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

NO AGREEMENT-CHIARLES RELEASED.
The opening portion of Col. Doniphan's speech above
quoted, was peculiarly significant, from the fact that the
prosecution had all along insisted that there had been no
mob, and that we had been treated throughout with the
utmost kindness and courtesy. (Appendix E.)
Judge Nortoni's charge was quite fair and impartial.
After all, the jury could not agree. Not having been
selected with especial view to my case, and therefore
not fully committed to decide it as the slaveholders and
slavehunters desired, and not being terrified by the graphic
picture drawn by Col. Doniphan, of the horrid results which
would be sure to follow my acquittal-eleven of them, as
I was informed, dared to weigh the evidence for themselves,
and coming to the conclusion that the alleged crime had not
been proved upon me, would not agree with the twelfth
man to convict me.
The trial lasted from Thursday until Saturday night, at
9 o'clock, when the case was given to the jury, and they,
after repeated attempts, being unable to agree, were finally
discharged at 2 o'clock, on Sunday afternoon.
On Monday, the prosecuting attorney, having failed to
convict me, entered a nolle prosequi-which simply means
no cause of action-in my son's case, and he was liberated.
I was held to bail in the sum of five thousand dollars, to
appear and take my trial at the adjourned term of the Court
on the 20th of June. No one but a citizen of Buchanan
county would answer, and as I knew no one in Missouri,
my chance of finding a bondsman was small indeed. IMy
friends offered twenty thousand dollars in real estate in
Kansas, as security for any one who would bail me. No
one could be found. Any who might be inclined to help me
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