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Letters from the Hill Top on a St Louis hotel murder case
The article reports General Jackson’s private views on James Buchanan and details a St Louis hotel arson murder case. It describes Doane and Taylor, alias Sanders Taylor, the arson and murder suspicions, bloodstained beds, Taylor’s prior crimes, and the arrest of Waldrap the hotel watchman. It also notes New York bank stats, political alignments, and anti Lecompton activity with broad commentary on Kansas politics.
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Evening Post
Jackson
James Buchanan
Independent Free Soil Democratic Order
Congress
Bean
Hill Top
Commercial
Independent
Donne
Charles J. Taylor
Sanders
Wintchman
Pacific Hotel
Taylor
Doane
Townsley Trouse
Pacific Total
D. W. Attailer
Foud
Aleo
Paylor
St. Louis
Chouteau
Barlow
Sanders Taylor
Charles Waldrap
Pacific Motel
Europe
Washington
Union
Messra
Douglas
Stuart
Broderick
Democrats
Mesars
Pgh
Tool
Banja-imin
Tee
Italvo
Douglas, Hale Company
Major Harris
Appleton
St. Louis Democrat
Press of
Treasury
Tribune
Shielde
U. S
Minneola
Lecompton
Richard @. Murphy
Kansas
Lecomptonites
Buchanan
Ohio
Indiana
Philadelphia
New York
Cincinnati
Columbus
South
Toledo
Mess
Morton
Hosmer
McGroarty
Stickney Hall
Custom House
Old Buck
Messia
Swamman
Stanton
Afeysenger
Satan
Lacompton
Cleveland
Clark & Pittenger
Henry Ward Bogcher
California
Cloveland Herald
Cleveland & Toledo
Queen Victoria
Lake Erie
Cleveland Leader
Botefur
Jon
Cyrus Howard
Board of Public Works
Hinch
Butler County
Court of Common Pleas
Erie County
Mad River
Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati
Rous
Calhoun
Frank Marshall
McLean