Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-08-06

and on listening, the sound of cautions fool
steps reached his ear. In q, few moments
1.-THE door gradually opened, and two fig
stood upon the threshold.
aKeep the light back" muttered the faith
er in suppressed tone.
"What have we to fear,' said the young
man, tive are two against one; besides he
has only small knife with him, and is
sleeping soundly ly-hear how he snores -
"Do what lteli you" !" said the father an
grily; do you wish 10 awake hin?-would
you nave his cries alarm the whole neigh.
|horhpoil
The horse dealer was Mortified at the
spectacle. He remained motionless under
the bed scarcely daring 10 breathe. The
son shut the door alter him, and the two
wtetches approached the bed on tptoe,
| An instant afterwards the bed was shook
by convulsive motion, and slihed cry
of pain confirmed the toreboding that the
unhappy man in the bed had his throat cut.
Alter pause of awful silence, the land.
lord said, sit is now over, look for the
money! ~,
81 have found it under the pillow" said
the son, sit is in a lealhern belt and pock-
ct book ...-,zs -. 5...--.
The murderers vanished.
Every thing being now quiet, the trav-
eler crept cautiously from under the bed,
jumped out of the window ana FASTENED 10
the adjoining town TO inform the authors
ties OF what had happened.
The Mayor Immediately assembled the
military, and in less than three quarters Of
an hour the inn was surrounded with sold.
iers, wl,e had been summoned to arrest the
murderers. The whole house seemed bu-
ried in profound silence, but on approach
ing the stable they heard noise, The
door was Immediately broken in, and the
landlord and his son were seen busily dig.
glng pit. AS soon rs the murderers saw
the horse dealer, they uttered a cry Of hor.
ror, covered their face with their hands and
fell to the ground ---.s
This was neither for repentance nor the
lear Of punishment, but they thought they
saw before them the ghost of the murdered
man, Notwithstanding they heard him speak.
There was some Trouble in convincing
them 10 the contrary. They were then
bound and led 10 the out house, where the
horrible deed had been conmilted, anxious
to see how the enigma would be solved.
| The prisoners appeared tolerably COL
lected, ut least calm and sullen; but when,
on entering the room, they perceived body
which lay on the bed, the son fell senseiess
TO the earth, and the father threw himself
upon it, with loud lamentations, clasped
the bloody corpse, and exclaimed despair
|ingly. ~ 5
"My son! oh my son! thy father am
I thy nsurderer!" ~ s
The murdered man was, in fact, the
youngest son OF the host. Drunkenness
was the only fault this young man had; and
this night instead oil being us his father and
brother supposed, in his own bed, he had
gone out secretly, and had been carousing
with some of his companions at the uie
house.
Soon becoming sufficiently inebriated
and fearing his fathers anger, if he appear.
ed before him in that stale, he intended
passing the night in the detached out house,
as he had often done before. His com.
panions had accompanied him hither, and
helped him to CLIMB up TO the window
The rest requires no explanation.
Nor do we need add that the murderers
expatiaied their crime with their lives, and
the horse dealer, although saved, and again
in possession Of his plundered property,
sill shudders at the recollection Of that
dreadful night.