Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-12-23

son offered to strike him after he fell He fell, to all
appearance. dead There not Of the mob
who offered to take him of the water, render
him any assistance whatever. AT the time when be
first attacked, was about thirty feet from him.
When he fell into the water, | To him
| could. When got to him, he was still lying on
his face in the water, unable took hold of
bis collar, and raised his head out of the water, lift
ing him partly up when Mr. Roland, of Williams
port, came and assisted me up the bank with him;
when he stood upon his feet but did not appear to be
aware of what had happened him. By this time
McDonald's brother, and some others of Attica who
had heard Of his being injured; came down and took
him away. Hannegan's division attacked and beat a
boaman severely, just after they had beaten Melon
aid. The boatmans name was Vanvaultenburg.
attempted to leave the lock about the same time that
Mcdonald was taken away, by crossing over the tum-
bic, but stopped by Mr.. Shockey, who had
stone tied in his handkerchief. which ne drawed on
me, and others with drawn clubs. They said should
not pass. turned, and after some time, was allow
ed to leave. The fighting all done by the dIvIs-
ion Hannegan commanded in person; and 50 far from
trying to restrain them from committing the ourages
they dad, he urged them on by words and actions all
the time they beating Mcdonald aud the boat
man.
was called before the Grand Jury some two weeks
after this outrage took place at the lock, to give evil
dence In relation TO an ARRAY that took place IN our
town between two men by the names of Gil6an and
DOnally. After had told what knew of that affair,
| was asked if knew of any fighting taking place
the time the company went from Covington to open
the Atca lock. gave them the same statement in
substance that have now given. The Grand Jury
said it not necessary to give the of any Of
the persons who at the lock and did not, ex-
cept Of McManomy and one two others.
PHILIP ZIMMERMAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me- this 22d day of
November, l547.
SAMUEL COLEMAN, ]. P. H.
In addition the ubove, there seven other afi-
davis six of which generally corroborate the state
ments Of Zimmerman relative to the affair at the At
tica Lock last year. They all testify that Mr.. Han
negan at the head of one of the divisions Of the
posse or ''mob," whichever it was; that great
citement was manifested by all, and that blows were
inflicted upon Mcdonald No expresses the be-
lief however, that Mr. Hannegan struck thUse blows
On the contrary, their iniction is charged positively
upon others. and Hannegan is said to have been at
distance from Med; two state not nearer than 40
feet Violent EXPLANATIONS imputed to Mr.. H. by
of the atlantis and they evidently now, and at
the time of the occurrence, regarded Mr. IL.
leader of the "mob."
That great excitement and evaporation existed
and that ourages were perpetrated is evident 1t Is
also evident that Mcdonald was brutally assaeG and
that redress due for the injury inf cted upon
him. II is likely that he is satisfied in his mind
that MIR. flanagan aided and abetted the assault
notwithstanding the testimony to the contrary. All
these, and collateral considerations should be taken
into view, in making up impartial verdict, so far
as Mcdonald and Hannegan are concerned; and we
are willing to leave the making up of that verdict to
the public
So far the Charlottesville 'Press' is concerned,
however, it has voluntarily mixed itself up in the
affair, and evinced not only willingness but de-
sire foster personal Institutes, and for the sake of
supposed partzan advantage, to enrage and exasper
ate by scurvy misrepresentation and unfounded i'm
putations Instead Of trying to accommodate mat
tiers altogether personal to the parties, and to do JUS
tce to all, it chooses to pursue contrary course and
to infame bad passions by various indictments, for
which it can offer excuse but its own innate de-
pravlty In this case, however, it has overreached
itsef.i The real merits of the case are sufficiently
apparent to unprejudiced minds and whether Mr..
Nc Donald shall be considered justified in his recent
attack upon MIR. Hannegan, not there can be no
doubt as to the judgement of condemnation which
will be pronounced on all sides against the reckless
editor of the Charlottesville "Press.'