Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1854-11-15

his son digging a grave.
The first figure that met the eyes orthe |
was that Of the traveller. The |
effect ofthis on their guilty souls was too
much to be borne they shrieked and
threw themselves on the ground, and
though they were Immediately seized by
hard gripping hands Of real flesh and blood,
and heard the voices ofthe magistrate and
their friends and neghbors donouncing
them as murderers, it was some minutes
ere they could believe that the figure of
the traveller that stood among them was
other than spirit. It was the harder
william, the father, who, on hearing the
strangers voice continuing the convcrsa-
ton with the magistrate, first gained suE
iicent command over himself to raise his
face from the earth he saw the stranger
still pale and haggard, but evidently un-
hurt. The murderer's head spun round
conrusedIy, but at length rising, he said 10
those who held him, "iet me see that stran.
ger nearer: let me touch hm-only let
me touch him ~ The poor householder
drew back in horror and disgust.
"You may satisfy him in this" said the
magistrate, "he is unarmed, and we are
here to prevent his doing you harm"
On this, the traveller let tho host ap.
Proach him, and pass bis hand over his
person, which when he had done, the vii.
lain exclaimed, 81 am no murderer who
SAYS am q murderer ~
"That shall we see anon" said the trav.
eller, who led the way 10 the detached
apartment, followed by the magistrate, 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 and others held over il, that there
was a body covered with blood, lying up.
the bed, they cried out GLOW is this -
who is lhs!' and rushed together to the
bedside. The lights were lowered 4; their
rays fell upon the ghasiIy face and bleed.
ing throat Of young man. At the sight,
the younger Of the murderers turned his
head and swooncd in silence; but the
father, ultering a shrek so loud, so awful
that one Of the eternally damned alone
might equal its effect, threw himselfon the
bed and on the gashed and bloody body,
and murmuring in his throat: "Mv son
have killed mine own son I" also found
a temporary relief from the horrors Of his
situation in insensibiIity. The next min.
ute the wretched hostess, who was limo.
cent Of all that had passed, and who was,
without knowing it, the wife OF murder,
er, the mother of a murderer, and the
mother Of murdered son-kiled by q
brother and father, ran 10 the apartment
and would have increased tenfold its al
re5dy insupporabe horrors by entering
there, had she not been prevented by the
honest towns. people. She had been rous
ed from her sleep by the noise made il
the stable, and was now herself, shrieking
} and frantic, carried back into the inn BY
main force.
/. The two murderers were forthwith bounC
and carried 10 the town gaol, where, OF
/ the examination, which was made The
. next morning, j. appeared from evidence
that the person murdered was the young
est son Of the landlord Of the inn, and {
: person never suspected Of any Grim,
more serious than that Of habi;ual drUn
kennoss; that instead Of being in bed, a
; his father and brother had believed him
t he had stolen out of the house, and ;oine,
. party Of carouscrs in the Town ot;hcs
boon companions, all appeared in evidenc
: and Two or them deposed iha, the dcceas
5 cd, being exceedingly intoxicated, an
, dreading his fathers wrath, should h
r rouse the house in such a state, and a
, that late hour, had said 10 them that h
e would get through the window into tn
l little detached department, and slee
there, as he had often done before, an
A that they two, had accompanied hin
and assisted him TO climb 10 the wiz
C dow. The deceased had reached tn
o window once, and as they thought woul
j have got safe through it, but drunk m
e unsteady as he was, he slipped back :
d they had then some difficulty in inducin
MIN TO climb again, for in The caprice {
n in,oxica,ion, he said he would rather 20
c sleep with one Of his comrades. Howe'
d er, he bad at last effected his entrance, an
c they, his two comrades, had gone 10 the
o respective homes.
J. The wrelched criminals were execute
J, few weeks after the commission Of Ii
). crime. They had confessed everything
e and restored 10 the householder the 90
y and the paper money that had led them
S a deed so much more atrocious than eve
J. they had contemplated.
s OcTEvery man owes 1t 10 socieiyto b
C come rich, for the poor mans advice
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