Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-12-05


praise assembled with the ascending sun, and
The jallor as he listened to the melodious
voices Of three persons whom he looked up
on as the most desolate and lost of all in the
wide world, blended sweetly together, and
chaunting the beautiful hymn:
GIT is the Lord, should distrust
Or contradict his wil!n
almost doubted the evidence of his senses,
and stood fixed in establishment at the massey
door. Could these be the voice of MUIR
derer, and murderer's wife and childf
The brief and to be final interview had
passed, heweveT--those unfortunate ones
had loudly commended each other to the
keeping Of their heavenly parent, and part
ed-he, to face the assembled multitude on
the scaffold, and they, as they said, to return
by journeying to their sorrowfnl home; the
convict, worn out with sickness and watch
ing, now slept.
His maine was John Creel, his place OF
residence is said 10 be in Virginia. He had
been taken up while travelling from the
Enorihward to his home, and tried and con-
Ivicted at the county town some miles dis
tant, for The murder of fellow traveller,
who had borne his company from the lakes,
who was nscert6ined to have large sum of
nancy with him, and who was found in the
room in which he slept, at country inn.
near Redclitf, with his throat cut. Creel
always had PR tested his inaoceree, de-
ciaring that the deed was perpetrated by
some one while he was asleep, but the cir
cumstances were against him.. and though
sie money was not found on finn, he was
sentenced to be hung, and WIS removed to
.ihe old stone iail at RedclifT for security,
the county prison being deemed unsafe
This was the day the execution was to take
place; the scaffold was already erected-the
crowd pressed round the building, and fire.
quent cries Of Hbring out the murderer"
we're heard. s
The sun at last told tie hour OF eleven,
and there could be no more delav--the con-
'vicl's cell was entered BY the officers in at
tendance, Who reused him with the infor,na-
tion that all was ready without; and babe
him hasten to bis execution--they laid hands
upon him and pinioned him tight while he
looked up toward heaven in astonirhment,
as one new born, and only said, ''the dream,
the dream" Sand what Of the dream, Mr..
jason2r said the sheriff. srYou would do
me a great kindness il yon would dream
yourself and me out of this cursed scrape.n
III Dreamed replied the convict, "that while
you read the death warrant to me on the
scafold, man came through the crowd; and
stood before us in gray dress, with white
hat and whIskers, and that bird Auuefed
over him and sung distipctly---this is Lew
is, the murderer of the traveller"
The officers and jsiIor had short consul
tation, which ended in determination to
hok sharp after the man in grey, with the
white hat--acccmpanied with many hints of
resignation of the prisoner, and the POSSIBLE
ity OF his innocence being asserted by su
pernatural agency--the prison doors we're
cleared, and Creel, pale and feeble, with
hymn book in his hand, and mien of all
meekness and humility was seen tottering
from the prison TO Inc scafFold. He had no
sooner assembled it than his ewes began to
wander over the vast concourse OF people
around him, with a scrutiny that seemed like
taith IN dreams-and while the sheriff read
the warrant, the convict's anxiety seemed TO
increase-he looked and looked again, then
raised his hands and eyes moment towards
the clear sky, as if breathing a last ejacula.
ton: when lol as he resumed his first posi-
tion, the very person he described, stood
WITHIN six feet of the ladder! The prison
er's eye caught the sight, and flashed with
iirs as he called out, "there is Lewis the
murderer of the traveller" and the jaiIor at
The same moment seized the stranger by the
collar. At first he attempted to escape, but
being secured, and taken before the magis-
trates, he confessed the deed, detailed allthe
particulars, delivered up part of the money;
informed where another part was hidden,
and was fully committed for trial-whiIe
Creel was turned loose, and FASTENED like
man out Of his senses from the scaffold.
Three days had elapsed-C reel had van
ished Immediately after his liberation, when
the pretended Lewis astonished and con-
founded the magistrate by declaring Creel
to be her husband--that she had assumed
the disguise, and performed the whole part
by bis direction; that he had given her the
money which he had till then successfully
concealed about his person; and that the
whole, from the prison to the scaifold scene,
was continuance to effect his escape, which
having effected, she was regardless Of con-
sequences Nothing could be done with
her; she was again set at liberty, and neith-
er she nor the husband was heard of again.
Richmond Wing.
SERVED RIeHT.-Iu GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
some months ago; clergyman was called