Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-30
The Murderer Americans.

From the hue and the cry of the Journal and
| kindred papers, and the crocodile tears shed,
persons at a distance would be induced 10 be-
lieve that there had been wholesale slaughter
of Americans here, who had been, Tired upon
while peacably walking the streets or attending
to their duties, by desperate. bloody foreigners
who had no provocatiOn for such deeds. After
reading in the Journal how volley after volley
to the extent of several hundred discharges Were
fred at defenceless Americans, aud that the
streets were running with their blood, one would
be surprised TO learn that during the entire ri
OTIS, both up and down town only four americans
lcere killed. Yet such is the fact Their names
were Graham, Rhodes, Hudson, and Watkins.
Watkins was killed on Green street, and was
the only American killed in the upper part Of
the city We can learn no particulars as to his
death or who he was. He was wounded Mon
day and carr3to the hospital, where he died
Tuesday ni9AE lie was very poor, not even hav-
ing change OF clothes in which he could be bu-
ried. Rhodes, Graham, and Hudson were kill
ed in the Eighth ward Graham, who was first
killed, fell while pursuing three Irishmen, (who
had been attacked by Americans while walk
ing quietly along the Streets and throwing
stones at them Rhodes. the next one killed,
was advised of the intended attack on the Irish
short time before it occurred. he advised some
of his friends in that neighborhood to shut up
their stores Hudson, as proved by one of the
Journals own witnesses, was running about in
state of wild excitement, with revolver in
one hand and bowie-knIie in the other; and
as we have shown, and are prepared to prove by
| reliable witnesses, was murdered by his own
| friends, who took him to be an Irishman, and
did not discover their mistake until he fell
dead
Such is the mole-hill out Of which the Jour
nal has been striving so hard to manufacture a
mountain. The Americans killed were victims
of their own wicked tfolly, and we have yet to
hear any one thing tending to show that in their
deaths the community has suffered any loss, or
that they ever did any thing to make them de-
serving OF public sympathy.
But the public should know the character of
the men the Journal and its alias are endeayOr-
ing to manufacture into martyrs, and they can
then Judge if they where ornaments to society,
or were calculated to do credit to any party with
which they acted.
Graham, was a man of bad character who
had been guilty of previous riotous conduct,
Tor which he had to answer in court. Some
time since he tsted for robbing q house
of Iu-fame on the Piank-road, and the stolen
property was found in his possession. Beliey.
ing il TO have been his first offence, and in con
sideration of his youth and promises of good
behavior for the future, Judge JOyes merely
held him to bail in the sum of 81 900 for his
good behavior.
Rhodes was man of violent temper, and of
such character that his neighbors would hold
no intercourse with him. He had been Gin
definitely suspended" (Which was tantamount
to expulsion) from Boone Lodge, l. o. o. f., for
bad conduct. He treated his wife so badly
that she was driven away from him, and for
several months previous to his death they had
not been living together. he refused 10 pay
her physicians bill incurred after their sepera-
ton, disowned her as his wife. and only two or
three days before his death forbade the ply
slcian, who had been called to visit her during
sickness, from longer attending her. But.
abused and maltrea;ed as she had been. with
NE holy devotion characteristic of her sex.
forgetting all his faults, Mrs Rhodes now seeks
to remove the cloud that surrounds his memory.
She Is represented as being a worthy lady. and
her womanly devotion cannot fail to excite adj
mration.
Hudson, who was murdered by his own friends
and not killed by the Irish, as has been stated
was man of VIGOROUSLY bad character We
see it stated that he was recently released from
the Indiana penitentiary, where he had been
sentenenced TO serve term for stealing, and at
the time he was killed an indictment for felony
was hanging over him.-L0uiscitie Courier.