Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-09-13


peaceable, and inofensive, as think
Up to this time there had been no dis
turbances on Main in that part of tn
city. B. RHODES.
JEFFERSON CoUsTY, Scr:
Subscribed and sworn to before m,
August 10. 1855.
J. l. D0ZIFR, Examiner.
About 5 O'Clock, P. NJ, of Monday
last, l was standing on the northwest
corner of Market and Eleventh streets
when the affiant heard the noise of FIRE
arms on Main street. After a few
fires, afiant ran down to Main street
and when he got to the corner of Main
and Eleventh he stopped, because there
was rapid increase of the firing; in
fact, there seemed to be no intermission
between the sounds or cracking of the
fire arms. One Long occupied the
house of Quinn, at the corner of Main
and Eleventh streets, and Quinn had
ten or twelve two-stOry tenements
above the one occupied by Long. He
| Quinn occupied rooms above, in the
first house east of Longs. When wit
ness got to Main street, he placed him.
self in such a position as would enable
him to see where the firing came from.
He saw plainly there were two men al
every window in Quinn's houses except
one, which was the house directly west
of the house occupied by Mcdonald
He saw that each man had two double
barreled guns or muskets or pistols, and
he saw them shooting out of the win
dows rather up Main street. The
shooting continued with increased celer-
ity for fifteen minutes after be got there.
He watched the whole proceeding with
intense anxiety, and he saw that one of
the men in one of the windows of Longs
house had noticed him, for after thrust
ing the muzzle of the gun out of the
window in the usual east direction, he
turned it towards where the affiant was
standing. Afiant stepped quickly back
so as to be out of harms way, when
the gun was changed to its first direc
tion. He saw Rhodes lying dead di-
rectly opposite McDonald's, and he saw
Graham lying 10 or 19 feet from
Rhodes; and Graham, as he thought,
was then dying when he first saw him.
He did die in few minutes. He can
have no doubt but they had been shot
by persons out of the windows of
Quinn's houses, though he did not see
it done. He has been for three or four
years market-master of Fall City mar
ket house in the neighborhood of
Quinn's houses and he knew some of
the persons whom he saw shooting out
of the windows. All he knew were
IriShmen. JAS. j. WHITE.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Scr.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me
August 8, 1856.
J. |. DOZIER, Exam'r.
Michael O'Connel, on oath says:
reside on the corner of Chapel and
Main streets, Louisville, and keep there
a grocery store. On the 9th of August,
in the afternoon, Theodore Rhodes and
David Dougherty came to my grocery +;
they were my acquaintance and friends.
They informed me that there were
drunken men going about that part Of
the city, and that | had better close my
grocery. / did so at once as / closed
the doors they left and went on the
sidewalk as they left my door some
one fred from the house of Mr.. McDon-
aid, very clever man, and who be-
lieve knew nothing of it. Rhodes fell
when the shot was fired, and died soon
after. Dougberty was also shot, but l
did not see that. Dougherty and
Rhodes were both quiet and perfectly
sober. They neither did nor said any
thing TO give offence to any one. They
were peaceable and clever. well-behav-
ed gentlemen. Rhodes had just sha-
ken hands with my wife at the door
before be was shot. Immediately after
Rhodes was shot, about seventeen shots
were fired from the same house in
quick succession. The shots took effect
in my house, and are now to be seen by
any one one of them struck me in
the right leg. When these shots were
fred | saw no disturbance and heard
of none, and there was not the slightest
cause for it, that can imagine, ard but
for these shots believe there would
have been no difficulty or disturbance !;
at any rate they were the beginning,
and l am sure the cause of what after
wards occurred. / am an Irishman and
a Catholic.
MICHAEL O'CONNEL.
Subscribed and sworn to August 9th
1855. o. H. STRATTAN,
Notary Public.
THE FAcT.-The Louisville Journal
uses the following emphatic language.
Read it.
No man, however violently and furi-
ously he may hate the American name
and the American race, dares stand
forth in this community and deliberate
ly deny the notorious fact that not a
weapon had been drawn or drop of
blood split in any section of the city upt
to. the time when Irish and German
guns were fred from Irish and German
windows and doors and crannies and
loopholes. Until the innocent blood of
American citizens, shed by foreign des-