Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-03

with fresh guns, headed by him who, in hi
devillsh prOpensities, has put Satan to sham,
long since. called to Clay to let us lay
Johnnie down and then run back to hi.
father. | turned and was dismayed to SCI
him (my husband) coming down holding {
gun IN his hand, the breech foremost
Cornclia, nearly fainting, followed with hel
head resting on her fathers shoulder, hel
arm around his neck, his arm around hel
waist. / called out, Father, what are you
gong to do lie said, ITO take my boy
home. Cornelia had begged him to come
down. aftcrward learned, telling him .sBud
johnnie had died easy-that it was better
to he shot to death than burned alive" Just
as turned and saw my husband, Charlie
Kosenbaum passed him on the stairs. "Why,
Charlie, said he, care you going to forsake
me = well, | don't know, Judge. what
better We can do; they say the house is on
fire" | ran to the foot of the stairs, racing
with Henry J. Gully, who, | was already
positive had shot both Mr. Gilmer and Mr..
/ Mcclellan. Getting before Gully Just had
time TO slam the door and press hard upon it,
when the mob surrounded the outside door
They need not have thought my husband
would run from the whole of them. Henry
gully looked on with me with an angry fury,
and put the gun within a few inches of my
head, but seeing the CRATE in the door, ran it
through at my husband. screamed to him
to stoop quick SO he could not shoot him in
! the head. Corneia jerked him suddenly
/ down, screaming and begging. Remember
] that from her beautiful face, even from her
/ lips, the blood was oozing even the strings
OF her bonnet, under her chin, were shot in
/ two. Mr.. Chisolm had no chance to turn
his loaded gun. He called, LET me up,
daughter and raising himself, met, within
few inches, the gun. Ny daughter called
out: Don't shoot my papa, my good
papa, who never did any harm but has been
good all the days of his life, Oh! If you
must have more blood. kill me | can't live
without my papa" The old demon turned
| the muzzle-shc had her pretty, soft, round,
white arm around her fathers neck, and
pressed her whole person before him. Gully
put the gun to her arm, and pulling the
trigger. put the whole load of balls into her
arm My husband pressed against the door,
calling to me TO let him out. | always did as
he told me. He passed out Gully dis
charged the other load in my husbands hip.
The boy who had been active in handing
guns all day was ready at his elbow with
another. tried 10 keep it from Gully, but
could not. Gully at once discharged both
to the door. Mr.. Chisolm wavered from
side to side, almost having to balance himself
with his hands. There were some goods
back in the hall. | cried to Mr. Chisolm to
get behind them. phil Gully ran out of
side room with heavy stick he was in the
habit of carrying. and seeing that Mr..
Chisolm could barely hold himself up, ran to
strike him down with his club | sprang
forward and asked him what he was going
to do, hut before he could strike Gully put
another load into his hip, and Bob"
Mosely, shooting from the steps, put one
load in, that made the largest hole of ALL |
can't tell how many wounds were mortal
He was wounded in all the internal organs
He fell, and the mob retreated. fell down
over him. OF course | was covered with
blood, but not my own-the blood of
husband and children Said my husband:
''Aly,,whole family are murdered YOU and
Clay are covered with blood Johnnie dead,
COrnelia killed; but, precious wife. if any
of my children should live, tell them die
an innocent man; their father never harbor
ed Il thought or did a deed for which they
need blush. | die for my country, and
because would be freeman and a Repub-
lican.
Cornea fell over him, and he kissing her,
said, My poor baby, you are killed" No,
am not, papa, said she. Yes, daughter,
You are shot in your arm" Am papa ?"
And this was the first she knew, though
heavy gold bracelet had been severed and
driven through her arm. She arose, and
Clay sank down, taking his fathers head on
his knees. | ran to the door and asked if
there was a man in the town who would
help me carry NV husband home-telling
them they had killed Johnnie and my
husband, and shot COrnclia to death, and |
could not take them ALL | saw body of
men coming, and ran back to him. ''Bil"
Gully was ahead this time to shoot what he
thought another dead man, hut | snatched
the gun that had fallen from Mr.. Chisolm's
hands, and raising it, stood between him and
the mob. The idea that there was even that
much to meet him frightened ''Bill' Gully,
and for n moment he stopped. but he raised
his gun and shot both barrels at me, without
effect ! fired my gun back at him, and
afterward heard ] filed his breast with
powder. This guard then ran off in haste,
and CorneliI went to the door. There was
not half inch of her face, | may say. that
was not OoZing with blood, and cut with
fragments of balls and burnt black with the
grains of powder which was in her skin and
afterward taken out 10y the surgeon. She
raised her right arm, from which blood ran
in two streams which looked as large as her
finger. She said pteousty: Won't some
body come help mamma carry my poor papa
home: You have killed him. You have
killed Bud Johnnie, and mamma can't carry
BOTH; and, said she, showing her arm, Il
am so shot | can't help her" Just as she
had begun speaking. another division OF
''Kempcr's hest citizens ran up, and when
my daughter came TO this point, five or six
guns were discharged at her, taking effect in
her right leg and heel and literally riddling
her dress. She turned to me where | was
bending over her father and said. Mamma,
they have shot me in the leg this time" |
called TO her without daring TO leave my
husband, MY darling baby, keep out of the
door. the next shot will kill and my
little child, You will have to walk home,
mother cannot carry father, Bud Johnnie
and you." Peck" Yanderender afterward
Dragged that he had put one load of lead
into that girl.