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

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window, and by a sudden rush of cool
night air; on raising himself on the bed.
he saw peering through an open window
which was almost Immediately above the
bed, the head and shoulders ofa man. who
was evidently attempting to make his in.
gress into the room that way. As the
terrified dealer looked, the iniruding Go.
ure was Withdrawn, and he heard rum.
bling noise, and then the voices Of several
men, as he thought, close under tho win.
dow. The most dreadful apprehensions,
the more horrible as they were so sudden,
now agitated the traveller, who, scarcely
knowing what he did, but utterly des.
pairing Of preserving his life, threw him.
self under the bed. lie had scarcely done
so when the hard breathing ofa man was
heard at the open window, and the next
minute a robust fellow dropped into the
room, and, after staggering across it, gro.
ped his way by the walls to the bed. Fear
had almost deprived the horse dealer of
his senses, but yet he perceived the intru.
der, whoever he might be, was drunk
There was, however, slight comfort in
this, for he might only have swallowed
wine to make him The more desperate, and
the traveller was convinced he had heard
the voices Of other men without, who were
sufficiently numerous 10 accomplish their
purpose, in case any resistance should be
made. His astonishment, however, was
great and reviying, when he heard the EEL.
low throw off his jacket on the floor, and
then toss himself upon the bed under which
he lay. Terror, however, had taken too
firm a hold of the traveller 10 be shaken
off at once. His ideas were too confused
to permit his imagining any other motive
for such midnight intrusion on an TN.
armed man with property about him, save
that Of robbery and assassination, and he
lay quiet where he was, until he heard
the fellow above him snoring with oil the
sonorousness Of drunkard. Then, in.
deed he would have left his hiding-plac
and gone 10 rouse the people in the inn TO
get another resting place instead Of the bed
Of which he had Just been dispossessed in
so singular manner, but, Just as he came
TO this resolution he heard the door Of the
outer room open-then slealthy steps eros.
sed it-then the door Of the very room he
was in was softly opened, and two men,
one Of whom was the host and the other
his son, appeared on the threshold.
"Leave the light where it is" whisper.
ed the host, "or ii may disturb him and
give US trouble"
"There is no fear Of that" said the
younger man also in whisper, "we are
two 10 one he has nothing but a little
knife about him-he is dead asleep too
hear how he snores !"
"Do my bidding" said the old man
sternly; "would you have him awake
and rouse the neighbOrhood with hi;
screams ~
As was the horror.stricken dealer un
der the bed could hardly suppress a shrek
but he saw that the son left the light in, the
outer room, and then, pulling the door par
tally after them 10 screen the rays OF thC
lamp from the bed, he saw the two mur
derers glide TO the bedside, and thcI
heard rustling motion as Of arms dcscen
ding on the bed-clolhes, and Kissing, ant
then a grating sound, that turned bis sou
sick, for he knew it came from knives o.
daggers penetrating 10 the heart or vital
r Of a human being like himself, and only
few inches above his own body. Thu
, was followed by one sudden and yiolen
start on the bed, accompanied by a moan
Then the bed, which was low one, wa
, bent with an increase Of weight caused b,
one or both murderors throwing lhemselve
, upon it, until it pressed on the body Of lh
traveller. There was anawlul silence 70
t a moment or two, and then The host said
she is finished have cut him across III
2 throat-take The money. | saw him pu
, il under the bolster"
, 81 have it, here il is, said the son; ''
e purse and pocket book"
b The traveller then was relieved from th
I weight that had oppressed hun almost
!. suifocaton, and the assassins, who SCENE
i TO tremhle as they went, ran out of tn
o room, took up the light and disapPeare
It altogether, from the apartment.
It No sooner were thev fairly gone tha
!. ihe poor dealer crawled from under th
y bed, took one desperate leap, aud escape
through the little window by which h
d had seen enter the unfortunate wretch wa
e had evidently been murdered in his slea'
$ He ran with all his speed into the towr
y where he told his horrid story and mlrat
$ ulous escape 10 the nighi.watch. Th
=. nirht.walch conducted him 10 the Burg'
C master, who was soon aroused from b
: sleep, andacquaintedw wilhallihalhappene'
d In less than half an hour from the lin
It Of his escape from it, the horso-dealor wa
II at the murderous inn with the maglsira
d and a strong force Of the horror-stricke
d inhabitants, and the night watch, who ha
IS run thither in the greatest silence. Ia u
5. house all seemed siill as death, but as u