Blount County TN Archives News.....Miscellaneous Articles December 25, 1877
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BLOUNT COUNTY STANDAR December 25, 1877
BLOUNT COUNTY STANDAR Tuesday, December 25, 1877



Rape---We learn from parties from Louisville, this county, that a most

outrageous courage was committed at that place on Sunday last, by a negro boy

16 years of age, called Jim Summers, upon the person of a little girl only six

years of age, the daughter of Mr. Marchman, formerly of Georgia, but at

present of Louisville. Mr. Marchman is running the Louisville mills, and is a

good and estimable citizen. We understand the father brought this negro boy,

Summers, from Georgia. Mr. Marchman, the father of the little girl, came upon

the dirty fiend while in the very act, the helpless child struggling to

extricate herself from his embrace and crying for help. He had the boy

arrested and lodged in jail at this place on Sunday evening, to await a

hearing. If it had been many a man he would not have come to jail with that

boy. If this thing had happened in some pious and law-abiding community

further north, the perpetrator would scarcely have had an opportunity of

selecting a jury to try his case, but as it is here, we trust and know that he

will have all the benefits of the law extended him.



The Rope To Hang Harness---Sheriff Gibbs of Anderson County was in Knoxville

last Thursday and purchased the rope with which to make the hang-man’s knot

for the hanging of Jacob Harness at Clinton on Saturday next. It was the

intention to use the same rope which was used for John Webb, at Knoxville in

1875, and also for Jack Hunt at Madisonville last Tuesday, and the same was

sent to Sheriff Gibbs, but he preferred to have a new one for fear the other

might be weakened or rendered incompetent by some means. This will be Sheriff

Gibbs’ first experience in this line.



We regret to learn that one day last week, Mr. Wesley Norwood met with a

serious accident by being thrown from a wagon loaded with wood.



A middle-aged man by the name of William Green, residing at Lebanon, Tenn.,

committed suicide at that place the other day by taking laudanum. He was out

of work, and seeing no chance of relieving the necessities of a wife and

family, took his own life.



Died---In Maryville on Thursday morning last, Willis Conner, (col.) of dropsy.



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