American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-08-30

one uundfed Shot have been counted In th
leg of Richardson. The Dutch, aided b
their women. were preparing their arm
as atfiantdroYe his hack up street, but b.
did NOT suppose that they intended on hi
return to FIRE on himaud his hack, else h
would noe ebave taken his little boy with hin
lonthe outer seatof his hack. These for
'leignersflined Madison street all the wa,
down from Wenzel 10 Hancock street. ant
were especially congregated on the cor
Iner ofSLelby. Clay. and Hancock; ant
they dredon the hack in such way that i
was impossible to escape being shot. This
part Of lhq city Is inhabited almost cxclu'
Isively by Foreigners, Affiant had given
them no ptosocation for shooting him and
his little boy. except that he bad received
into bis hack the broken-lsgged man, as
before mentioned. These facts eau be sub.
stantsly verified by twenty witnesses,-
All the shots fred were by Germans ex
cept the last, which were by Irish.
his rs.
~ WIN. ID ADKINS.
Attest d. DroWder'
| Sworn to and subscribed before o. W.
Logan, notary public for Jefferson co.
G. w. LOGAN, Notary Public.
Henry Hawesstates that on the day oI
the election about 2 o'clock, he was stand.
ing on Green street, in the upper part o.
the city. and ssw'a, wagon coming dowr
Green street, containing he thinks .fouI
persons. wbo had just arrived from the
country, and as The wagon was passing
down Green street, a crowd Of Germans
and Irish were collected at the corner o'
campbell ana Sreen streets, armed with
guns pisiels aud knives, cleaycrs, and
stones. ana his Impression is that some one
IN the wagon cried "Hurrahfor Marshall, u
wnen instantly a volley OF stones and 9th
er missiles we're thrown at the wagon; and
ne tninRs' oui IS not certain, firearms were
discharged toward the wagon In short
siIne mass ol americans cams up Green
Stee' sure. 'owar1 sa'u crowd OF Germans and
lrlsn, ana snols were bred ON both sides
ana lhe sro"d OF foreigners was dispersed.
Atnant oia not observe any other cause ol
provocat'on ior throwing the stones, DC,
az she wagon except the "hurrah for Mar
shall After this atfray. the difficulty oc'
Cured at the brewery about two squares
off; but affi ant does not know certainly that
there was any connection between the two
difficulties. {, HENRY HAYES.
Sworn to and subscribed before C. w
Logan, Notary Public for Jefferson county,
August 10, 1855.
G. w. LOGAN.
Notary Public, aforesaid.
A, jack SON White, who resides ON tbe
Point, above White mills, SAYS: He saw a
party of unarmed Americans running in
toward Main. or Shelby strsat nursuo3 hv
about twenty Coreipners VIII, were armo,l
with guns and pistols. Tho Americans
stopped between Jefferson aud Main. and,
being reinforced, turned on the foreigners,
who fled out beyond Walnut. They fred
on US when we approached them, and con
linued firing as they ran from behind cor
ners, &c., wounding some ten or twelve Of
us. | was shot in the back part of the
head, receiving 20 shot in my hat, but was
not seriously wounded. This was between
! and 2 O'Clock laffiant thinks) on Mon
day evening. Ihe Americans. had no
guns ~ siIe beginning of this melee. ,,
Afiiant states that at or s clock, after
having had h'shend dressed, he went on
MAN street, ADORE Preston; he saw some
Americans w'lh bricks in their hands,
Stunning auop, large building on the
norm siue os maln' apparently waiting for
lrlsnmen .oshow themselves at the win
Vows nov, : =, =, como ouN wneh he saw a man hre
ou'oi 'he winaow WIN a gun and shot a
% man IN, a ougSy who was passing down
ene sleel a. D. WHITE.
< SIrfi1hsoN SA, oo.Nrf' OCT:
9upscrioeu ana swofn 70 before me Aug.
o. 1000 900 81, poAlhh' .Examr.
About2 O'clock, + Nj, on Monday last,
my father and myself, who live on Chest
nut street, between Hancock and Clay,
heard guns firing IN the direction of Wal
nut and Shelby, and we walked up that di.
rection, r. Means being with us. When
we had got as far as the southeast corner
of Madisonand Clay, we saw German
wholives at that corner standing there with
his double. .barreled shotgun. My father
and myself passed him without speaking
70 MN, out means spoke 10 HIM IN afriend-
y way, ana ,ola MN ne nad better go into
ms mouse ana pu!away MS gun lie swore
nc woulu @ nov 10 H. nu' 'ha1 ne wonld go
on up. we PMu 10 other attention to him
a. AZ, .h1' Time, ou' PAsSeu M on toward walnut.
wpen men we gosnear "smu' wesaw q parcel
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