The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-18
Great Excitement at Leavenworth City
Kansas Territory. 80

AAsA"y 1AAOTMhu8S V8y 1SS 1900
Great Excitement at Leavenvvorth CITY
Kansas Territory. 49,
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= The following particulars Of the fatal at
fray at Leavenworth City, Kansas, which
was announced by telegraph few day.
since, are from the st. Louis Intelligence
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1--WE are indebted, to passengers on the
Missouri River packets down last evening
for the following account Of homicide al
LeavenwOrth City, which has created the
most intense excitement in and around that
town. 1t seems that there was a meeting
of squatters and citizens of the town and
neighborhood generally in Leavenworth
City on Monday last, got together for the
purpose of making a public demonstration
of opinion with regard to the claims of
squattcrs, the election, the slavery agita-
ton, and other prominent questions agita-
ted in that section There was large at
tendance of both Pro-Slavery ard Anti
Slavery men, and the meeting was charac-
ierised by uproariousness, pickering, confu-
sion, and ebultion of animosity between the
two factions
A question among Others was put to vote
by the Chairman, and the vote being close,
division was called by ordering the ayes
to one side of the house and the noes to the
other. Malcolm Clark, q prominent politi-
clan of the pro-slavery faction, and large
owner of or squatter on land in and about
the town, cried out, eve have the MAORI.
ty;" to which a lawyer named McCrea, a
leader of the Free Soil faction, answered,
Its a lie;' whereupon Clark advanced
upon him, and struck hip with club,
which would have felled him had he not
been prevented by staggering against the
wall. AS soon Us he recovered from the
stun, McCrea drew revolver and shot
Clark, killing him instantly. McCrea then
fled, hotly pursued by number of ClarkS
friends, who fired several shots at him,
none of which, however, took effect. He
ran to the river, and sought shelter behind
the bank, which was abrupt and high,
whence his friends took him into their pro-
lection, removed him to the fort two miles
distant, and delivered him to the military
dutuOI1ClcS, WIZ lOChcu uiII up Ill CHc SuuTu.
house
Great excitement ensued Threats of
mob violence and Lynch law were circula-
ted, but no unlawful demonstrations made
A petition was gotten up by the mob, and
signed by three or four hundred names, re-
questing the officers in command at the fort
to give up the prisoner, promising to give
him the benefit of an impartial trial. by
jury. The petition was not acceded to, and
the prisoner was still confined in theguard-
house at the time our informants left
A handful was printed and circulated all
over the country, up and down the river,
calling upon all pro-slavery men, all true
friends of the South and Of Slavery in
Kansas. to meet on Thursday at Leaven-
worth City, to take into consideration the
aspect of affairs, and to adopt measures Of
proceeding in the present crisis. The
handful is signed B. F. Stringfellow and
John w. Kelly, editors of The Squatter
Sovereign, j. Marion Alexander, and a
number of others