Show the tho ben wright massacre STATEMENT OF OP AN eyewitness EYE WITNESS la V IN KANSAS THE strychnine STORY snory CONFIRM CONFIRMED IF SALINA kansas may blay last evening your correspondent met two somewhat notable frontier characters captain jelt harper of mcpherson county twenty five miles south of this pointon sharps creek who figured most conspicuously in the last troubles wit lithe the indians in central hansas kansas and lieutenant joe watson formerly of missouri who has been a west ern ranger rover and miner foi twenty five years the latter figured with captain benjamin wright who fought and slaughtered the bio nio bodocs Blo docs in the famed wright massacre in 1852 and wilom whom with his companions the indians called boston men lieutenant watson said that the account of that affair of blood as published in eastern papers is not correct he stated to a party who surrounded him at the pacific house substantially as follows the bodocs had been murdering settlers and travelers for months mouths and in the summer of 1852 the people called upon captain wright who wasa was a private citi efti citizen zenat at the time he raised a company of men like himself hunters ihn iAn lancheros cheros and miners the majority from missouri missour sour and started out on the hunt for the troublesome dlo Blo bodocs docs does after a few days hunt they found a party encamped on a bend in the river under the command of scarface the indians outnumbered the whites three to one but captain wrights wrighta party had tile the advantage of position by having the indians hemmed in in the bend the day following the first meeting captain wright invited the indians to come into his camp the next evening to have a talk and eat roast ox scarface agreed to come but said to the whites that all of them must leave the country two volunteers were detailed to aillaud kill and aud prepare the ox captain wright instructed a third man to poison the carcass carcas thoroughly with strychnine because he suspected the bodocs would attempt treachery ermanda and a massacre at the place of meeting captain wright secreted his men in the ravines and broken earth each man with a rifle and two revolvers with orders that when tile the indians rose to go to the water for drink it should bo be the signal s g nal nai fas fes every overy man to shoot his rd redskin skin swin at the appointed time the indians came to the council dressed in their war outfit painted painted andermed and armed with bows arrows and knives A few of the boston men 11 detailed for the purpose assisted the indians to roast the ox after eating the well salted meat for a short time a few of the indians started for fon the bank of the river to obtain water which was the appointed signal capt wright singled out scarface scar sear face snap snapped d his nis his revolver on him but it flan flag flashed d in the pan scar sear scarface face instantly pulled an arrow on capt wright when wilen a missourian named rogers shot him dead the rest of the party with the advantage they had shot down the surprised indians five only of whom escaped capt wr wright ighac captured ap capt jack then young and took him home with him in 1851 governor lane of oregon appointed captain wright an agent to look after indian affairs the captain started for the interior accompanied comp compa nied allied by an assis stant arid and three bodocs whom lie he and all supposed as they had a right ig t to were friendly and well disposed several everal days subsequent to their de departure arture t the e indians returned without captain wright and his assistant and re reported arted them lost bus sus suspecting acting ohp them thom am gov lane changet charged them with the murder of his two officials and demanded that their tribe the bodocs should give them up this was done when they confessed to the murder of captain and assistant and took a party of soldiers to the place where had murdered and hidden them the three indians were executed the account published 11 said lieutenant concerning the massacre by the boston men very differently it is said that were surprised in a canyon or ravine st louis globe at w e george faulkner of dublin used to sit a whole night with solitary strawberry at the of his glass over which ho he generally to pour four bottles claret doing it ne no would sa say because a doctor recommended it its cooling qualities |