The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-05-24
CLEVELAND KILLED.
Full Account of his Arrest and ID eath- II IS
Character and Previous History.

sent to his company for detachment OF men.
On Sunday morning Sergeant Morris
reached Osawatomie with ten men. AS
soon as they had ascertained the wherea-
bouts of Cleveland they surrounded the
house. Morris knocked at the door and
asked if there was man there by the name
of Cleveland. The redoubtable JayhawkeT
answered the summons in person. He came
to the door with navy revolver in each
hand and one strapped about his body.
Morris.-I have come here to arrest you.
Cleveldnd.-That's thing that can't be
done by you or any other man. You're too
short wasted I have done a good many
things in my life, but / fear no man nor set
of men.
M have come here to take your body,
dead or alive. and am going to do it.
Give killed many man and will do
it again if you attempt to drive me.
M-Probably you've done great many
things more than have, but you can't
scare me. am going to take you.
Glow many men have you got
Nj have ten.
CT can raise more than that at a mo-
ment's warning.
M-You Needn't talk about raising men,
for I'm going to have you, dead or alive.
CT don't like to go with soldiers. Get
Lieutenant and I'll go with you
Lieut.. Walker was sent for and came
down; he was unarmed.
CT will 60 with you, Lieutenant, if you
will 60 round by friend of mine.
Lieut.. Walker consented and mounted his
horse. Cleveland also mounted horse,
put spurs to him and broke away. The
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close pursuit of the flying fugitive. Cleve
land dismounted at the Potawatomie. a
branch of the Marais des Cygnes, and about
a mile from town. He turned, fred sever
al shots out of revolver, threw that and
his watch into the stream and sprang down
the steep bank. AS the soldiers began to
close in on him he fred shot after shot from
the two remaining revolvers, but with such
desperation and madness that none of them
took effect.
AS he was raising his hand the last time
to fire private named Johnson pierced him
with MIME ball, which, entering his per-
son under the left shoulder, tore through
his heart and nearly perforated his body.
The arm dropped, the tall form fell and al
most instantly life was extinct.
The soldiers then carried the lifeless form
to Osawatomie and delivered it to the citi-
zens, who have since given Cleveland a
burial.
One of Cleveland's men, named Barbour.
was captured at the same time and brought
here by Lieut.. Harris to be placed under
guard at the Fort.
We believe the first appearance of Cleve-
land in Kansas was in May last. No one
seemed to know where he came from, al
though there has always been a rumor that
he was a convict who had made his escape
from the Jefferson City Penitentiary. He
was usually silent about his early history,
and wisely SO. for when he opened his
mouth on that topic the most inconsistent
statements came from it..
He became popular as a fighting man at
the time when Union men were so heart
lessly driven from their homes in the bor-
der counties of Missouri. He espoused
their cause. fought gallantly against their
rebel prosecutors, and his motives were for
a comparatively long time unquestioned.
His bravery made Jennison his friend, and
WHEN the First Cavalry was organized Cleve-
land became Captain.
We first saw him in July. He then
called himself Moore, said he was one of
men, had letters from him,
{ these he never produced, and told many
stories of flood and field in all of which he |
was the hero.
He was a natural and lawless adventurer, |
and Jennison and Anthony, who had be-
friended him most, for sufficient causes, got
him out of their regiment almost as soon
rs he was mustered in. From that time,
September last, he has been known chiefly
as desperate and robber. One of his
first operations was at Kansas City, where
be broke into Northrop & Co.'s Bank and
robbed it of $4,000. A similar attempt
made afterwards at Atchison was failure
Once he was arrested by Capt. Geo. F.
Earle, and taken to the Fort by Maj. Cloud.
His confinement, however, was brief. This
was before he became captain. He came
near losing his life last fall, at Geary City,
where he was attacked by a party of Mis-
sourians, had one man killed and several ia
ken prisoners.
During all these months he has led wild,
strange life. He seems to have made his
principal headquarters at Atchison and FL
wood. Soldiers have been constantly look
ing for him, and have twice nearly captured
him. but audacity, bravado and cat-like
stealth have been his preservers till now.
His band has never been large, and be
often travelled alone. His skill in DISCUS
ing his appearance and voice we're so great
that even to those who knew him well he
seemed each day different man. And this
too, although he was more than six feet in
height, and had form as straight as an
arrow. Some persons, blessed with more
Imagination than brains, believe he led a
charmed life. They called him the "Phan-
tom Horseman of the Prairie,'' and told