Instead, he thought he would take a sort of plan b--

他心生新计决定启用b计划
He would meet Sumner at his desk with a cane and try to kill him.

他决定带着手杖在他书桌旁杀了他
And he did.

他果然这么做了
Brooks took a cane to Sumner--

布鲁克斯带着手杖来到萨姆纳跟前
Sumner was sitting at his desk,

他正坐在书桌旁
Literally signing copies of "the crime against kansas" speech

正在给《反堪萨斯之罪》的复印件签名
To be sent out.

然后分发
And he got trapped in the desk, we're told;

我们得知当时他被迫困在书桌里
He couldn't get out of it and Brooks just kept banging on his head,

他出不来布鲁克斯就这样一直击打他的头
over and over, just bloodied him into unconsciousness,

一次又一次打到昏迷不醒
and Sumner fell on the floor.

萨姆纳倒地不起
And there are all kinds of stories--

后面的故事就版本各不相同了