Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-11-25
which it was evident he did not in reality

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:. Why, what's all this about locket Do
they suppose stole it, eh | bought it from a
jew il London, and that's all / can tell about it.
Bougq it and paid for it. a good round sum
too. needn't say how much and l won t.
But Ii s see it, Margaret" he said for it was
with h,r this conversation took place. and 1 will
find yoa another that shall be no subject of i'm
pertinent inquiry and remark"
Miss Evandale now informed him that her
frieadhIary Walters had entreated TO be allowed
to keep the loclet till she had made the inquiries
which he had just answered, but promised that
she wdlld bring it to him in the afternoon.
. Ny, curse it get it back instantly Mar
garet, Exclaimed Captain Stanley impatiently,
and ina state of perturbation and excitement,
which Hiss Evandale was greatly at loss to
undelkand. 81 Run for it, Ikea good girl. Come,
now, o, and II give you something ten times
handsper."
Itw$ not this promise, but desire to oblige
Captail Stanley, that induced Miss Evandalc
installi to throw on her bonnet and shawl and
hasten back to Mary Walters, to request the
locket rom her. Two hours had not elapsed
since tie latter had obtained possession oft ;
passedmto other hands-into hands that would
not relase their hold of it till more satisfactory
explanation given regarding it than those
Captain Stanley had yet vouchsafed.
Mary Walters had mentioned the extraordi-
nary circumstance of the locket 10 Mr.. EccIes
ford. wlo chanced few minutes after Miss Evan
dale hal left her
This Gentleman, was an intimate friend ofthe
family, lad been part proprietor of the unfortu-
nate We sel commanded by young Evandale and
Joint adyenturer with him in the trading specu-
lation IN which he had gone to the west coast Of
Africa--for it was to that quarter of the world
he had sailed, and it was there he had met his
fate, whatever that fate was.
Now it so happened that Mr.. Ecclesford had,
two or hree days previously, read in the London
papers N account ofthe trial there Of two seamen
for PIRACY, and the confession of one of them,
after haring received sentence of death, ofhaving
been concerned ina piracy on the coast of Afrca,
on which OCCASION the whole crew had been muir
dered aid the vessel sunk.
From the description given in this account of
the unfo-tunate ship, of the place where, and
the time zrI,ar, traesAd, I-d s~Ler, laa=M Mr..
of was the Minerva, and that the mystery in
which her fate had been so long shrouded, was
at length dispelled.
In his confession the doomed wretch stated
also that the captain of the pirate ship, whose
person he lninutely described, was, he had reason
to beliege, in Britain, though he knew not
where.
From regard to the feelings of the friends and
relations of young Evandale, Mr.. Ecclesford had
not mentioned to them his suspicious of the fate
Of the latter, thinking that the doing so would
only given needless pain.
The story of the locket. however. had given a
new turn to the affair. and such one as deter
mined lIr Fcclesford TO follow out certain sus
picions which it had excited. He in short, sus-
pected, and very strongly, that Mrs. Evandale's
inmate was no other than the murderer of her
SON. the murderer of Margart Evandale's brother.
and of lla1y Walters lover-the captain Of the
private by which the Minerva had been plundered
and sunk.
Under this suspicion he refused mildly indeed,
but determincdIy, to give up the Iocket which
Miss Walters had put in his hands, although
without assigning any reason for his conduct,
WhlCn ne Silu WOulu SllOIllN DS SApiSliASu'
On the day following Captain Stanley, to
whom the circumstance of the detention of the
locket BY Mr. Ecclesford had been mentioned,
suddenly disappeared. and was no where to be
seen orhcard Of
Ten days alter, the apprehension in Liverpool,
by couple of Bow street officers, of a noted
pirate captain who had committed some dreadful
murder, was announced in the paper. This cap
tain was Stanley. He was subsequently htVugnt 70
trial. when the deposition Of his cnmpSnlons IN
m,iIt who had been previously executed, and
S,lir.r -8,,,.roc lad bevn mustered against
him, including the locket, the strongest of all
secured his conviction, and he suffered at the
usual place of execution in London, for criminals
of his description
1t remains only to be added that this result,
this retributive justice, had been brought about
by the activity Of Mr.. Ecclosford, who immedi-
ately after obtaining possession ofthe locket put
himself in correspondence with the Office in Bow
street, when the case was promptly taken up,
and. as we have seen, efficiently followed out.
On Miss Evandale, the effect of this unfortunate
affair was, for a time, sufficiently distressing +;
but in escaping the dreadful fate of being united
to the murderer ofher bother, she found con-
ISOLATION which amply compensated the tempo
rury pain of disappointed attachment, had not,
perhaps, been very deeply seated And her
good sense taught her to appreci ate the kind
Providence which had saved her from so unhap-
Ply connexion.
nc. Fosters bay Gelding won a purse Of
$4,000 yesterday, in match against time, hav-
ing accomplished one hundred miles in eight
hours, fifty-fve minutes and fifty-three seconds
The time limited was nine hours.