Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
so Owned in This City Priced Relic of John Browns Raid

| of Browns Summer operations ir
| Maryland, the Kennedy farm, was Wis
| tied. A considerable quantity of arms
| ana ammunition was found there
! Another cache was discovered in q
| country schOolhOuSe.
| Not all of Browns men had been
p, with him in Harpers Ferry. A few
| had been detailed to an expedition into
| the Maryland hills across the river
| from which, 1t afterWard was learned
| they had been sniping all day at the
citizen troops which were trying Il
| dislodge the holders of the arsenal
| These, of course, fed when the failure
| of the raid was evident. Among them
was one of Browns sons, country
schoolma ster named Cook, and young
man named Albert Hazlitt. Cook and
Hazlitt were arrested late in Penn
| sylvania, returned to Virginia, and
| hanged.
T TITLE is known of the personnel
~ of Browns party. Those killed in
the arsenal were buried by the Ma
rines without much effort to identify
them. Mr.. Barry. however. was able
to gather some data on the following
members of the picturesque organi-
alton.
Three of Browns sons. Watson.
Oliver and Owen, were among the
raiders. The first two were wounded
early in the day. Oliver died in Mr..
Dukes office. Watson died two days
later. Owen was one of the. Maryland
party. He escaped North and never
was captured.
The mystery man of the party was
MI
describes as follows: HE was a re-
markedly fine-looking young man,
about 80 years of age, about ) feet 10
inches tall, heavily built and of great
symmetry of form. His hair was black
and his eyes, of dark hazel, had a
very penetrating glance. He was said
to be a desperate character and, as it
was known that he had suggested to
Brown the murder of the prisoners,
there was more animoSity toward him
than toward any of the others. He
had received several wounds in the
skirmish and it was thought he could
not survive them. In consequence he
was one of the last put on trial and
executed. He was said to be a be-
lever in spiritualism.
Whatever his crimes may have
been, it was certain that he was a
man of iron nerve. While he lay
desperately wounded at FOuke's Hotel.
a crowd of armed citizens gathered
around him. One citizen put the muz-
zle of his loaded gun to Stevens head
with the expressed determination of
killing him instantly. Stevens then
was unable to move a limb, but he
fixed his terrible eyes on the would-be
murderer and by the sheer force of
their magnetism, or whatever you may
choose to call their mysterious power.
he compelled the man to lower the
gun and spare his life. To this day
the citizen AYERS that he cannot ac-
count for the irresistible fascination
that bound him, as with spell"
The fifth member of the party was
Edwin Coppie, the son Of a poor
widow in Iowa. A store clerk, he had
become involved in the underground
railway" operations of the Abolition
lists of the period and, without really
understanding the nature Of the
Brown plans. had drifted into the or
ganization. He was the Galahad of
The undertaking. Coppie was cap
tured unwounded after the assault on
the engine house. His case aroused
considerable sympathy and hundreds
of citizens signed a petition to the
Governor of Virginia for executive
clemency. The petition was denied
and he was hanged.
The sixth member listed by Mr..