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another pair of horses for his wife. He recovered, on his second 
trip down, the bay horses. The fine horse first stolen he has 
never been able to recover, notwithstanding an order given him by 
those in authority, at the time it was taken. 
This was Tuesday, the 20th. Mrs. Brown went over to the 
camp early; and her husband was already on horseback, sur¬ 
rounded by a guard of mounted men, to be taken to Lecompton. 
On the afternoon of the 21st, after Judge Smith and Gr. W. 
Deitzler had been taken to the “ head-quarters,” the house on 
Mount Oread, Mr. Jenkins was again taken prisoner. He was 
taken from his bed, being wholly exhausted with his illness and 
fatigue, and with the rest carried to Lecompton. On the morning 
of the 22d of May they appeared before Judge Lecompte to 
answer to the charge of treason. The cases were continued until 
the second Monday in September. A request to be discharged on 
bail was made and denied. The crime was alleged to have been 
committed on the 1st, 17th, and 21st of May. Gr. W. Brown 
and Mr. Jenkins proved that nearly the whole time they were in 
the hands of the mob, who held them without warrant or law, 
and a part of the time in Missouri. Gr. W. Brown had been for 
weeks absent from the territory, and was returning to his home 
when arrested. Judge Gr. W. Smith had been only four days in 
the territory since the last of January. He had always recom¬ 
mended resistance to the laws through the legal tribunals. Gr. W. 
Deitzler also showed his position to be similar. Should bail have 
been allowed, the design for which they were taken prisoners 
would have been frustrated, viz., that of leaving the people 
without some of their leading and active men, that more easily 
the whole free-state movement might be crushed. 
Mrs. J. and B. went to Lecompton on the 22d. They, with 
the four prisoners, had one small room in a frame house, the 
guard occupying the other room. Mrs. J. and Mrs. B. were 
allowed to take their meals at the public house, while those of the 
prisoners were sent to them. Thus, in a little room, in the intense 
heat, six persons were obliged to stay, night and day. The threats 
of mobbing them were also so great that Marshal Donaldson slept 
one night in the house, and another sat up on the outside. Mrs. J. 
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