Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-02
STORIES OF ouANrRlLL.
Row tho Noted Outlaw iscgan His Career
of Crime and Where 1t Ended.

Row tho Noted Outlaw lesan His career
OfCrlme and Whore 1t Ended.
Few persons are better qualified than
Col. Richard j. Hinton to speak &C.
curately OF Quantrill, writes wv. B. s."
IN the st. Louis Globe Democrat. His
acquaintance with the guerrilla dates
back some years before the war. This
acquaintance was intimate enough to
account for bullet hole in Quantrllls
left shoulder. The wound was the re-
suit of meeting between the Missouri
kldnapers snd the Kansas Free State
men in Southeast Kansas. When one
exchanges looks with another along
r1fie-barrels, the impression is likely to
be vivid and lasting. A foolish fellow
who had falsely claimed to he Guam
trill was saved once from the venge-
ance of Kansas by Hilton's ability to
say he was not the guerrilla. Some
time after the sack of Lawrence, Him
ton visited QuantrilPs old home in
Ohio. He remained there several
weeks, making it his business to add
all he could to his stock of information
about that outlaw. And SO it comes
about that he is we'll qualified to talk
about Quantrill's life and death.
aQuantrill," said Col. Hinton, awas
wounded in Kentucky during guer-
rllla fight in the very last days of the
war. He was taken from the place of
combat, prisoner, to Louisville, and
was in hospital there, lingering be-
tween life and death for several months.
Gen. Blunt, after his muster out of
service late in the summer of 1865,
came to Washington. Sidney Clarke
and others of Kansas were here. We
were all at the Metropolitan one even
ing, when word was brought to the
room by somebody that Quantrill was
below in the bar-room. We hurried
down. The man who had represented
himself to be Quantrill had departed.
We could get no trace of him. Presi-
dent johnson was exercising the par
donlng power rather freely at that time
toward ex-Confederates. The inn
preston get out that Quantrill was here
to receive pardon.
The next day we went in a body to
the White House to protest as Kansans
against such an outrage as pardoning
the leader in the Lawrence massacre.
Sidney Clarke did most of the talking,
which was rather exciting. He had
had his own experience with Quantrill.
The guerrilla went after him on one oc-
casion and Clarke escaped in his shirt,
jumping from the window, hurrying
out OF town, and only coming back after
he had procured some clean clothing
and gun, and had aroused the Free
State men. Something that was said
to the President was construed by the
latter as threat.
Suppose do choose to pardon this
man? Mr.. johnson inquired, throwing
back his head.
By SIR Clarke Numbered. ii
you do, I'll kill him at your feet
We'll" Col Hinton resumed, *after
that interview with johnson, we went
in search of the supposed Quantrill in
earnest. Our intention was to make
him prisoner and take him back K
Lawrence to answer for that crime. i
was three or four days before we got OF
the trail. The fellow was on spre,
and had gone oft to place of hiding
We rounded him up one night. Blunt
Clarke, and other Kansans we're in tn,
party. The man was about over his de
bauch, and wLen he found himsel
in our hands he was badly frightened
He at once denied that he was Guam
trill. Some of our party thought he
was the guerrilla. The resemblance
was striking. But on looking closely
we saw that the droop of one eye, which
was characteristic of Quantrill, was
wanting in the man. After awhile the
prisoner was told that he could 20, and
he became communicative. He was 8
Mississippian, and an ex-rebel, of course
He knew of his resemblance to Quan.
trill, and had assumed Quantrill's name
as an act of drunken deviltry. When
he found himself out of the scrape he
said to us:
4 can tell you where the real Guam.
trill is. He is in a hospital at Louis.
vile under an assumed name, and is
dying
"Gen. Blunt" Col. Hinton went on,
chad become greatly interested. The
recollections of the outrages had re.
turned to US all most wildly in the
search we had been making. Blunt
thought the story of the Mississippian
was worthy of attention. Without any
delay he got on the train and went ia
Louisville. After considerable search
he found and fully identified Quantrill,
who died lust about that time. Blunt
came back and told us of the result.
There has never been any doubt in our
minds that the man whom Blunt found
was the leader who planned, ordered,
and participated in the massacre of 260
unarmed Union men at Lawrence on
the 10Th of August, 1868. I believe
that the hospital records will show that
Identification at Louisville"
A city without a Hotel.
Chulumani, capital of the province Of
Yungas. is o typical town of interior
Bolivia. With a population of only
about 2, 500, it covers nearly as much
space as the city of Chicago. Having
been built haphazard up and down the
hillsides. bird's-eye view makes it's
roofs of ancient and clumsy tiles, which
were long since turned by time from
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