Knoxville Weekly Chronicle

North Carolina Ku Klux.

Considerable excitement was created on our streets on Monday last, by the arrival from Yancey county of a batch of six prisoners, in irons, under the escort of deputy sheriff William J. Edney, of that county. Upon enquiry, we learned that the prisoners were Harris, Hancy, Wilson, Price, Higgins and McIntush, and are charged with highway robbery, burglary, murder and rape. John Higgins and Albert McIntush being charged with the latter crime. We have been shown a portion of the evidence in this case, the perusal of which acquaints us with one of the most atrocious outrages ever perpetrated in a civilized community.

The Asheville Pioneer, of the 9th, contains the above, and adds that the sheriff of Yancey county has succeeded in arresting Higgins and McIntush, two of the parties accused of this outrage. During the week, court being in session at the time, the grand jury presented a bill of indictment against them for the crime; they, in company with four others, were sent to this jail for safe keeping. The good people of Yancey owe it to themselves to rise up in their might and hazard everything in the attempt to put a stop to the lawlessness and crime in that county.