The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-05-05

HORRIBLE MURDER-SHi iy in Ulster Com
ty.-A most horrible crime was perpetrated
in this (Ulster) county on Sunday, the 7th
INST. which, together with the circumstan.
ces attending the history of those concerned,
will form a chapter of exciting interest to
the public.
For many years a man named Benjamin
Boycey lived in the mountains known as the
Traps in the tow Of Rochester, in this
county. He had several sons aud daugh.
tiers. The wife Of Ben Boyce, one cold
morning, was found frozen todeath, about n
| mile from home, in the mountains, some ff-
teen or more years ago, and she was buried
beneath tho leaves of theiorest. Ben lived
alone with his children for some time, but
finally they were all married save one,
named Eliza,
Not far from Ben's lived a man named
Cross, who was married, but lived unhapily
with his wife. Ben knew this, and accor-
dinghy opened negotiations with his neigh
Dor, which resulted Gin a fair exchange
Boyce took Mrs. Cross to wife, or TO his
home, and Cross took Ben's daughter, Eliza,
Soon after this arrangement the woman
Eliza gave birth to a daughter. But the
complexion Of the child, the color and pecul-
iar curl of its hair, indicated that some one
blacker than Cross was its father. Besides,
her reputed intimacy with a colored man,
strengthened the conviction that the child
was the progeny of tho black man and
white woman. Cross did not seem 10 mind
this at all, but continued to acknowl ledge her
as his spouse, and the child as his own.
The girl became fourteen or fifteen years
Of age, when she was seduced by man liv-
ing in the neighborhood, by the name OF
Jacob Goslin. lie is a miserable specimen
Of humanity-a morally and physically de-
formed brute. He has a wife, who, it is said,
was jealous Of him, The girl Cross was u
bout to become a mother. On Sunday, she
was induced TO accompany Goslin into the
woods, aud in the course of their walk they
came to a precipice, about two hundred feet
high, and perfectly perpendiculur, Here
they stopped TO talk. After n brief period
Goslin looked over the brink and cried out
to the girl that he saw u woodchuck, and
indicated to her where the animal was TO be
seen. After he withdrew a step or two
she approuchedt the edge OF the rock to look
over, when he gave her a sudden push, ant
over she went into the awful abyss below.
Strange as it may appear the fall did mo-
Kill her. She struck among stones ant
stumps, but survived the terrible DESCENT
The injuries she sustained, however, were
terrible, and must prove fatal, II is said
Her bowels we're rent open, and her whole
body was bruised aud mangled in a horrible
manner. In this awful condition, she crawl
ed towards a habitation, and was two day
and nights exposed, before she was discov
cred. Up to the last accounts she is still
: living.
Gosliahns fed. 1t is stated that his wifi
was cognizant of the cowardly deed, and /
I is believed urged him to- it from jealousy
5 Officers are in pursuit Of the william, and |
d is hoped he May be arrested and punished
Q The people here are highly excited on tn
subject, and il he is captured here, be will
y almost certainly be subject to Lynch law
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