The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-18

)VEMBER 10 1869
my God! II l have a friend In tho
world, II there 10 anybody who can
pity a dog, let him come carry me
awayp One Of the numerous shot he
received had opened up an old wound,
When he was hanged blood and pus
hated and most obdurate Of Browns
party, and. It Is said, proposed to burn
Harpers Ferry yet he meyer reproAch.
ed John Brown, and seemed 10 have
Tor the old man the reverence OF a dis.
oiple. This Stevens is supposed TO
have been q deserter from the United
States army, and like the most OF the
party was a Kansas borderer, but with
such Wild schooling and 80 desperate a
raider, he was yet, like all Browns
| folks, perfectly abstlnent, Rs this aneCS
dote shows. One Of the hostages who
was captured on the street had always
been an early drlnker, and he was on
his way for cocktail when taken up.
Being quite unnerved he said TO
Brown:
Captain, for Gods sake let me 70 and
get q drink. 1swafe I'll come back =
NO, STRIP
Gap. you don't know what II IL to be
slave 10 whisky, and then to be shut
up here before breakfast wlthouta drop.
Let one OF your men 60 get us bottle
Brown looked pltyingly at the old
debauchee, and ordered one Of the men
to obey.
When the whisky was brousht,-a
full bottle,-Lewls Washington asked
Brown 10 have q drop.
You don't drink, Captain, do yonH'
MOI said Brown; that kind OF stuff
Isn't 1T for q hog to drink
Charles J. Faulkner, ex.MInlSter to
France, was assigned by Judge Parker,
Jointly with Lawson Bolts, 10 defend
Brown, but the former afterward with.
drew. He lives OF Martinsburg, the
town OF Belle Boyd, but practices ut
the new county seat OF Shepherdstown,
and has a business OF Mt least 81, 900 a
year-the largest, probably, In West
Virginia. Lawson Bolts was afterward
Colonel OF the Second Virginia rebel
regiment, and was killed at the second
battle OF Bull Run. shall speak OF
Faulkner In another letter.
ouTRAoEs.
One OF The filthiest pro-slavery
wretches known In the time ofthe raid
was George SChoppart, mllltla.man,
who, when William II. Leeman
tried TO escape across the Potomac, and
had been wounded by q dozen balls,
waded out with cooked pistol to
where Leelnan lay unarmed and bleed.
Ing on rock. The latter threw up his
arms and pleaded:
Don't shoot me! surrenderi
Schoppart held the pistol a yard from
his face and blew out tho poor fellows
brains.
This Schoppart suffered death al.
most exactly similar In the Confeder-
ate army, and his carcass was inferred
with less regard than Leeman's.
When William Thompson was drag
ged out OF the hotel to the bridge after
the death Of Beckham, the Mayor, he
pleaded In these terms:
Oil Don't kill me, men! I have a
vile and child. l have given myself
up. Don't murder mel AS he spoke
they were shooting him through with
ball, buckshot, bird shot and slugs, and
when he dropped into the river they
pracGiced on the different features OF his
body with their arsenal OF weapons.
Osmono Butler, at whose boarding
mouse at Sandy Hook, Md, two miles
from Harper's Ferry, John Brown and
sons boarded some months before the
raid, Is living and Is In the employ Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Phelps, the conductor Of the hrst train
which Brown stopped at the Ferry, de-
talned three hours, and then himself
conducted across the bridge to Baltl-
more, is now In the service ofsome VIr-
glnia railroad, conductor yet. Phelps
sent very alarming dispatch to the
officers Of the road In Baltimore, which
those cool managers kept to them>
selves, while they telegrsphed to the
agent, George Koontz, at Ellicott's
Mills, to overhaul the train outside OF
the town and ascertain the calm partlc-
ulars. 1t was upon the faith OF K0ontz's
response that the President Of the UnI-
ted States and Governor Wise were ad-
vised. Prescott Smith was sent up to
the Ferry to take charge OF the railroad
interests there, and he Is now railway
man OF national reputation, while Mr..
koontz Is the agent and manager Of the
railroad at Washington City.
Koontz told me story to exhibit the
good memory OF Brown. Two years
before the raid he had been riding from
Cumberland to Piedmont, and had
been seated beside an interesting old
man, who inquired OF him as to the
towns, &c., OF the Alleghanies. After
tho raid he recognized in the published
portraits OF Brown the companion OF
the excursion, 30 one Sunday he slip.
ped up to CharlestoWn and visited
Brown in his cell.
mr.. Brown, did you evet see me be-
fore7'
YES, sir, I recognize you as gentle.
man who sat at my side, on the rail-
road, nearly two years ago.
The jury who found Brown guilty
were nearly all obscure people, and l
could not trace up the fates OF any OF
them. AT least three are alive. Kelley,
the armorer, who fired the second shot
on the part Of the citizens, Is alive, and
poor. Trockmorton, who fred the first,
Is also living, and was pointed out to
me. Williams, the bridge Waterman,
the first who was arrested by Brown,ia
dead: Hector Tyndale. OF PhIladel-
phta. accompanied Mrs. John Brown to
the Ferry when she paid the last visit
to her husband, and he was candidate
for Mayor of Philadelphia In 1868, and
was defeated by the reason, amongst
others, that he had compared John
Brown, In q speech, 10 Jesus Christ,
which comparison was used TO great
effect amongst people who are nothing,
II not respectable. Corporal Pollock,
who searched the prisoners, was In the
Marine Corps. and Is believed to be
still alive. Lieutenant Green ia living
at Berryvllle, near Harper's Ferry. He
Ia the man who struck Brown over the
head after carrying tho engine house.
GATH.
Macbeth There's blood upon thy facc.