Washington telegraph., 1855-08-29

side OF Main street. near Tenth, Louisville. on the
evening Oh August 9Th inst. when three Irisbrne en-
passed there going towards Market street and -
about five minutes returned and n,eSed . "a
cur company: we Were engaged in convers,t;o1n
ana We're very quiet As they passed tbrouob ~
company suddenly and without word orc ot tha
Irishmen raised bis hand and shot at our c,mnapv
anu d' onee our crowd scattered, and the three
Irlsnmen sho. at them with revolvers twelve or
fifteen times When the Irish.oen shot t,vo o-
three shots were fired by our conuauv The
company was IN had few arms SUPPOSE he
cause few shots were fred by them. and did not
THINK they had any arms. l am positive no shots
were about through saw no assault made or
vocation given before the shots were fired bv tbe
ifisn- ne iTlsh ran away unhurt after hayino
shot one OF our company in the arm at the corner
OF Tenth and Main. We were all taken bv sur-
prise and lett in hurry l ran down Main to-
wards Chapel street. and when near O. ConnelTs
grocery at Main and Chapel / saw two men in
McDonald's house opposite and hearing the report
OF ilTe arms. saw Theodore K nodes staeger and
iaii. anu In quick succession eighteen or twenty
shots were fired from McDonald's from above
and below stairs After Rhodes fell the shots
were hred at me- and took effect MANY of them.
IN u ConneiFs house l did not at the instant
Know what to do, and SO stood STILL These IS or
~ shots We're fired with great rapidty, and occu-
Ped Ddt moment So | finally ran across
Chappel and was fired at as | went and the shot
look effect in brick house across the street as
ran- went on to Market street. glad to get
away. was not armed. and did not think of hav-
ing dIfflcnty until the Irish began to shoot and
then went down Main to avoid being hurt
Rhodes was shot down in front Of me, and stop
ped- Rhodes was unarmed, and was not moIest-
ing any one There were few near him or in the
street when ne was shot Up TO the time of this
shooting by the Irish heard of no disturbance
on Main
L am engaged at the Louisville paper mill
JOHN T. TRICE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me August Sth
1855 Oh. STRATTON ~ p
Having been called upon to certify to the char
acter of Mr. John L. Trice would state that I
have been acquainted with him since last Febru-
ary- at which time he entered himself by letter
to the Church OF which am member. and since
that time have had at least weekly intercourse
with him. and from all that have seen of him.
believe him to be quiet. peaceable man. and
worthy OF the utmost confidence
WM. KENDRICK.
Louisville -9ug- 10, 1855.
Michael O'ConnelI. on oath. saws: I reside on
the corner of Chapel and Main streets Louisville.
and keep there grocery store. On the 9th OF
August, inst. in the afternoon, Theodore Rhodes
and David DOugherty came to nv grocery: they
were my acquaintsnces and friends. They in
formed me that there were drunken men going
about this part of the city. and had better close
my grocery ! did at once: as | closed the
doors they left and went on the sidewalk: as they
left my doors some one fired from the opposite
side ofthe street from the house of Mr.. Mcdonald.
a very clever man. and who believe knew moth
ing of it. Rhodes fell when the shot was fired.
and died soon after. DougheTty was also shot
but did not see but that Dougberty and Rhodes
were both quiet and perfectly sober. They nei-
ther did nor said anything to give offense to anv
one They were peaceable and clever. we'll be-
haved gentlemen. Rhodes had Just shaken hands
with wife at the door before he was shot
Immediately and at once after Rhodes 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 fired | saw no disturbance and
heard of none and there not the slightest
cause for it that | car imagine and but for these
shots believe there would have been no difficult
tf or disturbance: at any rate they were the be-
ginning. and am sure the cause of what after
wards occurred / am an Irishman and Cath
olic. MICHAEL OCONNELL
Subscribed and sworn 70: Ang. Sth- 1853.
o. H. STRATTAN, N p.
l. Joanna O-ConneH wife of Michael O-Con-
nell, on oath, saY-I have heard the above afiida-
i Wit of my husband read. and know the same is
true, and adopt and make il part of this affidavit
JOANNA O'CONNELL-
g. c. Hord states that he is of the firm of H. T
Curd & Co. merchants of the city of Louisville
and believes the statements of O-Conneu nav be
implicitly relied on as true about the dreadful oc-
currences which took place n his neishborhood
Richard H. Lee: one of tie special police o
Monday Tor the Eighth ward. on oath. saws: That
he was on Jefferson street. between Eleventh and
Twelfth about p H., when he heard the report
offire-arms on Main street He Immediately left
+ in the direction of tine firing. accompanied by
Samuel White. also policeman. When thew goi
70 ffar of Chao Ma5p
/ Rhodes dead at that corner They stopped dowr
: TO pick him up when the Irish commenced firing
on them on. of QniBn's Row. from the opposite
/ side of the street. Tom White. SAM White
Dougherty- and afiiant went across Main Street
when they were fired upon again. At this fire
( Graham. who had got In the neigh borhood, was
! shot and killed. and Dousherty was wounded. L.
AtEiant then started nome, which is on the west
/ side of Eleventh, between Main ana Monroe. and
as he Passed the corner OF Eleventh. he was fired
at by, he thinks, dozen guns from the windows
OF Longs house which is the North east correr ol
Eleventh and Man, and owned by Quinn None
OF the Americans named above had OF exhibited
arms A that time there crowd of Am
orleans 10 sight, nor did aff:ant armed Ameri-
cans in the neighboThOod. Soon afterwards the
/ Americans assembled in the neighborhood and
were shot at from the windows on Chapel street
and corner OF Market, and here, Sam. White and
Melbourn Scott were sh0. but not killed Alter
leaving Chapel street the second time, afiant was
I fired at from the back part of Guinn's Row, on
Main street Ailiant not less, he thinks than
fifty persons out from the back of Quinn
Row, towards the canal, many of them armed
with guns
Affiant was at the Eighth ward polls nearly all
day, and states at that place there little or no
fighting. and the foreigners were not driven of
from the polls at any time He made several
Dutchmen put up weapons. with which they came
to the polls, and which they exhibited in one OF
I two little quarTels that sprang up.
RICHARD III. LEE.
Jefferson county, set
Subscribed and sworn to before me, August 9
1850 ]. L. DOZIER, Erm'r.
Caroline Wall, wife of John Wall, on OATH saws:
She is an Irishwoman: her husband is an Irish
man. and Roman Catholic On the evening o
the 9th inst about O'Clock. was going home
from the grocery of Mr. Brown. on Tenth and
Market streets, Louisville, passing down Elev ent
. street TO Main; when l reached Main street, al
Eleventh. | heard the report of firearms, and
looked up Main where it came from, and a
man ai near Chapel street. and great MAN.