The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-08
Attack ON the Residence Of the
Married Couple.
The Old Negroes Protects Her Brood,
and Shoots One Of the Assailants.
a Returned Soldier.
VERDICT OF JUsTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
coRonEa's JURY ON m'sctaE..1 Arvom,
&C., &C., &c

which has OF late years become generally known
10 New Workers as sae abode of the Americus
Club, and Eaplcy growing in favor cool and bean
ful RESORT was ON Saturday night Startled shocked
by an attack Of party, most Of tsm quite young men,
and the shooting Of their leadey old negro woman
whose son and daughter they Sought to maitreat Tho
circumstances are these
william Henry generally known as Sackson) Daven-
port son Of old Black joe residing the part OF Rocky
Neck leading to the club ground won some two years
snce the heart of Irish madcn who, despite the an
spahies and threatcngs OF her people, joined her lot
20 bs jackson 10 = line able bodied negro Of twenty
Ave years possessing considerable intelligence. He and
his wife continued TO live at his fathers bouse on the
Neck he having improvsed ice and sarsaparla
saloon for Of the club in the summer and follow
ing the oyster business at 1914 Attorney street. in the
winter The family considered peaceable and in
'sIustrious, although judging from the remarks Of
of the jurors, there was tendency to quarrelsome
ness Jackson, probably originating, however, in being
constantly set upon and worried by certain men Of the
to whom the fact Of mscegcnation gave great UNI
bragg They could not admit Of Ellen Louisa enjoying
her peculiar love of color unmolested. The natural
anagonsm between the Irish and the negro aggravated
during the last Presidential campaign by highly wrought
political harangues, found its legitimate elimination in
the attack Of Saturday night party Of some sixteen
eighteen headed by the unfortunate deceased a re-
turned soldier named Ludham Chard who had served In
the Tenth Connecticut regiment and who, with his CON-
panions had made TOO free Win the whskey oo'te sal
lied about o'clock with the declared intention
~ ..,,;no Tho n;o.r and so,d;,o the ,ybte wencb
out of the sate or of the gang expressed it,
s.giving her some advice" What shape their advice
might have taken had they succeeded in their design
il is easy 10 Some proposed 10 initiate
our tar.and-feather friends of the South by white
washing Jackson and giving coat Of black to his
"he win any other harmless Pieasah'nes tha' m'sht
suggest themselves to the playful rowdy Imagination.
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0u SURPRISE par VIM" a"''eu 'ie" anu syn "a'
already, some three weeks ago, got foretase OF their
intentions by parysupposcd to be some oil the same
breaking into ice cream saloon he had at the depot
and destroying all tho contents They were therefore
on Their guard, far to keep pistol and dilapi
dated double barreled gun--one nipple broken-on the
promises When the party reached the house all the in
mates in bed except the old woman aged between
city and sixty She met their demands for Jackson and
his wife by threatening to shoot any who attacked
the house and fired warning shot over their heads
Scared by the reception, they retired, but urged by
Chard and some others again returned throwing stones
and threatening TO kill Jackson Another harmless shot
testimony is contradictory Again the assailants
Ieii back put third time some OF them renewed the
while, had been struck with stone, fired INTO Their
midst shooting Ludam Chard the Oldest and apparent
the leader OF the gang slug penetrated over the left
ear gong through the base OF inc brain ana out on the
opposite side lie fell into hole near the house, mover
spoke and expired in about fifteen minutes The party
dispersed DR. James H. Hoyt was scnt Tor and soon
arrived but TOO late to render any aid % the deceased
he cohstaoie came upon the scene ia ABOUT
ana look them INTO custody no resistance being offered
some members OF tne Ainericus Ciso, nearing the
nrlng, came 9vsr ana the BODY was conveyed 10 sne
mouse Inc acc ased was Single man, age" ABOUT ~
CoRoNER's INQUEST
On Sunday morning Jabez Mead Esq. Justice, was
notified and as acting coroner empanelcd jury, who
took evidence that day and on Monday morning. Sub
joined is summary OF the testimony
of Joe Davenport, mother Of William Henry tJackson)
davenport, last night after family bad retired all Of
them smy two sons VIM n jackson Davenport syrlnns
through the ROOM saw gang Of fellows coming to-
wards the house; should think there were nearly
towards the booth they asked for Jackson told them
he was in bed; one of them said they must him;
told them had no cream; they wanted TO come in /
told them they must not; one of them said he void;
they went round the house and threw stone in the sin
dow they then went in front and threw stones at The
house and broke the windows up stairs thew then wen
away and came back, and said they wanted to come in
and Kill us; told them to keep away; called for
they came back, and said they would XII
us; fred the second time; they cried 'Mur-
DER and RAM the door not fastened;
fastened IL; of the family down until both
shots we're fired; they tried the doors they said they
wanted TO come aud get the white ont and they
would have her. told them TO stay up stairs; jackson
did not come down until after the firing; the gun was
loaded with slugs; IL had been loaded over week;
have clubs they all spoke together and said they woad
Kin us; heard no flung after my went out; had
light but 1t turned down; the curtains were up;
the hrst time fred they were scattered the second
time they were all IN gnng; the clubs, all long. were
IKE haywood heard that threats had been made
against US before that but heard them made;
never heard any trouble between the deceased and
jackson but once about the 4th OF July when jackson
said that Chard slapped him in the the club house
Ellen Louisa Davenport, a white woman wife of
jackson Davenport being sworn said-I was up sta RS;
my husband Lyrinus, Goes and Jane Jameson were lp
stairs mother was down stairs; about ten O'Clock I
heard the men, they said they wanted Ice cream; they
white woman that they should have her dead alive;
mother said there was no here for them; they all
rushed up 70 the house; they appeared be at the
corner OF the house; they shook the door; did not
come down until Mr. Dayton told me when II was all
over; we all stayed M stairs until after the firing; the
firing was about twenty minutes after they demanded
the white woman; AT the first firing they went away
and were gone some inlnutes they back aud said
they would kill my mother told syrnus to hand the
gun down the gun was up stars jackson handed the