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

A NEBRASKA JUDAS.
letters were written to all parts of Kansas, offering a re
ward for him. He worked around Lawrence, however,
until April, when, thinking himself no longer safe in that
neighborhood, he started with three others —one of whom
was poor Bill Riley, who broke out of Platte City jail while
we were there, and whose wife had been sold down South,
from the garret in Weston-ton his way to Iowa through
Nebraska.
In Nebraska they were betrayed by a'miserable villain
who professed to be willing to aid the oppressed, and were
sent over the river in the night to Oregon jail, ill Holt
county, Missouri. That Judas answers to the name of IH.
R. Price, St. Stephen's, Nebraska Territory; and I have
seen two letters written by him, asking whom hle was to
look to for the reward offered for these four.
A colored man, whether he be free or slave, cannot travel
safely on the highway, either in Kansas or Nebraska, any
more than he can in Missouri, as, besides the pro-slavery
democrats who live in those Territories, the Missouri patrol
is always on the alert to snatch up any colored man whenever they think they can do so with impunity.
Charley Fisher was afterwards brought to St. Joseph
jail, and put into the lock-up on the lower floor, as I have
already narrated. When all was quiet I sent a note,
written in pencil, down through the stove-pipe hole, asking him what it all meant. He replied that he was sorry
for what he had done, but could not help it; that Ilutchinson had told him what to do and say. He then told me
of his being kidnapped as mentioned above.
The next day a slave trader, named Wright, of whom
more hereafter, came to the jail, and going into the lock-up,
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