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

Can't tell whether before, or after went
down to Peter Browns .shanty. Phil.
then lived the next door above Swart-
woods. When I was in at Phil. Cogan's
saw Phil. in there: Patrick Cogan when
saw him, stood with bis back against
Swartwoods s fence. l didn't stay long at
Phil. Cogan's, not quarter of an hour,
between five and ten minutes. Patrick
Cogan wasn't there at PhiPs. when l was
in. l didn't know Phil. until he spoke,
because 7 wasn't looking at him. 1t was
very dark the time they were beating that
man. saw the men at the shanty all in
a crowd, but didn't know who they were.
l did say in Phil. Cogan's house that
1 did mt know any thing about it, couldn't
tell who they were, nor what they were
doing, all knew heard the noise. Brid-
get Cogan was in at Pills. when was
there. Don't mind whether Joanna Kcmii
was in or not. I came to this place last
summer some time. I have been living
up the lines a good part of the time. l
first lived at John Melicks, week at
Predmore's, Fidel Nageles, Swartwood's,
was week at the colored peoples down
at the bridge. l don't remember saying
to Philip Swartwood and his wife that I
didn't know any thing, only I heard the
noise, it was SO dark / couldn't see.
Richard S. Staples, sworn.-I reside in
lower end of town, near Peter Browns
shanty. On the night of the 18th March,
l walked out of the store, and heard a
noise down street, and supposed it to be
fight, from the character of the noise
started Immediately down, came to within
about 100 yards of the shanty. [ heard
some one say they have killed him. |
then went across the street, some persons
standing there, and Patrick Cogan had
hold of Patrick Brown. Patrick Cogan was
trying to hold him up, and asked me and
Schrawder Brown to help him carry him in
the shanty. We both took hold of him ;
Brown of one leg and another; Larzelicr
and d. D. Walton took hold, and among
US We carried him in the shanty. Dark,
no light; considerable stove wood scat
tered about the floor, stove upset After
We got him in, then | let loose of him and
walked out of the shanty. Then they
brought a light. l then saw that the
stove was upset, fire in it smoking. They
then soon got Brown in bed. When |
left the shanty, 1 think they all left but
Pat Cogan, he had hold of Browns head
The window was knocked in and the door
broke considerable. The head of Brown
was very bloody; don't think l noticed
any stones on the shauty floor. Think
this was somewhere between 8 and 10 o.
click. Couldn't distinguish PERSONS
When got there the noise was over; saw
several persons walking about, but could nj
distinguish them, it was very dark.
CT. Er.-Think I got there about the
time Schrawder Brown did-found Pat
rick Cogan endeavoring to lift Patrick
Brown up. Peter Brown wasn't there
when l came. thought l heard his voice
going from, where Patrick was to the shan
ty. Don't recollect whether he came back
again before We got Patrick into the shan
ty. 1 met several persons when l was 60
ing down; think [ met some running from
the scene,in the street, before got there
| could mt distinguish a person ten yards
off. [ tried to see who was over there,
and couldn't till l got up to Patrick Co.
gan and be spoke. When l first came up
Cogan asked me if I would mt take hold
and carry him into the shanty. He said
nothing further that recollect, until We
got into the shanty, when Patrick Cogan
was trying to pacify Peter Brown.
When the light was struck up there
were several Irishmen then in the shanty.
There were two or three that looked as if
they had been in fight: didn't know
them-don't recollect whether Pat. Cogan
helped put him in the bed. When start
ed, Patrick Cogan came with me as far
as the wood pile to look for his cap, said
he had lostit, on pile of stove wood where
Patrick Brown laid. It was just threw
into pile. When l saw Brown first, he
was lying right by the side of the pile of
wood. Shouldn't think there was over
half cord of wood in the shanty. The
window was smashed in, and door partly
broken.
JOS. NJ. Robson, sworn-In the even
ing half past 6, or nearly seven o'clock, in
March, think on II, Isaw parcel of men
in front of shanty, making noise, and
presently some one came out of the shan
ty and run up the street, and some one
in the crowd followed here he goes, and
then they followed him. | heard scuf-
fe in front of Swartwood's. | went up,
and when | got there, no one there but
Patrick Brown and Patrick Cogan. Some
one then came up, and I heard Cogan ask
him to help carry him into the shanty.-
[ then left them, and went across the road
on the pavement. think | heard blows
up there. should judge there were ten
or dozen men ran up after him don't
know that | heard any one make remark
but Cogan. | was watching them when
they run up. Think I heard the noise
some five or ten minutes The noise sound
ed as if they we're throwing something a
gainst the shanty and following. There
was pretty large collection of men in
front Of the shanty. l saw nothing