The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-06-07

and received it on my arm. went back
TO where my brother stood. He tod me
to leave right away or | would get killed.
came to the same door again, back door,
and looked out and saw Mccormick going
10 front of the house, and I slipped out
behind the shanty and went along down
behind the barn stood there for two or
three minutes and then crossed the fence
and came up on the street, on same street
where the shanty stood, and found my
brother laying on the street, as | thought,
dead, about 100 yards from shanty, and
Pat. Cogan stopped over him, without o
cap, and said Pat. you killed my broth
er; he said it would be worse were it not
for him. Schrawder Brown and Richard
Staples came by, as soon as [ did, and
raised him out of the mud, and Cogan and
they carried him into the shanty, and he
never spoke word from that time, only
one or two words he spoke before Doctor
Jackson, | can recollect, until he died
He died on 18th of March, about 10 o.
clock in the morning. There was pile
of wood cut, ready for using, laying there
on tue road where he laid.
Witness points to the prisoners and says
they are the men | saw there that night
When | retreated to my brother again
the men were breaking the shanty. As
near as | can tell they threw l ! cords o:
wood in the shanty After the aifray,
the shanty was without door or window,
except the back door, and the floor COW
cred with wood and some stones there,
thrown in by some of the party. a stove
partly broken. When | was behind the
barn [ heard noise of people running
up and down the street. | knew all Of
these men before; they were working on
the railroad by tue village. Phil. Co.
gan's wife lived in the village and he
worked on the railroad; all of these men
were in the habit of coming to my broth
crs shauty. | saw these men next morn
ing after the fray, when they were taken
prisoners. | didn't see much sign Of H.
quor about these mcr; saw some of them
drink; [ saw Pat. Cogan drink that fore
noon; my brother, he and | took drink
together. The first time the two boys had
a fight was about 10 o'clock Cogan
came TO the shaDty between 6 and o elk
in the evening.
c.. Ell came there to that sbanty
on the 23d May, 1854. | had the con-
troll of it from the time came there. /
done my brothers busines my brother
was to work part Of the time. He went
10 work last summer or spring at the
bridge at Bells Mill: worked there about
3 months, then came home and staid 5 or
i weeks, and then went to Port Jervis,
staid there about three weeks, and came
home and staij or 3 weeks more. and
then went to work at Coan's bridge, the
high bridge, worked there a week and
came back on Saturday Of the fight Dur
ing bis absence attended this shanty.
Ills was grog shanty.
I was examined before the Justice in
this case. The first fight, about O'Clock,
was between Raygan and Connolly, The
second fight between them was towards
evening, 3 or hours after the first.
Mccormick was outside the shanty at
the time he struck me. The back door
was shut when l went to it-not locked.
/ shut it again when | went back-did Mt
lock it. When Philip Cogan came and
asked what this was all about, he shut the
door after him. struck when be called
the boys; struck him with the but-end Of
revolver some where in the head, can't
tell where. am sbure | struck him
twice. saw blood afterwards; pushed
him TO the door; none of the rest had come
in then yet. Thomas Ragan, my brother
and myself were in the shanty when Phil.
was in; can't say if any more. Ragan
assisted me in putting him out; I don't
know that he struck him also. The strug-
gle st the door lasted two or three min
utes; | did'n bit him at the door did ut
hear him say not to murder him; didn't
hear any one on the outside say, they are
numbering Phil. in there; didn't see that
he was badly hurt about the head and
face; saw him the next day. He looked
pretty poor, pale; had handkerchief a
round his head; saw no wounds on his
face; saw him half-past 10 o'clock next
day, he was standing on the floor then
when I saw him; nothing on but his pants
and shirt; did mt see any blood on bis
shirt was between the jam and him
nc between the door and me. Ragan was
trying to shut the door then and Pat. too
They were behind the door then, Patrick
and Raygan. The door was open then 2
OF 3 minutes. Phil did ut keep me pref
ty busy then; don't know that l said be-
fore the Justice that be kept me so busy
I did mt know what any one else was do
ing. Ny leg got caught fast in the door,
and Phil. was then between me and the
door 1t was at that time that | saw
Mccormick, Brady, Sheridan, Gamer and
Rogers come along and several others
aIoGg With them; cant tell who the others
were, they were strangers to me. was
standing at the bar when saw Pat. CO.
gan, John Kaboe aud Phil. Cogan 20 by
the window, on the out side; / saw them
through the window: there was a pane
lroke out of the window at that time
The light was burning then; the light was
one foot from where | was STANDING. little |