The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-10-08

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heV' Andenoo. io VII. % word W riEes ,hs
mot Implicit confidence, say.
have known him sirce have been in CL,ca.
CO. now nearly s'y years: his parents have dufne
HE whole Of that time been msms-rs of INV
ciu ch and being ?ious people, they trained their
,h'dien ~ the fear of Cod knsd has nos ooly
been faithful membu Of the Sunday School
N "nr church, As II ua universal practice IN tht
Luthria6 church TO caischis All the children, KnM
was asa instructed in the rnciples and d,,ctrnr~
OF Christianity there. For several year, | an
Mt M SHIN. when the children eam. to nv house
ecry wednesday. through the wh,l. winter
next week. but alas Knud will uo, be smonv us.
lie lea'ne that no "thiefshall enter the king.
dom OF heaven"
| t'om u e knowledge ba' Of his character. il
utterly impossible that 10 , ,-ld to threat. or
| promises IN dong willfuly u wrong act Nav,
wh.n v'r anyih ng happened 10 lin ahd his .ot
'"'ng brother whhh their parents would not M.
prove of, knud alway. went from a CONSEQUENCES
( "l duty aud confrss, d he whole But need mot
nIarge this is by nomeans the only circums, anos
That 'estities Of lis character. lie was kuowu
by his fuit.. long before h- fel, Myt,yr TO hon.
es'y aud doubt whether he 1T any one ,woua
have 'so'd the test whou, Thoroughly establish.
t' character before; and his previous cohduct 10
'he most conclusise evidence to u.s.
This character Of yonuY Iverson has hssn con.
hrrled by several Others whom we can the mcst
implicitly rely npGn. The only anxety in the
public mind Is about :he escape Of the boy. who
killed him. They ought to he brought to Yds.ics
at once. Is their and ore 10 pursuit
Dir. Aodeason gives the following account Of
his death:
knud WIS sent af er tie cows, and another bow
was with him. When up BY the toll gate. or be.
tween the toll gate the river. they (Knud snd the
other boy met some larger boys, who talked to
them about getting apples ont If ar. Efs,ons gar.
den: but Us to their being frightened of by Mi.
Es'on. as stated in a paper yesterday. think il
Is" mistake. Knud refused TO 20 and s,esE, - 70.
quested ty the boys. They then entjced Aim to
the rver to swim, but the other boy Went of, and
knrd they got with them. And from, tho Ell,
dence of German boy. who saw them and was
on the tiv'ra at a short distance of, when the
murJerers had "ducked' him. il seems that ,bey
rtnewvd tier request that he should 90 and steaf
apples for them, as he was an entire stranger. hay-
ing never been on the premises and oI his nos.
ilvrly refusing they took and anI ",ucked" him
until he was dead. When those bows came on
shore, the German boy asked what they had
done with knud, II they had killed him, &c
They told him that lie was dead and that he
shonid not tell hs fthar of it, they ran off in m.
greatest fright This hoy having took Knud's
! clothes, carried them to his (Knud.) father, and
told him These are knuds clothes, and some
boys drowned him up 10 the river"
This | understand, is thu statement msds bv
the German boy who was there and saw them
This same German boy says he knows those boys
by sight, as they a'l attended the pubic schooI
together Ia st winter bu, he does not know their
names. lie further states that he has never been
able TO get bis eye on but one of them eipce and
although seatcc has been made even bs h.s ho.,.