Then when no good result seemed to come from our talk, I said to them: "Gentlemen, there is no use in keeping up this debate any longer; if I live anywhere, I shall live in Kansas.

Now do your duty as you understand it, and I will do mine as I understand it.

I ask no favors of you." Then the leaders of this business went away by themselves and held a consultation.

Of course I did not know what passed among them, but Dr.
Stringfellow afterwards made the following statement to a gentleman who was getting up a history of Kansas: A vote was taken upon the mode of punishment which ought to be accorded to him, and to this day it is probably known but to few persons that a decided verdict of death by hanging was rendered; and furthermore, that Mr.Kelley, the teller, by making false returns to the excited mob, saved Mr.Butler's life.

Mr.Kelley is now a resident of Montana, and volunteered this information several years ago, while stopping at St.
Joe with the former senior editor of the _Squatter Sovereign_, Dr.J.H.
Stringfellow.