CHAPTER X Y111 • 
ARREST OE G. JENKINS AND G. W. BROWN. 
On the 14th of May, about two o’clock in the morning, as Mr. 
Jenkins and G. W. Brown were returning to their homes in Law¬ 
rence, they were arrested by armed men, between Kansas city and 
Westport, and taken to the house of Milton McGee, a most bitter 
pro-slavery man. The same forenoon they were taken to the 
Harris house, in Westport, and placed under strong guard in rooms 
in the third story. Mrs. Jenkins, having received word from her 
husband, left Lawrence on Friday, p. m., the 16th, in a driving 
rain, and reached Westport, Saturday, p. m., about four or five 
o’clock. Mr. Jenkins’ brother accompanied her. She found her 
husband quite ill from fatigue and excitement, his strength having 
been impaired before leaving home by the watching and anxiety 
attending the severe illness of one of his children, as well as by 
the ill-treatment he had since received. Mrs. Jenkins laid aside 
bonnet and shawl. Crowder, a man who pretended to be one of 
the deputy marshals, had just been in the room to say that the 
papers they were expecting from Kansas city, in reference to Mr. 
Jenkins’ release, had not come, and they would stay at Westport 
another night. Scarcely had he gone out, when Mr. Jenkins, see¬ 
ing his horse in the street, a valuable one, which they had taken 
from him the night he was taken prisoner, went down with his 
guard to see if he could not have it restored to him. Mrs. Jenkins 
seated herself in one of the deep window-seats, and looked out 
upon the motley group in the street. A hack drove around to the 
door, and the loud, harshly-spoken words, “ Come along,” attracted 
her attention. The moment she looked her husband was literally 
pushed into the carriage by several men. Sick as he was, no 
