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Kidnapping in Kansas - Letter from Dr. Doy and Son - A Painful Statement - - (A long article publishing Dr. John and Charles Doy's February 7, 1858, letter from the Platte City Prison describing the kidnapping and conditions in the Platte County Jail.) - - (excerpt below) - -
Mentions by name: Doctor Garvin – Postmaster of Lawrence, Kansas; Benjamin Wood – Mayor of Weston, Missouri; Fielding H. Lewis – Marshal of Weston, Missouri; F. A. Lewis – Marshal of Weston; Martin Reilly, George Robbins, Hugh Murdock – Patrolmen from Weston; Duncan “a Kentuckian”; Jake McKee; Mr. Whitely “a Boston man from Lawrence”; Thomas McGee; Jake Hurd “the notorious fiend of Lecompton, Kansas”; Mr. Clough; Hancock “of the Mansion House”; Hamilton “living over Hunt’s weigh scales”; and Fry.
On February 3, 1858, Jack Hurd came to the Platte City jail and ordered Free Blacks George Wilson Hayes (cook at Eldridge Hotel, Lawrence) and Charles Smith of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, out of the jail and into his buggy. “they said they would wait in prison till their free papers came. Jake Hurd took his whip and unmercifully whipped them till they consented to go with him – God only knows where. Hurd said, “I am your master now and by God I will make you obey me.”Date(s) of Creation
3/5/1859