the Northern Liberties Market,
one of the three principal markets of the city. Being a public
reservation, it had no right to remain there except during the
pleasure of the authorities. Due notice was given to the marketmen
to remove the structures. The owners were dilatory in doing so, and
probably could not see why they should be removed when the ground was
not wanted for any other purpose, and before they had time to find
a new location. It was understood that, if an attempt was made to
remove the buildings, the marketmen would apply to the courts for
an injunction. To prevent this, an arrangement was made by which
the destruction of the buildings was to commence at dinner-time.
At the same time, according to current report, it was specially
arranged that all the judges to whom an application could be made
should be invited out to dinner. However this may have been, a large
body of men appeared upon the scene in the course of the evening
and spent the night in destroying the buildings. With such energy
was the work carried on that one marketman was killed and another
either wounded or seriously injured in trying to save their wares
from destruction. The indignation against Shepherd was such that
his life was threatened, and it was even said that a body-guard of
soldiers had to be supplied by the War Department for his protection.

The other event was as comical as this was tragic. It occurred
while the investigating committee of Congress was at its work.
The principal actors in the case were Mr. Harrington, secretary
of the local government and one of Mr. Shepherd's assistants, the
chief of police, and a burglar. Harrington produced an anonymous
letter, warning him that an attempt would be made in the course of
a certain night to purloin from the safe in which they were kept,
certain government papers, which the prosecutors of the case against
Shepherd were anxious to get hold of. He showed this letter to
the chief of police, who was disposed to make light of the matter.
But on Harrington's urgent insistence the two men kept watch about the
premises on the night in question. They were in the room adjoining
that in which the records were kept, and through which the robber
would have to pass. In due time the latter appeared, passed through
the room and proceeded to break into the safe. The chief wanted to
arrest him immediately, but Harrington asked him to wait, in order
that they might see what the man