Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1850-03-06

IN lhs," said TIE magistrate; "he is un-
armed and unnerved, and we are here to
prevent his DUNG you harm" On this The
traveller lei The host approach him. aud
pass his hand uver his person, which, when
he had done, The villain exclaimed: -"
am no murderer! Who says am a mur-
derer!" THAT shall we see anon," said
the traveller. who led the way to the de-
lached apartment, followed by the maeis-
srale. by The Two prisoners, and all The
party which had collected In the stable on
hearing what passed there.
Both father and SON walked with con-
siderable confidence into the room but
when they saw by the lamps the night.
watch aud Others held over il. that there
was body covered with blood lying upon
The bed, they cried ouI, "How is this !!
who is this r. aud rushed together to The
bed side. The lights were lnwered; their
rays fell full upun the shastly face and
bleeding throat OF ynuns man, At the
sight, the younger of The murderers turned
his head, and swooned in silence; but the
father, uterng Shrek 80 loud, so awful,
that Que of the rternaIy damned alone
might equal its effect, threw himself ON the
sashed bloody body, and mutfhuring in
bis throat, "My son have killed my
son !" also found temporary relief from
the horrors of his situation in usensbilily.
The next minute the wrG.ched hostess,
who was Innocent Of all that had passed,
and who was. without knowing it, the wife
Of a murderer, the mother nf murderer:
and the mother Of murdered son, Of Il
son killed by brother aud a father ram
to the apartment, and would have Increased
lenfold It's already ipsupporabIe horrors
by enterins there; lad she not been pre-.
vented 6y the honest towns people. She
HAD been reused from sleep by the noise
made in the stable. and then by her hus.
bands shrek. and was now herself. Shrek
ing and frantic, carried back 10 the Inn by
main tnrce. The Two liiufJerefes were
forthwith hound and carried to the Town
Jail. whete; On examination, which was
made ths next morning, it appeared from
evidence that The PERSON murdered was the
Youngest son of the landlord Of the ihn,
and person never suspected of any crime
more serious than habilual drunkenness;
that instead of being III bed, as his father
and Brother had hefeVed him, he had soeu
out Of the house, aud jniued party Of
carousefs IN the town these boom CONS
panions all appeared in evidence and two
Of them teposed that the deceased, being
exceedingly intoxicated, and dreoding his
fathers wrath, should he rouse the house
in snch stale, aud at that late hour, had
said to lhen that he would get through The
window into the l:ilIe detached apartment.
aud sleep there, as he had ofieo done be-
fore. and that they too accompanied him
to climb to the window. The deceased
had reached the wiu'.ow once, and as they
thought would have sol safe through it. but
drunk aud unsteady as no was, he slipped
hack they had then some difficulty in M
ducius him TO climb again, for in The ca
price Of intoxicaIiun, he said he would
rather 60 aud sleep with one Of his cam
rades. However, he had at last effected
his entrance; and they. his two comrades,
had conc 10 their respective humes. The