Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 8, Number 1, January 1998 Page: 26
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wrong. Howell also said that he did not see Taylor raise his walking stick or strike anyone,
and that Taylor had acted "properly all the time and did not behave in any way disorderly."
William Howat did not see "any blow pass." Tooke contended that he saw a walking stick
in Taylor's hand, but he did not see Taylor hit Moore with it.58
Whatever the extent of the confrontation between Moore and Taylor, the latter
returned to the store, sat down, and began to speak with Sherrill again. When the two men
had completed their business, Taylor left. During the altercation, Harry Taylor's son,
Reuben, stood nearby. He also testified that words were exchanged between his father,
Tooke, and Moore, and that his father did break loose from Moore, but did not strike him,
then returned and completed his conversation with Howell. Both he and his father soon left,
and he did not see his father again until later that evening.59
Although the altercation between Taylor, Tooke, and Moore occurred on a
Friday night, it was not until the next Monday that Moore approached Taylor and told him
that he should leave town until the afternoon because of the little affair that had previously
taken place. Moore believed that if Taylor left his shop and went home, everything would
"pass over." Taylor asserted that he had done nothing wrong to Moore or anybody else and
he would not leave. On the same day in the late morning Jim Harris, the Columbus town
marshal, arrested Taylor on a warrant issued by the mayor, William J. Darden. Taylor was
taken before Darden, who ordered him incarcerated until witnesses could be obtained.
Apparently, Harris did nothing further.6o
The entire procedure seemed more than a little unusual. Political considera-
tions seem to have entered into Darden's decision to arraign Taylor on the grounds of
aggravated assault. In the yellow fever epidemic during the summer, when a quarantine had
been imposed on Columbus, Moore had been appointed to the police by then Mayor Daniel
D. Claiborne. On the basis of that appointment, Darden declared that Taylor had resisted
arrest by a lawful officer. Moore, however, denied that any arrest had either been attempted
or made, and that he had never made an official complaint about the incident to Darden.
Few people thought of Moore as a policeman. He lived outside the city limits, and thus was
technically an illegal appointee. At three o'clock on the afternoon of his arrest, Taylor
appeared for trial before Mayor Darden. Taylor claimed he had never struck Moore, and
58 Statement of James Moore; Statement of William M. Smith; Statement of Harry Taylor; Statement
of Sigh Howell; Statement of William Howat, all on December 17, 1867, Assistant Commissioner, Letters
Received, H-80, all in BRFAL, RG 105, National Archives.
59 Statement of Sigh Howell; Statement of Harry Taylor, Statement of James Moore; Statement of
William M. Smith; Statement of Reuben Taylor, all on December 17, 1867, Assistant Commissioner, Letters
Received, H-80, all in BRFAL, RG 105, National Archives.
60 Statement of Harry Taylor, December 17, 1867, Assistant Commissioner, Letters Received, H-
80; Statement of Isam N. Tooke, Jr.; Statement of James Moore, December 18, 1867, Assistant Commissioner,
Letters Received, H-80, all in BRFAL, RG 105, National Archives.26
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