Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-07-27

WOulO take you III Hio Wei 'cetn. II
lose you--rest, rest, Minnie, for tears of
blood shall be wept to give your spirit peace.
Take care of her, nurse; for every hour Of
ease your attention gives her, the minutes
shall be paid in gold it will not be for long
hot very long shall she be at his mercy
And as he passed out he shook his clench-
cd hand in the air.
Three hours after this, before the
! frightened nurse had well recovered from
her panic, the whole house echoed with the
terrible news that Colonel Wharton had
been found murdered, in coppice about a
mile from the Abbey One of the keepers,
in going his round, had discovered the body
and in few minutes from the first intel
ligence reached the house, the murdered
man was brought in. Medical aid was
quickly procured, for people fled here and
there, winged by terror and wonder, as if
the angry spirit of the dead still ruled them
but it needed not the experienced eye of
surgeon to see that all skill was fruitless
the soul was gone. On the temple was
the only mark of violence, yet that was
enough to account for death u heavy blow
dealt by some blunt instrument, had shat
tered the skull, and the brains were mingled
with the grey hair. There appeared to have
been but slight struggle, if any, though
the clothes of the deceased were wet with
the blood oozing from a severed vein.
eel can do no good, said the surgeon,
after carefully examining the body. Who
eau have done thisr
) &c His nephew, Mr.. Charles Wharton ;
who else SO lkelyr
, "Hush, woman !! exclaimed the startled
doctor, as the nurse who had entered the
room, replied TO his question, Do you know
what you say?
, "' Yes, sir-'tis horrible deed, bad as
, the old man used them, and it will have
horrid payment; 'twasnt for nothing he
swore to-day to have blood
The vulgar are always lovers of the
: marvellous; and to her eager listeners the
woman recounted Charles visit of a few
} hours before, with her comments; till all,
) even the cool-headed surgeon, unable tc
. separate the true from the false, decided
that he had done the ruthless deed they
looked upon. Before night, Charles was
arrested; and the whole country, far and
t wide, had heard the hdeous tale, that Col
Wharton had been murdered, and that his
l nephew was In custody for the crime. AT
gamekeeper's cottage, where he had been al
t first denied to the officers, Charles was found
. and upon the breast of the velveteen jacket
: he had worn in his visit to Minnies SICK
c room, were clots of blood, scarcely vet dry
. the right wristband of his shirt, too, wal
stained and torn. When first told of thu
e murder he seemed paralyzed and horror
S stricken, and at once accounted for TIT
n blood upon his clothes, by saying, that OIL
!, his way from the Abbey to the cottage wher
v he then was, he had been attacked by do.
It which he had stunned if not killed, by
e blow from the butt end OF gun he had witt
IS him; and this explained the fact of his fowl
h ing piece being discovered in the brew
h house OF the cottage, sticky, and red wit
i gore. Upon going to the place he desert
IS bed, the dog was found, and SO much q
= suspicion was removed still the magistrate
C did not think themselves justified in settin
h HIM at liberty until the inquest had sat, an
he was detained prisoner at the Abbey.
It "Angrily, almost defiantly, he repulse
s. the accusation of being the murderer bu
lie when he saw the suspicious of his hilbert
l. friends, and their constrained manners, h
Of wrapped himself in the armor of his ow
Z
lie nor asked a question
er 1.-The jury met, saw the body, the plac
E. where it had been found, and then hear
the evidence. was in the room, and clos
E. y watched the proceedings and the prison
id err. His arms were folded, and his teet
O set not nerve moved and it was ON
lie by the starting muscles of his hand, cause
lie by the grasp he held upon book, we kne
ne how intensely he was feeling; outwardly a
as was cold, moveless as marble. Once on
he visibly showed symptoms of suffering,
en- was when the nurse repeated with exagger
wv ton, his visit to Minnie's chamber the
d, the pale lips quivered, and the eyelids ft
ce lower over the eyes, but that was ALL Ii
ne solicitor was in attendance; and when
on the evidence had been apparently given,
EN- submitted that no case had been made o
Oh against his client at any rate, nothing
in justify his detention in custody. Just thu
er "A loud sobbing was heard in the hall, al
the door opening, admitted constabl
we bringing in a young girl, about twenty, al
Use II man not much older. On seeing the
for Charles started, and his lip slightly curle
if "'Oh, Mr.. Wharton, do not look so
ny deed could not help coming indeed,
his deed could not ; and her tears fell fast
After much vain questioning, she sobb
to out, that she was Miss Wharton's maid, a
air that she was engaged in marriage to t
tut young man beside her, one of the Colone
ty, ioresters that early in the previous moi
ok ing she had gone out to meet her lover
US, the park, and that they had walked togetl
% for some time, when at distance they {
ny served their master coming towards {
lad spring coppice, where the body was aft
wards found that they concealed themsel,
a until he should have passed through, VIII
up just as they thought themselves out of sig
he he turned and walked beside the coppi,
lie instead of entering it, and trees and bru
al wood intercepted their view; the next til
Ter they saw him he had been Joined by
vas prisoner And here the witness sobbed
an piteously that it was with great difficulty
I'm, coroner could induce her to proceed. I'll
irst were very frightened she said, when Il
'er- saw Mr.. Charleston they knew the see
to likely to follow, as it was she who had TAX
and Miss Minnie from the floor on which
lful had fallen, when her father cursed her
cen sadly. They were too far off to hear W
sly was said, and too frightened of being fou
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