The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-09
0UANTRELL ALIVE.
Continued from Page one.)

Capt. Clark. but after his death his
men. who were prisoners, Acknowledged
that he was Quantrell, the notorious
and barbarous Missouri bandit"
Letter From Man Who Shot QuantreIl.
In a letter written in 1866 BY Edwin
r. Terrill. the man who CAPTURED
Quantrell, and printed in the Louisville
Commercial, Mr.. Terril says Of the cap
ture:
Il stopped at Smileytown, inquired of
a negro who told me that Quantrel's
men had just passed through the gate.
Immediately followed them until 1
came in sight of Robert WakeEcld's
barn, where I discovered some 10 Or
Is of QuantrelIs men with him in the
barn. We charged on them They
made a short stand in the barn
ordered my men to dismount and fol-
low me into the barn after them AS
soon as we dismounted they broke out
of the barn, and we after them. GUAM
trell and three of his men ran together
in the same direction, and the rest N
another. We all knew Quantrell by the
description we had of him. 1t was
running fight. I shot Quantrell in the
right shoulder; he was on foot. ana
the ball ran down the small OF MS
back. One of my men shot QuantreI
fore finger off his right hand. We look
him to the house of Robert II. WaRe-
field. We killed in this fight two men
named Hockensmith and Glasscock' ana |
another man whose name never learn
ed. We wounded Quantren ana cap
tured him. We carried him to LOUIS
vile, where he was beyond doubt rec
oRnized by many who knew him as the
Quantrel of Lawrence, Kan, notorlety- |
He died in Louisville of the wounds re-
ceived in the fight described.
Terrill died in 1868 or So The above
quoted letter was written to one Sam
uel Martin of Tompkinsville, KY
Federal Lieutenant's Testimony.
Another letter concerning Guam
treiPs death was published in the Ma
tional Tribune by ]. M. Ridlon, hrst
ar-rka1 9cfa nf q
Twenty-fifth Michigan. Mr.. Ridlon
says in his letter:
at was acting under instructions
from Gen. Palmer. l found man
who knew Quantrell in Kansas, who
found 80 more men willing to under
take to capture him dead or alive.
These scouts. all citizens, Ono SOL
diers), were instructed to pretend TO
be a band of guerrillas; to live off the
community they were scouting, and to
assume the garb of genuine guerr1llas,
that they might gain the confidence OF
Quantreu and his band, and by that
means capture him. This they We're
entirely successful in doing-and in
the scrap that followed, Quantrell was
wounded in the back, and three or
four of his men were killed Capt
Terrill. who commanded these scouts,
reported May 10 at Gen. Palmer's
headquarters, with Quantren in
wagon on a straw bed. He was sent
TO a hospital in the southwest part of
the city, Wnere ne QleQ SIN ,
weeks later"
w. w Scott Dug Up Remains.
w. w. Scott, a schoolmate of
Quantrell at Canal Dover, who CORE
sponded with the outlaw up to the
time of the Lawrence outrage, made a
thorough study of the Quantre1 his |
tory and was the man who with Mrs. !
Quantrell exhumed the bones of the
outlaw for the purpose of settling dis :
pute about his death. This Mr.. Scott is
70 furnished the data
for an article which appeared in the :
Cincinnati Enquirer of March 10,
1898, under a Canal Dover date line. =
In this article the following story of
QuantrelIs capture and death are
given:
.'TerrilI gave the order to move, and
when the crest of the hill was reach :
ed commanded his men to charge
down upon the barn. The action was :
brief and decisive. Quantrell was !
sleeping in the hay NOW at the time. }
Others of his men were lounging q
about the barn. The federal guerrfllaS =
swept down on them like a hurricane.
Quantrel was on his feet at the first :
alarm. and when he saw the over :
number of the enemy he
displayed good generalship by giving
his men orders to scatter for their c
lives. To make matters worse, most
of their horses were stampeded, and
they were compelled to trust to their :
feet. q
''On that day Quantrell who had left =
his own steed behind, was riding Ken .
lucky thoroughbred loaned to him by a 7
lady admirer. The animal was frac- :
tious one and was off before the guer-
rfla leader could reach it. Some of his
men who were fortunate enough to !.
reach their horses. begged him to mount ;
In their place but he refused. Then one /.
of the men tried to get Quantrel on be-
hind him, but the chieftain fell. Jumping I
to his feet he started to run He had
scarcely run a hundred yards before '
one of Terrill's men singled him out, and
ran his horse toward Quantrell. he -
rode furiously until he was within a Few
feet of the guerrilla leader. The federal 7
refined his horse with his left hand, drew q
q 44-Colts navy with ms rlgnt, LOOK
quick aim and fired. QuantreA threw up
his hands and fell face downward, fatal
" wounded. He with two dead comrades
were carried into Wakeheld'S mousse n
For the privilege of being left at wake
fields until he should either die or re-
cover Quantreu paid Terrin $500 IN
gold, and Wakefield guaranteed TerriI
that Quantrell would keep his part of II
Ouantrell remained at Wakefield's one a
or two nights. At any rate he was not S
left there more than two days, when a
he was placed in a wagon by order OF n
General Palmer and driven overland TO il
Louisville where he was placed In the a
federal military prison hospital IL
THE bullet struck Quantren at the P
blade. fracturing the spinal col o.
uIln anu plONAA6 NCCP 4AASO NA~ -
The lower part of the body was entirely p
paralyzed and remained so until his b.
Death QuantreH fingered until June 6, y
1855. and his remains were buried in the T
Catholic cemetery, which faith he had 9
embraced while in the hospital.
''Quantren, during his last illness, did W
not correspond with any of his friends. 4
and made but one request. 1t was that u
$500 in gold. all he had, be forwarded to
his mother by well known Kentucky
volnan 1t might be added that this