Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-02

did not unuresS anu go U Ueu, dS
it is charged-no man in his senses
would be likely to undress and go to
bed, and let three men walk in on
him, AID catch him in that plight.
Sitting there she began to tell me her
history and her home troubles. While
we were thus talking some one rap
ped on the door. said, "WhO's that"
She replied, 81 don't know" And we
resumed the conversation. About five
minutes later there came another rap,
(if had been undressed and in bed,
surely have dressed myself and pre-
pared for the worst in the interval be-
tween the raps).-She sprang to the
door and exclaiming, "My God, that's
Ed. Baker, my FRIEND" opened the
door, and in rushed Sheriff Miller,
Baker and Martin, and taking hold of
me said, "We've caught you at last"
l sprang to my feet and said, Gentle
men, what does this mean!" sit
MEANS" they said, "that we have
been after you and caught you" Nil
Ter and Baker remained in the room
several minutes taking loudly, while
Martin rushed down stairs and
brought up two soldiers, and turning
to them said, "This is DIR. Krohn,
Methodist preacher. We caught him
in this room with this young woman"
Miller, Baker and Martin were greatly
under the influence of whisky, and
were very abusive and insolent. They
then took hold of me and rushed me
in the parlor and shut the door, and
while in the parlOr they talked loudly
about having entrapped me, and
Sheriff Miller said among other things,
81 wish to God that it was
George Rohrer instead of you" ending
with several oaths. After remaining
in the parlor short time they took
me by the arm and said, Come. let us
90 in and see the girl, and see what
she has to say" We then returned
to the room. Baker said, "You have
compromised and ruined this girl. She
can't go back to Abilene, she will have
to go TO house, and you must
give her five hundred dollars" The
girl then joined in said. eyes. Pm
ruined, and must have five hundred
dollars to 90 away with" said,
sNot one cent You have concocted a
plan to blackmail me, and you can't
get copper" Miller then took hold
of me and said, "Well sir, you may
consider yourself under arrest" They
then took me into the parlor, and shut
the door, and presented some papers,
saving, aft you WILL sign these papers
we will let the matter drop and say
no more about it" refused TO sign
them. They then threatened to call
out the sheriff of Davis county, and
have me put in jail at once. | still re-
fused 10 sign the papers. The gang
then rushed upon me, anb Selling me,
said, "We'll make you sign them"
And thus threatened with personal vi
olence, with the prospect of being
summarily carried to Jail at that hour
of the nigh, and being alone and
wholly at the mercy of these drunken
brutes, 1 signed the papers. What
they contained, did not know, being
too excited and terrified to consider
anything properly, or to know what |
was doing.
The drunken sheriff of Dickinson
county then took me to my room and
door was unlocked by some one. |
remained in my room until the arrival
for the train for Abilene, which took,
arriving in that city at 4 O'Clock. At
the depot in junction City, Sheriff
Mile. came to me, and asked the loan
of ten dollars, saying 81 am out of
money" loaned him the ten which
he has not yet refunded. had previ-
ously handed hum five dollars to pay
nv bill at the hotel.
Inow have every reason to believe
that the whole thing was conspiracy
"a Matchmaking political plot con-
ceived by one Henry Lifts. one of the
publishers of the Abilene Reflector, a
small Democratic weekly newspaper,
a man Who poses in the garb of free
and accepted MasOn,.a Knight Tenn
plar. who stopped so low as to
violate his sacred masonic vows,
and give himself and his brother-in-
law, also Mason, to the entrapping
of a "brofher" in peril-a "brother"
whom he had sworn on Gods holy
word to warn, ia case of danger, and
TO protect. | am satisfied that this is
the case for the reason that his broth
er-in-law, Sheriff Miller, told me stand
ing at the depot in Junction City, that
this Lifts knew all about it; that the
gang had meeting in Lifts office the
evening before and that Lifts himself
had intended to come along, but had
reconsidered it. L am thoroughly
convinced that Lifts originated the
scheme; was party TO it from first TO
last: that he made this young woman,
who is known prostitute, and Sheriff
Miller, his brother-in-law, cOnsci-
enceless conspiriator, and Baker and
Martin, two worthless drunken loaf
GERS, parties to it. The whole thing,
am convinced, was conceived by this
despicable creature Lifts in the Office
of the Reflector, and conceived for the
express and only purpose of running
me, and through me u. w. {. Rohrer
and the Abilene Daily Gazette.
A careful and impartial scrutiny of
the Miller, Baker and Martin version
of this affair will show its animus and
falsity. was drawn into it by a
woman who was their tool, and drawn
into it chiefly to ''get even' with RI
val newspaper. and an old political
enemy. And the men who concocted
and executed the scheme, as this entire
community knows, are base enough to
commit any crime ON the calendar.
Lifts, thoroughly Inscriptions
man, Iiller,a drunken outlaw, who
only scaped the penltentiary last
fall by legal technicality,
aided by an interposition of
providence, Martin, dissipated bank
rupt, whose record for swindling his
creditors, is generally known, and
Baker, POOR, drunken vagabond.
These are the low-bred and irrespon
sible miscreants who concOcted aud
executed this diabolical plot to ruin
me.
These are the facts and nothing but
the facts.
now leave an impartial public
a public whose sense of justice will not
permit il 10 counteuance an outrage,
TO put the brand of its emphathized
condemnation upon this infamous
plot, its aiders, abettors and sympa-
thiZers. PHILIP kROAN.