The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28
QUANTREIL.
Married Life OF the Guerilla who Sacked
Lawrence, Kan.

Lawrence, Kan.
From the Philadelphia Times.
When very young he came to Wash
ington County, Maryland, and there
married a lady of beauty and excellent
family. At this time he read and stud
led much, taking a deep interest in gem
eral literature, especially poetry and
novels. After living happily over ayear
with his wife, becoming embarrassed,
he took the benefit of the bankrupt act,
was arrested On a charge of fraudulent
insolvency and placed in Jail. His de-
voted wife shared his confinement dur
ing the six months in which he had
to remain in jail awaiting trial. Upon
final trial he was acquitted.
But after this there began to appear
on the surface some of the tigerish ele-
ment which lurked in his system. He
went to st Louis, was arrested there;
his wife, still loving and cleaving to him,
effected a compromise by which he was
released. Then he went to Cincinnati,
but got into trouble, and taking his
wife with him he repaired to New-O Or
leans. Here for the first time it APP
pears he began to abuse his faithful
wife. He became dissipated, too, and
shamefully neglected her. Her illness
called him back apparently to old-time
kindness and tenderness; he abandoned
the use of liquor and started to take
her back to her home in Maryland.
She revived in spirit and with re-
newed happiness she was looking for
the return to the home of her childhood.
But while on the Mississippi River on
their way home he committed a forgery
on a Cincinnati bank. He was again
put in jail-this time in Cincinnati.
After seven anxious months his devoted
wife secured his release on bail, which
he forfeited, He then deserted her and
she returned home. But she soon heard
of him near Hagerstown, Nd, where he
managed TO commit another forgery,
but escaped conviction. Not long after
ward he was convicted of forgery In
Pennsylvania, sentenced to the Peni-
tertiary and served in that institution
for three years. His wife while he was
in the ~Penitentiary, at the earnest So
licitation of her relatives and friends,
procured a divorce. When Quantrell
heard of it he made furious threats
against her. Upon his release from
prison hs quickly married a Philadel-
phia woman, but In a few weeks was
again arrested for forgery and was SEN
fenced for some years.
Mrs. Quantrell then married Mr.. A.
| Cowlon. She was still young, for
Quantrell had managed to commit all
these crimes in less than twelve years
and she was married when she was only
eighteen. She took mp her residence
with her second husband In Cumber.
land in 1888, and they were here both
highly esteemed. On the 9th of March,
1849, she was sitting alone in her sit
ting-room in the hotel of which her
husband was proprietor, just as the
| evening train cam ins IA servant soon
after showed up to her room ap~leasant-
looking gentleman who had just arrived
on the train. AS soon as with a smile
he dismissed the servant he entered the
room and Immediately locked the door,
and to her horror and despair Mrs.
Cowlon saw that it was her first hus-
band, Quantrell. She Immediately
screamed as loud as she couEl for help,
for there was murder in his eye and he
told her her hour had come. He
caught her by the throat, threw her
down on the floor, placed his knee on
her breast and attempted to shoot her;
providentially the pistol missed fire.
Just as he a In the act of drawing o
murderous knife several stalwart gem
tleman broke through the door, having
head her screams, and rushed in.
They caught him and bound him before
he could further. harm the beautiful
woman who had been in days "a by
as an angel of mercy to him.
He was convicted and sentenced at the
next term of the court. His manner and
appearance were so pleasant that he cap
tured the hearts Of his ~jailers and was per-
mitted more favors than any other pris-
oner in fact, acting q sort OF assistant
iailer. He was pardoned IN 1851 by
the Governor on condition that he
would leave the State and never return.
The man / met at Middleton, Ohio, who
belonged to QuantrelTs command, said
that Quantrell told hisa he had been
married six times and always to pretty
women Of good families. = and he laugh
ingly added, "I believe they are all liv-
ing now" This was in 1864. He said,
also, that Quantrell asked him to guess
his age, for he was still q young-looking
man, not looking oyer thlrty-five at the
most, and he said; 81 never tell my
age; but you have not come within ten
years of it.