Nebraska advertiser., 1863-06-11

company, to swell tho ranks of Prices
army. After Price was driven from
Missouri, be, with many others, come
home; took the oath Of allegiance,
and gave bonds for good behav-
Tor. He staid on the other side of the
river until he got into q fight, and
whipped a Union man,; he then
came to this side, some six or eight
months ago, and remained here till his
death. We understand be had a fight
with a drunk soldier some weeks ago,
on the Ferry-boat. And again, With
another, in Brownville a few days
before he was killed. He thus had,
in a few months, whipped three SOL
diers, all when they we're drunk
Two at least of them were in the
crowd that killed him. 1t was doubt
less done out of revenge.
The people of this county, with,
perhaps, three or four exceptions, are
unanimous in their condemnation and
adherence of this high>handed crime /;
and even those exceptions do not
approve of it. There are some who
do not care much about the life of
Handley, but they object to the man
ner in which be was murdered. That
he would be killed, if he remained
either in Atchison county or this,
most people believed. His life had
been threatened more than a hundred
times. If the soldier he whipped, or
one of his friends, had shot him on the
spot, there would, perhaps, have been
but little said. But to come with an
armed crowd, at MONDAY, and in de-
fance of all law and order, and boldly
murder a man, is inaugurating a state
of things that is extremely dangerous.
Many of those who returned from
Prices army, have been driven from
Missouri to Nebraska; twelve or ff-
teen came to this county. Some think
we should not have allowed them to
stop here; that we should have driven
off the first one that came, &C., &c
Now the first n that did come was
taken up and sent to st. Joseph; in
dividual citizens spent $50 in the
operation, and the authorities sent him
back others followedin quick success.
sion ; they had all taken the oath in
accordance with the Presidents Proc
lamation, and had given bonds to keep
the peace most of them protested
penitence; they were watched closely,
and but one of them done anything to
forfeit their bond. Most of the Union
men in this counCy have taken an oath
to obey the laws. The President and
the laws have guaranteed these men
protection so long as they behaved
Those who we're acquainted with
Handley, say he was gentlemanly in
his department, honest, Industrious,
and not at ali quarrelsome. His
friends say the three fights above al
luded to, were not Of his seeking, and
that he was not much if any to blame.
We know nothing about it, except
in the latter case. We heard the testi-
mOny that was given at the trial be-
fore the Mayor. He contended that
it was forced on him /; that the soldier
was drunk and quarrelsome that he,
Handley, left him several times F; but
that the soldier continued to quarrel
with him, and wanted him either to
hUrrah for JEFF. Davis bright. Hand
ley accepted the latter alternative,
The parties engaged in the tragedy
are all known. According to the tes-
timony there was one who took no
part in the shooting; but his entering
into the combination with the others,
would make him legally as guilty as
the rest. They are men who might
he valuable and useful to Government
in their proper place; but when they
invade Nebraska, and hunt men down
like mad dogs, whether from mistaken
zeal to rid the country of rebels, or
from a devilish spirit of malice and
revenge, they are violating law, and
are thus themselves disloyal.