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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The military Murders in St. Louis. (search)
Whether this be true or not, a more reckless act has never been committed than an armed body of troops discharging those terrible instruments of war — Minnie rifles — among a crowd of defenceless spectators. Jeremiah Godfrey, a hired man of Mr. Cozzens, county surveyor, was working in the yard of Mr. Cozzens at the time of the occurrence. While stooping over, in the act of fastening some flowers to a frame, three soldiers entered the gate, and approaching within the yard, fired three shots ens, county surveyor, was working in the yard of Mr. Cozzens at the time of the occurrence. While stooping over, in the act of fastening some flowers to a frame, three soldiers entered the gate, and approaching within the yard, fired three shots into his body. Fortunately none of them were fatal, being all flesh wounds. The family witnessed the affair, and say that the man had not been out of the yard, and was unaware of the approach of his assailants until stricken down by their bullets