Randolph County, and an old and respectable 
citizen of the county was in the city yesterday and gave us the particulars of 
the recent arrest of four outlaws, members of the organization of disguised 
murderers who have committed all the depredations in that section of the State. 
The names of the outlaws are Winston Copeland, Samuel Teale, Frank Carter and 
William Carter, all of whom are known as the most infamous characters in the 
county, and so devoid of personal reputation that the good citizens of the 
county are in ecstasies over their capture and intend to prosecute them to the 
end. A few nights before their arrest these outlaws visited the cabins of some 
colored men and resorted to every specie of strategy to induce the negroes, 
several in number, to come out of their houses. The negroes recognizing their 
voices, refused to obey the requests, but went about defending themselves. The 
outlaws, aware of this fact, fired into the houses, wounding several of the 
negroes. The characters of these men are so disreputable that, as soon as the 
citizens heard of their acts, they immediately arrested them, and confined them 
in jail. Copeland turned States evidence and was released on bail. These are the 
men who are doing all the mischief in Alabama, and when they are found out, they 
prove to be just what we have said they are, the very filth and scum of the 
State. And these are the men, good people of Alabama, that the Democratic papers 
call our people; these are the men that the United States district court grand 
jury denounced, and Democratic editors say the jury is libeling our people. What 
do the honest, law-abiding citizens of this State have to say now? What do you 
think of Democratic editors styling such scoundrels as the above, as the people 
of Alabama, and the only people? How much longer, citizens of Alabama, do you 
intend to allow these Democratic editors to couple your fame and high characters 
with such a set of villains, by calling them "our people" Was not the grand 
jury, correct? 
State Journal. 

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