The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-05
cskaloosa Correspondents.


the Chicago Convention, Copperheadism,
has again been cxemplfied in most aw
fal manner, in the adjoining Couu;y of
Pewshiek. Never did more cowardly,
traitorous and helIish murder disgrace
the fame of this country. 1t is howeysr
nothing more nor less than the legitimate
fruits of the peace party doctrines, as
laugh, at the Chicago Convention
The circumstances are detailed in an
Extra Of the ossslooss Herald, which is
hereto annexed I take the liberty of
rev sing some of lis statements in aceor-
dance wi'l developments which have come
10 light since its publication.
On Saturday, Oct. 1T, in Sugar Creek
IT,, Powshiek Co.. Deputy Marshals J.
n Woodruff Of ku xyille and j. L
Blshore Of Centervile were waylaid
and in cold blood murdered. The par.
,icalars OF this dastardly affair as we get
them are as follows:
Several drafted men of Sugar Creek
having failed TO report at the Prvos, Mar
shoi's Office, Deputies Woodruff and Ba-
shore were seat 20 inquire the reason, or
something to that eject. On Ching to
the neghb3'hoo3 they met Nike Gleason.
and alter some conversation leading them
to believe that he was III right, they dis
closed their business and he proif4red to
g..
Marshals made an arrangement f r him
to 60 with them after they had feb their
horses and obtained some reffeshment
themselves. But while the Marshals were
at dinner, Gleason went to Miller's saw
mill where the CoFperheads had met 10
drill as was their custom on Saturday =
The military company soon dispered AZ
ter dinner, Woodruff and Bash re start.
Cd back towards Grinreil believing tn at
they could effect nothing that day. After
travelling ab 'ut half mile they were net
by Giessoa aud the two Pieeaa,s ha the
brush who were armed aud avowed their
mgrderous intention. Bashore got out
of the buggy end appealed to them to
spare his life--be ioid them that thew
were strangers to him, that he had moth.
ing against them, was simply discharge
ing his duty as an officer and begged them
not 10 kill him. Ii thought he had pre-
vailed on them TO desist, aud turned to
get into the buggy when he was instantly
shot in the back and fell Woodruff was
killed instantly, having two balls through
his head and number in his BODY.
which was thrown out into TIE brush. In
the aifray Gleason was shot in the thigh,
and was unable to escape. He succeed
ell however in getting to Capt. Bashore,
and bat him most horribly over the
head; breaking bis gun to pieces in doin,
50. The Capt. meanwhile begging him
10 dcsist as he wonid die any how.
BY this time the Fieeners had gone.
thiaking doubtless they hal succeeded in
killing both the ofii.efs A half an hour
latter neighbor who heard the firing
came that way and the wounied men
We're carried off and Gleason placed under
a'rsst Bishore live FIVE hours and told
aii the PARTICULARS OF The ASSASSINATION to
james ) Crayer at whose honss he died
and to others John Feener. samue!
Fleener and Perry Mcfarland, supposed
to be the principals in this cold blooded
crime have escaped and are still at large.
Hon j. B. Griunel has offered a reward
OF $500 Tor their arrest and conviction.
On Sunday three or four hundred citi
zens were collected at Cfavers. The
murdered men, both of whom had been
soldiers, Woodruff of the 81 cavalry and
Bashore late Capt. of company D, OF the
9th cavalry, were lying there with all
their CHASTITY wounds pleading, for Justice
and revenge. 1t was with difficulty the
exlspetated crowd could be restrained
'fom strlnglng up Gleason without Judge
or Jury. Our informant left the scene
al Q clock Sunday afternoon, when par.
Ties were securing the country for the
fieeners aud others, aud arranoemen,s
were made for bringing the bodies of the
slam and the prisoner to Ossaloosa.
Sugar Creek is one of the hardest and
most notorious Copperhead holes in the
State. The Fleeners are brothers.in law
to Myers who killed Aloway last autumn.
and they we're also implicated in that hor.
i'd murder.
There can be little If any doabt tina.
these assassinations are in accordance
With the plan already adopted and awovn