Those arrested were afterward released on bail. Gould was left in possession of the property, but it did him little good. Lee began legal proceedings against him and Gould brought counter-suits, and this litigation was continued until the business as destroyed and the tannery abandoned.
In the New York Herald of March 16, 1860, is given the following account of the battle:
TANNERY INSURRECTION IN PENNSYLNANIA.
BATTLE BETWEEN THE FORCES OF THE SWAMP LEATHER
DEALERS—THE LEUPP AND LEE TANNERY, IN
GOULDSBORO, ATTACKED AND DEFENDED—SIDES
OF LEATHER USED FOR BREAST-WORKS—INSURGENTS
TWO HUNDRED
STRONG—THE TANNERY
TAKEN—FLIGHT
OF THE DEFENDERS—WOUNDED
FOUR.
About half-past ten o'clock on Tuesday morning the lock was wrenched from the stable, the men having been concentrated into the tannery and the stable being unguarded. A little past twelve the tannery itself was attacked by a mob variously estimated at from one hundred and eighty to two hundred and fifty men, armed with axes, muskets, rifles and other weapons. Without a demand of possession or summons to surrender, the doors were beaten in, and but a few blows had been struck by the assailants before they began to fire ball and buckshot through the building, raking it in
