Miss  Webster  was  discharged.  Craig  was  defeated,
after  large  expenditures,  in  getting  her  once  more  into
his  power;  and  when  on  his  way  to  the  steamboat,
going  home, — just  as  he  was  at  the  wharf,  he  was  shot
in  the  back  by  the  mob,  the  ball  entering  at  the  left  of
the  spinal  column,  and  lodging  against  a  bone  in  his
right  breast,  very  nearly  taking  his  life.  When  the
news  came  to  me,  I  was  watched  to  see  what  could  be
made  out  of  me,  by  a  dirty,  tale-telling,  murderous
miscreant,  Gardner,  in  alliance  with  one  John  Fought,
the  foreman,  who  by  fear  or  flattery  suborned  others  in
the  shop  to  testify  against  me ;  I  bowed  my  head  upon
my  breast,  faint  with  fear  of  what  might  come  of  it  to
me,  sighed,  and  raising  my  head,  said :

"  Pm  sorry;  sorry  for  his  family.  He  ought  to
have  staid  away."

A  few  days  passed.  When  Craig  had  sufficiently
recovered,  I  was  locked  in  the  dark  cell  for  a  few  days,
then  brought  into  the  yard  and  tried  upon  the  testi
mony  of  the  witnesses  referred  to,  who,  all  but  one  man
in  the  shop,  testified  that  I  said:

"  Pm  glad  of  it!     I  wish  they  had  killed  him!  "

One  man  testified  to  the  simple  truth,  and  was  soon
removed  to  the  hemp.
112  HOW  "THE    WAY"    WAS  PREPARED.
