The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-30
From the Nenia Torchli : b:
Fatal Effects Of SANDER.

From the Xenis Torchligh;.
Fatal Effects of SANDER.
Within the past week our town has been the
scene OF one Of the most fatal effects of SIAN
der that We remember 10 have ever heard oil.
a few months ago a widow lady, with q
large family of daughters, all Young. in:aln-
gent and Interesting took up her abode among
us, IN one OF the best quarters OF the town.
Her reputation was without bic mish; yet in
some way chow has no. vet been ascertained)
a slanderous report was put in circulation
touching her character, and that OF her fam
lily Every intelligent and right minded per
son. TO whose ears this report came who knew
the family. united in denouncing it as false.
No one believed it. or pretended to believe it.
ct false as it was, it continued 10 go. and ev
cry few days it was brought back TO the IN
fortunate lady who was its victim. To add
10 her distress, three attempts were made to
FIRE her residence. These facts SO prey ed
upon her mind as to contine her TO her bed.
The efforts of her friends to rally her by as
surances that nobody believed the slanderous
reports, and TO divert her mind from the cir
cumstances were vain. The subject contin-
ued to prey upon her mind. and she contin-
ued to grow constantly worse until last Fri
day, when she died.
The physicians who attended her say, IN
hesitatngly. that she died of no bodily com
plant--her disease being entirely mental,
effecting her nervous system, and producing
death
Her death is, therefore literally and truly
attributable TO the foul breath of calumny.-
The inventor of the vile SANDER (whoever he
or she may be) has the satisfaction of know ing
that their helish invention has done Its work
efectually. and has stripped an innocent an
amiablc family Of defenceless orphan children
of their only earthly protector But although
their SANDER has effected murder. it has failed
of its objecs-it has not deprived either the
victim or her children of their good name.
That remains, and will continue 10 remain
unsu.lied despite their malignity.
If the authors of this SANDER are still among
us, We would advise them TO leave as
possible. If once the fact is fastened upon
them. whoever they may be. they are in dan
ger of more than hard words. We would
not undertake TO insure them even against
Judge Lynch"
Ali our citizens feel and acknowledge this
to be reproach to our place, and a stigma
upon our good name as a community. The
better portion of them, however, who were
aware of the circumstance. have nothing 10
rcproach themselves with regard TO it. They
gave credence to it themselves, and per-
mitted no others. whom they could prevent,
from giving credit or currency TO 1t.
Fugitive Slave Drowned.
On Saturday the 28th ult. negro man was
drowned in Sugar Greek, near the mouth of
Indian Greek. under the following circum-
stances: He was discovered near the banks
of the creek (at that time very high, setting
upon log. by two white men who were hunt
ing. Alter asking him some questions, they
charged him with being thief runaway.
and threatened to capture and take him 10
Jail. AT this moment two other men came IN
sight. and they called TO them to come and as
si>t in catching him. The negro. although
sick, plunged into the creek and swan to
some willow trees, which stand on island
in low water, and there rested. Mr.. H. Weir.
told him to come back and he should not be
hurt; but Mr. A Weir said if he did not re-
turn he would shoot him. This alarmed the
negro, and he plunged beneath the waters.
and continued to rise and then dive, until ex-
hauste1. and he sank to rse no more until
live was extinct. The last they saw of him
was with his feet dangling above the surface
of the water, in the last agonies Of drowning.
These facts were related by the men them
selves: before the Coroner Jury, on Satur-
day the Cd inst After seeing him the last
time, they left the creek without making any
effort to as ;st him. and made no mention of
the facts until towards the middle of the next
week The body was fond in some drift
wood, the following Thursday, some dis
lance below. The Coroner's jury came to
decision. Some were in favor of dismissng
the case with the verdict "tha! he came TO
his death by drowning" Others thinking
the crcum stances rather suspicious, insisted
upon further investigation. Putting the most
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there was reckless trifing with human life
which nothing can justify. He was doubtless
fugitive, but they knew it not, and had no
right to arrest him or threaten his life. They
knew Of no crime of which he had been gull
,y, and only suspected him of an earnest
longing after that freedom for which the hu-
man heart ever pants; and because he acted
upon this feeling, so natural and so strong
they threatened to tie and imprison, and when
struggling with overw helming waters, he is
threa:ended with being shot if he does not
return: and then when strength and life were
fast failing. stretched not forth helping hand
to save him from immediate death.
If the facts as stated be true, (of which
we have no doubt. there is high criminaiity,
of which the laws of our country should take
cognizance; and when the news Of the negro's
death shall have reached his owner. he will
doubtless prosecute those men; IL may De Tor
murder in the second degree, or At least for
the value Of the slave.
Since the above was in type the Coroner's
jury has been again in session and and bro't
in . verde, of drowning by accident or sui
ide--Crarfordsrlfe, Ind, Journal.
A SMART VuLAGE-The Leavenworth
lind Journal takes the following Daguereo-
type of that village: ''Leavenworth is unques-
tionably one of the most prosperous towns in