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Gen. Cramer, and I am satisfied that he is acting under authority 
of the U. S. House of Bepresentatives, and should pass unmo¬ 
lested. “Warren D. Wilkes, 
“ Of South Carolina .” 
This is a South Carolina pass; and the party who arrested Mr. 
W. claimed to be from South Carolina. Wilkes is one of Buford’s 
men, a lieutenant in the band of ruffians. He is one of the self- 
constituted regulators in the territory in the affairs of actual 
settlers; was one of the destroyers of Lawrence, and was after¬ 
wards the leader of a gang of brutal men at Leavenworth, who 
arrested peaceable citizens without authority, and at the point of 
the bayonet. 
On the 16 th May, as Mr. S to well was coming in from Kansas 
city to Lawrence, passing through Franklin, his wagon was 
stopped, and some boxes of guns broken open, and contents taken. 
Also a wagon-load of flour was taken possession of by the mar¬ 
shal’s posse. 
About the same time, Dr. Boot and Mr. Mitchell, only a 
little time in the territory, having been down below Lawrence to 
look after some teams which they thought were delayed unneces¬ 
sarily, on their return to Wabousa, left Lawrence on the after¬ 
noon of the 16th. On passing an encampment of Marshal Don¬ 
aldson’s, it being already dark, they were fired upon by a company 
of fifteen or twenty men, who rushed from a small cabin near the 
road, shouting and firing as they came. They were taken pris¬ 
oners by them, while two gentlemen ahead of them, on fleet 
horses, escaped the whizzing balls. Hence the intelligence which 
went over the country that Dr. Boot and Mr. Mitchell were 
killed. 
About the same time, Judge Conway and P. C. Schuyler, 
returning to the territory from a tour in the states, were taken off 
the William Campbell by a mob. Their appeal to the officers of 
the boat availed them nothing. They only learned from them the 
simple fact that the affair was a “ matter between them and the 
mob.” The mob pretended “ these gentlemen were endeavoring 
(to leave the territory, and that writs were out against them.” 
