The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-06-02

| that heroic boy went ~ 10 his Goa VINO maut
! il immortal. This shot also wounded judge
Chisolm, who with his daughter sImu!tan
cously fired upon DR.. Rosser shooting OF lh'
top of his head. The crowd st''nS mat DI
R0sser had been killed were struck with ter
ror. and caupht Rosser by the feet and drag
! gcd him down stairs out OF the jail, cXcialm
| inc. Some OF the guns are loaded with shot
They have amunition.' Advancing again
the sou of John W. Gully fired twice at Miss
| Chisolm. but without effect She having pro
cured one Of the guns left by the guard, piac
ed il within few inches OF his breast ana
fired both barrels, the waddlng slightly
woundlng him, the gun containing no shot
The mob then cried, Fire the JAN" Nils.
Chlsolm, hearing the cries, lifted the mangied
remains of her dead brother and carried them
down to the front door, and, returning, SAID
"Papa, thew have fired the Jail. 1t IS better
to be shot to death than burned to death
The Judge, putting his arms around his
danpIIter' tried TO persuade her 10 leave him
saving he would remain there and die alone,
assuring ner that he was as innocent of hav-
Ing anv knowledge of or taking any part IN
The killing OF Gully as she was herself. She
refused to leave him, and, throwing her right
arm around his neck, and protecting him as
well as she could with her person, proceeded
with him down stairs in the face OF the mob
When near the foot of the stairway, they were
fired upon one ball striking heavy gold
bracelet on Miss Cornelia's right arm, dr!y'
ing the pieces through. a load OF duck'shot
entered her left leg below the knee, and,
ball striking her in the thigh, She fell, and
was struck by one of the mob in the lace anu
on he head with his fist or the end OF PTS
toll terribly blackening one OF her eyes and
bruising her forehead.
4 a., olarn nf IA So
and only decoy, turned to 60 up stairs,
when the mob fired again, sending several
loads Of buckshot in his left hip and abdo.
men, MORALLY woundlng him, and he fell IN
conscious to the foot OF the steps.
Kosenbaum and Hopper, who had been
shut up IN "A cell, then came down, and by
permission of the mob, assisted Mrs. ChlsOlm
in carrying the body OF her dead boy and APP
parenily dying husband to his residence, some
four or five hundred yards from the Jail.
Fifteen or more of the mob followed for
some distance, and made several attempts to
shoot, but Miss Cornelia, with her face and
clothes covered with blood, and with her
shattered arm dangling at her side, threw
herself between these inturiated demons and
her father, and implored them not to pursue
their bloody work that her father was dead
or dying, and begged them to at least spare
HIS UOuJ " tllOSC WIZ lOFCu MINI
Upon arriving at home, the judge Was found
to be still living, and Dr. McCallahan, who
was their next door neighbcr, did everything
he could to resuscltate the Judge and 10 re-
lieve the sufferings Of his noble daughter
Mr. Henry Rosenbaum havlug arrived from
Meridian, and few Of the judges relatives,
who lived in another part Of the country, they
sent to Scooba for coffin for little JOHNNIE,
and dispatched to ]. NJ. Wells, deputy collect
or of internal revenue at Meridian, for the best
medical assistance that could be procured.
Upon the arrival of the coffin at Dekalb,
Monday afternoon, Mrs. Chisolm, with her
own hands, prepared the dead body of her
little son for burial, the remains were carried
into the room where his wounded sister lay,
who, in great pain, raised up and kissed the
cold lips of her dead brother. Mrs. ChisOlm
having obtained permission Of the mob to
bury her son, the funeral c0rfege, consisting
Of Mr.. Chisolm, a brother of the judge, a
nephew, the judges little son, years old,
proceeded without sermon, or prayer, save
that Of the bereft mother, to the family bury
ing ground, some twenty miles distant, where
he was quietly laid away.