The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-11-19
KU.KLUx IN LEAvENweRTH.
They BrutalIy Beat q Well.
Known Citizen.
Love and Secret Revenge.

EThe toorse OF i:ue love never IIos
smoosh.,' This, to HE sad discom6ture, has
been proved BY George Hsrness. George IL
q russic, about twcnty-fcur or twenty-five
years old. His home il at his uncle Tom.
Harness', Who lives In the neighborhood o:
SarcoxieviIe. 10 that vicinity live james
Harness and David Harpex, COUSINS Of
George, Mr.. Martin, brotherAn-law Of
David Harness, and Mary Harness, an IN
married sister of David Hsrner, and mem
Der of The laiter's family. Between Mary
and George tender relations have for some
time been cultivatiDg. The visits Of George
to his cousin David's have been frequent,
and the prospects Of sn impeding wedding
hsye-as i common under such circu ustan-
ces-been freely canvassed.
at vas calm, still night" night
ENJOYING Q quiet tete-a-tete at the house Of
once Interrupted b. cla,ie. of numerous
and ysriousiy si.ea rocks, thrown evidently
by number Of outsider, against the sidee
come time, and with such effect - to bring
that evenings courtship to an abrupt close.
Five or nix evenings aitervards, - George
vas eoing from Mariin's house 70 Dayidir,
| with Mary, no doubt, principally en- his
brain, two s,,ivart fellows jumped from be-
hind stable near the road eide, BY one OF
whom he wss roughly thro,tled, while the
other, with . sharp jack knife, proceeded to
1 - I'M rSn kov I'm.
isbed of BY knocking him down, and reliev.
Then hey left him, bruised and inseneible,
and he did not recover until the moon had
made two or three hours passage up from
knowing BY whom he had been thus rough
~ handled, he be;ook himself t. Dsvid's
house.
But this was not IT, end of his troubler.
One evening about ten or twelve days since,
George was At homo q. the house Of his IN
Gle, Thomas Harness; David Harness and
Mr.. Thomas Harness, an elderly citizen
famiiliarly known a. Pap Browp," and
Mary were there also. The operation Of
rocking" the house was repeated. As the
din became exciting the old man Brown
proposed counter volley with shot gun.
George with view, perhaps. to reconnaissance,
opened wide the outer door. This proved
to be an important movement; for Two or
three of the assallants rushed TO the door,
dragged him outside and pummelled and
beat him to such an extent that he was
hardly able to Get around for two or three
days afterWards. The assailaots had ap-
parsntly turned their clothing inside out,
and gunny sacks with holes to accommodate
their optics, we're drawn over their faces.
That Was the Ku.Klux feature of the case.
The spirit of persecution seems to have
entered even into the ''brute critters" of the
neighborhood. A few days ago this same
young man was attacked BY q bullock be-
longing to his Urcls Thomas. 1t appears
that be had driven or led the nid bovine
down to spring near the house to water,
when in Q freak of unaccounsable cuseedness
it turned upon him, threw him on the ground
and horned him 30 severely that be was not
able 10 get up and drag his much abused
body to the louise, until two CT three hours
!. afterWards.
Taken altogether this is strange affair
and all the gossippers about Sarcoxieviils
; are in perplexity on account Of 1t. Whot thu
perpetrators of the outrage are, is not known
but only copjectured. Neither Is tn aRimul
Of these repeated outrages upon an inoffen
sive young man very clearly accounted
for. There are theories afoat, but let "
? do injustice to innocent parties, We will no
, state them. George, according to the latee
report. is still living, though in badly
damaged condition.
/ Ifthese raids were designed to break VI
E the match, We would 60 50 far-though no
: at all interested ourseives-as to advise hin
for ''sweet loves sake" to persevere. LIE
him prove the truth Of the adage: "Fain
heart never won fair lady" ia. Il.
LExAPk, Nov. l6, 1874.