Deposition of Mary Hastings O’Connor, February 1880

MARY HASTINGS O’CONNOR. - I am the mother of Johnny O’Connor; I recollect the day after the murder; […] I asked him how he escaped? He said, O, ma, I got under the bed; she said, did they see you under the bed? he said, if they did I’m sure I’d have been killed; I was shaking, and I did not like to listen to it: he went to the Village with his father afterwards: […] he would not tell me when I asked him the names: he said he was afraid of their killing him: […]