The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-10
PRINCETON STUDENTS SHOT
ARE DANGBRO USLY, IF NOT MOR-
 TALLY, WOUNDED BY 4 NEGRO.

The Condition of Both Men Last Night is
 CritlcaI-Their Assailant Is Under Arrest
 One of the Injured Men Is Brother of
 Full-back Oh1 of the Cornell Team
 Threats of Lynohing by Fellow Students
 Induced the Marshal to Take His Pris-
 oner to the Woods.
 l Princeton, N. J., June 9.-Frederick 1 ohl and Garrett Cochrane, each nineteen
 years of age and both students i'm the
 freshman class of Princeton, were shot and dangerously if not mortally wound ed 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 Ander- sons hotel at Princeton. Collins is a laborer, twenty-six years old. He had had words with the students and in a fight in rage drew 22-calibre revol- yer and fired first at ohl, then at Coch- rane and again at Oh1. All the shots took effect. The bullet fired at Coch- rane struck him in the mouth and trav- eled to the base of his right ear. Both of Ohrs wounds were in the stomach. The students dropped to the sidewalk hand were quickly removed to the col- Tlege.
 Collins was arrested by Marshal Tyr ell. The marshal took his prisoner to the lookup, but had scarcely got him inlcarcerated before word of the shoot ing reached every ear in Princeton and the students gathered on Nassau street by the hundreds. A report gaining cir. culation that both Ohl and Cochrane were dying, the students grew very ex- cited and demands that the negro be lynched went up on every side.
 Hang him! Hang him." was an ex- clamatlon repeated frequently. At the lookup it was heard that some of the. students had procured rope and were marching there in a body. Marshal Tyrell, fearing for the prisoners safety, handcuffffed him and removed him to piece of woods a quarter mile from the college and kept him there until af- ter midnight.
 Then conveyance was obtained and the marshal and two men took Collins to the county jail at Trenton. Stephen Downs, also colored was lodged in jail at the same time. He was in company of Collins immediately before the shoot ing. Ohl and Cochrane with some other students, it seems, were walking down Witherspoon street little before 10 o'clock Collins and Downs approached them from an opposite direction and Collins it Is said, used insulting lam guage, directing 1t toward the students. The latter rejoined sharply and there fJnt. rftfo vafxy TAatpr Cochrane and Ohl met Collins in the al- ley, Downs was a few feet away. Col lins stoodFin the door of the hotel bar and reviled the students and dared them to enter. They undertook to do so when the negro whipped out his weapon and began firing. This Is the story given by persons who were on the scene soon after the shooting. The ne- groes would not see reporters to-day Downs bears the reputation of being a peaceable man and he claims that the l students assaulted him and Collins with l fence rails.
 Tonight the wounded students are lying in critical condition. Dr. Bull | of New York extracted the bullets from | Ohls body, but failed to dislodge the | one underneath Coohrane's ear. Ohl is ! from Newcastle, Pa. He is brother of l Full Back Ohl of the Cornell team. He | played half back on the Princeton fresh- | man football team and was last fall | cane sprinter, winning the | only cane won by the freshmen. Coch- | rane Is from Williamsport, Pa. He was captain of the Lawrenceville football | team in 93 and played ful1-back with | the Princeton team last fall