Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1837-09-12

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I'D roals -csr,ty susprc,' sAuea i"s De $50
ilr, ias "a lea iar igh, 90 3D." '1''' '''F 'nd
iacr a.ihug zoe taef gsfii'.iy - : ihem 10 screen
~. .,t. al tl, is.a. isn il.r esd te $50 SIC tao
t.a,d,,efs el.ls 90 iLc te1 s.dc, arc 'hen tfaro
fasfhar nsa, .n g. 81 sras fet caela 40 iac O'o-
sie,te. sn8 tissing. 40 iirn c'.i"e s'"'ot
ts.4 TENED iis sosl sirl, Dc .nrH d ou'e ICON
Au.ss. ..t trsrcr, pencirstng lie seaH 90 'ias 81
e Loasn brtsg Ike hiu'r'f std opy i'~ 'nchrs
slatc B. . oss body Tins ass fu.iised icy one
.adlsn snd ,i3ient ssH On tbe be-. ACCOMPANIED
By eaosa. Itco the led. sA.oa sas a low vuo,
wee bent BY a. Hcr-ase If weight, oa"scd b, orc
- both The n,afd. fsfs lhtuNing ihentcstt upon b
uniu d; pressed on the body Of the traveller There
uss 40 asfu silence for moment or Two. su3
ilcn tie bost ssd. "ile 10 fushed--l have cot han
tcfoss the thtest t5te the money. saS him pot
a nnlcg bls bolster" u have IT, here q H. ssid
iAc cen. "a PURGE and picket book lhe ,'sv.
c,lcr Nss then relieved f. IA tho woigh, that op.
ptcsseJ hu io sufucsiiou snd tho sssassine who
seemed 90 trcmbc ~ they went, ran out ct lhc
soo,u, tool The hgLi, AID disappeared altogether
Gofa the spa3imem. No sooner were thcf fairly
gone iisa tie poor dealer otaNicd ito.n uadcr the
bed took enc desperate leap ADD cscsped through
ibe little window by which be- had tcen enter tie
osfor,uusie wretch who had e,.Jetuy been nur.
deted IN Lis stead. lie wilh al hs speed into
The town. wherc be told he horid story TO the
irehl-watcb. The ught-wSo ca conducted him to
the butcotnasict. Who Wts soon aroused from his
sleep and aoq ain,ed 0lth ell that had happened -
IN lose than half hour from the line oi us escore
from y, the morse dealer Mss again at the murder
Gus inn with msastraic AMI strong force Of hor.
ror- stricken iulabnant, aud The nighi-waiob, who
had al run ih,hcr in The Creates silence. IN HE
house al seemed as still as death but the party
toand 10 he siAbies. they heard a Lose eau
oGing the tctt 10 surround he inn sod the out huu
zee, the msgistl with tie traveller and come hat
dpzeu srmed men, ran 10 tho stable door this they
orcf,a I'd found within The host nod his con Dig
ging grave. The bret figure tha, net the eye Of
the maTdercrs Was that Of tlc traveller. The effect
of THE on their guilty souls Wa too much 10 be
borne tloy shti'kcd lna threw themselves on The
ground, snd though they were imucGu'r.y seized
by hard gripping hhndr uftcal hrsh and blood nnd
heard The Voices Of tic magistrate and thcr friends
and neiEhbofs drnouBciug 'bcm as auIdcGcrs,u Nas
some minutes ere .hcy could believe tIst the Gyurc
of the ira'elcl that stood among them vas other
than srifii. Il was the Ia der villain the fnhot
sho on hearing the strangers voice combining in
eon'ersa'ion viii tho magistrate frs, gained su,i-
o'oni command over himself To tase lis ;-r; ',.".
the earth he saw The stranger sill pale and bag.
gard but evidently unhuti.
- -..ru-ror's heal spun round conGu.rdy. Lnt
n, length rising lie said to those who held ldm
L.: me zee that stranger nearer : let me touch
lin only let NE touch him - Tie poor horse,
dealer drew back IN horror snd disgust. "Yor
way satisfy hm in this said the magistrate "hc
~ charmed end unuoryed. and We are here to pre-
vent lie doing you harm On this the ,,aycller
ly' Ito host approach, md PASS his hand over his
rcrs'n, which when he bsd duuc the william cx.
claimed, IL I'm no murderer who SAYS am u
murderer I" THAT will be seen en1n' said the
Fnte!er who led he way 10 the detached apart
meui, followed by the magistrate by tic two prs
oners, and all tho party which had collected in the
stable OH hearing what had passed there Both
father aud walked with con.iGerable coni
'ie0ce into the room. bu, when they saw by the
lamps the oighl watch snd others held over it,
that there was body covered with blood lying on
tic bed. they cried fui, How is this who Is
'hi- r and rushed together TO the bed ,Je. The
hshis were lowered their rays fell full upon the
a'sslly face and beeding throat OF yoong u,sn.
AT the sight the younger Of the mufdeters turn
cd his head and swooned 10 silence but tie faith.
~. uiiering shrek SO loud, VIAL that uue of
the .iefgslly damrcd alone uIght equal rs effect
threw himself on the he'd sud on the ga,bcd sna
bloody body, and murmuting IN b. throat "Ec
sen have killed mine own son :" ALEC found q
temporary relief from The horrors Of his situation
IN insenr.blhly. The ueXi minute, the Nreichcd
hostess, who wac Iuuocsni Of oil that had ptsscd
and who wac. without kuu~ing ~. the wife ola
murderer. the mother Of q murderer, add the mo-
tber Of murdered snn--of son killed BY b. 9th.
or and father -rsn 10 the apartment sud would
hsve increased ten-folj its already insuppor,able
horrors by entering there. had she not been pre-
vented by the honest iownspeoplc. She had been J
reused from sleep b, the noise inside IN the stable
and then by her husbands shrek ami vas nov
herself shroking and frantic, and vas earned back
into the inn oy main force. The two murlcrcrg
were forthwith booHd snd carried to lhe town
gaoi, where on eSsmiustiou. which vas made the
neat morning u appeared ftom evidence that the
person murdered was the youngeft son Of the
landlord Of the mn and person never suspecleJ
ofa eone more SERIOUS thsn hsbi'usi drunkenness:
that Instead 0: being 10 bed. rs his father and
brother bad believed him he had stolen out of the
hose. and lained party ~ csruuscrs IN tho town
az these boon companions, oil sppcsrcd IN evidence
aud two Of ihem dcposed that The deceased. beigc
exceedingly nioKitaied, shd dresd,nr his father
wrath, shoud he rouse The house N such q STAT,
and 81 that late hour, had ssId TO them tha, he
"oold get through The 'ntoW inio the hile De
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