, 1907-08-15
LEADER OF THE NOTORIOUS
GUERRIl-LAS IN CIVIL WAR
TELLS OF ESCAPE.
IS NOW 70 YEARS OLD
BONES OF sUsHWHAckER SUP
POSED TO BE ON Elk
HIBITIoN IN KANSAS.

Ahs
well at Quatsino, on the northwest
coast of Vancouver island, under the
name of John Sharp, according to q
number of people who have conversed
with him.
j. e Duffy, a prominent timberman.
who recently became interested in tim
Der land at Quatsino, recognized John
Sharp, who is over 20, wiry and gray.
as Quantrell, Duffy having been n
member of the Michigan troop of cav
airy which cut up Quantrelrs force
Quantrell stated to Duffy that he
was correct in his recognition. Sharp
said he had been left as dead and in
stead of dying of his wounds at Louis
vile, as history recorded, that he had
taken a horse, ridden many miles and
disappeared. He made his way to =
South America, living a number OF
years in Chile, whenc he went to
Texas, where he engaged in the cattle
business, making considerable money.
which he exhausted. Then he went to
Oregon, where he punched cows and
drove cattle ove tn mountains From
Oregon he came to British
nearly W decades ago and engagep
in logging at different camps OF the
northeast coast of Vancouver island
until ten years ago. when he became
q trapper of the northern coast.
Din VI StNeh ytdlS d5o uC "tht W
Quatsino, where he was mad car
carer at West Vancouver Mines,
When J. E. Duffy LANDED at QGatsino,
from the steamer Tees he met John
Sharp on the beach at Coal Harbor.
Duffy looked the old man over and
said: rs that you, Quantrell, you old.
~rascal?"
Come into the house." said Sharp.
ard for some hours the two men,
talked. Sharp stated he was in reality
Quantrell, and he talked at length OF
the raids in Kansas and elsewhere.
and eagerly listened to Duffy's tales,
from the point of view of the cavalry
men of the Union men. He was most
keenly Interested in the story of the
cutting up of his band, and when his
narrator told of how forty men had
been killed tears are said to have
rolled down the old mans cheeks.
X. Il. Montgomery, who is engaged
In business at Quatsino. INT who knew
Sharp, or Quantrell. at Fort Worth.
Texas, and H. o. Berg. postmaster at
Quatsino. are two others to whom
Sharp has stated his identity as Guam
treIl.
Il might as well admit it," Sharp
told both. ut seems that / cannot hide
the fact" .u .r
The story the old man told to the In.
ormant of the Associated Press was
that when his band had been cut up
he had been ~bayoneted in the chest
and had a bullet wound through the
shoulder. The surgeon who looked
him over diagnosed that he could not
live more than a couple of hours, and
ne had been left that others with more
chance of recovery could be attended
to by the overworked surgeons While
they tended the others he got ND de-
spite his wounds and disappeared
That night, he says, he rode seventy
miles. He took flight to South Amer.
lea.
Kansas City.-According to local
history. Bill Quantrell, the guerilla
leader who played so Important a part
in the Missouri-Kansas border warfare
of the early days. died In the Sisters.
hospital at Louisville, Kentucky. Rev.
Thomas Cobb, formerly pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church Of this
city, but now located In Oklahoma.
knew Quantrell in Kentucky during
the Civil War. He was a cavalry re-
cruiting officer, and at the time campesl
with Quantrell for two days and had
many talks with him.
Rev. Cobb said:
"Quantrell was then in Central
hAC Who oh HE way u VII
ginia and Maryland to join Mosby. He
had a skirmish with the federal troops,
the Twelfth Kentuck cavalry, and was
seriously wounded. He was not known
as Quantrell during that expedition.
but went under the name of Captain
Clark.
Il was paroled in Louisville about
that time by Colonel Folsom. One day
Colonel Folsom asked me If I knew
Quantrell, n / told him l did. He
then asked me II would identify him.
and l said | would II he were dead
Then you will not identify him II he
Is alive?' asked Colonel Folsom. NO
I replied. / was taken to view a body,
but 1t was not that of Quantrell. But
n day or two later several OF Guam
trell's men saw the lead body of their
leader in the Sisters hospital and at
tended his funeral In the Catholic
cemetery. This, l believe, is the true
story of Quantrell's death and burial"
Topeka. Kan.-Mention OF the dis
covery OF w. c. Quantrell being alive
In British Columbia calls to mind the
iact ina in the state historical rooms
here are two shin bones and a lock OF
hair supposedly of the amous raider
They have been there since May. 1888.
when the mother of w. C. Quantre1
and w. w Scott of Canal Dover. Ohio.
opened the grave at Louisville. Ken
lucky.
Jacob C. Choate and Miss Kitty
Hubbard OF Longmont were married
In Denver recently. Miss Hubbard is