Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-09-16
From Household Words.
Who Murdered Downie." !"

A'Out 'HG Gnu VI lHf clgHteGntn Centuryi !
whenever any student Of the Mqriochal College.
Aberdeen, incurred the jspleaoure Of the hum-
bier citizens, he was asslod with the question,
Who murdered Downic 2a-Reply and rcioin.
er generally brought on acollison between "town
and gown; = although thsyopng gentleman ware
accused Of what was 54EIizicslly Impossible.
People have a-rigflt 70 De angry NJ being stigma
tized as muraerers. when their accusers have
probability on their side but the taking off,
of Downie occurred when the gownsman, so ma
ligned, were in swadding clothes.
But there was a time, when t) be branded as
an accomplice in the slaughter Of Richard Dow
mic, made the blood run TO the cheek of many
youth, and sent him home to his books thought
ful and subdued. Downie was sacrst or iantor
at Marischal College. One of his duties conss.
ted in securing the gate by Il certain hour pre-
vouS to which all the students had to assemble
in the common hall, where Latin PRAYER was
deli cred by the principal Whether, in dis
charging this function, Downe was more rigid
than his predecessor in Office, O. whether he be-
came sricter in the performance Of it at one
time than another, cannot now be ascertaincd
but there can be no doubt that lie closed the rata
with austere punctualily and that those who
were not in the common hall within O minute of
tbo nroscr;bod limo voro sbrt az. on1 ,r.a.f
forwards ro,-n,r3 cd ord G,oJ h, ,ho r.;aa;aa,
and rrof.sonr, Tho s,nd,m,. Wv ,'.''r',
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were thought Of
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