Maryland free press., 1866-10-25
MURDER MOST FOUL.
The Radical Mob Murder the Off1cers
FOrthe Law at Hagerstown. II
NO INVESTIGATION.

A1 hauicaiism CcVeloped Itself IN ta-
gersto~n. on Saturday last, in it, true col
ors. 1855
Their Mass Meeting was large, and in
that particular was all that the most SAN
guine could hope for.
But the day of that meeting will long
be remembered for the tumultuaus. bloody
and murderous scenes which distinguished
it above all other days.
Rioting, violence. blood and MURDER,
cruel, opcn, shocking Murder, has made
the great Radical Convention in Hagers-
town monumental puint IN the tide of all
mems recollections
Three or four Policemen of the town
were openly assaulted in the streets. They
were driven with stones by a mob a square
or more, when one of the Policemen turn
ed upon the assailiuts aud fred a pistol.
Here was the coveted opportunity. Hun
dreds armed themselves, AMI with wild
shouts, and infatuated hearts rushed upon
their victims.
For time these Policemen defended
themselves with energy aud res ,lution,
and arrested the SURFING malness of the
mob. Unable longer to stan,l the pressure
they took refuge in house near the Jail,
and there resisted the fierce assaults of a
mob at that time swollen to at least fifteen
hundred to two thousand men.
But the courage and resistance of three
or four men were unavailing against hun
dreds anu thousands. They were over
powered, aud one or two narrowly escaped
with their lives
Another, Mr.. Robert SanIs, for four
years a soldier in the Federal army, was
seized upon by the mob, knocked down,
stabbed and left for dead.
Another. Mr.. Charles Gall, also SOL
dier during the war, was shot i. the head
as he was bravely defending himself, and
died instantly. Ills dead body lay in the
street, and after life was extinct, was kicked
aud spat upon by the brace and loyal
mob.
The house in which they took refuge
was sacked. Its furniture was smashed
up-doors broken to pieces-windows de-
stloyed and an attempt made to fire it.
The eating house of negro in the i'm
mediate vicinity was also sacked-its fur
uiture destroyed and broken to pieces.
The crime of the negro was, it is said, that
he had assisted in splicing Johnson pole
a few weeks previously.
The Juhuson pole, surmounted by the
American flag, was cut down, the flag torn
of. trampled under foot anil destroyed.
This is plain unvarnished statement
of the affair as We 6 .thcr it from undoubt-
ed sources. Tt needs no comment. 1t is
the prelude to scenes that scSen the imag-
ination lying in the future Of Radical rule
OF course Radical leaders and partisan
spirit is busy in suppressing the Truth, OF
in framing excuses anil justiications.
In their effort to defend their lives from
the violence of the mcb these Policemen
were not shot down AMI butcherei without
a struggle. Quite number among the
assailants were shot anil wpunlcd, one,
Mr.. Joseph Rcnncr, seriously.
Who the instigators and actors of all
this shocking detail, are, is rel knora. -
But justice will never overtake them, ant
they know it.
Their own partisan friends, perhaps the
very men themselves, will he summon ed
to the Grand Jury. A timil judge
weak Prosecuting Attorney AMI partisan
Jury, Eve speak mildly will take coun
Sci among themselves, AMI the whole af.
fair will be passed over in silences
A witness or two selected because ol
partial statements, or selected from among
the leading spirits of the mob itself-wit-
ncsses such as these will be summoned
their statements heard by partisan Jury
and the whole case dismissed.
The Judge will GO home to his family
the Prosecuting Attorney will estimate his
fces--the loyal Jury will receive the
congratulations of leading Radical spirits,
and a MURDER, attended with every cir
cuinstanec Of horror will be passed over
with hypocritical expressions of regret.
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