The National tribune., 1900-10-25
comrade Who Says That Soldiers and Citi-
Zens Dispatched Him.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In look
ing over the account of Serg't Ira Mallory,
Co. G, 18th Ill. Cav, of the Price rad
in Missouri. | noted his statement of the
killing of Bill Anderson by the I'd Colo.
boys, near Fort Scott and in a cabin.
1t must have been some one else.
| was at that time, on account of being
wounded, a discharged soldier of the I'd
Mo. Cav. At the time Anderson was
killed Price had started on raid, expect
ing TO extend into north Missouri, and
many of his men were already in Ray and
Carl Counties. Some 300 citizens, dis
charged and furlOughed soldiers, includ-
| ing myself, started out to meet them. By
that time they were on the move. Tray
| cling sOuth Invest we followed on their trail,
coming to Kingston, Mo. There we found
they had robbed the courthouse and we've
killing citizens wherever they found them.
| After two days and two nights we over
took and had a little fight with them
| They scattered, and we had to divide our
| forces to find them. My company went
on to little town, called Weston if / m s.
take not. There we found some Colorado
men, | do not know of what regiment
They said we need not go any farther, as
they had just come in from that way.
We returned northward with them.
The next day we passed near where We
had had the fight the day before. | noticed
few horses in a cOrnfield, n half mile
away Thinking they belonged to some
of our men who were lost the day before
in the fight, | took few men and intend
ed to bring them in. We took trail lead
ing in that direction. The brush and briars
being thick, we could not see or be seen
until we came out in little park, and the
first thing we saw was rebel soldier, as
we thought, and 4 woman, on horseback,
all equipped. We got the drop on
them, dsarmed them, found papers on the
man showing him TO be rebel recruiting
officer.
After the arrest l looked for the horses
over in the field and saw they all had
riders. We were not long making up our
minds that we did not want them. l told
the men if we were fired on to kill the
prisoners, and get to the main army as
soon as possible. The man spoke to me,
and said not to hurt them. He said he
could satisfy us that he was all right;
that the woman was a rebel spy. i took
him to the commanding officer of the Colo
RADIO troops. He stated that he was Cur
tis's scout. He then ripped open the lin
ing of his pants and took out printed
piece Of silk, stating who he was. etc. The
man stated he was sent out by Curtis to
the woman, knowing he was a rebel spy,
to accompany him. They were taken TO
st. Joseph, Mo-, and all proved to be as
the man said.
On our return home the rest of our
men had gotten back. They reported that
they overlook Bill Anderson's men and
had a skirmish with them. AS Anderson
charged by them there was some firing on
both sides, but the only man hit that they
knew of was Anderson, They took his
boGy to Richmond, Mo. There it was iden-
tilted by his people The men said that
Anderson had human scalps hanging to
his bride. They had with them relics
taken from Anderson's body. They claimed
that the man who killed Anderson was
a cashier of the Gallatin Bank
Some time after the war was over the
James gang made raid on the Gallatin
Bank, robbed it and killed a man through
mistake for the one that killed their lead
er, Bill Anderson.
| noticed not long ago in an article in a
Missouri paper that Frank James had
been at Centralia for the first time since
the massacre, and from what he said there
| feel we got the right Bill Anderson. He
was killed over 100 miles north of Fort
Scott.
hope some one who was along with us
will state what he knows about it.-E. A.
PROCTOR, Co. +, Merrill's Horse cd Mo.
Cavl. Meeker, Colo.