New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-22
the language or the sentiment. May they not fall
UPON deaf ears.


THE TRAGICAL FATE or JAY EN-
From The hGa,cs Consura,ire. l4h -
From Lieut. j. q. Harris of the kaneas ttn tIoi
Judson) We learn the folowi facts IN ~ lanon u
The dea b OF a man who asr caused so muel puOIc
con otion in this State during the lat eight months
Lieut.. Walker of the 9th recently made the ac-
quaintance Of Cleveland for the purpose Of securing
lis arrest. He learned his plans, companions, ana
places Of rendezvous Last Saturday. the 10Th INST
while lie was with Cleveland IN Oeawd'oihe, ne
sent TO his company for u detachment 81 men.
On Sunday morning, Sergeant MONS reached
Osaw atomic, with ten men. As soon AS lb-y hau
ascertained the whereabouts OF Cleveland they r"
rounded the house. Morris knocked at the door,
aud Ar ked If there a man there by the name Oh
Cleveland. The redoubtable Jayhswke answered
the summons in person. He came TO the door WIN
a navy revolver in each hand and one strapped
about his body.
MoRa.-I have come here TO arrest you
CLkyRLAsDTbsrs thing that can't be done by you OF Az
other man You're short aisted have done soou
things in life b fear no man nor Get Of men and
Eve killed many man. and will do 1t again If you At
M-Probsby you've done great many things more than
have bat you can't am going to lake yoa.
Glow many men hsveyoug o'i
C-i can raise more than tina, at smoments warning
MYou needn't talk about Ia ing for I'm going 10 nave
CT don't lie 60 with soldiers Get Lieutenant and
Lieut.. Walker was sent for and came down, bew" I'M
armed -,
CT will 90 with you, Lieutenant II you will 70 round BY
Lieut.. Walker consented, and mounted bis horse.
Clevela land also mounted q horse, put spurs TO him
and broke away. The soldiers were soon on their
horses and in close pursuit OF the flying fugitive.
Cleveland dismoupted at the Potawatame, a
branch of the Marais des Cyenes, and about a mile
from town. He turn d, fired several shots out OF u
revolver, threw that aud his watch into the stream,
and sprang down the steep bank. IA the soldiers
began TO close in OIL him he fired shot after sbot IRON
the two remaining revolvers, but with such desper-
alton and madness that none Of them took effect.
As he was raining his hand the last time to fire,
private named johnson pierced him with Mime
ball, which, entering bis person under the ieit
shoulder, through his heart and nearly perfor-
ated bis body. The arm dropped, the tall form iei,
and slmost instantly life was extinct.
The soldiers then carried the iieess form TO Ota-
watomie and delivered it to the citizens, who have
since given Cleveland a burial.
We believe the fret appearance OF Cleveland ~
Kansas was in May last. No one seemed TO know
where he came from, though there bar always been
rumor that be was a convict who bad made hs
escape from the Jefferson City Penitentlary. lie
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 1t.
lie became popular Us fighting man at the time
when Union men were go heartles-ly driven from
their homes in the border counties OF Missouri. lie
espoused their cause fought gallantly asainrt their
rebel Prosecutors and his motives were Tor coin-
para,ively long time unquesioned. His bravery
made JennisoD his friend, and when the LIST cavalry
was organized Cleveland became Captain.
He WAS q natural and lawlefs sdveDturer, and
Jennson and Anthony, who had befrlended him
most for sufficient canses got MIN out OF their reei-
meIt amost as coon he was mustered IN. From
that time September lat, he has been know chiefly
as desperate and robber. One OF bis fret opera
lions was at Kansas City, where he broke Into Nor
tbrop g. Coz Bank and robbed il OF - 600. a
similar attempt, made aiterward at Atchison, was q
failure.
Once he vas arrested by Capt. Geo. +. Earle,
and taken 10 the Fort by Major Cloud. His con-
fnement, however, was brief This was before he
became captain. lie came near losing his lie iast
FALL at Gesry City, where he was attacked by a
party Of Missourians, bad one man killed and sew
ersl taken prisoners.
During all these months he has led wild, strange
life He seems TO have made his principal heSdquar-
ters at Atcbison and Eiwood. Soldiers have been
constantly looking for him and have twice nearly
captured him. but audacity bravado, and eat-liAe
stealth, have been bis pTeservers u now.
His band has never been large, and he ofscn trav-
eled alone. Hs skil in Disgusting his appearance
and voice great that even 70 thore VINO Knew
him W ell lie seemed each day different man.. And
thi- too although be was more than six feet III
big ht and straight ~ an arrow. Some perrons,
blessed with more Imagination than brains, believe
he led a charmed life. Th'y called him the Phan-
tom Horseman OF the Prairie and told strange
ories of his proves and good fortune. How many
men he had killed how many Lorses he had stolen
how many houses he had plundered no one can tell.
IL 10 probably true that THIS war, which las
brought forth such new and astounding traits Of
character has aot yet produced such another marvel
"A Cleveland-a man whose story will be told around
the hreside for ali hundred years 10 cone, ~ one 81
the most brutal Of yillaus-as one OF the moe! ro
mantle heroes.