The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-06-23
[Corre. pondence af the Cincinnati Gazettc.l
THE MURDER OF JENKINS BY
LANE AT LAWRENCE.
AIIistory of the Disputed Claims

acres o. land, lying on the edge OF LAWRENCE
Gaines Jenkins selected the claim and hired a
man by the name of Chapman to make an i'm
provement on it, and hold it for him. Chap
man afterwards concluded to pre-empt it him
self and break his contract with Jenkins, SO he
got part of it incorporated in the town plot Of
Lawrence, and sold the remainder oft to Jim
Lane.
AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE.
About this time Lanes wife left him and re-
turned to her friends in Indiana. Lane got
man by the name of Lindsey to move into the
log house on the claim and boarded him and
his boy. Mrs, Lindsey said that Lane was
frequently out very late at night, and sometimes
all night, and one night she heard the boy ma
king an unnatural nose and supposing his faith
er was out as usual, went to the room to see
what the matter was, when, to her surprise, she
found Lane there. He seized her, and, she says
offered her violence, when her screams brought
her husband to her rescue.
HOW TWO NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS HELP
ED JIM OUT OF THE sCRAPE. .ul
Later that night, two newspaper correspon-
dents who occupied room together in Law
renee, were aroused by Col. Jim Lane, who
seemed agitatcd, and begged them to assist him
out of difficulty. They got up and he told
the following story:
Mrs. Lindsey, he said, had got possession Of
some of his wife's things she left in the house,
and he wanted to get them back. He didn't
know just what they were, but his wife would
know what was gone, and Mrs. Lindsey was a.
fraid of his wife. lie therefore wanted one of
them to write note purportng to come from
Mrs. Lane, saying that she was at Kansas City,
and would be up there that day; and the other
to bring it over to Lindsey's early in the NOR
ing. AS all Kansas correspondents revolve a.
round Jim Lane, they Of course consented to
anything he asked. ........... .....r q
THE ARBITRATION. .- -- .
In the morning several prominent Free State
men, and among others, Gov. Robson, who is
arbiter general for all the difficulties in the Ter
rtory, were sent for to settle the trouble between
Lindsey's wife and Jim Lane. When they ar
rived they found Lane, pacing the room with
the letter above alluded to in his hand, and des-
pair depicted on his countenance. .s.s .
There" says he "read that, my wife, with
whom | have had trouble enough, God knows,
has just concluded to return to me and will be
here to- day; but if she hears of this charge she
will leave me forever. Do for Gods sake help
me to hush this up on her account"
So it was finally settled in this wise: Lane
was to pay certain sum oSmoney, and to get
this money, he then and there sold this dispu-
ted claim to Jenkins-got some money and the
balance in notes, and Jenkins was put in pos
session of the claim. .s.i... ......
LANE TRIES TO GET POSSESSION AGAIN
In the troubles Of So, (Which occurred short
ly after this sale) while Lane was in command
ofthe Free State forces at Lawrence, and Jen
kins prisoner in the United States camp at
Lecompton, Lane made an effort to get posses.
sion of this property, by ordering couple Of
men to 50 over and take the house, VIII ich was
then occupied by man Of the name OF Jones
who rented of Mr.. Jenkins. This attempt, how
yer, to use the army for private ends, was de- |
nounced by Col. Blood--by Parrot and other
Free State men; and the company, finally, refu.
sed to obey. So Lane was compelled to aban-
don this project. .4..r
AGAIN FROM CHAPMAN. !
In the Summer Of So Chapman, the man who
made the improvement on the claim for Jen-
kns, in the first place, and afterwards sold it to
Lane, wounded pro-slavery man so badly that
he died the next day at Westport. Chapman
left the country, but before going sold all his in
terest in the claim to jenkins. Chapman is
now in Iowa, and has sent his deposition sta
ting that all his imorovement on the claim were
made for Jenkins who paid him for them.
Jcnkius subsequently put up Cincinnati
house Zone OF Hinkle & Guilds on the claim
and rented the other house to a man named
Nichols In the yard Of the old house, (rented
to Nchols) was well, from which Jenkins,
family and all the ncighbors got water.
now LANE FINALLY GETS POSSESSION.
A lew weeks since Lane made arrangements
with Nichols, to board him and hfs family, and
as soon as he got fixed there, managed to get
Nichols out and remained in possession. lie
Immediately nailed up the gate from jenkins,
yard to the we'll, put paddock on the box
around the we'll, and forbade Jenkins family
getting water there.
JENKINS AND LANES WIFE QUARREL.
jenkins went one day to get water when
Lane was away, and Lanes wife came out and
forbade him, told him he was no gentleman, or
he wouldn't come when there was nobody but
a lone woman in the house, &c. He replied
that he was as much Of d gentleman as a GER
tain Jim Lane, but said he would not come for
water again when Lane was away. From that
time they went to ravine for water until the
family all got sick from using it jand on Thurs-
day noon last, Lane ping athome, Jenkins
senth word thatho was coming for water.
Lane sent back word to him not to come. but
he went taking with him an axe to open the gate
Lane had nailed mp, and a Sharp's Rife. He
left his rifle against the fence some thirty feet
from the gate, and broke down the gate with
his axe. Lane came out unarmed and forbade
him, and then returned to tho house--got shot