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Article: Controversy clangs again; West Virginia `a-bell-itionists' want John Brown Bell returned.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2009
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Byline: Elaine Thompson
MARLBORO - As it was during the Civil War, Marlboro and a tiny town in West Virginia are still on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to a bell.
The John Brown Bell, which hung in the firehouse at the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., (at the time Virginia) when the radical abolitionist and his band of men were captured after a raid on the facility in 1859, has been in Marlboro since 1892. Mr. Brown, who was born in Connecticut and had ties to abolitionists in Massachusetts, was convicted of murder, slave insurrection and treason. He was hanged Dec. 2, 1859.
The 700- to 800-pound bell was brought here on a ...