Excerpt from Kansas in 1856: An Authentic Account of the Outrages in Kansas, Since the Appointment of the Kansas Investigating Committee, and Not Embraced in Their Report to the House of Representatives In the evening, as Jones was walking about, near the tents, some one fired a pistol at him, the ball passing though the leg of his pants. Not withstanding this, and notwithstanding he had done all he could, to all appearance, for no other purpose than to provoke some outbreak on the part of the citizens of Lawrence, he still took no steps to find out who had fired at him, or even to guard against a second attempt. But he went into one of the tents around which there was no guard, and while in there, was shot by some one from the outside; and even then no effort was made to discover and secure the assassin. The wound ed man was taken at once to the Eldridge House, and every attention was shown him, not only by those of his party, but by the citizens of the town. One of them, a young man of the name of Stew art, who was afterwards murdered, volunteered to go to Westport, a distance of forty miles, to carry a dispatch to Mrs. Jones, informing her of her husband's condition, and rode all night on that errand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.