The unhappy man gave the following account of the matter: "They asked me for my horses.

I told them I was a cripple--a poor lame man--that I had an aged father, a deaf and dumb brother, and two sisters, all depending on me for a living, and my horses were all I had.

One of them said I was a Abolitionist, and, taking me by the shoulder, he shot me." Gov.

Geary was returning to Lecompton, and hearing of what had been done, he called with Judge Cato at Buffum's house, and by the Governor's direction Judge Cato took the dying man's deposition.

Gov.
Geary was terribly shocked, and said to himself, "I never witnessed a scene that filled me with so much horror." Mr.Geary sent a detective on the track of the Kickapoo Rangers, and found that the murderer was one Charley Hayes, living in Atchison county.