The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-07
l asked him what he wanted with so
many2 He said he intended to take this
id town and blot it out.

| asked him what he wanted with $
many'2 He said he intended to take thj
id town and blot it out.
LAWRENCE COULD BE TAKEN,
l reminded him that it would take goo
force to do that. He said the town had bee
looked at by many different men from tn
camp, and they were confident they coul
have taken it in twelve hours.
We then talked of an arrest he tried +
make since that time in which he fa!ed. HI
said he was resisted that Robinson an,
Lane refused 10 give him posse Itol,
him it was probable they thought he wa
trying to get up another siege and that tina
was the reason of their refusal to assist him
tie replied that he thought that Robinso,
aad Lane had an idea that some one otbe
than himself was at the bottom of it. I sait
that they probably did and would act as cit
izens merely.
JONES MAKES THREATS.
He said that the. articles of peace tina,
Shannon, Robinson andsLane entered into
he thought, pledged them to give him ,
posse, and if they didn't do it he would pei
up a':other scrape and they would have
Woodson to deal with this time. as Gov
Sh,nnon was gone, and they would find
Woodson to be id sight different man
f.On old Shannon.
told him if we got into war at this
time it would probably involve the whole
Union. He said he didn't care what it NAV
involve, but whatever it might cost, the laws
of the Territorial Legislature should be en-
forced.
Our conversation was interrupted by a
gentleman coming up to speak to Mr.. Jones.
NO JUsT.cs TO NoRrHERNERs.
At another time, talking Of enforcing
these laws, told hir.. a strong obiec.
ton to them was that the Free State man
had no chance of justice when pro-Slavery
man was defendant.
He asked me ;or an instance. I referred
him to Mayor Clark, who had passed up here
I few days before with body guard. / told
nm that his murder of Barber, unwhipt of
justice, made a great many men very bitter
ly opposed to those laws.
said to Jones, "you know You killed
Barber" Jones said he knew nothing of it
exccp what Clarke said. He said that the
night Clarke came Gown to Lecompton, the
d,y Barber was shot, both Clark and Burns
of Missouri, clair ed they had killed one of
the Id abolitionists, and then related the
circumstances as told by them.
JUST AS WELL
asked why Clark was not arrested. He
told me it l would swear out warrant
against him before Justice of the Peace he
would see that he was arrested. He said he
lid not deem it his duty as sheriff to ar
rest man unless some enc swore out war
amt against him. He saw Clark it was
lust as well, for Clark did not intend to flee
the country, but would come before the
Grand Jury.
ATTEIPTED ASSASSINATION OF JONES,
was here when tie United States troops
.nme "a, 10 arrest the prisoners on the 23d.
Inc c'mmittee had just ,mmenced it's le-
5islations. Jones proceeded to arrest pris-
lnerS for resisting his authority on the Sat-
irday previous and refusing to assist him to
arrest others. He made some six arrests
without any resistance. The Eastman he ar
rested was Mr.. F. Hunt. When lie saw
tones coming, lie started and ran across the
street, and continued till he got behind a
lulidlnS on tle west side of the main street.
w hen he first commenced running. Jones
lrew revolver, cooked it at him and called
N him to stop or he would kill him. He
'ound that Hunt would not stop, SO lie ran
.fter him with his revolver still cooked. Mr.
Hunt finally stopped Jones collared him
IN led him through the streets to where
lc other prisoners stood, guarded by U. S.
troops.
They were all put into a room in house
fronting on Massachusetts, street. | went
over there and asked him why he had ar
rested them He said lie had arrested some
IF them for rescuing Wood, and others for
refusing to assist him to arrest Wood To
find out who were taken for those two va
rieties of Offences, asked him why he had
arrested Hutchingson, and he said for refus-
ne to assist. asked why he called on so
many when he had posse with lin. He
said he did not believe there W IS any law in
this t 'wn, and he'd be id if he wouldn't
make them feel that there was law. l then
eft and went over to the hotel.
Mr.. Hut hinson is clergyman. Jones
and his friends have done all they could ever
since he was appointed Sheriff, to insult and
aggravate the citizens Of Lawrence-he has
threatened to raze their town-brought ex-
asperated and savage propagandists against
the character of its people in
letters published in territorial journals
yet, up to the time he was shot in the back
by an unknown assassin, no one ever injured
OF insulted him.
The soldiers struck their camp behind the
room in which the prisoners were kept.
JONES SHOWS HIS AUTHORITY.
Jones in the evening came out of the
house and used very abusive language to the
citizens, calling them ID sons of bitches,
&C., and said that he wished he had the
power and he would compel every Id
son of a bitch in Lawrence to get down on
his knees and kiss the - Territorial laws.
Finally the crowd dispersed.
There was noticed about there that night
two young men, strangers, not citizens OF
Lawrence. concluded they were Jones's
friends. M ai -isl
They moved about so suspiciously that we
concluded they were spies. a4
About eight o'clock I went home, and
shortly after heard that Jones was shot.
Next morning found Jones at room al
the hotel, but did not speak with him Of
he was weak from loss of blood.
.k LATER FROM KANSAS