The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-02-13

!, farm at late hour, and said he was mucl
fatigued. Shortly after dark, he went i
/ bed. Mrs. Wr ght had gotten the chill
idren There being eight Of them) all to bed
except All infant ofsix months, which sh
was holding to her breast, being hersel
4 dressed only in her night clothes. Sh,
suddenly heard horses feet rapidly ap
preaching, and looking through an open
ing in the wall, saw three men ride up t,
| the gate and alight, and proceed towards
THE door slowly. Being as above men
toned, undressed. she retired with he
infant TO an adjoining room, when they
called at the door and asked to stay al
night. Mr. Wright arose from his bed
went to the door, and opened it, wher
one of them plunged bowie knife into
his side up to the hilt, and another one
shot him through the head with pistol
Mrs. W. dropped her infant on bed
and made her escape from back door
ard fled to neighbours mile distant
barefooted, and in her night dress. The
assassins entered the house, murdered
four of the children in a most shocking
manner, plundered it of all its money and
valuables and set it on fire, and made their
escape. The other four children esca-
ped, one being badly wounded on the
head with the cock of a pistol, but he has
since nearly recovered.
The populace was much excited. Sew
eral suspicious fellows were arrested, a.
mong whom wasthis Barnes; but as there
was no proof, they were released. A
month thus elapsed, when two brothers,
gamblers, and doggery keepers, by the
name of Richmond, fell out; and one told
to by-stander, that the other was enga-
ged in the Cane Hill murder. Immedi-
ately he was arrested, confessed the whole
affair, saying that this same Barnes. one
Turner, Nicholson, and G. w. Bailey,
were his accomplices. Barnes and Tur-
ner were arrested, but denied the facts
charged against them. A committee of
thirty men, all of whom were men of
unblemished character, tried them, found
them guilty, and they were hung all at
once on the same pole at Cane Hill
Nicholson and Bailey had made their es-
cape, the latter to Texas, where he was
pursued, but he had gone to Kentucky.
and his pursuers followed him there; but
he had gone to East Tennessee, and they
still followed; but he had gone to Georgia,
and thy followed him to Georgia, to Ala
bama, Mississippi, and over again into
Arkansas, where he was taken about two
weeks since, and he was hung last Friday,
by the same authority, at Cane Hill, on
the same pole, declaring his innocency.-
Nicholson has been arrested for another
crime, aud is now in prison at Little
Rock, and if he is not hung by the civil
authority there, he may expect to hang
by the neck at Cane Hill, under the d.
rection of this committee.
This committee has been formed, to
clear the country of such villains as these,
and they are determined to ACCOMPLISH
their object. Our civil law clears every
one tried by it, and hence justice cannot
De obtained only in this summary way.
The cherokees, whose country is very
adjacent, are at war among themselves,
'ut all parties are friendly towards the
whites.
The people here are generally healthy.
~orn is worth only about twenty cents
! bushel, and pork SIS per cwt. Lands
IRE increasing in value, and money com.
'aTatlvely plenty. But my sheet is full,
md ! must close. | have charge of the
Evansville Academy, and am still en-
leavoring to bend my feeble footsteps to.
wards better world than this.
A. NJ. SCOTT.