Some young men rode out to see about it, and one of them was shot and killed.

But a still more ghastly crime threw its baleful shadow over the people.

It was perpetrated two days before the Governor concluded his treaty of peace.
Thomas W.Barber and Robert F.Barber were farmers, living about seven miles from Lawrence; and on December 6th started with a Mr.Pierson to go home to their families.

These were two brothers and a brother-in-law.
They were intercepted on their way by J.N.Burns, of Weston, Mo., and Major George W.Clarke, United States Agent for the Pottawatomie Indians.

These two men shot Thomas W.Barber.It is hard to find an explanation of their act, unless it were that they came to Lawrence to shoot down Abolitionists as they would have shot wolves on the prairie.
They had no provocation.