Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-11-02

At this point he was shot in the back,
the ball entering near the kidneys. Ba-
shot Gleason, breaking his leg. Bashore
fell,-whether he was shot again or not,
does not appear. But after he was down,
Gleason, who was not so badly wounded
but that he could walk came up to him
and struck him terrible blow on the
head with the butt of his gun, inficting
a terrible wound and breaking the gun.
By this time the other copperheads had
left thinking doubtless they had succeed
ed in killing both of the officers. A half
an hour later neighbor who had heard
the firing came up that way and the
wounded men we're carried off and Giea-
son placed under arrest. Bashore lived
for four or FIVE hours, and told all the
particulars of the assassination to James
S. Cra vens, where he died, and others.
John Flecner, Samuel Fleener and Perry
Mcfarland, supposed to be the principals
in this cold blooded crime, have escaped,
and are still at large. Hon. J. B. Grin
nell has offered reward of five hundred
dollars for their arrest and convic-
tion.
On Sunday three or four hundred citi-
zens were collected at Cravens'. The muir.
dored men, both Of whom had been SOL
dlers, Woodruff of the Sd cavalry, and
Bashore of the 9th cavalry, were lying
there with all their ghastly wounds plead
ing for justice and revenge. 1t was with
difficulty the exasperated crowd were
restrained from stringing up Gleason
without judge or jury. Our informant
left the scene at 4 o'clock Sunday after
noon, when parties were securing the
neighborhood for the Fleeners and others.
and arrangements we're made for bringing
the bodies of the slain and the prisoner
to Oskaloosa
Sugar Creek is one of the hardest and
most notorious copperhead holes in the
State.
The Fleeners are brothers-in-law to Ny
ers, who killed Alloway last autumn, and
they were also implicated in that horrid
murder.
There can be little if any doubt that
these assassinations are in accordance
with the plan already adopted and sworn
to by the secret order of coppelseads in
Iowa.
They hare sa0orm that no officer so'so sut
eoen goes to notify them Of the draft, shalt
return alive!
The time, if it ever existed for dealing
leniently with such men as these has past.
The officers of the law should at once
determine to VISIT swift and terrible
punishment on those who resist their au-
thority."
The following is an extract from pri.
vate letter to lady in Cambridge. The
writer, we suppose, lives near where the
above took place.
"Our quiet little city was turned into
great excitement last evening about half
past o'clock. Bells were rung, and guns
fired. Two men from Bloomfield rode in
to town in great haste and said that 800
guerillas, armed to the teeth, were within
% miles of this place. 1t came from
such source that all knew it to be too
true. Companies were Immediately called
out and they telegraphed to Burlington
and other places for 500 stands Of arms,
: and men were dispatched to all the neig-
boring towns for help; and now, while
am writing this, there is about 800 cav
airy and 3 or 4 companies of infantry,
passing by all armed. The town is per-
fectly wild with excitement, t,--everything
. in the banks has been removed. STAYED
at Mrs LIS last night; she has bur-
led all her silver ware. and SO has every
one else that, has got any thing Of that
t kind.
Every thing in the stores has been
! hiddenthat could be in 80 short time.
Q 1t is no scare tell you, though it
+. makes strong men look pale.
a We have heard of three men they have
t killed between Centreville and Bloomfield.
e 1t makes some of our strongest copper
i heads :" fly around" They know that