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when the huC’aod cry .was raised on every side by the: yelling hounds, “There’ hegoesi'kill him, MU him^‘.while the': crack of' their rifles, came from every quarter, »n quick succession, and the bullets fell like had around him, until he fell exhausted anci lifeless'in a ditch.Which he .fcould nol leapi Nordtditend thereyfor volley; 'if--teT volley;was ponied- into- bis body:1 by the intimated;mob, after life.vaa extinct; even^thd gallant Lieut- Morris, completing the work he iiad commenced, by discharging a double-barreled shot-gun 'into the lifeless body,' and-ending- the- noble .deed with the boast.that he had finished the d~——lt;1 scoundrel,-:, dTlie first intimation that Col- Canon had of this fiendish outbreak was. the dis charge of fire arms1 at the sntler's store; and me ycU-Wf these-bell* bounds: in pursuit of their. ! victim* b la-;: an - instant he grasped a revolver, leaped over the fence., and at the top of his speed flew;, towards the scene of action ; but.it was fiao late— the iearfnl tragedy liad closed before die could reach thenpofc ; . ■ •' According to Graydon’s dying confession, it was previously arranged between him and Llent. Mbrna; that In case a quarrel should taker;place tjctween1 ' the two, the Lieutenant shoal'd riisfi 'apon Whitlock With the Company, as; he’ did, and murder him- Gray don hoped,.. how-• ever, to have.the quarrel come up in the-presence of Col. Carson, ini which ease the'Colonel wbnTJ interfere and stop, it.— Bnt iTeut- Kptris finished- tfic tragedy before iherc; was any such opportunity.—. Whitlock was a maii:ofinfluence,- and . .a friend of- Cob Carson's- Morris and/sev oral otbfinf have been amstgd.,/ • '•.! On'examinmg.'tb.e bod* QfPoCtor Whit-.lock, it‘ • was. foh iid. jth.hfc .no less than tweidy-cigi't nfi^.baUa anduinety-eoght b lick’shof,; Ea$ng .entered; it, which is notsuvpriaibg,i.when. we ehnauU ef thaf nearly one hundreil men were.ym-. gaged in hunting the poor’victim down to the death.
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Semi Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1862
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