Atchison, Col.

Peter T.Abell, Robert S.Kelley, Stringfellow and Sheriff Jones.

They had broken into the United States Arsenal at Liberty, Clay County, Mo., and stolen guns, cutlasses and such munitions of war as they required.
But when this was known the free State men turned out from all the settlements of Kansas with equal alacrity, to defend Lawrence.

They came singly, and in squads and in companies.

They came by night and by day.
Sam Wood, Tappin and Smith, the rescuers of Branson, and who were residents of Lawrence, left the city, and there were none there against whom Sheriff Jones had any writs to execute.