Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-05-02

strange; and desired the Postmaster
at Springfield to ascertain and write
what was the truth in the matter. Inc
Postmaster at Springfield made the let
tier public. and at once, excitement be-
fcame universal and intense. Spring
I6eld Of that time had population o.
about $500, with city organization.
TIE Attorney General of the State
resided here. A purpose was forth
with formed to ferret out the mystery
in putting which into execution, the
Mayor Of the city, and the Attorney
General took the lead. To make search
for, and, if possible, find the body Of
the man supposed TO be murdered, was
resolved on as the first step. In pur-
suance of this, men were formed INTO
large parties, and marched abreast, in
all directions, so as to let no inch OF
ground in the vicinity, remain I'M
searched. Examinations were made
of cellars, wells, and pits of all de-
scriptions, where it was thought pos
sible the body might be concealed
All the fresh, or tolerably fresh graves
at the graveyard were pried into, and
dead horses and dead dogs were disin-
tered, where, in some instances, they
had been buried by their partial mas
tiers. This search, as has appeared,
commenced on Friday. 1t continued
until Saturday afternoon withou. sue
cess, when it was determined to dispatch
officers to arrest William and Henry at
their residences respectively. The
officers started on Sunday morning,
meanwhile, the search for the body was
continued, and rumors got adoat Of the
Traitors having passed, at different
times and places, several gold pieces,
which were readily supposed to have
belonged to Fisher On Monday, the
officers sent for Henry, having arrested
him, arrived with him. The Mayor
and Attorney General took charge of
him, and set their wits to work to elicit
a disnnrery from, him He daniad and
denied, and persisted in denying
They still piled him in every conceiv-
able way, till Wednesday, when, pro-
testing his own innocence, he stated
that his brothers, William and Archi-
bald had murdered Fisher that they
had killed him, without his (Henry's)
knowledge at the time. and made a
temporary concealment Of his body !;
that Immediately preceding his and
Williams departure from Springfield
for home, on Tuesday, the day after
Fishers disappearance, William and
Archibald communicated the fact to
him, and engaged his assistance in ma
king a permanent concealment OF the
body that at the time he and William
left professedly for home, they did not
take the road directly, but meandering
their way through the streets, entered
the woods at the Northwest OF the
city. two or three hundred yards to the
RIGHT of where the road where they
should have travelled entered them ;
that penetrating the woods some few
hundred yards, they halted and Archi-
bald came a somewhat different route,
on foot, and joined them; that William
and Archibald then stationed him Hen
lrv) on an old and disused road that ran
near by, as a sentinel, to give warning
of the approach of any intruder; that
William and Archibald then removed
the buggy to the edge of dense brush
thicket, about forty yards distaut from
his (Henry's) position, where, leaving
the buggy, they entered the thicket
and in few minutes returned with the
body and placed it in the buggy tha
from his station, he could and did dis
tinctly see that the object placed in the
buggy was dead man, Of the genera
appearance and size of Fisher tina
William and Archibald then moved of
with the buggy in the direction o
Hickox's mill pond, and after an alb
sence of half an hour returned, sayinl
they had put him in a safe place; tina
Archibald then left for town, and h
and William found their way to tn
road, and made for their homes. A
this disclosure, all lingering credulitJ
was broken down, and excitement ros'
to an almost inconceivable height. VI
to this time, the well known characte
of Archibald had repelled and pu
, down all suspicious as to him. Ill
then, those who were ready to sweal
t that a murder had been committed
( were almost as confident that Archibald
: had had no part in it. But now, h
T was seized and thrown into jail and
S indeed, his personal security rendere'
g it by no means Objectionable to him.
i And now came the search for the brusl
+ thicket, and the search OF the mil
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