Kansas weekly herald., 1855-05-04

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Il becomes our nd aAd painful duty 20
record the death Of one Of our mot res
|pected citizens. Malcolm Clari, Who was
killed on Monday last by the Vie and ine'
famous scoundrel known as MeCrsa-
THE LEADER AND MOUTHPIECE'
OF THE ABOLITIQzzISTs. The facts
Of this fatal tragedy, 50 far as We have
been able to learn them. ARE as follows:
during meeting held on Monday last, in
pursuance to call made through our coll
umns. for the purpose Of considering the
propriety of extending the time toall squat
ters holding claims on Delaware lands, the
order OF the meeting was frequently dis
turbed and the speakers insulted and ar
rested in the course of their remarks by
certain vulgar and impertinent cutbursss
from this same despicable william Me Crea.
For, his obtrusion and ungentlemanly con-
duct at meeting in which he was no way.
concerned, he was reprimanded ,as ne should
have been by Malcolm Clark, and respect
fully requested either to leave the inaeting
or desist in his unjust interference with Its
proceedings. This he would not DO but
continued in this same course regardless
of all advice and admonition, until . reso-
luton had been declared carried fsotne
fifteen minutes after the reprinand. by
the vote of the meeting, which the peridi-
GUS william pronounced to have been ef-
fected by gross fraud. although not affect
ing him or his interests. To this asser-
ton Malcolm Clark gave the Odd lie"
which was followed up BY McCrea in the
most violent and abusive language. At
this stage of the controversy Malcolm
Clark became exasperated and offered to
strike AeCrea when he received a fatal
shot from the villainous hands of the das-
tardly abolitionist. After the perpetration
of the bloody deed the cowardly assassin
took flight, during which he wheeled about
and fired indiscriminate!y in the crowd,
that was in hot pursuit after him, as we
saw through the window of our Office
He was soon captured and brought back
when he feigned for a short while the most
poignant sorrow, no doubt with the view of
exciting some commisseration in his be-
half and thereby preserving his life from
the hands ofan excited crowd. The de-
ceased exercised, we are told, the utmost
forbearance with this vagabond of aboli-
tionism, and evinced no disposition to de-
mean himself BY aggravating quarrel
with him.
We were not present at the meeting and
consequently did not witness this sad and
horrible occurrence, but when we heard the
report of pistols, and saw the rapid fight of
the murderer, we fastened to the spot and
never shall we forget the scene there pre-
sented. Our very heart sickens, our very
blood chills in our veins, when we recall the
scene to our. memory. We think we see
before us the body Of the dying man strug-
ling and writhing in the agonies Of death.
We think we hear his dying cry ringing
in our ears. We think we behold the ruth
less monster, McCrea standing up confront
ing US with that same hideous and malig-
nant scowl which his countenance bore af-
ter the preparation of this hellish deed.
The murderer is now incarcerated at Fort
Leavenworth and God grant that the fend
whose murderous hands committed the foul
and atrocious crime-the wretch whose
hands are stepped in blood-be made to
suffer condign retTibution. The vile mon
ster McCrea shall meet the just penalty of
the law. He shall be hung by rope of
HEMP. This shall be HIS REWARD:
but, no, we leave his fate unprotected for
it needs no sybl's prescience to divine that
it must be, and will be, as dark as his foul
crime. -
The Villain has Returned.
We see, much to our astonishment, that