The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-10
News from Kansas.
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MEET-MoB VIOLENCE pxpGoTED.
fCorresponde nee Of the Tin iinat Gazepe

hEHT-MoB VIOLENCE YxPsoTED.
Correspondence of the Tin innati Gazette
LxAvKSwoKrY, X T June 80, 1857
Thinking that Ieavenwoth mist keep up its reputation
by getting up row a, the eecas came up he re to see
Reoei y, seven members OF Lsaren Worth City Council
"a prosavery eody) resgeed on account Of the oIo;
fiji toe vacancy. Few pro slavery men participated N
1t, and free State men st.id away -Four hundred
were FOR. Of mongre prosavery Bss des these he,e
opposition 10 the regular free State ticket was
Of course elected These are the names-John Mcheu
Jacob Heiss, +. Stroebe, Henry Fooie, n SathS,
s. n Latta and J. r. Hathaway.
Early in the day it was quiet. A3P NJ, in row at
the First ward polls. James T. Lyle, City Recorder was
fatally stabbed the knife entering his shoulder, and pene
Tairg to the heart is almost impossi ole TO get the
facts there u such a tremendous excitement
As can come Of II they are these; the future
Developments may modify them somewhat:-ln the
morning Lyle offered German pro ,lavory ticket. He
id pro- slavery ckets Lyle was very Indignant, ana
would have raised but .ller and Tome other free
been showing his knife about polls during the dsy)
Ely M,oe and other pro slavery men, were again at the
Flint ward polls when Moore got angry drew revolver
and red two three times at some free State men.
Mitchell newly elected Gov pcilman) returned the fire
Lyejum.ed in and drew his DO vie knife when he vas
stabbed, have related. He died imm stately. BE
was twenty twenty eight years old, and was
married Eve months since.
Halter, Mitchell and Moore we're arrested aud taken {,
the Mayo IS Office Moore let of aud the Others ing
ly guarded. Great excitement prevailed during the
night The at, fall Of armed With rhe,.
take ont Mitchell and Halter and hang them Hal they
done II, attempted It, thee would have been bloody
ry Murphy aud other marked men should be sacrificed
at once An outbreak was apprehended all night but
The Coroners jury found Haer guilty OF the homicide
BE did probably stab Lyle he s from Portsmouth, OHIO,
and is matchmaker by trade, and has wife and one
child The affair is to be investigated today If Lecompte
You Of course know Lyle-how obnoxious he is to the
free State men, He was with the party which arrei and
f.a dshA uith I'D
that kicked Brown when Dying and Is said to have spit
in the face Of the bleeding corpso.
Emory AMI others of his stripe are badly frightened
Lyle remains taken down to Delaware this after
noon for interment
invesig alton mitchell being charged with
sauiting Moore and Halter with indcng mortal wound
lay Tor.
Assistant District Attorney, D L Henry, VIM. Perry,
NJ Love- " B. Young, for prosecution
Judge W. l. Johnston Major II. j. Lawrence, O. B. Hol-
man, for defence.
Three witnesses were examined The two first were
two physicians, of them the county Coroner TheJ
testified that the wound in the back, inches from
point OF left shoulder, to inches lcpg, or more
The third witness testified to being present at the polls,
Moore WA IN dispute or personal difficulty with Ddtcn.
Lyle lnterpoeed, saying "D-n you what is the matter
to your Halter kicked At him. and as Lyle turned his
shoulder to him, stabbed him with abowie knife.
The defence state they will prove that deceased had
drawn Q weapon.
OUR ouNDARo CORRESPONDENCE.
ouIspARo, Jane 80, 1857
The Pdrka1us and Grand Rirer Railroad
Yesterday the subscribers I, the stock Of the Psrkvie
and Grand River Railroad met at Parkvle, No., and
elected drectors-Chares Robinson, Kansas Territory
Edward L. Baker, New Bedford, Mass Monroe Hender.
vle Mo I. c. Primty, Robert Kane Plat county. Mo
Lewis Wood, Clay county, Mo- William Il Lott, Clinton
The aendapce was large from both Missouri and Kansas