Cherokee County KS Archives News.....The Blalock Boys March 22, 1888
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The Winona CLIPPER, Winona, Logan County, Kansas March 22, 1888

 
THE BLALOCK BOYS.
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Two of the Murderers of Constable Gordon, of Columbus, Kan.,
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Captured While Hiding in a School House.... 
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COLUMBUS, Kan., March 20.--John and William BLALOCK, the alleged murderers of 
Constable GORDON last Friday night, were arrested yesterday at a school house 
about six miles southwest of here.  A son of Captain C. W. LOPP, living near 
the school house, heard a noise in the attic, and calling the attention of 
others to the fact, a crowd of seven who were on the trail went to the school 
house, and, after making an examination, demanded the surrender of whoever 
might be in the building.  After repeated calls, coupled with threats of 
burning the building, an answer was obtained, and after some parleying an offer 
on the part of the searchers that they would see the men in hiding conducted in 
safety to the jail, the boys gave themselves up.  The school house had no 
scuttle on the inside of the building and the boys had sawed a hole through the 
roof and arranged it as a blind trap almost indistinguishable from the ground 
and had conveyed a supply of provisions and ammunition into it.  They had 
several guns and revolvers and were evidently prepared for a regular siege of 
some days.  But for the noise made at an inopportune time the probabilities are 
they might have escaped.  On the arrival of the officers having the two men in 
charge the town became wildly excited, and but for the labors of the mayor and 
some others the probabilities are that "Kansas justice" would have been meted 
out to them.  The boys were before he officers with closed doors for some time, 
but it is not known whether any information further than already known has been 
obtained.  The people have partly promised to let the law have its course, but 
it only needs some one to take the lead, and grave fears are entertained of 
trouble during the day.  An unknown person, making himself too conspicuous, was 
arrested, and some fear that the friends of the boys are on hand to make a 
break.  The first move made, however, will lead to serious trouble, as armed 
men constantly parade the streets.  Alex FRY has been arrested in Missouri and 
George LACY at Ft. Scott, Kan.  These boys were the associates of the BLALOCKS 
and are charged with being confederates.  A dispatch also says that Clay 
BLALOCK has been arrested at Abilene as an accessory after the fact. 

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Source:  Kansas News page, The Winona CLIPPER, Winona, Logan County, Kansas; 
Thursday, March 22,  1888; Volume 1 No. 17, page 2 column 6.  Microfilm 
available at Oakley Public Library (Logan County, Kansas); filmed by/for 
Kansas  State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.  




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