The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-22
THE LOUISVILLE MURDERS.
The Facts in the Case Comma
out.
ON HORRORS Head Horrors Accunu.
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ON HORRORS Head Horrors Accurnu-
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The Louisville Times of Sunday last,
has the following article, which teens
with facts most bloody, black and dam
ming:
We should have preferred retaining
from the publication of any further par
t~iculars of the outrages of last Monday,
until they could have been presented to
the public in a connected and authenti-
Gated form. But the cr-parte. testimo-
ny, which is daily being published by
the mob organ of this city compels US
to pursue adiffercnt course. We should
be direlict in our duty, did we permit
that mendacious sheet to continue its
work of Misrepresentation and false
hood, without attempting to counteract
its base and infamous design. There
will be found in another column a let
ter from Col. Hicks, giving a graphic
account of the outrages in the Sixth
Ward. The respects which the whole
community entertain for Col. Hicks,
because of his eminent worth, and the
purity of his character, makes him a
witness upon whom all parties can rely
with implicit confidence We ask from
our readers a persual of his letter, and
then let them answer if the statement
made by the mob organ, that there qoaS
no giolence at the polls, is not as mon-
strous a falsehood as was over uttered by
the father of lies himself. -.
We feel that our readers, like our
selves, are heartily sick Of the disgust
ing details; but our Investigations of
yesterday and the day before have
brought to lig.t still further evidence
of the brutality of the Know Nothing
mob-which, under the circumstances,
we feel it to our duty to publish.
The house of John ChieYers, on
Main street, near Eleventh, was fired
His wife ran into the street with her
child in her arms. She was surround
ed by the rufiaus, and told that if she
did not return to the burning ruins and
bring out her husband for them TO Kill,
that they would kill both herself and
her child. Frantic with dispair, she
permitted one of then to take the child,
and she herself returned to the house
and told her husband what they said
He Immediately rushed to rescue his
infant from the murderous wrctches,
and was riddled with shot and left for
dead. He was afterwards carried to
the infrmary of the Sisters of Charity
and has since died. lie had not attempt
ed TO vote, and had offered no v%iolenct
to any human being. The above partic-
uIars were detailed to US by his wife.
Martin Connolly, now lying Danger
ously wounded at the i~nGfinary, informs
US that he was at supper when be dis
covered that the house had been fred
He and his wife ran out. AS soon as
they reached the street his wife began
to plead for his life. A few gentlemen
attempted to save him but one of the
%rufiians placed a pistol at his left breast
and fired. He also informs US of a man
named Munroc, boarding with him, who
was shot at the same time. Gonnellyis
a peaceable and inoffensive citizen.
Dennis Long, another of the wounded,
lying at the %infrmary. Informs us that
he was reading a newspaper on the
street, when George Thompson, a friend
of his and a Know Nothing, came and
told him that the crowd at the polls
were meditating an attack upon the row
of houses occupied by the Irish; and
advised him to keep in his house. He
went 20 sleep, and was awakened by tn
shots. His two brothers were in the
room when be awoke. They discovered
that the house was on fire. They at
tempted to escape by getting on the
roof of the adjoining house aud from
thence getting away. But no sooner
had they reached the street when his
two brothers who were in front of him,
were fired at and fell. He rushed on
through tho crowd, but was himself shot,
and remained unconscious until he was
carried to the Jail. His two brothers
were killed. He heard the murdered
Quinn tell the mob that he would give
them all the money and al. the property
he possessed, if they would spare his
life aud the lives of his tenants; but
the sayages shot him before the words
were scarcely out of his mouth. No Of
tense is alleged against any of these
men.
Cassidy, a nephew of Quinn's was shot
as he attempted to escape from the
flames
George Hubert, an old German, liv-
ing on the corner of Ninth and Chest
nut, left homo about 4 o'clock in the
evening for Portland avenue, to see a
cow which he had intended to buy
While passing down Main he saw two
crowds, one on the corner of Tenth and
the other on the corner of Eleventh.
He was between them, heard some shots
fred, looked and saw a man lying on
the -paycment-saW two men, Ameri-
cans, go up and fire two shots at the
PROSTATE body, and would have fred the
third but the pistol would not go off,
| Hubert Immediately crossed the street
to get out os the way. Hewas followed
by a man who said he wanted to kill
him with a knife. The old man told
him that he was going on his business.
that he had nothing to do with the fight
ing, that there was no use ia killing a
a poor old man. The wretch's heart
seemed to be touched, he went off With
the crowd down toward Eleventh street.
The crowd, however, almost immedi-
ately returned again, and surrounded the
old man. One ofthen cried out " Let's
kill the id old Dutch son of a b-h.'i
He begged them to spare his life. kh-
other cried out that he would shoot him
for the fun of the thing, and immedi-
ately placed a pistol to h right b east
and fired. Hubert is lying in a most
critical situation ct his residence on the
corner of Ninth and Chestnut.
An old German, whose name we could
not ascertain, living between Thirteenth
and fourteenth streets, on Portland
Avenue, who has been sick for several
months, crept under the bed when he