American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-08-30
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He watched the whole proseesling with in =
tense znxiSsy, au3 u ssw thst.on= OF TIE
men III one. oFthe windows of Long 5 boise
had noticed him. for sfter thfusting the
emorsls OF jjis odo ont Of the window in the /,
usual east direction. he turned II toward
where al int was Standing: Aaiant step L,
md quickly back SO as TO be out of harm
q Ssax. .whsn The eun was changed TO It's hrst s
direction. He saw Rhodes lying dead d.
secslx opposite McDanslIs, and he saw
ssfarakani iyiug 30 Or / 2 feet from Rhodes;
ood Graham. as he thought. was dying
when he first saw him. He did die IN
few minutes. Heeah have no doubt bal
that they had been shot by persons out OF
the windows Of Qainn,s house. though he
Tida't see II dones He has been fur three
foffoar years market-master OF Falls City
market-house 10 the neighbofhoot OF
Quinn's hoascSana be knew some of the
persons whom be saw shooting ourof the 1
8 windows. AlIhe knew were Ifishmen.
- q ss.ss - JAS J. WHITE.
JKFFERsos CorSTY. Set:
q Subscribed and sworn before mo Aug. ]
70, 1855, 80 JLDoZIER, Exan'r.
John N. Tsaxarisa, on oaih, says. That On the 9Th
August ssssSn was gssiiss eSS ssa ch ps'fl ~,
Market g Main street.; E, a.
- t4uvs time saw fall On the corner 0fCh@rcl
~ ssl N'o o Ts sis sJssI sls near ocsaSsis
Theshois eamc frosn Mcpsz.IdtS grocery. aerossihe
& way. MvDanAid sah lrishnan In lnoheht i nan
sains frosn McDonaldss and presented rsveyer al
.RhodeA who was endsayoseg e get up, and @ ct ne
Saof at hun several ttmes, and returned 20 r and
soon aner and Asi belieys, afssr Rhodes was dead;
4 anohsf Ifishman shot him with gan Thu hNhrr oI
saS aiSsS ri. slScs 6 remove i. rs was ss VII u
sihati Know oL di,sarsns any Oea,wlisn shot Ama;
looking around Isaw young Graham fall aud dis al
most lam edAtsly, Hs was coming towards Rh5les
yssehe fell tlsvas shOsinlas & snssi anda.4s ~;
4 su0scrbed aud s~osn,tsa; ( August. q 8, lss5
Dr.. ksV. Btewer. bsing sg6rn, says: That or Mon.
day, Aug 6. 1855 about 59E O'Clock p M, haut was
SlaninT al the coraef of Eleventh and Mar
aaS oss.iS s@S al * 'S S csRi An
ing ows the north side q MARKET street, wh ~ TIE
Arcd from the uppor story OF Irish eoGee h9 9ise
cosney of Chapel aud Market Streets and hqniek SUI
man fall. The Ainsrican5 past tn 1lss and
where was; and bsBe tataly unarIned, they proeur
rspsSEed voeys drsd from said core '-hl ise,
.niil the Amsrean' Wsfs F,nI9Fs7l g, ae1 shs i'
80 @'''''S'4 ~ ''E " - OH. sTiATTAN, Mp.
George NJ. Kirk states, that, on the day
Of the election, between s and 6 O'Clock
in tho evening, he was going down Mar
ket street toathe Eighth ward polls, aud
was stopped on his way near the upper
end Of the lower market house. In few
minutes be saw several shots fired out Of
the upper windows of house at the lower
side Of Chapel street on Market Alliant
believes that the shots were discharged
from muskets or sho:-guns upon some
eight or ten passers-by, who seemed TO he
going along the street without any exIiLi.
ton OF hostility or even Of coniciou ness
OF the violence con cmpla:ed upon them
Two or three Americans were wounled.
Oae was reported 10 be killed. The
wounded retreatel They had no arms
and called for arms. In few minutes
several new yolleys were fired upon Il sm,
crowd passing down 10 see what was goina
on. AtfiInt saw one man wQuadel in ,ht
second voley. AMI several others wrr4 re
ported to be wounded. A number Of sho'
struck the market house where they eat
be secn Ailiant was unable to see th'
slightest proyocaiion at the place aforesai,
for eitherof the volleys of firing lie di,
not see any armed persons outside of tb,
house from which the shots were firel.--
At or about the same time several Ameri
cans were shot on Main street, as he wa
informed, from Quinn's row. This aflian
went Immediately around TO Main street
and dead American was being hauleC
away by Mr.. Cooke in wagon, He ha.
been shot through the breast.
GEORGE NJ. KIRK.
- Sworn to and subscribed before Y. W
Logan, notary public for Jefferson CO., thi
10th Of August 1855,
G. w. LOGAN, Notary Public.
Joseph Hucker, on oath. says he reside
on the 9th Of Augustin in one oil Quinn
houses, in what is called Qainn's row, O
the north side of Main street, betwec
Tenth aud Eleventh, Louisville lie ros
ded there about seven months. On thi
day, he heard, while in his house, n rspo
of firearms, aud on looking out Of the viii
dow he saw man lying On the sidewll
near O'Counell's grocery, on the corn'
of Main aud Chapel streets, and in le
moments saw an lrishman pass ovor fro
MoDonald's grocery, situated opposite o
Connells, and on the north side of Mai
having in-one hand revolver, and in Il
other gun. He got within ten or twel,
feet of the man lying on the sid walk. Al
deliberately shot him in the forehead.
saw the blood come from tho wound al
also from wound in the breast; the ms
never moved afterwards, think. All lh
time there was no crowd there, and no OF
on the street that saw. except the dea
man and the one who shot him; but in
few moments some persons came and
moved the dead boIy. a man, an Anne
lean, then told me / had better close II
shutters Of my windows, or mightbe il
iured; and did scat once. He offered n
no injury. but borrowed my gun to fig
the Irish with, who were firing from M
Donald's house and other Irish houses
long the row. Ha took the gun away an
Idid not get it ill to-day.
The Irish all along the row were We
armed, most ofthom having two pisyolscac
and also gun, There were about rs
100 Irishmeu living in that row, lhinl
and they had many visitors of the
countryrnen, saw many of them ofic
with pistols and guns during the two
three weeks preceding the August electic