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ridge, they feel there is a sacredness in human life, and would not 
rashly assume the power of the avenger. 
The silence which momentarily followed was broken by the 
question, “ Will he die ? ” 
“ They say he cannot recover. 5 ’ 
The gentleman waited until the doctor returned, and then went 
back to town. He at once recognized in it a plan to involve our 
people in difficulty. It was either to be made the occasion of a 
new invasion, or at least to break up the sittings of the committee. 
Jones, while sitting in the tent, the outline of his figure being 
clearly revealed by the light inside, was shot in the back. He fell 
to the ground, saying, “ I am shot! ” Some little time passed 
away before any physician saw him. At length Dr. Stringfellow 
was sent for, and the sheriff was removed to the hotel, into one of 
the rooms so lately fitted up, at the door of which a soldier stood 
on guard. Some physicians of Lawrence examined him that night 
and in the morning. The wound was between the right shoulder 
and spine. Though constantly groaning, Jones was able to turn 
himself in bed. Notwithstanding Gen. Whitfield’s express to 
Missouri the next morning, with the intelligence that Jones w T as in 
a dying condition, he was removed to Franklin in the afternoon of 
the same day, accompanied by Gen. Whitfield and the friends who 
came with him, with an escort of dragoons. Gen. Whitfield de¬ 
clared it was not safe to remain in Lawrence ; their lives were in 
peril; and he attempted to persuade the commissioners also to 
remove, upon the plea that Lawrence was an unsafe place to hold 
their sessions; that his witnesses could not come into town with¬ 
out risk of losing their lives. He did not hesitate to say, “The 
commission w r as at an end ; they might as well return to Wash¬ 
ington.” The brave general stopped a few days at Franklin, then 
went to Lecompton, and finally returned to take his seat before the 
committee, positively asserting that “ he did not leave Lawrence 
through fear.” 
Early in the afternoon of the day Jones w 7 as shot, a party of 
troops, who had been out in the Indian country, passed through 
town, and, having crossed the river, camped on the other shore. 
After the shooting, Lieut. McIntosh sent an express for them to 
