New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

our trail. Quantrill met us at Hars
risonville and passed the word for d
rendezvous at the farm Of Mrs,
Duprez, a few miles below LAKE.
ington. az
"About forty of the men met hiu
there, and by his orders every mar.
had provided himself with a Federal
uniform. Quantrill himself had asa
sumed the name Of Captain Moses,
and told us to answer every chal-
lenge with the information that we
belonged to the I'd Colorado Cavalry.
"None of us knew exactly what our
destination was. Quantrill wasn't
much Of q hand to take his men
into his confidence. He ordered
and we had the habit of obey
ing. But ON the march he did tell
US that the game was up and that
he was going to try to get us in
touch with some Southern command
of regulars and get terms for tha
boys when the end came. =
Riding mostly by night, wa
reached the Mississippi River, cross.
ing at DEVILS Bend, about twentya
five miles above Memphis, and rods
on into Kentucky. When we got to
Kentucky Quantrill dropped the
name Of Moses and took the name
of Captain Clarke, who had been the
real captain Of the I'd Colorado Cav
airy and had been killed by GUAM
trill himself. It was Captain
Clsrke's Federal uniform that Guam
trill wore. 81.
eve got into trouble at Houstons
vile trying to get some horses, as
ours were pretty well worn out. We
got the horses all right, but had to
kill Federal major, Houston, in
getting them out, and the word went
out that we were Quantrill men in
Federal disguise, and we had to take
to the brush again. Pretty soon the
whole country was astir and hot ON
the hunt for us.
''We started to go up Salt River,
in the south part Of Spencer Couu-
ty-and it turned out to be q real
Salt River for us. One night we
pulled up with what was left of the
band at the farm Of Jim Wakefield.
1t had been raining hard for three
days, and we were mighty glad to
hunt shelter.
wakefield was friendly, and we
thought we were in safe quarters.
We turned our horses loose and
were sitting around in the barn, in
our stocking feet, playing cards and
throwing corn cobs at one another,
when all Of q sudden we heard
whoops and yells outside and Ter-
rill's men came down ON US with O.
regular fusillade.
"Quantrill himself was in the hay
loft asleep when the charge came.
Every man rushed for his pistols,
and there was a wild scramble to
get to our horses. Bill Hulse, Henry
Porter and myself were the only
ones that got away on our horses,
and we did that by leaping the
fences.
"Quantrill, running a3oot, got
nearly three-quarters of a mile
away from the house, firing back as
he went, when they got him with a
rifle shot through the spine. He fell
in Wakefeld's pasture.
"The next night Frank James,
John Ross, Bill Hulse and myself
went back to Wakefeld's house b
see what had become of Quantrilb
We found that Terrill had left him
there to die and had gone away, not
knowing it was Quantrill. About
daylight we went in the house TO
see him. he was propped up with
pillows on a sort Of couch. He
couldn't lie down. His legs were
'psralyzed.
eve wanted him to make an e9-
fort to get away with us, but he
seemed to know it was all up, and
told US it was only a question Of q
few days-that nothing could be
done for him. He told us to elect
Henry Porter as our captain and
Frank James as our lieutenant and
to keep some sort Of an organixa-
ton until we got a chance TO sur