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present who would answer to their names, and there was no 
evidence before the court of such insurrection as the counsel for 
the government had stated, etc. 
Mr. Grover, in reply, said, “he could bring any amount of proof 
of such insurrection. There was the London Times . The Lon¬ 
don Times said that not only Kansas, but the whole country, was 
in a state of insurrection.” 
Judge Lecompte overruled the motion, stating that there was 
not sufficient evidence before the court of such a state of insurrec¬ 
tion as to deter witnesses and jurors from appearing. 
The docket was then taken up. The first case called was, “ The 
Territory of Kansas against Charles Robinson, for usurpation of 
office.” The same reasons for continuance of this case were brought 
up by Mr. Grover. Also their witness, P. Hutchinson, who, they 
said, had been summoned, was not present. He is a man unknown 
to the prisoners, their counsel or friends never before having heard 
of him. 
Judge Lecompte then gave his decision. He would continue 
the case on the ground of there being so great an excitement in 
the country as to prevent a fair trial. The prisoner was admitted 
to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars. 
The other cases were then called, ■—“ The United States against 
Charles Robinson and others,” —and continued. The prisoners 
were released on bail of five thousand dollars each. 
Judge Lecompte accepted the bail offered, and seemed anxious 
to get the cases off his hands. 
John Brown, Jr., and H. H. Williams, who had never been 
indicted, were also released on one thousand dollars bail. 
On the afternoon of the 10th September, just four months from 
the day my husband was taken prisoner, and nearly four months 
since the arrest of the others, the tents on “ Traitor Avenue ” were 
struck. Three wagons were filled with the furniture and valua¬ 
bles of the prisoners. 
While all were getting ready, a party of us rode into Lecomp- 
ton. It is a little town down in the ravines. The air was hot 
and stifling, and we wondered any one should locate a town there, 
when the breezes on the high grounds are so fresto and in vigor- 
