The narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas ...: Printed for the author.

AFTER OLD BROWN.
after old Brown. She catches Kansas free niggers and
sends them where they ought to go."*
Afterwards, the young men above mentioned came in and
had some talk with us, and said they were the persons that
informed us, while in the garret at Weston, that they were
going to take old John Brown.
"Well," said I, "I remember some persons there staiig they were going after John Brown; did you go?"
"Yes we did; and by G-d he took us, instead of us taking him."
"Well," said I, "did he treat you well?"
"Why, yes," said the speaker, "he treated us well enough;
but he said he needed our horses and arms, and he made us
get off, took our arms away, and his men escorted us some
miles back on foot."
That night, about 12 o'clock, the jail caught fire again
from the stove-pipe, and the flames made a good deal of
headway before they were discovered. The bells began
to ring in town, and people to shout "Fire!" outside.
One of the guards discharged his musket through the grated window, at the house opposite. We were all locked ill,
and the jailer had the keys. At last the jailer came with
* I did not see much significance in what the man told me about " things coming to a
point," nor understand why the Judge had so hastily ordered us back to the jail, until
after my rescue, when Judge Almond, formerly of California, one day said to me:" Doctor, you didn't know it, but I saved both your lives that day you went before the Court
at Platte City."
" How was that, judge?" I asked.
"Why, I found that a paper was circulating among the outside people, which pledged
the signers to take you from the officers and lynch you. There were a good many signatures already attached to it when I saw it, principally of planters in the neighborhood. I
gave information to the judge, and he sent you off before they could get ready."
They had learned the probability of our removal to St. Joseph, and were determined
that their prey should not escape them.
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