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Nigger Dealer Killed. - - A negro trader named Wright, (probably the one who said such sharp things to Horace Greeley) was murdered last week, near St. Joseph, by a negro whom he had bought in Gentry County, and was taking to St. Joseph, in a buggy, to ship South.
It is supposed that Wright had stooped to pull off his shoe and stocking, to attend to a tetter on his foot, and that the negro, seeing a pistol protruding from his coat pocket, seized it and shot him. He had a large amount of money in his pocket, which was undisturbed.
Wright, although engaged in a business which we have been so often told is detested in the Slave States, is yet represented as having been a respectable man.
The negro only did what we presume Wright himself would have done under similar circumstances.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the arrest of the murderer, and the entire country is in pursuit of him. He will probably be caught; and if so, will doubtless be punished in a summary manner.
(Researcher's note: Francis Marion Wright was a slave trader who operated out of St. Joseph, Missouri, for 10 years and was known to come into Platte County, Missouri. He was frequently mentioned in The Kansas Narrative of John Doy.)Date(s) of Creation
7/21/1859
