Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-28
Ion Ia Lao yenworth ConseryalIye

From Lieutenant j. G. Harris, Of the
Kansas Sixth (COl. Judson), we learn the
following facts in relation to the death of
a man who has caused so much public
commotion in this States during the last
eight months.
Lieut.. Walker, of the Sixth, recently
made the acquaintance of Cleveland for
the purpose of securing his arrest. He
learned his plans, companions, and places
Of rendezvous. Last Saturday, the 10th
inst, while he was with Cleveland in
Ossawatomie, he sent TO his company for
a detachment Of men,
On Sunday morning Sergeant Morris
reached Ossawatomie with ten men. As
soon as they had ascertained the where
abouts of Cleveland they surrounded the
house. Morris knocked at the door and
asked if there was a man there by the
name of Cleveland. The redoubtable
Jayhawker 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.
Cleveland-Thats thing that can't
be done by you or any other man.
You're too short wasted. ] have done a
good many things in my life, but fear
no man nor set of men.
Nj have come to take your body,
dead or alive, and / am going to do it,
Give killed many a man, and will
do it again if you attempt to drive me-
M.-Probably you've done agreat many
things more than have but you can't
scare me. l am going to take you.
Glow many men have you got?
Nj have ten.
CT can raise more than that at a
moments warning.
M.-You needn't talk about raising
men, for Pm going to have you, dead or
alive.
CT don't like to 60 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 go round by "a friend of mine
Lieut.. Walker consented and mounted
| his horse. Cleveland also mounted
horse, put spurs to him and broke away.
| The soldiers were soon on their horses
and in close pursuit of the flying fugi-
| tive. Cleveland dismounted at the Pot
tawatomie, a branch Of the Maries des
Cygnes, and about mile from town
| He turned, fired several shots out Of a
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 mimic ball, which,
entering his person under the left should
er, tore through his heart and nearly
perforated his body. The arm dropped,
the tall form fell and almost instantly
life was extinct.
The soldiers then carried the lifeess
form to Osawatomie and delivered it to
the citizens who have since given Cleve-
land burial.
One of Cleveland's men, named Bar
bour, 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 o.
Cleveland in Kansas was in May last
No one seemed to know where he come
from, although there has always been
rumor that he was a convict who haC
made his escape from the Jefferson CITY
, Penitentiary. lie was usually silen
about his early history, and wisely so
for when he opened his mouth on tina
topic the most inconsistent statement
came from it.
He became popular as fighting maj
8 at the time when Union men were 81
r heartlessly driven from their homes il
A., the border counties of Missouri. He es
poused their cause, fought gallantll
against their rebel prosecutors, and hi
e motives were for a comparatively lon,
f time unquestioned. His bravery mad
Z JennisOn his friend, and when the FRS
p Cavalry was organized Cleveland became
a Captain.
We FIRST saw him in July. He thel
+, called himself Moore, said he was one O
u Montgomery's men, had letters froI
e him (these he never produced) aud toll
i many stories Of food and field, in all q
which he was the hero.
r. He was a natural and laWless adyen
p. turer, and Jennison and Anthony, VIII
. had befriended him most, for sullicien
causes, got him out Of their regimen
y almost as soon as he was mustered il
.e From that time, September last, he wa
D. known chiefly as a desperate and rob
Of Der. One Of his first operations was q
D. Kansas City, where he broke into North
p. rop g. Co.'S bank, and robbed il Of 5000
~ A similar attempt made afterwards 1
- AtchisOn was a failure.
Once he was arrested by Capiai
- George r. Earle, and taken 10 the Fort b
~ Major Cloud. His confinement, howeye