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Death of Charles
Cornered at 1210 Saratoga Street, Charles holds off a mob of thousands for hours, is smoked out by fire, and is shot down and mutilated — the entire account quoted from the Times-Democrat's own reporters.
The Saratoga Street siegeSergeant Porteus and Corporal Lally killedThe house set on fire to force him outCharles's deathMutilation of the body afterward