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bloody.” But Mr. Bailey said, “ They are mine as long as I 
live.” 
This tool of the administration, armed with a XL S. musket, 
again raised his gun, and fired. The ball struck Mr. Bailey in 
the side, glancing along the ribs, and lodged in the back. Mr. 
Bailey fell, and was struck at again and again with the musket. 
Then two of the men disappeared, and left this more than demon 
to finish the work of killing a peaceable man. He jumped on the 
body of the prostrate man, stamping on his face and head. But 
as Mr. Bailey caught hold of the musket, and was able to hold on 
upon it, the murderer ran after the others, calling upon them to 
return. They, however, were too far away. After lying in the 
grass three hours, Mr. Bailey attempted to find his way home. 
In doing so, he passed near their camp the next morning at day¬ 
break, and for a while lay hid in the grass, to learn their move¬ 
ments. While there, he heard aery, “Are you going to hang 
me ? ” and no reply, save the ringing of a bell. In about five 
minutes, he heard a shot, then a whistle, and six other shots at 
intervals of five minutes. He lay in the woods all that day, and 
at night crawled along about two miles; was hid near the Waka- 
rusa all the next day ; saw a wagon stopped by five men ; heard 
angry words, and a shot fired. In the night, worn down by his 
sufferings from the. wound and bruises, having had nothing to eat 
for three days, and nothing to drink but stagnant water, he reached 
the house of Dr. Still, at Blue Mound. 
A young man, by the name of Hill, was going to Missouri, also 
for provisions, and as night came, he asked two men on the road 
where he could find water for his horses. They said they would 
show him, if he would go with them. When he had gone with 
them to the ravine, where they said he would find water, they 
searched him, took whatever he had of money, and threatened to 
kill him. He told them he had a mother, and young brothers and 
sisters, dependent on him ; that day after day, as she looked out 
for his coming, and night only brought a renewal of the sad sus¬ 
pense as to his fate, in sorrow she would go the grave; but there 
was id pity in their hearts, no mercy. They tied the young man’s 
arms oehind him, and, bending his feet backwards, tied them also 
