Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-07
4 RxMous ouERRlLLA.
semc Newiy-Deveioped Facts IN the villa
Life or Desperate Chnrscses- aaanseel'
In MARYLAND.

INK WITH an otu cittIth % tuh"cfN"e Wy
assured me that Qsantrell, the. notorious
guerrilla chleitain Of Missouri, az one time
lived in this town. Quanirell, Tor over .
| wear before the close Of the war, was repu.
dated by the Confederate Government.
He then raised the black FAC and he took
no prisoners. He perpetrated the mos'
fendish act In the history Oh inc
/ Wharf.-The massacre az Lawrence, Kansas.
on this occasion be took the town
hy surprise and actually murdered every
man in the city that could be fonnd.
think the number was one hundred and
eighty. When a southern lady upbraidcd
him with this act, he cooly said g he
wanted 10 Kill Jim Lane, who lived there.
and as he hadn't the honor Of his aequaint-
ance. and no time 10 make new acqu1int
nnces, he killed all the men he could CATCH"
! He p,lrsued General Blunt and body-guard
across the prairics for over fifty miles. and
killed nineiy-two out OF one hun.
drtd and eight men at that time
/ AT Scdalia he captured train loaded
/ with wounded soldiers and ordered them
! 10 be shot, which was done, the late Jesse
/ lanes taking an active interest in the hor-
! rihic affair. killing. il Is SAID, with his own
| hands eighteen men. / met q man some
wears ago in OHIO who told me privately
/ that he belonged 10 QuantrclPs gang. He
/ said he was iinely-fOrOed. handsome man.
with pleasant, soft voice. He was. in
| truth. as soft hammered man rs ever cut a
throat or scuitled a ship"
oUANTRELL IN JAIL.
have traced this mans history clrefully.
As TO the pace OF his birth II is -uncerttin.
when very young he came TO Washington
county, Maryland, and there married 4 lady
II beauty and excellent family. At thls
| tine he read and studied much. taking a
deep interest in general literature. especi'
ally poetry and novels. After living hap
PLY over year with his wife, becoming
embarrassed, he took the benefit OF tho
bankrUp; act. was arrested on charge Of
fraudulent insolvency, and placed in Jail.
His devoted wife shared his confinement:
during the six months in which he had TO
remain in jail awaiting trla. Upon final
trial he was acquitted.
But after this there began to appear on
the surface some Of the tigerish element
which lurked in his system. lie went TO
II. Louis, was arrested there. His vile.
still loving and cieaving 10 him, elected a
compromise 10y which lac was released.
Then he went to Cincinnati. but got into
trouble. and taking his wife vita him he
repaired 10 New Orleans. Here for the
first time, it appears. be BEGAN to abuse his
faithful wife. He became disrupted. too.
and shamcfully neglected her. Her Illness
called him back apparently 10 old-time
kindness and tenderness. He abandoned
The use OF liquor ana started b take her
back 70 ter home in Maryland.
She revived in spirit, and with renewed
happiness she was looking for the return
10 the home Of her childhood. But while
on the Missi,s ppi river on their way
homo be committed forgery on a Cincn-
natl bank. lie was again pa, in iail-this
time IN Cincinnati. Alter seven anxious
months bis devoted wife secured his re-
lease on bail. which he forfeited. He
then deserted her, and she returned home.
But she soon heard Of him near Hleers.
town, Nd. where he managed to cOuI-
nit another forgery, but escaped cOnvic-
ton. Not long after he was convicted Of
forgery IN Pennsylvania. sentenced to the
peuiicn,iGry, and served IN that institution
for three Yeas. His wife. while he was in
the penitcutsly, al the earnest solicitation
OF her relatives aud friends, procured
divorce. When Quantrell heard OF it he
made furious threats against her. Upon
lis release from prison he quickly married
4 Philadelphia woman, but in few weeks
was again arrested for forgery, and was
sentenced for some years.
QUENTRELL's REVENGE.
Mrs. Quanircll then married Mr.. A.
Cowlun. She was still young, FOR Guam
trell bad managed TO commit all these
crimes in less than twelve years, and she
was married when she was only eighteen.
She TOOK no her residence with her second
husband in Cumberland in 1913, and they
were here both highly esteemed. On the
9TH Of March. 1s49, she was sitting alone in
her sitnng-roOm in the hotel Of which her
husband was proprietor, just as the eve
mag train came la, a sorvant SION after
showed up to her room pleaSant-lookipg
gentleman who had just arrived on the
tain. As soon rs, with smile, he
dismissed the servant he entered the
room and Immediately locked the
door, and 10 her horror and despair
Mrs. Cowlon saw that il WAS her first bus
band, Quantrell. She Immediately screamed
as loud as she could for help. for there was
murder in his eve, and lie told her her hour
had come. lie caugh, her by the throat,
threw her down on the floor. placed his
knee on her breast, aud attempted to shoot
her. PrOydentialiy, the pistol missed Gre.
duSi us ut VA III TUT NNl VI uldNlur
dcrOus knife several stalWart gentlemen
broke through the door, having heard her
screams. and rushed in. They caught him
and bound him before he could further
harm the beautiful wOmln who had been
in days gone by az an angel OF mercy to
hin.
He was convicted and ntenced 1t The
next term OF the court. His manners and
.sf.I f..
tured the hearts OF his igilers, and was
permitted more iayors than any other pri-
sOner: in fact, acting n sort OF assistant
jiiler. He was pardoned In 1851 by the
Governor on condition TINT he would
leave the state aud never return.
The man met at Middletown. o.,
said that Quahtrel told him he had beea
married Blk times and galway to pretty
women OF good families" and he laugh.
ingly added. 81 believe they are ali liylrg
now" This was in 1861. lie said also
that Quantrell asked him TO guess his age,
for he was still yOunC-lOok.ng man. not
looking over thirty-iyc at the most. and he
said II never tell my age; but you have
not come within ten years OF it,
oUANTRELI.'s CHARACTER.
Even during the time he was committing
some horrible atrocities, IN his moments OF
leisure he would enjoy the reading Of books
and magGz mes, and was accustomed TO bor-
row such things from houses near where
be camped. il he dared let his presence be
known. Cool and p0lishet rs any gentle
man IN the land, he was cruel, crafty, and
determined, so that though he commando
the most desperate, dis,olutc set OF outlaws
ever collected together, they obeyed his
lghtest comm0nds with promp:itude. His
only punishment was sudden death.
why said this man who had belonged |
to his gang when spoke Of what danger
Gus man jesse James must have been,
"why, Jesse james was nothing TO him: he
would have been King bee among thou
sand men drawer than Jesse James"
There have been some doubts as to whom
or where Qusnlell was killed, or even that |
be Is dead, but my informant, who had the |
means OF knowing, says he was killed un-
doubleday in Kentucky in 1865. have the |
names by which he passed at several times
during his career, but for obvious reasons
do not care TO publish them. One, how |
ever, has already been published, which he |
long assumed-Dr. IIayne.
A Song.
Some find Love late soma find hi ", soon