American Lancaster Gazette, 1855-08-30

Subscribed and sworn to before me, A gust 10, 1866. - J, I. DOZIEil, Exm'r. Basil Rhodes, on with, says: I am""tbe) -father of Theodore Rhodes, who was kill4 on Monday evening, August 6th, iost., at Main and C!ip su-eets, uisviUr. 1 reJ side at the corner of M-iu and .Eleventh streets. Chapel i between Tenth And , Eleventh streets. V' J -. About 5 oVWk.'P, M .-of thitt iij, I was sitting at my doer, when' I heard tlie report of fire-arms, and, on looking tip Main, I saw my son Theodore full at Main . and Chapel. In aa instant, t heard 80 of 3J shout fired in rap'nt succession, so quick. j as to seem to be a volley. .The shots were tired from the north side of Main. - My eotf whs on the south side of Main when he fell I could see him distinctly; he aved hi head, and was in a reclining positkrnhen I saw amanrunfromtlie north .d of M;n to within 10 or 12 feet of rr'Sow end de. lilerAiely shoot at my son tiree times wKW a revolver, when my too fell back and did move again. Th6 man an at ones back to Quinn's row, whence he earne This all occurred iu a moment I had at tlie moment I saw my sou Mt started to towards - wards towards him, bat the firina; from Quinn'a row wa very rapid and 1 did not for a mo moment - ment moment or two apuronch sir son's body. ' I saw he was duad, for be did not move af- ter the man tired his pistol rt hi time there was ao crowd in the hifri. At this street and no disturbance but tin; firing abote-nnmed. l saw no crowd until soma time alter. - x. removed the body of my son, and, while so doing. I heard other reporu of ii re-anas, and. lookinz around. aw young" Graham. falL He died in a few tninetes. My son had a family. He was shot in tbe neck and in the forehead. Graham seemed -to be corains towards me when he fell. ; My son was a very tall man end Wore si broad brim white hat," and wa easily Te comiized at the distance I was from bim. ! While reclining he seemed to beckon with !,! , i. - e t.t--: TJ wa his hand to some one for help He was sober, and a sober man in his habits. He was very quiet, peaceable, and inoffensive, as I think. Up to this lime there had been no disturbance on Main in that part of the ci:y . W R. RHODES. Jefferson Countv, Set. ' '.'". Subscribed and sWorn to before me AiH .q, 1855. J. I. DOZIEil. Examiner. & . Lester Parker, on oath, says tbat,on the 6:h of Aegust inst, the election day .about 4 or 5 o'clock, lie was going down Main, between Fourth and Fifth streets, Louis Louisville, - ville, Louisville, and sw Theodore Rhodes just be behind - hind behind him. They walked on as far as Pick ett's waiehouse, corner of Eighth & Main, when nthant stopped and Rhodes went on down Main towards Chapel. ' Rhodes had' in his hand a carpet-sack. I hare Inown bim for fourteen or fif een years well, and know he was then sober and bad; always been a very sober, hard-workiOg, hid jstrl jstrl-ous - ous jstrl-ous man. He was also a man remarkable for bis peaceable and quiet disposition.'. I never knew or heard of his quarreling' or Ctrhtins in bit life. He was a man of family. ' ' - , '; ;V, : ' A few moments after Rhodes left, me,, snd not more than ten or fifteen,-. 1 hoard the report of fire-armsand,lootIng dowif, I saw that the firing proceeded from tlie house of McDorald, an Irisb grocer, pn the north side of M tin. opposite Chapel street, from the alley above his bouse, also front the house belonging to Mr. Ouinn', On the corner of Eleventh and Main, occupied by Dennis Riordan. The firing was very brisk and Tapid; t least soma thirty shots wefe? fired in a minute or sn; the flashes front . tbe windows of McDonald's louse' Assum Assumed - ed Assumed the appearance of a shift of flame. -".At the lima there was no crowd of persons in the street; a few pep-ons wcto passingl'a-' long live street, and very few." There wae no tlUluibance there at the time, and no considerable assemblage for'twenry or thir thirty - ty thirty minutes afterwards. A few shots erti fired at McDonald's house - in fifteen or twenty minutes after the first firing" fren McDonald's. I -lire at- Portland, below Louisville. : -Daring the - firev affiant Was assisting to save 'the- proper;, when a-n ttld Irishwoman cameoutof-oneof Qurtin'e houses, and said to him affiant "oh, ir, if it had not been for Burns, norie oftbU tronble would Iwve happened; he "was tha cause of all this shooting." '- :; - PARKER:" ' ; Subscribed and sworn to August 9,1865', before me. O. II. STRATTAN. N. P; ' 1 About 5 o'clock, P. M.,of Monday' Iarf I was standing ou the northwest corner of" Market and Eleventh e'retts.'wlien the'a(. fiant heard the poWor nre-ririns on i .4faf street. -Aftera few fire", atHutt ran dowa to Main s reel, and when he got to the cor corner. - ner. corner. of Main and E even Ji be stopped, be cause tl oi was a rapid increase of tbe fix', ing; iq faei, tliere- seemed to be tic.: ictet mis-ion between the sounds or cradling r the fire arms. - One Jbong occupied tho Maui ana a even n wamou-nat ten or twelve two-story -tenements above the one occupied oy .jjong.r jib imituj occupied rooms above, in -the first, house) east of Lopg's. . Wber. wi aessgot lo Main street, hepia-ed himself in such a.positiork as woald enaMebiratoseewliere tbesboot tbesboot-in - in tbesboot-in came from. He saw plainly that there were two men tArjr window j Quinn S houses exoept one. which wa the Bern-' directly west of the house occupied by McDonald. He saw that each of tlie men. bad two doubled barreled guns or muskete or pistols, nd be w tbem sbootmg 0Bt: of the windowratlier.P. Mio: street.-, The shooting continued with Incroad cel celerity - erity celerity for fifteen minutes afar be gH therev Continued on fourth page. ., , t vv- rv

lice of Monday for ihe Eighth Ward, on oath, savs: That he was on Jefferson St.. between Eleventh and Twelfth, at about 5 P. M., when be heard the report of fire- aims on Main street. lie immediatolv l-ft in tlie direction of the firing, accompanied by Samuel While, also a policemnn. When tbey got to the corner of Chapel nnd Miiiu , they fottnd Rhodes dead at tl.e corner.' ' We stooped djw n to pick l.im up, when tne ansu commenced nrtng on us out ot Quinn's Row, from the-opposite tide 'of - tbe street. Tom. White, Samuel White, ; Dougherty and affiant went across Main street, when they wero fired upon again. , ai tins ore. uranam, who had got iu the , neighborhood, was shot and killed, " and j Dougherty was wounded. Affiant then i started home, which is on west side of E-j leventh, between Main and Monroe, and as : lle passed tlio corner of Eleventh, be was fired at by, he thinks, a dozen puns from .1. J rf . i;l;.i - me winuuwivi Liong f liouse, wuirn is ine nortleast corner of Eleventh nnd Main, and owned by Quinn. None of the Amer icans named above had or exhibited C re rearms. - arms. rearms. At that time there was no crowd of Americans in sight, nor did affiant see aimed Americans in the neighborhood. Soon af.er wards the Americans assembled in the neighborhood and werehot at from ft. vrinrlMaaaa - aOt. .... 1 lm - t the windows on Chapel st.""nnd corner of Market, and here, Sam. White and Mel Melbourne - bourne Melbourne Scott were shot bat not killed. Af After - ter After leaving Chapel street this second time, affiant was fired at from tbe back part of Quinn's Row. on Main street Affiant saw not less, lie thinks, than fifty persons run out from tbe back part of Quinn's Row, toward the canal, many of them armed wiih guns. Affiant was at the Eighth ward polls nearly all day, and states that at (hat place there was little or no fighting, and the for foreigners - eigners foreigners were not driven off from the polls at any lime. He made several Dutchmt n put up Weapons, with which they came to the poles, and which tbey exhibited in ono or two little quarrels that sprang up. HICHARD 1L LEE. Jefferson county, act Subscribed and sworn to before me, Au August?, - gust?, August?, 1855. J. I. DOZIER, Exm'r. . Caroline Wall, wife of John Wall, on oath, says: She is an Irishwoman; her bus bus-band - band bus-band is an Irishman, and a Romas Catho Catholic. - lic. Catholic. .On tbe evening of tbe C;h inst, about 6 o'clock. I was going home from the gro grocery - cery grocery of Mr. Brown, on Tenth nnd Market streets, Louisville, passing down Eleventh Street to Main; when I reached Main St., at Eleventh, I beard the report of firearms, and looked up Main where it came, from, and saw a man fall near Chapel street, and a great many shots were fired in quick sue; cession from the north side of Main street, direct towards Chapel. The man who was shot and fell I learned had just come out of O'Connell's grocery, on the corner of Main and .Chapel, in company with a man named Dougherty; Rhodestlied in, a jew moments, as I learned there, . There was no crowd about at the time, and but very few people, and no disturbance, save thai caused by the shooting. Rhodes was not disturbing any one when shot, that 1 know of. I saw tbe shots fired from the windows of Quinn's Row. I think Rhodes had a carpel-bag in his hand wben shot I did not know him, but was informed cn inqui inquiry - ry inquiry that his name was Rhodes. . Dougherty was also shot a moment or two after. -, .' " There were a great many Irishmen in Quinn's Row,, some of whom were rela tionsof my husband, and they were very often together. . For some weeks previous,! to the election ot the bin ol August, 1 85, they (not my husband, were, pit pining for a fight,. and procured, " and bad many, arms, pistols, aud guns; and, on Saturday night before the eleotion, I saw many -of them with arms, and they had resolved,