The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1842-07-30

stood before them ,hls back toward them and I
his face towards Mr. Mann, Mr.. M. appeared
much excited and agi,ated rolled on the bed,
and thre W his arms about and opened his eyes
wide, appeared frightened, and TO gaze
upon the apparion, and then tried 10 cover
up his head. The sick man, ii is stated,
then declared tina. he had forty years pre-.
Uiously assisted his employer in numbering a
man and making away with his body. He
mentioned the name Of Edwarsd, but in what
connexion the deponant cannot say. The
affidavit, then goes on: He called no
other name, and we may be mistaken
| in this name, but think We are not, He
then sunk down; after turning over once or
| twice, and throwing his arms about, ,groaned
| and died. We know we were frightened,
aud could not speak, or did not, nor did
the stranger, and as soon as Mann had
finished con!essing, and was dying away,
he the stranger was gone. How he got
10 or out, we know not; one door was open
but we did not see him cone in or 60 out,
nor can we believe that he did,
The editor OF the Statesman, In connec-
lion with the affidavit tells the following
circumstances. About forty, or forty-6ve
years since, il is affirmed by individuals in
the vicinity, that man by the name of
Hodgdon was working in landau, N. H.,
as a joiner. The last season he was there,
/ he flushed of house for Jonathan Noyes
and made his home with Mr.. Noyes during
!, the time. He lent Noyes some two or
three hundred dollars in money, SO that
! when the house was finished Noyes was
indebted to him about four hundred dollars
3 for labor and money. When Noyes's
8 house was completed, he wen
: to work upon house for Mr. John Gross
f in the vicinity his clothes and part of tools
I still remaining at Noyes's house, He lef
u Gross shouse one evening TO 60 up tc
9 Noyes's and was never seen after that nigh
il Some little excitement existed there, the
Il old people say, at the time, respecting hi
y mysterious Disappearance but as he wal
d a stranger, it was said he had absconded
and Noyes soon after pretended 10 have
r received letter from some place in New
York, requesting him 10 sell Hodgdon''
i. tools, and other things, and send the none,
on TO him, which he accordingly did. bu
whether the proceeds of,h sale went t,
New York or any other place is not know
Is The excitement soon died away, and moth
ID ing more was said or thought about it, un
10 ill the death.bed confession which w
y publish. brought The hidden mystery Il
y light. Noyes died few days befor
Is Mann, to whom the ghost is said TO hav
m appeared, and on his death bed, intima.e
, that he had something TO disclose before h
,r could die in peace, but Mann went a day o
D; expired apparently in the greatest memts
al agony ard under horrible remorse of con
p science, frequently exclaiming .Oh God
d forgive me that one sin!' The Edward
% TO whom il is supposed Mann referred IAN,
. who' many now suppose, was sccessar,
u 10 the murder, is still living, and has beef
70 partially deranged at times ever since, a.
T. well as Mann. We should like 10 know
something more Of the character of the per
e sons OF whose deposition we have given ar
Q abstract above. They are, however, ,spoksr
u as a. 'repectable.'