Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-09
TIE JOHN BROWN RAID.
~OBc Man Now Living who PnrtIeipn.
ted In Thut EVent---Briof sketches o
the Participants Therein.

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Washington SuRddy Gazette, gives o
chapter of the Jol - Brown raid, in
view Of the recent discovery Of the re-
mains Of Watson Brown at Martins
vile, Ind. Mr. Hinton relates what
became of the others who were with
John Brown at IIarper's Ferry:
The unknown members of the IIar-
per's Ferry party were the following
persons:
John Brown, of Kansas, and North
Eiba, Of New York; John Henri Kap,
Of Virginia and Kansas; Aaron j. Ste
vens (known in Kansas rs "Coloncl
Whipplc"), of Connecticut; Owen,
Watson and Oliver Brown, brothers
and sons Of Captain Brown; John T..
Cook, Of New York and Kansas;
Charles F. Tidd, Of New York and
Kansas; William Lehman, Of Kansas
and Maine; William and Adolphus
Thompson, of New York (N0riA
ElbaJ. The former had been in Kan
sas, and they were brothers Of Henry
Thompson, who was the husband of
Ruth, Captain Browns eldest daugh-
ter; Albert Hazlctt, Of Pennsylvania
and Kansas Edwin and Barclay Cop
pic, brothers, Of Springdalc, Cedar
county. Iowa; Stewart Taylor, Of Can
ada, and Francis Jackson and Mer-
riam. son Of the abOl!tionist, Francis
Jackson.
These were the white men actually
present and participating. The colorcd
members Of the party were Jeremiah
Anderson, from Canada, supposed 20
bc quadroon and belonging 10 some
of the fugitive slave c1lonic, in the
ncighhorhoodo OF Chatham. .CanadaWc,t;
Osborne Peter Anderson. bright
mulatto, from Canada, a Nirginian :
Dangericld Newly, from Missouri, one
OF Browns rescued slaves Of ISIS.
quite dark Shields Greene, dark
man from Rochester. New York. ia
miliarly known as Emperor" and i'll
troduccd TO the party hy Frederick
Douglas John Copeland. of Obcrl!n,
Ohio. a ligh, colored man. and Lewis
Shorrard Lcary, light mula,to from
North Carolina. This makes twenty
two persons in all, II whom Captain
Brown was chief.
or the party Of raiders John Brown
was wounded, captured and hung at
Charleston, Virginia, December ,.
1852 In the fight. John Henri kagi,
the most brilliant intellect Of the party.
and second In command. was slain AZ
Halls rife works or rathcrat a rock in
Shenandoah river. With him fell
John Copeland. Lewis Sherrard Leary.
Stewart Taylor, Jerry Anderson and
William II. Lehman.
At the engine house. besides John
Brown. there were Watson and Oliver
Brown, Stewart Taylor and Adolphus
Thompson. Aaron u. Stevens. Shields
Green and Edwin Copyic. OF these
Oliver Brown was shot in the groin on
the night Of the 18th. and died in great
agony. What became Of his body no.
body knows Watson Brown was shot
on the 18th, and died after the United
states marines. under Robert +. Lee.
captured the engine-house. Edwin
Coppic and Shields Green were cap
turcd. tried and hung at Charlcstown.
Virginia John Copeland was cap
turcd at the rifle works, and. after a
trial. was hung with Green. Aaron u.
Stevens was shot several times and
taken with a flag of truce. With
Albert ITazlctt. captured for William
Harrison. wh6 il still alive. stevens
was executed. Tazlctt was captured
at Chambersburg and delivered 70
Virginia. William Thompson was
shot on the 18th at the railroad bridge.
and taken into Foulk's hotel While
in the parlor, wounded and a prisoner.
armed men came in. took him out
shot and threw him over the bridge.
shooting him as he fell Stewart Tay-
lor was killed on the 18th by the
United States marines Dangerfeld
Newly was shot at the arsenal gate.
Now. as to the balance Of the party
left to guard the farm and the school
house with the arms Owen Brown.
the elder son of Captain Brown,
escaped through Pennsylvania to
Ohio. where. on the western reserve.
he was guarded and protected. lie is
man of fifty-four years of age, and
lives in the Jay Cook house (as a