The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-12-24

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my brothers bedroom, so that the moment
any door or window or blind is opened in
my house, the bell rings instantly in his
house. 1t was about 2 o'clock on Monday
morning that that bell began to ring, and
he supposed that rs the wind had begun to
blow very hard, perhaps a blind had blown
open, and had caused it to ring. He had
been sick for week or ten days-very i'll
and didn't want to 90 out in the cold,
and he called his son, to go and call my
gardener, who lives in the barn, about 300
or 400 feet back of the house. He went
and called him and they went down to the
house together, and just as they were put
ting the key into the door, to go into the
house, they saw a light in one of the
windows, and then, Of course, knew that
somebody was there. Then my nephew went
and got one of his fathers men, and two
or three guns, one for each, and came back
This light was seen moving in the house
these men going from room to room They
could not tell how many men there were
Then my nephew went over for his father
and although he he'd been sick, he pressed
him to come, until he took his gun and
went oyet. he put his son and man by the
name Of Frank in the front of the house,
and he and William Scott, my gardener
stood in the rear. They saw that the cellar
door had been forced, and that was the way
by which they had entered the house They
watched the men for time and then as
my brother was getting cold and feared
exposure, he told the men to get them out
lie was staining by the diuing-room window
at that moment, and one Of the robbers
walked through the room not ten feet from
him. The men then went into the wing
ana while they were there the door was
shaken. The men inside Immediately pct
out their light. BY lighting matches now
and then those outside could see them feel
ing their way back into the cellar. The
besiegers waited a considerable time, each
Of the watchers being in the position first
assigned him The precaution had been
taken that they should not leave their
positions so that if they S&w any one NOV
ing it would be safe to fire. 1t was SO dark
at the time that unless the form Of man
was against something white, it could not
lie seen Ut all. \ man FIVE feet away might
appear as some indefinite object, but it
could not be distinguished whether 1t was
4 man or anything else. Al ten feet You
could not see anybody at all The founda-
ton Of the house IS dark, and when the
burglars came from the celler they could
not be seen until they raised their heads to
the white part Of the house. As soon as
my brother saw them he called TO them to
stand. At that very moment the burglars
fired, and Scott says that one of the pistol
pals whistled past his head. They then
fred themselves. One load lodged in the
sill Of the dining-room window OF the
other one no marks can be found, and this
is supposed to be the load that hit one man
in the bowels. One man fell, got up--it
was so dark that You could only see forms
moving along, not what they we're doing
and ran with his companion toward the end
Of the house, and then my brother shot
again. That shot struck them from be-
hind, but they had thick coats OIL, and it
didn't 90 through them. The man who
was shot fell at the corner Of the house
The other man, who was evidently not in
jured, went around the corner and there
met my brothers son. He fred at him,
but was SO close that the shot passed him.
lie fred twice Then Frank shot at him,
but did 10 execution. Then this old man.
the burglar, drew pistol and fired at my
nephew twice, close to him, but didn't hit
him, and he was raising his arm TO fire the
third time, when my nephew clubed his
gun and struck him on the arm, breaking
the gun The man, then evidently disabled
in his right arm, stopped down as if TO pick
up something, and then my nephew, who had
drawn his pistol shot him twice in the back
as he was STOPPING This man got up and at
tampted to run, getting over quite a dis
tance, my nephew firing again. Just as
he got past the front corner Of the house,
lie met the man who had been stationed
with nv brother IN the rear Of the house,
who bad come around. The burglar said
to him, ''I'n give up" and fell dead. lie
had only spoken once before, and that was
to call my nephew by vile epithet.
When | got down there the men were
lying ON the piazza, dead 1t was the man
who was shot in the bowels who made this
confession about the Ross boy which was
accurately stated in some Of the morning
papers. for it was taken down in writing.
He new he was dying at that time. Bach
man had a seven-shooter, and one, the old
man. had knife about six inches long, and
as sharp as razor Ny brothers wife
was looking out at the affr&y she could
only see the flashes and hear the reports
md shouts, but it was so dark that she
could not see any figures at all thirteen
shots were fired in about minute or a
minute and half; the men had been
through every room IL the house, and had
opened every bureau drawer only two
doors In the house were looked, and that
was only to secure their being latched The
keys were in the door, bat on the other
side from the burglars These doors were
forced There was nothing displaced,
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