The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-15

| c..uAo up " UiAu anu StxUck OlI0 LeTIlDl(
olOw on the head with the butt of his fgun
infiicting a frightful wound and breaking
the gun. BY this time the other Copper.
heads had left, thinking doubtless they haG
succeeded in killing both Of the officers
A half an hour later a neighbor who had
heard the firing came up that way and the
wounded men were carried Off and Gleason
placed under arrest. Bashore lived for four
or i've hours, and told all the particulars o1
the assassination to James s. Crayens,
where he died, and others. John Fleener,
samuel Fleener and Perry Mcfarland,
supposed to be tho principals in this cold
DloOded crime, have escaped, and are still
at large. Hon. ]. B. Grinnel has offered a
reward OF $500 for their arrest and convic-
ton. ~
On Sunday three or four hundred citi-
zens were collected at Cravens. The mur-
dered men, both of whom had been sol
diers, Woodruff Of the Sd cavalry and Ba-
shore OF the 9th cavalry, were lying there
with all their CHASTITY wounds pleading for
justice and revenge. It was with difficulty
the exasperated crowd were restrained
from stringing ap Gleason without Judge
or Jury. Our informant left the scene at 4
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, when parties
were securing the neighborhood for the
Fleeners and others, and arrangements
were made for bringing the bodies Of the
slain and the prisoner TO Oskaloosa.
Sugar Creek y one of the hardest and
most notorious Copperhead holes in the
State. The Fleeners are brothers-in-law to
Myers, who killed Alloway last autumn,
and they were also implicated in that hor-
rid murder.
There can be little ifany doubt that these
assassinations are in accordance with the
plan already adopted and sworn TO by the
secret order Of Copperheads in Iowa. They
hare saUOrn that no officer sOho goes ont cOcn
70 notify them Of the draft shall return ctirc.
The time, If Ii ever existed, for dealing
lenienily with such men as these has past.
The officers Of the law should at once de-
ter,nine 70 visit swift and terrible punish
nient on those who resist their authority.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
On Monday evening the bodies of Wood.
ruff and Bashore were brough. into Oska-
loosa. The bells were tolled and several
hundred citizens met the funeral coriege
as il entered the city, and testified their
respect for two brave soldiers who returned
with hoporable scars from a dozen battle
fields to be butchered by cowardly Copper
head assassins at home. The bodies were
taken to City Hall and we're there visited
by many Of our people. The feelings ex-
cited by this exhibition may be better i'm
agined than described. On Tuesday morn
ing the bodies were taken in charge by
friends and sent to their former places Of
residence.
There were also brought in as prisoners,
Andrew Powers and his son Joseph, Solo
mon Watson and his son George, John
Malonv, Allen Mcdaniel and Perry Nc.
Farland. These men were at the military
drill, and though it is not certain that any
OF them were present when the marshals
were killed, all were doubtless aware OF
the plot that was laid. When the officers
went for Mcfarland they were told by his
family that be mad been absent from home
three days. On searching they found him
secretod in q corn crib. Mike Gleason was
also brought in, and he and Mcfarland
were lodged in Jail. The others were taken
to room in Union Block and guarded.
We have full account OF the affair from
Mr.. Cravers, at whose house the marshals
took dinner nd Bashore breathed his last.
The particulars are somewha: different
from those above given, but the. change, If
possible, only makes the deed more blood
thirsty and cowardly. The marshals al
ready suspecting Mike Gleason, and hear
ing the military company was well armed,
concluded they would go back TO Grinnell.
Gleason after leaving the marshals went
directly to the drin ground and notified
the company OF their presence in the neigh
borhood. The two Fleeners, John aud Jo.
tnot Samuel), in wagon and Gleason on
horseback started for Cravers ITO attend to
the marshals' as was said on the ground.
From what we can hear there is no doubt
bat the cOmT any IN Il Hstood that this
squad was to put the marshals out of the
way. The Fleeners instead of going to-
ward home, came down toward Cravers
and met the marshals in the road, or were
perhaps waiting for them in the bushes by
the road. side. Bashore said that as soon
as he saw them he was satisfied from their
actions they intended murder. He got out
Of the buggy and drew his revolver, and
Wo<,f3p,,fT nn ooI an liff1a RnChnro fp1G
the Fleeners they were not the men he was
after, aud reasoned with them until he
thought they had changed their minds and
would not fire at him. He then turned to
60 to Woodruff. Up 70 this time there had
not been shot fred. As soOn as Bashore's
back was fairly toward him, John Fleener
drew up a double barrelled gun heavily
loaded and fired, the whole charge hitting
Eashoye in the small Of the back, The
Fleeners then ran round through the hush
es and fired several shots at Woodruff.
He was probably killed instantly, and
made no defence, as his revolver with all
the barrels. loaded was found in the bottom
whether he fired or not, and his revolver
was not to be found; and he could not tell
who shot Gleason. But after hO was down
Gleason came to him and broke his rifle
over his head, striking him several heavy
blows.
While Mr.. CraverS was with BaehOre IN
the road, and the body Of Woodruff wasly-
ing a little way of, several men in wagons
and ON horseback passed along the road,
bet none Of them offered to give him any
assistance. These were men returning
from the drill, and il was evident from
their actions that they. both expected and
approved Of the murder of the marshals.
All the circumstances, indeed, SO 20 show
that this course Of action had been deter
m.nad on beforehand, and John Bowers,
wIf0 was present at the drill, testified at the
inquest that when the Fleeners left it was
said and understood that they were going
to '.a.tend to the narshals." More unpro-
voked, cowardly and traitorous murders
have not been committed since the war
P.S.-Up to the time Of going 10 press
we have no further news in regard to this
affair. The prisoners spoken OF are still
under guard here. There are rumors that
effcers are On the track of the Fleeners,
but nothing reliable -OskaIoosG Herald.
Lazarus w. Powell of Kentucky, who
thought he could serve the rebellion better |
in the u. s. Senate than in the Richmond |
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