Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-10
PRlNCET0N'S TIGERS MAD.
TWO FRESHMEN WERE SHOT BY ANEGRO
The Students Talked Lynching and the Pris- oDer Was Spirited Away Critical
 Condition of the Wounded.

Trenton, N. J., June 9.-Frederick Pierson Ohl and Garrett Cochran, each 19 years old, and both students in the freshman class at Princeton college, were shot and dangerously, if not nor tally wounded, at 10 o'clock last night by negro named John Collins. The shoot ing took place in an alley in front of thA side entrance to Anderson's hotel Princeton.
 Collins is a laborer, 26 years of age. He had words with the students and in fit of rage drew 22-caliber revolver and fired, first at Ohl, then al Cochran, and again at Ohl All the shots took eff feet. The bullet fired at Cochran struck him in the mouth and traveled to the base of the right ear Both of Ohl s wounds were in the stomach. The students dropped to the sidewalk and were quickly removed to the college hos pital. Collins was placed under arrest by Marshal R. B. Terrel. He took his prisoner to the town lookup, but he was scarcely incarcerated before word of the shooting reached every ear in Prince ton, and the students gathered in Nassau street by hundreds. A report gaining circulation that both Ohl and Cochran were dying, the students grew very ex- cited and demands that the negro be lynched went up from every side.
 Hang him! Hang him' was an ex- clamation repeated frequently. At the lookup it was heard that some of the stu dents had procured a rope, and were marching there in a body.
 Marshal Terrel, fearing for the prison CTS safety, handcuffed him and removed him to piece of woods about a quarter of mile from the college, and kept him there until after midnight. By that time the excitement had subsided, and con veyance was obtained and Terrel and two other officers took Collins to the county jail at Trenton.
 Stephen Downs, also colored. was lodged in the county jail at the same time. He was in company with Collins immediately before the shooting took place.
 Ohl and Cochran, with some other stu dents, it seems, were walking down Witherspoon street a little before 10 o'clock. Collins and Downs approached them from an opposite direction, and Collins, it is said. used insulting lan- Suage, directing it towards Ohl The latter rejoined sharply, and there was considerable profanity
 A few minutes later Ohl and Cochran met Collins in the alley alluded to. Downs was a few feet away. Collins stood in the door of the hotel bar and reyiled at the students and dared them to enter. They undertook to do so, when the negro whipped out his weapon and began the firing. This is the story of the affair as given by persons who We're on the scene soon after the shooting. The negroes would not see reporters in the county jail today. Downs bears the TIP utation of being a peaceable man. He claims that the students assaulted them with fence rails.
 Tonight the wounded students are lv ing in a critical condition. Dr. Bull of New York extracted the bullets from Ohl's body this afternoon, but failed to dislodge the one underneath Coehran's ear
 Ohl belongs in New Castle. Pa. He is a brother of Ohl. the full back of the Cornell college football team. He played half back in the Princeton Freshman football team, and was last fall heavy weight cane spree, winning the only cane won by the freshmen. Cochran is from Williamsport, Pa He was captain of the Lawtenceville football team in 1899, and played full back with the Princeton team last fall.