Anderson County Texas - HANGING IN ANDERSON COUNTY

Submitted by: June E. Tuck <1224be@neto.com>>

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Mr. Teague, a printer in our office, has just arrived from Tennessee 
Colony, Anderson county, and brings the news that he witnessed the 
hanging of two white men in that place, on Sunday the 5th inst., who 
were proven to be guilty of inciting insurrection among the slaves of 
that neighborhood. Their names were Anthony Wyric and his cousin, Alford 
Cable. They were engaged near the Colony at their trades of Wagon making 
and Black-smithing, where they have been living for three or four years. 
Wyric had been previously taken up for harboring and selling liquor to 
negroes. Negroes were found in possession of firearms and strychnine, furnished 
by these men. They were taken up and severely whipped, and made to divulge much 
in relation to insurrectionary movements. Other white men are implicated, and 
their cases will be investigated and attended to as soon as practicable. 
(Pioneer Extra - reprinted in the Corsicana Navarro Express, Aug. 11, 1860)