Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Young John Brown Hung in Quincy. [ARTICLE]

Young John Brown Hung in Quincy.

A curious affair toook place at Quincy, Mass., on the day of the execution of John Brown in Virginia, which came near having a tragical termination. There is a boy, aged about lourieen years, named John Brown, residing in the town where John Quincy Ad, ams lived and died, and several boys in the neighborhood concluded that be ought to bs tried for treason. They accordingly put him through the regular forms of a trial. He was arraigned in due form,'was allowed cousel (junior) and after a patient investigation of the case, he was adjudged guilty, and sentenced to he hung. The boys placed the young John Brown upon a barrel under a tree", enclosing his arms, and fastened the rope to a limb of the tree. They then kicked the barrel Irom under him and young John was almost launched into eternity, for tho rope slipped up and caught the young gentleman around the throat. He was now in a perilous situation, as his thoughtless companions were frightened by the blood that flew from his nostrils in a strehm, and ran away from the scene as fast as possible. Fortunately for young John Brown, a woman in a house near by ran out with a big carving knife and cut him down. Young John was game to the last, but he concluded not to participate in a mock trial agaiij,