Description
More Excitement at Kanwaca - - We understand that an old log barn belonging to old man Hurd, the father of Jake Hurd, was burned down in the night of the same day that Jake kidnapped the negro and set fire to the house of Heath.
The old man the next day threatened, it is said, that he would have revenge on every family living between his house and Lawrence. The result was that the citizens of the neighborhood assembled yesterday to the number of 50 at Judge Wakefield’s, and as our informant left last evening, were about to pay the old man a visit in a body.
The home of the old man is Jake's headquarters, and is said to be a complete rendezvous of thieves and bad characters generally. What was done by the crowd we have not learned.
(Researcher's note: Slave trader and kidnapper Jake Hurd was known to operate in Platte County, Missouri.)Date(s) of Creation
3/29/1860
