Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-12
The Aullville Tragedy.

Inv S ~ Uacr acme months. The Taylors
nd Wr.n nd a misunderstanding regarding
hedge FENCE. and the ,1 T,se' q Es sriI i in March
iren and Richard Taylor met IN the pubic
Dad about a mile north Of AuiiTtlle ana LEO goti ,mo
ZEN fpnvbt drsnerately, and a club or stick cut :
figure In the fight, whether first used ny wren !
r TWSy yaO,i is . mot nn1 tSe better t OF his adversary ,
nd giving him d very severe beating. For this,
trough the urgency Of the Iaylors, wren was
he crin,,nai cart, for .'felenious assault"
ie gave bail and the case was contlhueo until
he regular term oil the couaI me-. O1.oue
aborer living in the neighborhood, and other
have been fomenting the III Will
'!etween the parties. ana " in appe, that Bowers
lad told the Taylors that ne hao near" "foh
to kill them on siGnt.
In This matter the In%telligencer has no
ceiling for or against either side, and desires
o report facts accurately, and Will, OF course,
Is it has already done, comment on them az
t may think its duty to the public demands.
1t seems that we were led into error as to
he origin of the difficulty between these
men, and we will here endeavor to give the
version of the first trouble as given by both
Wren and Richard Taylor themselves.
Mr.. Wren's report OF it was that the man
Bowers, told hun some time early In
March, that Dick Taylor had told him that
Wren's wife had received money from an
estate in Kentucky, and that he (Wrsn) had
1t, and further that Wren's larm
was mortgagsd and would soon have to be
sold. Wren then SAID that he did not allow
any man to misrepresent him, aud that he
to give Taylor a clicking He alter
nj. ,ot ,pt tNuot 1oplnr Ha mot
Taylor ut VIII Littlejohn's. In the road, and
waited until lie got through talking to Lit
tlejohn, when they, together, rode down the
road, west. That after they had ridden
some two hundred yards. he Invited Taylor
to dismount rs he wanted to chat with him
awhile, and that Taylor agreeing they dis
mounted. As they turned toward each 9TH
err Wren said to Taylor. "Dlck, Pm going
to give you n l~lcklng,' and struck him In
the face with his fist. knocking him back
ward against his horse. That he then struck
him, knocking him down, and jumped on
him and gave him q clicking
Dick Taylor's story after the affair was to
this effect Taylor denied having said any
thing about any money belonging to Wren's
wife, but that he had said something
about Wren's farm being %mortgaged. That
on the evening of tho difficulty Wren was
sitting on his horse at Will Littlejohn's gate,
when Taylor rode up, and the three entered
into y friendly conversation. Wren then
asked Taylor If he was going to ride toward
| home, to which he replied that he was as
soon as HI talked to Ltttlejohn about some
business. After q short conversation be.
tween Taylor and Llttlejohn, Taylor told
| Wren that he was ready to ride, aud the two
rode of together dow the road, conversinR
amlcably. After they got iuto the brush
some two hundred yards from Littlsjohn':
house Wren invited Taylor to dismount fol
q moment, which he did, not thinking o
any trouble, and that a moment after dis
mounting he turned toward Wren and wa
met with SO flash of fire in the face" as HI
described the blow from a stick. That h'
fell backward against his horse and recover
ed himself q little, when Wren struck hin
down, jumped astride OF him and beat hin
Numerically. That he haIlood Justify 70
Littlejohn and begged Wren not to Kill him
That rem put his hand into Tay1or's pocket
when Taylor told him II it was his money b
wanted to take it, that he was welcome to
If he would only spare his life. That Wre
on this withdrew his hand. That at tbs
time Llttlejohn came up, and Wren RISING
Taylor staggered to his feet and to his horse
After this Taylor asked Littlejohn to tax
, him to his house and wash him, as /
dreaded going before his wife in the cond
/. ton that he was in, and that Littlejoh
helped him to horse, when Wren tried
= prevent his going, but Littlejohn insiste
: that lie should, and took him on to the hOus
8 The above statements were given TO us,
/, our request, by Capt. John Brown leadil
citizen Of the vicinity, to whom both partie
Wren and Richard Taylor, gave their v g
o sions of the difficulty the day after it q
9 Cured. 1t Is the opinion of this gentlema
r as of others. that Wren's object in putin
r his hand in Taylor's pocket was to see If
d was armed, not to get his money.
r. 1t will be observed that the only part
our original statement that Is Incorrect
that portion which gave the cause OF t
n fued as being a quarrel regarding a he'd
le and right-of-way through Wrsn's place,
we did not give the particulars of the tg
!. in the road. And we wish to say that O
informant, a gentleman Of unquestioned
liability, gave us the information as he b
r. received it.
III We do not wish to prejudice the public
~ this case against either side, but only to
late facts, and as there are W stories,
~ leave the reader to judge between them
h. himself.
d., Mr.. +. D. Cammsnn, who spent so
ne months In and about this city, getting
ID. ties, boarding whfle here at the CONNER,
les House, attempted to kill his wife at
Coates House, Kansas City, last Wsdnes'
an afternoon, and then shot himself twice
RI. the head with q pistol. lie failed to wol
his wife, and his own wounds though s
10. Gus, are thought not to be fatal. The X
to sas City Times, of yesterday stated that
ms was rapidly recovering. An account col
M. 10 us that having permitted his pistol tc
las oil accidentally his wife fell to the flool
Jaw fright, and her sister who was in the re
eve cried out that he had killed her, wherein
he said that If he had he did not care to !
-, and turned his pistol on himself-this un
the influence OF liquor. The first accour
u u oChG " ShO oSbOCldlCu PloSSs
We are very happy to be able to state
thoritatively that a generous friend OF
cation In Lexington has made the EliZal
Aull Seminary a present of a full and b,
some set Of chemical, philosophical and
Economical apparatus. This has been a 6
want in the female colleges OF Missouri,
as Lexington has now taken the lead
hODe that the other schools will follow.
Agentlemanly paragraph in a confer
rary charges Us with Ignorance" of his
IT. in stating that Jefferson wrote the first
luton ever drawn up by an American st
man to restrict slavery. 1t appears t.
Aei- that the ignorance is not ct our door.
'"h Jefferson wrote the ordinance for the
laoy srnment of the northwestern territory q
ter, the wear 1880. wb,.h WAS aIterwarJ ador
cas- Appleton's American Encyclopedia,
u OF good authority, In an article Rewritten
ioer the last edition, says Of it: "Jeffer
the plan Of a government for this territory
ue- adopted with q few amendments; these
MS sisted Of an omission OF the names sugg
oe- for the districts, and OF the clause prov
egal that utter the yeur 1900 Of tie cAristia
there shall h. neither slaye,y nor ;npoLu
cow seruitude in any Of the said ,tates, oMe
oui- than in punishment Of crimes. wherec
'ush party shall be duly c~onUicted to hare bee
on. sonally yuilty.m We have not taken ii
s OF investigate the matter very thoroughly