The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-12-16
was John Brown a Murderer.
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Mouths do ace Conoict them.

Read the A6idaeits-Om # their Osrn
Mouths do ace Coneict them.
1t will be remembered that when the
Black Republicans got possession of the
House of Representatives, elected Banks
Speaker and majority of Black Repubi
cans on the committees, they raised in ad
dition an Investigating Committee" with
John Sherman, of Ohio, chairman. and
sent them all the way tc Kansas with full
powers to enquire into the whole difficulty
there, and to report to the country the ex-
act state of the facts. That committee
was two months investigating and another
month reporting, making a volumessof over
thousand pages, which was approved and
accepted by a Black Republican House of
Representatives. We have a copy of that
report from which we make the following
extracts as sworn to, and published to the
world as truth by a Black Republican
committee, and a Black Republican House
of Representatives:
AFFIDAVIT OF MAHALA DOYLE.
The undersigned, Mahala Doyle, states
upon oath: | am the widow of the late
James P. Doyle; that we moved into the
Territory, that is my husband, myself, and
children moved into the Territory of Kan
sas some time in November, A. ID. 1854,
and settled on Mosquito creek, about one
mile from its mouth where it empties into
the Pottawattamie creek, in Franklin coun
ty; that on Saturday, the Oath day of
May, A. D. 1855, about l o'clock at night,
after we had all retired, my husband, James
P. Doyle, myself, and seven children, four
boys and one oirl-the oldest boy is about
twenty two years of age, his name is Will
lam; the other was about twenty years of
agehis name is Drury; the next is about six
teen years of age, his name is John; the
next is about thirteen years of age, her
name is Polly Ann; the next is about ten
years of age, his name is James; the next
is about eight years of age, his name is
Charles; the next is about five years Of age
his name is Henry.
We were all in bed, when we heard
some persons come into the yard and rap
at the door. and call for Mr. Doyle, my
husband. This was about II O'Clock on
Saturday night Of the Oath Of May last,
Ny husband got up and went to the door.
Those outside inquired for Mr.. Wilkinson,
and where he lived. Ny husband told
them that he would tell them. Mr.. Doyle,
my husband, opened the door, and several
came into the house, and said they were
from the army. My husband was pro-
slavery man. They told my husband that
he and the boys must surrender, they were
Il,
pistols and large knives. They first took
my husband out of the house, then they
took two of my sons-the Oldest ones.
William and Drury-out, and then took
my husband and these two boys, William
and Drury, again. My son John was
spared, because asked them in tears to
spare him. In short time afterwards |
heard the reports Of pistols. heard two
reports, after which | heard moaning, IS
if a person was dying; then heard wild
whoop. They had asked before they went
away for our horses. We told them that
the horses were out on the prairie. Ny
husband and two boys, my sons, did not
come back any more. l went out mex;
morning in search of them, and found my
husband and William, my son, lying dead
in the road near together, about two hun
dred yards from the house. My other son
did not see any more until the day he
was buried. | was much overcome and
went to the house. They were buried the
next day. On the day Of the burying
saw the daed body of Drury. Fear of my
self and the remaining children induced
me to leave the home where we had beer
living, We had improved our claim lit
tie. l left all and went to the State O
Missouri her