Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-07-21

his own person might be next the object Of
TINS murGerous aim, that the public were
| disposed to back the Rangets in whatever
violent measures they M Oh. choose 10 re-
sort TO, to drag the secret to light. and the
actor 20 punishment but now that it was
apparent his whole bate was leveled
against the Rangers. and all that uncertain
ty was confined 10 them, be he devil, ghost,
madman, or Jack Long, the public had no
intention of interfering again. 1t was a
personal issue between him and them
they might settle it between themselves I!
Indeed, men felt in their Inmost hearts that
every man of the ten engaged in the lynch
lug Of Jack Long deserved dozen times
over TO be shot; and now they looked on
coolly, rather enjoying the thing land earn.
estIy hoping that Jack might have the best
of it.
And Of this there seemed to be strong
probability, for The Regulators made only
one more attempt to get together; but ano
lher of their number being killed on his
way to the rendezvous, his body bearing
that well known and fearful signature of
skill, the remaining five, perfectly unnerv.
ed and overwhelmed with terror, retreat. =.
ed TO their houses, and scarcely dared for
several weeks to put their heads outside
their own doors.
The class 10 which Jack had belonged.
at least those of them who had managed to
keep footing during the relentless pro.
scrIPtlon Of the Regulators, now began to
look up, and limited that they had known of
Jacks return from the time of Stoner's
murder, and had aided and abelted his pur.
pose IN every way In their power furnish
ing him with fresh horses when the noble
animal he rode back from the States became
falgued; assisting his flights and conceal
ments, and furnishing MIN with informa-
ton, as well as spreading the exaggerated
stories about him. One bluff old fellow
remarked:
You are fools who talk about Jacks
being crazy! He's as calm and cold as
frosty morning up IN old Kentuck and his
head is as clear as bell He's Just got
tighten and Tory haiin' blood walked up in
him by them stripes! That's blood you
know that's dangersomer than a catamount
when 1t once gets rlz
Jack was now frequently seen, but it was
known that his work was only half done,
and that he meant TO inish it, and he was
regarded with great curiosity and ave.
The five wretched men were entirely un.
strung and panic stricken. They made
no attempt at retaliation, but all their hopes
seemed TO lie in the effort to get out of his
reach. That long heavy rife haunted them
day and night. They saw its dark muz.
zIe bearing on them from every bush,
through the chinks of their own cabins
OHe of them, named White, who was
an inveterate topper, with all his terror could
not resist his inclination for liquor, and
after confinement in his house of nearly
three weeks, determined to risk all and 90
to the store and buy himself barrel. He
went in covered wagon, driven by a negro,
while he lay stretched on the bottom in the
straw. The barrel of liquor was Obtained
he got into the wagon-lsy down beside
it, and started for home
All the way he never raised his head un.
til, near the mouth of his lane, log had
been placed Oh the side of the road which
tilted up the wagon in passing over it, so
as 10 roll the barrel on him. He forgot his
and sprang up with his head out
of the cover TO curse the boy for his care
essness, and at that moment rifle was
discharged. He fell back dead-Shot thro' |
The eye! The boy said that his master
cut short his oaIhs, and exc!am. |
ed There he is !'-at the moment the gun
fred. lie saw a tall man with beard !
hanging down on his breast and dressed in
skins, walking through the brush with his |
rifie on his shoulder.
The next man, named Garnet about two !
weeks after this got up one morning about |
sunrise, and in his shirt sleeves stepped to
his door and threw it open to breathe the
resh air. He was then rubbing his eyes,
being about half asleep; and when he got
hem fairly open, there stood the gaunt
avenger beside a tree in the yard-the fa-
al rifle leveIled, and waiting ill his victim
should see him distnclly. He did see him
but it was his last look The bullet
went crashing through his brain too -
Long is SAID TO have told one of his friends
hat he Eever in single instance shot one
IF these men till he was certain the man
saw and recognized him fully.
All were gone now but Hnch and The
wo Youngest men of the party, Williams
md Davis. The two latter were permit.
ed TO escape. Whether it was from re-
eE,ing on the part of the dread avenger-
'r that he had observed some trifing thing
n their demeanor on the occasion of the
outrage he was thus furnishing, which com
nended them to his mercy, now that his /
resentment had so deeply drank of the bit
Ter delight of atonement--or that in his |
anxiety to secure Hinch, he confined his |
efforts and watchfulness TO him alone |
do not know. They made forced and |
secret sale Of their property, and cleared
out during the night. But it was for Hinch |
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