The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-17
PULLED OFF THE PICkETS
Princeton Students Armed Them.
selves for Battle.
TESTIMONY IN COLLINS CASE
Garrett Cochran. the Princeton Athlete.
Upon the Witness Stand-Evidence
for tho Pr0sesution-Bccr
Figures In the Tragedy.

Trenton. N. J.. July 16.-Garrett Coch-
ran, the student who was shot with
Ohl. gave in detail the story OF the
shooting. corroborating that told at the
coroners inquest and by the witness
preceding him on the stand.
After the first quarrel the witness.
Ohl and Scott broke ptckatts off a
fence. 1t was at the suggestion Of the
witness that the students went to An
derson's. They had friends there. As
he entered the hallway leading to the
restaurant he saw the glitter Of a pistol
in Collins hand.
The witness sprang forward at Col
Inns. but the latter had fired and the
bullet struck witness In the mouth. He
staggered back, but made a lunge for
ward and grasped Collins. closing In
with him. He could hear Ohl exclaim:
1--WE been shot; help"
The witness could remember little OF
what the prisoner or anyone else said.
saying he was greatly excited. Coch-
ran showed the scar on his chin, the
only outward visible mark of his wound.
to the jury. He added that he had
never had any trouble with Collins be-
fore In fact, ne had never before seen
him. Under cross-examination by Sem
ator DAILY. Cochran said he was 10 years
old. nearly six feet tall and weighed
about 157 pounds. He was an athlste
and kept himself constantly in training.
He was a football player on the Prince
ton eleven. Ohl was also an athlete.
tall and heavy. Cochran was asked to
step down and stand by Collins side.
The negro looked like a dwarf along
side Of him.
Drank Bottle md Half Of Beer.
Cochran said he drank a bottle and a
half Of beer on the afternoon Of June
g. He visited Andersons three times
before the shooting but drank only one
glass of beer there. There was a good
deal Of drinking in the place, but OIL
drank nothing at ALL Whether Scott
drank or not the witnes could not say.
Senator DAILY ELECTED with much force
the fact that after the first quarrel
the negroes went away in an opposite
direction and the students, instead Of
going home pulled pickets. 1t was 10
o'clock when they got the pickets.
Cochran said he and his fellow students
We're not afraid of Collins and Downs,
but wanted to arm themselves against
any crowd that the negroes might sum-
mon.. Collins had repeatedly threaten
ed to shoot some one. Cochran could
remember no words used by himself or
his friends which provoked Collins.
He, Collins. thought he had dropped
his paling just before he entered An
derson's hallway and was shot.
John M. Scott, of Frankfort. KY, the
student who was with Ohl and Cochran.
the night of the affray. testified that
the negroes accosted them on Wither-
spoon street, saying something which
the students did not understand. The
students passed them, and when they
had gone little way the negroes again
made some sort of exclamation. Oil
turned back and asked the negroes If
they intended to insult them. The
negroes replied in the negative, and Oil
said: "Well, we're not looking for a
fight, and II you did not mean any
thing. it's all right"
Scott was at the shooting, too. but
Oil and Cochran had got to Anderson's
door first and were already wounded as
he approached
The court then adjourned till tomor.
f,ow morning