The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-10
TWO COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOT
THE BULLETS FIRED by A NEGRO
WITH WHOM THEY HAD WORDS.

Report That the wounded Collie
EIans We're Dead Followed by "A
Rally Around the Jail by Other
Princeton Students Bent ON Lynch
Ing the NegrO-Tbe sheriff spirits
Him Away "a Place OF safety.
Trenton, n. J., June 9.-Frederick Pier
son OH and Garrett Cochran. each 10
years old, and both in the freshman class
at Princeton college. were shot and dan
gerously II not mortally wounded at 10
o'clock last night by negro named John
Collins
The shooting took place In an alley in
front Of the side entrance TO Anderson's
hotel Princeton. Collins Is laborer, 2s
years Of age. He had had words with the
students, and in it Of rage drew ~
caliber revolver and fired. first at OIL. then
at Cochran. and again at OhL All the
shots took effect. The bullet fired at
Cochran struck him In the mouth and
travelled to the base of the right ear Both
Of Ohrs wounds were in the stomach. The
students dropped TO the sidewalk and were
quickly removed to the college hospital.
1olliuH was ptuttl uhier arrest on Mar
shall r. B. Tyrell. He took his prisoner to
the town lookup. but had get him scarcely
incarcerated before word Of the shooting
reached every ear In Princeton and the
students gathered on Nassau street by
the hundreds. A report, gaining circuia-
tion that both OH and Cochran we're dy-
ing, the students grew very excited and
demands that the negro be lynched went
up on every side.
Hang him." hang him." was an ex-
clamatiOn repeated frequently. At the
lookup il was heard that some of the stu
dents had procured a rope and were
marching there in n body.
Marshal Tyrell, fearing for the prison-
er's safety, handcuffed him and removed
him TO a piece OF woods about a quarter
of a mile from the college, and kept him
there until after midnight. BY that time
the excitement had subsided and a con-
veyance was obtained and Marshal TyrelI
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.
OIL and Cochran, with some other stu
dents, II seems. were walking down With
erspoon street a little before 10 O'clock.
| Collins and Downs approached them from
an opposite direction and Collins, II Ia
said, used insulting language, directing
III towards the students. The latter re-
Joined sharply. and there was considerable
| profanity. A few minutes later OIL and
| Cochran met Collins in the alley. Downs
was a few feet away. Collins stood in
the door OF the hotel bar and reviIed
at the students and dared them 70 enter.
They undertook to do so, when the negro
whipped out his weapon and began firing.
This Is the story Of the affair as given
by persons who were on the scene soon
| after the shooting. The negroes would
not see reporters in the county jail
to-day. Downs bears the reputation
Of being a peaceable man and
he claims that the students
| assaulted them with fence rails.
Tonight the wounded students are Iy-
ing in a critical condition. Dr. Bull Of
New York extracted the bullets from Ohl's
body this afternoon, but failed to dis
lodge the one underneath cochran's ear
OIL belongs at New Castle, Pa. He is a
brother of OIL, 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 In
the cane spree. winning the only cane won
! by the freshmen.
Cochran is from Wiiliamsport. Pa. He
was captain Of the Lawrenceburg foot
ball team in 1893 and played full-back with
the Princeton team last fall.