. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. upon call to the witness standby his father, that he shot WilliamThompson, an unarmed prisoner,and only regretted that he was notquite sure of having killed him, assome one else fired into his headat the same time. Another Vir-ginian, George Schoeper, of Har-pers Ferry, is reported to have shotLeeman, after he fell dying into theShenandoah, wading out into thestream and setting up his poor bodyagainst a rock, to enable a Mary-land company to make a targetthereof. Schoeper cut off the tailof the boys
. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. upon call to the witness standby his father, that he shot WilliamThompson, an unarmed prisoner,and only regretted that he was notquite sure of having killed him, assome one else fired into his headat the same time. Another Vir-ginian, George Schoeper, of Har-pers Ferry, is reported to have shotLeeman, after he fell dying into theShenandoah, wading out into thestream and setting up his poor bodyagainst a rock, to enable a Mary-land company to make a targetthereof. Schoeper cut off the tailof the boys coat in which he found his commission asa lieutenant. George Chambers, of Williamsport, Vir-ginia, is reported as the man who shared with HenryHunter in the massacre of William Thompson, andboasted of it. James Holt, of Harpers Ferry, wasseen to club the body of Leary, after the capture ofthe raiders, and long after life was extinct. A farmerspat his tobacco expectoration into the throat of thedying Jerry Anderson. But the Virginians whohad been John Browns prisoners, resisted the cruelty. WILLIAM THOMPSON. 3i8 JOHN BROWtf. of their fellows, and it was they who testified as tothe capture, as witnesses at the trial and ever sinceto their deaths, to the uniform kindness and courtesyof manner of John Brown and to his anxiety to pre-vent their being unnecessarily exposed to the reck-less firing of their own people. The bodies of Oliver,dead, and Watson, dying, were brought to thearmory. The latter died about three in the after-noon with his head pillowed on the knees of EdwinCoppoc. Two wounded men, three unwounded, tenof the raiders dead, and seven fugitives was the tallywhich Governor Wise was greeted with upon hisarrival from Richmond, about 9 a. m. on the 18th ofOctober. In the New Orleans Times-Democrat ofSeptember 5, 1887, the late Andrew Hunter publisheda long and somewhat remarkable account of theJohn Brown raid and trial. In this paper Mr. Hun-ter sought to prove that the
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