"After passing through the front do<



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man in his night-clothes coming out ot
proprietor. The man replied that he
whereabouts of the proprietor. It has
ual was Jackson himself. It took the Zn



a staircase was encountered which ran spiral-
)r, the third to the next floor, and the fotjrtb

his men, before they reached the roof, met ^b-
; of the rooms, of whom they inquired for ih^s:

a boarder himself, and knew nothing of th^s
ce been suggested that the unknown individ — ■
laves but '



detach it from the pole which protruded from the trapdoor, and Colonel Ellsworth ^^
having taken it in charge, began his descent. About half-way down the flight of stairs^^^
leading from the garret he saw Jackson, but partially dressed, emerge from one of the - "^
rooms on the landing armed with a double-barrelled gun. Eliswonh, litile dreaming —^
of the bellicose nature of the man with whom he had to deal, pleasanily remarked to ^
him, "I've gotten a prize." Jackson made some defiant retort, and, befoie any one — ^^
could divine his intention, raised his gun and discharged it at the colonel. An extra-
ordinary charge of buckshot had been placed in the weapon, and a hole was torn in
~" ' 's breast large enough in which to place one's fi-^t. Colonel

^__^ ^ ^ Ellsworth, it is said by some, fell without a

€i , - "" ~N, groan, though others have asserted that hegnve

' ■. '^f^^/'t '\ vent toan aiidiblesi^h. In his descent he fell

on his face on the landing, and while his life's
blood was flowing, his followers weie avenging
his death. The weapon Jackson used was an
ordinary double-barrelled shotgun, and after
killing Ells.vorth he took aim at those who were
with him, but before he couiri pull the trigger
the second time the pun was knocked upward
by the Zouaves and the charge entered the
doorframe Francis E. Hrowncll, one of the
s(iuad, then sent a bullet crashing into Jack-
son's head and as he fell, swoirt bayonets were
thrust through him. Jackson's body was forced
down the flight of stairs leading to the second
fl.nr. and fell on the landing. 