Description
“Outrage on a Free Colored Man.” - - About 4 weeks since, a young colored man arrived in Lawrence (Kansas), seeking medical assistance, having been severely wounded in the side, by a Missourian, who attempted to arrest him as a fugitive slave.
The facts in the ease are as follows: The young man is a native of the Indian Territory, and was born free, his mother being a Cherokee Indian. He resided among the Cherokees until a few months since. He then came up to Kansas, and, for 2 months past, had been working at the stage station on Stranger Creek.
One day, while engaged in the stable, two men rode up and entered into conversation. Upon talking some time, they claimed him as a runaway from Platte County, Missouri. He denied their statements, and refused to go with them. As he was walking towards the house, one of them treacherously shot him in the left side, with a Colt’s revolver. Fortunately, the bullet, from the position in which the assailant was standing, glanced outwardly, or it might have proved fatal.
He reached the house, got a gun from it, and managed to intercept the companion of his assailant. He levelled his gun at the fellow - who piteously begged for mercy - and finally gave up a 5-inch Colt revolver, which the negro brought with him to Lawrence, where the wound was attended to and he soon recovered.Date(s) of Creation
1/10/1857
