Evening star., 1921-06-26

Brigade. and for many years pastor OF
the Presbyterian Church at Charles
Town, rests in Edge Hill cemetery.
Charles Town has three pharmacists
run by DR.. j. William Brown, DR.. F. B.
Hooff and DR.. Clyde Miller. The ply
lips. Alexander Rouss. William Neill.
Pittman. Miller and Haines Drs. Luke
and Ramey are the dentists. Charles
Town has lodges of Masons. Odd Eel
lows. knights Of Pythias Red Men and
other associations which help to make
life more interesting. Edward G. Hen
son runs the opera house.
THE officers of Jefferson county. OF
which Charles Town is the capital. are !:
Judge, ]. u. Woods clerk of the county
court, Charles A. johnson: prosecuting
attorney, J. T. Porterfield; sheriff. W. ..
Macoughtry: chief deputy sheriff and
taller, W. r. Alden; deputy sheriff.
George c. Link Of Shcpherdstown' en-
eineer. James K. Hendricks; superinten-
dent of education, l. NJ. Bonham; COM
missioner of revenue. F. L. watson ;
deputy commissioners of revenue. l. Y.
Link and r. E. Hammond: clerk OF the
circuit court, Charles w. Conrad. Inere
fs a court of five commissioners having
Jurisdiction Of matters pertaining 10 ehe
financial system Of the county, ROADS
and records. n. R Roberts is chairman
and the associate members are c. H.
Moore Of the Charles Town district !;
Logan Shut, Kablestown district; Dr.
8 T. Knott, Shepherdstown district. and
c. c. Hinkle, Hafper's Ferry district
The present courthouse is that in
which the trials of John Brown and MS
men were held in 1859. The jail IN
which Brown and "others associated
with him in the attack on the gov
ernment arsenal at Harpers Ferry
were held was torn down many years
am. another erected in its place ana
the site is now vacant 1t is diago-
naIly opposite the sourthouse on the
main street. A new jail has oeen
bJilt at the rear, or north, end OF the
e1tended through the field in which
Brown was hanged and is now
now bordered on both sides by villa
like homes in large gardens. the
spot on which the scaffold stood rs
not known. On the east side Of the
homes, one owned by William b.
Packette and the other by Col. John
Gibson The Packette garden was
pointed out to The Star man as the
site of the scaffold. while Elijah
Ayey. who was living at Charles
Town in 1859 and published a book
in 1906 evincing personal knowledge
or close investigation of the details
of Browns trial and death. says:
The scaffold stood in the center of a
ten .acre field at the south edge Of the
town, but since then it has been built
up with fine buildings and is now
Town. Col. John Gibson. a Confed-
crate colonel. purchased this spot of
ground and erected his fine residence
there" Alvey. writing Of himself.
SAYS that in the fall and winter of
1880 he was boy learning the
watchmaker's trade at Charles Town.
John Brown was hanged December
2, 1859. Cook and Coppoc, white. and
Copeland and Green. colored. four of
Browns confederates in the raid on
Harpers Ferry. October II. 1859. were
hanged on the same scaffold Decem-
Der i6. 1859, and Stevens and Haz-
lett, white. two Of the Harpers Ferry
raiders. were hanged March 1e, 1860.
"rhey were all hanged in the same
which was taken down each time and
stored away in the Jail yard. and
was afterward transformed into a
nortico in front of Mr.. Rannel's resi-
dence in Charles Town"
Mr. Alvey lectured in many cities
on the subject of John Browns cap
ture and death. and told many anec-