From Kansas - Two Men Lynched at Leavenworth-Two Others Being Tried by the Vigilence Committee

Source citation
“From Kansas,” New York Daily Times, 7 August 1857, p. 1.
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New York Times
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From Kansas
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Meghan Fralinger
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print.  Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original. 

From Kansas.

TWO MEN LYNCHED AT LEAVENWORTH-TWO OTHERS BEING TRIED BY THE VIGILENCE COMMITTEE.

ST. LOUIS, Wednesday, Aug.5.

Advices from Leavenworth, Kansas, state that much excitement exists there growing out of the robbery and murder of a man named STEPHENS. Two men, named BAINES and QUARLES, were arrested charged with the murder, and their confessions disclosed the existence of a regularly organized band of robbers and murderers. Several apparently respectable citizens are implicated as confidante of the band. BAINES and QUARLES were hung under Lynch law.

Advices from Leavenworth of Monday state that WOODS and KNOWLTON, the companions of the two men hung on Friday were being tried by the Judge of the Vigilance Commission. The people were intensely excited, and expected a determination to lynch the prisoners, at all hazards. Gov. WALKER and Judge LROOMPTE had addressed the people, but failed to pacify them.

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