The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-06-07
Remarkable Story,

| III sir Jonah harrington PERSONAL Sketches OF
his Own Times - there is authentic account of
one of the most remarkable occurrences of which
we ever heard. A Mrs. O'Flaherty and Mr.
Lanegan, private tutor to her son, We're arrested
for the murder of her husband by poison. The lady
betrayed her accomplice and fled; and Lanegan
was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged
and quarteted at Dublin, which sentence was car
RED into execution. And now comes the story:
A Tempar and a friend of mine, Mr.. David
Lauder, a soft, fat, good-humored, supersttious
| young fellow was sitting i'll his lodgings (Devereux
| Court, London) one evening at twilight. | was
| with him, and we were agfeeably EMPLOYED in eat
ing strawberries and drinking Madeira. While
| chatting away In cheerful mood and laughing
| loudly at some remark made by one of u.s. nv back
being toward the door, | perceived my friends
| color suddenly change his eyes seemed fixed and
ready to start out of his head his lips quivered con-
vulsively; his teeth chartered; large drops of
perspration flowed down his forehead, and his
hair stood nearly erect.
As saw nothing calculated to excite these emo
tons, l naturally conceived my friend was seized
with fit and rose to assist him. He did not re-
gard my movements in the least, but sezing
knife which lay on the table, with the gait of a
palsied man retreated backward, his eyes still fixed,
to distant part of the room, where he stood shv
erlng and attempting to pray but not at the mo-
ment recollecting any prayer he began to repeat
his catechism, thinking it the next best thing he
| could do: as, What IS your name David Lau-
| der! Who gave you that name My godfathers
and godmolhers in my baptism" etc, etc.
| instantly concluded the man was mad and
turning about to go for assistance, was myself
not little startled at sight of tall, rough-lOokng
parsonage, many days unshaved, in a very shabby
black dress, and altogether of the most uncouth ap
pearance. The stranger and stood for moment
opposite each other, staring and motionless at
length he broke silence, and addressing my friend,
said, in low croaking voice, Don't be frightened,
MIR. Lauder sure t is me that IS here"
When Davy heard the voice, he fell on his knees,
and subsequently fiat upon his face. in which posi-
ton he lay mOtiOnless.
The spectre las now began to imagine it was)
stalked toward the door, and was in hopes he in
tended to make his exit thereby; instead of which,
however, having deliberately shut and bolted it, he
sat himself down in the chair had previously occu-
Pied with countenance nearly full of horror as
that of Davy Lauder himself.
was now totally bewildered and scarce know
ing what to do, was about to throw jug OF water
over my friend, to revive him if possible, when the
stranger, in his croaking voice, cried" For the
love of God, give me some Of that, for am perish
ingn' ] hesitated, but at length did so: he took
the jug and drank immoderately.
My friend Davy now ventured to look up little,
and perceiving that ! was becoming so familiar
with the goblin his courage somewhat revived, al
though his speech was still confused; he sammereds
rose upon his knees held up his hands as if in sup
plicaton, and gazed at the figure for some time, but
at length made up his mind that it was tangible and
mortal. The effect of this decision on the face OF
Davy was as ludicrous as the fright had been. he
seemed quite ashamed of his former terror, and Of.
fected to be stout as lion though it was visibla
that he was not at his ease He now roared out
in the broad, cursng Kerry dialect, Why then,
blood and thunder, is that you, Lanegan''
All sir, speak low" said the Wretched being.
How the DEVIL resumed Davy, did you get
your four quarters stitched together again. after the
hangman cut them off you at Stephens Green 90
All gentlemen, exclaimed the poor culprit,
"speak low have mercy on me, master Davy; you
know it was taught you your Latin. m stary-
ing to DEATH
You shall not die in that way, you villanous
schoolmaster ~ said Davy, pushing toward him a
loaf of bread and bottle of wine that stood on the
table but standing aloof HIMSELF as though not yet
quite decided as to the nature OF the intruder
The miserable creature having eaten the bread
with avidity, and drunk two or three glasses OF
wine, the lamp of life once more seemed to brighten
up After pause, he communicated every cir
cumstance relating to his sudden appearance before
us. He confessed having bought the arsenic at the
desire of Mrs. O'Flaherty, and that he was aware
of the application of it, but soemny protested that
it was she who had seduced him; he then proceeded
to inform that after having been duly hanged,
the sheriff had delivered his body to his mother, but
not until the executoner had given slight cut on
each limb lust to sdUe the d,0; which cuts bed pro-
fllsey, and were probably the means Of preserving
his life His mother conceiving that the vital spark
was not extinct, had put him into bed dressed his
wounded limbs, and rubbed his neck with hot vim
egar Having steadily pursued this process, and
accompanied it by pouring warm brandy and water
down his throat in the course of an hour he was
quite sensible but experienced horrid pains for sew
eral weeks before his final recovery. His mother
filled the coffin he was brought home in with bricks,
and got some men to bury it the same night in Kill
mainham burial ground, as if ashamed to inter him
in open day. For a long time he was unable to de-
part being every moment in dread of discovery: at
length, however, he got off by night in a smuggling
boat, which landed him on the Isle of Man, and
from thence he contrived to reach London bearing
letter from priest at Kerry to another priest who
had lived in the borough, the purport of which was
to get him admitted into a monastery in France.
But finding the Southwark priest was dead, he then
went to Scotland, using various DISCUSSES; and re-
turning to town, afraid though possessing some
little money, sent him by his mother, even to buy
food for fear of detection but recoecting that
Mr. Lauder, his old scholar Lived somewhere in the
Temple he had got directed by porter to the lodg-
ing the night before
My friend Davy, though he did not half like it,
suffered this poor devil to sit in the chamber till the
following evening. He then procured him place
in the night coach to Rye, from whence he got to
St Vallerv and was received, as | afterwards
learned from a very grateful letter which he sent
to Lauder into the monastery OF LaTrappe, near
Abbeville where he lived in strict secluslon, and
died as | heard, some years since.
INGENIous-The tavern keepers of Syracuse,
N. Y. have adopted very ingenious mode of get
ting on one side of an ordinance, lately passed by
the Common Council, prohibiting the ringing of