Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-06


fred; some twenty or thirty shots must have been
fred during the ARRAY, which continued some
minute or minute and half after that everything
was quiet until the marines came; after while
| a cannon was brought on the ground, and some
| one came to witness to purchase powder; witness
then went up stairs over the store; did not go
down stairs till the firing was all over the first
] shots witness heard were musket shots. rH,.a.
| Here the Court adjourned.
| NINTH DAY.
| AS soon as the Court met, to-day, Mr.. Bradley
called for the defence
! George T. Longdon, sworn.-Lives in WASH
ington; knows Dan1 Stewart and Isaiah Stewart;
| saw Daniel Stewart pursue some Irishmen down
/ the street with gun in his hand; saw some man
| follow and call him; the man who followed him
/ was not Isaiah Stewart; witness heard the man
tell Daniel Stewart that he was near enough to
shoot.
| Cross-szamined-The man who told Daniel
Stewart to shoot was John Mcdowell; he was
| not a lame man. ...
| L Birkhead was recalled by Mr.. Bradley.
| Saw Isaiah Stewart on that day; witness was
| standing at the Fourth Ward polls, and Isaiah
came to him and advised him not to interfere
| with the mob from Baltimore, for they all had
| pistols and knives, and would kill him Il he did
| Joan q; Es.r, recalled by Mr. Bradley.-lsaiah
| ness and said it was good thing that Degges did
not attempt to arrest any one, a man was right
| behind him with pistol at his back and would
| have shot him If he had; has known Isaiah some
ten years.
Israel Cross, sworn.-Lives i'm the Sixth Ward
the cannon was spiked by witness one week be-
| which he was trying to bend to open lock In
the door of closet in the Anacosta engine house,
witness tried to get the wire out, but could not do
| u; the piece must have been inches long, and
witness in endeavoring to get II out clenched it
| in the inside.
| CrOss-sranaiaed 1T might have been fred of
with that in, but thinks il could not have been
done can't say the touch hole was so obstructed
| rs to prevent its being fred in loading the gun
the wire could not have been forced back: steel
~ va ire I'm hole
steel; only believes that the wire was bent; the
| wire was not as large as the touch- hole
William Mills, sworn.-Lves in the Sixth
| Ward; went in the engine house to clean the en-
| CINE; the primer was tapering, and was broken
of in trying to straighten ii out after bending il
to open the closet door, could not get it out of the
hole and drove IL in; could not say that IL
| was mashed on the inside; one end was as likely
to mash as the other; it did not entirely stop up
the hole.
CrOSs-e1nnlinsi-Was not near the gun when
| il was loaded; was eating his dinner when the
gun was taken out of the engine-house.
James Forrest, sworn.-Was in the engine
| house when the gun was Spiked the wire was
bent in the touch hole 1t stuck in the touch hole
| when broken off; never tried afterwards to take
| IL out.
| CrosS-e7aminsd.-Can't say he saw the gun
loaded on the day it was at the polls; was at the
| market house when it was loaded; did not see it
loaded; did not come mp with the gun.
| near the gun when it was at the market house;
did not see IL loaded; was not there at all.
ChdS. EreTeu, sworn.-Was in Washington on
| list June last; hearing the marines had gone up
went up and saw the marines halting on / street;
observed that the men were very unsteady some
one said gun was pointed towards them, which
accounted for their being irregular in their ap-
| pearance; previous to that two men came and
spoke TO the officer on the left of the marines he
| appeared to refer them to another on the right;
they went to the right and addressed the officer
there, (Capt Tyler heard Capt. Tyler say, ''then
| We'll take the gum" he Immediately put men in
motion by right flank, and went up the street OPP
| posite the market house; witness went with them
till they halted; they came to front face; witness
concluded it not safe to stand in front of the
marines, knowing if they were pelted or insulted
they would not stand il; witness went to Alston's
| corner and took position on the flag stone on
Seventh street by the corner, was standing in the
front with clear view saw the first platoon cross
the street with fixed bayonets; the charge was IT.
| regular, not as a body of trained men would co.
/ did not see the gun; saw the rush forward, and
then heard pistol fired from the crowd, and saw
| stone pass over the heads of the charging ma
rines they brought their pieces down and fired in
several directions; people began to run and scat
tering shots were Aired by the marines after them;
brought their muskets down and were simulta-
neouslv turned to the left, which directed than
to Alston's corner; they fired irregularly noy as
regular troops would FIRE; witness thought 1t was
| ling all around him; when the firing had ceased
witness looked around and saw that he was the
| only man standing on the corner; five men were
/ lying dead around him; witness saw a marine
bring down his piece and point 1t at him and fire.
he did not hit witness; after that witness walked
| out and turned over the body of Mr.. Deems to
see II he was alive; and went up to identify the
marine who had fired at witness; could not iden-
| tify him; could see the whole crowd; they were
perfectly peaceable; If pistol had been fred
| from Aston corner up TO the time when the men
| were killed on that corner, witness must have
seen IL; after that there were a good many pistol
| shots from all sides; saw no stones thrown; the
pistol fired at the marines first appeared to come
from the centre Of the front of the mar house,
| does not know Charles Spencer; did not see him
| throw stones or fire pistol; witness soon turned
and went TO his office, and sketched of plan of
| the scene with memorandums of the events of the
| day; this was half an hour after the occurrence
| was over.
OF marines on the spot, of two platoons each; the
| firing on Alston's corner came from the right of
| the marines who were in the line; it was confined
| to the right OF the line; thinks twenty five or
| thirty muskets were fired, about one platoon:
| the firing might have extended to the first platoon
| of the second company, but thinks the principal
firing on AlstOn's corner came from the second
platoon Of the first company, on the right of the
line; heard no pistols fred from Alston's corner
| at all.
A. S. IT, Waite, recaled-by MT Key-The
| fire on Alston's corner came from the second COM
| pany OF the marines; il all came from the first
| platoon OF the second company.
Robert M. Baird, sworn.-KnOws Isaiah Stew
| art; saw him on the corner of Seventh street and
| New York avenue while the marines were at the
market house; be was at the Third Wa polls
| after that and until the marines went AWAY
| CToSs-eJnmiHed.- Witness was standing on the
| north corner OF Seventh street and New York
| avenue, and Isaiah was on the opposite corner al
the tavern; this was when the marines first fired:
| while the marines were firing Isaiah walked M
| to the Third Ward polls and remained there till
| the marines went away.
| Henry Lyle, sworn-Knows Isaiah Stewart:
| when the marines came up, voting was stopped
| at the Third Ward polls; was collector at the
| Third Ward polls all day; did not 90 to Fourth
| Ward polls AZ all; after the marines went away
the voters collected around the polls and little
| disturbance arose, and witness heard the voices
| OF Isaiah Stewart and Dan'l Stewart; Jos Hodg-
| son run out from the window and had Isaiah
around the body; this was twenty minutes after
| the marines left.
| cToss-ezdmiHsd.-Did not see Isaiah Stewart
| and Robert Baird come up to the Third Ward
| polls; was looking directly dewn the street;
| would have seen them if they had come while the
| marines were firing.
| Charles Lennon, sworn Lives in the Third
| Ward; was not at the market house when the ma
| Tines charged on the gun; was below the market;
| was within about 800 feet of the marines and
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