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John told the fellow if Cole were there he would not dare do that, and Gillcreas said Cole should be in prison, and all Quantrell’s men with him. Gillcreas went away, but returned to the attack, this time armed with a heavy slungshot. In the meantime John had gotten the pistol which had been in the wagon. Gillcreas came up to resume the fight and John shot him dead.
One day in January, 1866, John, Bob and my mother drove into Independence to mill, and to do other errands in town, one of which was to get one of my pistols fixed. A young fellow named Gillcreas, who had served in the militia and was several years John’s senior, hit the boy with a piece of mackerel, and warm words ensued. “Why don’t you shoot him?” shouted Bob from the wagon.
The slungshot was found with the thong twined about Gillcreas’ wrist. John Younger The coroner’s jury acquitted John, and there were many people in Independence who felt that he had done just right. When I went to Louisiana in 1868 John went with me, afterward accompanying me to Texas.
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