The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-09-10
Numbering and Scalping in Kan

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DR.. Root, who went ont to Kansas
with the New Haven company, has just
returned, via Iowa, having reached this
city on Sunday, 10 company with Mrs,
Hops, widow of Mr.. Hops, who was re-
Gently murdered aud scalped near Leav.
cnworth City. The facts in regard to
that savage murder, as related by DR..
Root, are as follows: Mr.. Hops had been
in the Territory but a few days. He
bad hired a house in Leavenworth City,
with the intention of making that place
his home, and was on lis return from
Lawrence, whittier he had taken his wife,
(who was out of health to remain a few
days with her brother, tho Rev. Mr..
Mute, tho Unitarian Clergyman. When
he had returned to within about two
miles of Leavenworth City, aud within
sight of the residence of Mr.. Wallace. a
Free-Statc man, he was met by a Rufian
on horseback who inquired where he was
from and beirg informed that he was
last from Lawrence, the stranger drew a
revolver aud shot him through the head.
Mr.. Hops was in a buggy, and the horse
starting along. the murdered man fell to
the ground. The Rufian sprapg from
his horse, took out his knife and scalped
his victim when he remountcd and putting
spurs TO his horse rode rapidly off in the
direction of Leavenworth City. This
fcndish outrage was witnessed by Mrs
Wallace aud her daughter. A teamster
in the service of the United States drove
up and saw the body before the pulse
had ceased to beat. The name of the
savage who porpetrated this horrid deed
is Fugert. and he is well known in Lcav-
cnworth, and belongs to the Rufian par
ty eucamped at that city under command
Of Atchison. He had made a he, Of
SC against a pair of boots tina, he would
60 out and return with an Abolitionist's
scalp within two hours. On his return
to camp, he obtained his boots, and then
placing the scalp of his victim on the end
of a pole, paradcd the streets with il,
boasting of his proves and all this al
NEST within hail of Fort L~eavenwortb,
where the United States forces arc sta
toned. under command of Gen. Persifer
+ Smith. a German named Bimber.
who expressed himself rather freely in
regard to this horrible barbarity. was
shot dead on the spot. and another man,
who also reprobaied the act, saved his
life only by precipitato fight, with pis-
tol balls whistling freely about his head.
On hearing the fate of her husband,
Mrs. Hops. in company with her broth
er, Mr.. Mute, and about q dozen other
citizens of Lawrence. started for Leov-
enworth to obtain the body of Mr.. III.
and give it Christian burial. When
near Lawrence, the party were captured
aud held as prisoners by a bard Of Ruff.
fans under Capt. Emory. the man of
whom Hops had hired the horse and bug.
gy. The body OF the murdered man had
been buried. and the RuAians refused
the widow the consolation of looking up,
on her husbands grave. Seventy dol.
lars were found in the pockets of the
murdered man, all which went Us funeral
expenses, leaving the disconsolate widow
in the hands Of the Rufiaus without a
dollar. She desired to leave the scene
of her terrible sorrows. The Rufians at
6rst refused to let her depart, knowing
that she would be a swift, witness against
their sayagory; but she finally succeed.
ed in getting on board q boat bound
down the Missouri, the captain of which,
out of compassion, protected her, and
gave her a free passage to 81. Louis.
On the boat she related her story, and
was tauntingly told by the heartless aud
rufhaply passengers that she was utter
ing another " abolition lic.n
Among the party who accompanied
Mrs. Hops from Lawrence to Leaven-
worth, and who we're taken prisoners, was
DR.. Avery, an estimable Quaker gentle,
man from Richmond, Indiana, who went
to Kansas to obtain facts in regard to
the actual state of things there, intend
ing to return in n short time Tri6ane.
LATER PROM KAssAs,-S. Lonis,6 9th
The Democrat publishes the state.
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