Life of Gen James H Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history . fairtestimony of Hon. James F. Legate, his personal friend,and in a partisan sense an opponent of Lane, that Jen-kins was drinking heavily that day, which was corrob-orated by Hon. John G. Haskell, State House architect,and brother of Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, the distingishedmember of Congress. There was some conflicting tes-timony on that point, but it was from a stand-point eitherof love and affection for the dead, or opposition, anxiouson the one hand to shield the reputation of the beloved
Life of Gen James H Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history . fairtestimony of Hon. James F. Legate, his personal friend,and in a partisan sense an opponent of Lane, that Jen-kins was drinking heavily that day, which was corrob-orated by Hon. John G. Haskell, State House architect,and brother of Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, the distingishedmember of Congress. There was some conflicting tes-timony on that point, but it was from a stand-point eitherof love and affection for the dead, or opposition, anxiouson the one hand to shield the reputation of the beloved,or on the other to wreak vengeance upon the man by whomhe had been slain. The truth is, as I see it, that he wasmaddened by liquor and evil counsels, and not the right-minded Gains Jenkins at all. I, myself, saw Jenkins notten days before his death, in a frenzied state of intoxi-cation, threatening Lanes life. The following letter from Hon. James Christian, toMr. J. H. Shimmons, published for the first time, willthrow some li^ht on the situation between these men • 210 THE HOMICIDE OF JUDGE christians STATEMENT. 211 Arkansas City, Kan., Jan. 7, 1884. My Dear Friend : Your letter of December 27 was received indue time ; but I had not the opportunity of answering it until opportunities for answering correspondents are not as good aswhen you first knew me. My daughter, who does my writing gene-rally, was absent at Topeka when your letter was received, and therewas anotlier matter that I wished to hunt up before I attempted toanswer your letter. I allude to an article that I published in theArkansas City Traveler some five or six years ago, and my daughterwas compelled to hunt over the files of the Traveler office [of] severalyears before she could find it, which, fortunately, she did, under thedate of April 3, 1878. You may have seen the article; but if not, Isend you an exact copy from the file in the possession of the old editor. In reference to what you say
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