Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-08-02

companions of Van Zant who had crossed the
street at his call, retreateds
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are you frightened at the threats of girl =
and again he threw himself violently against
the door. The weapon was Immediately dis
charged, and Van Zant fell.
The report was heard at the church, and
males and females at once rushed out to as
certain the cause.
On looking towards the residence of Judge
V, they perceived five men running at
full speed, to whom the Judges negroes and
several others gave chase and from an up
per window Of his residence handkerchief
was waving, as if beckoning for aid.
All rushed towards the place, and upon their
arrival, Van Zant was in the agonies of death.
He still retained strength enough to acknowl-
edge that they had long contemplated robbing
that house, and had frequently been concealed
in the neighborhood for that purpose, but no
opportunity had offered until that day, when
lying concealed in the woods, they saw the
Judge and his family going to church.
The body of the dead tory was taken and
buried by the sexton of the church, as he had
no relations in that vicinity.
Alter an absence of two hours or therea-
bout, the negroes returned, having succeed
ed in capturing Finley and one of the stran-
gers, who were that night confined, and the
next morning at the earnest solicitation Of
Judge ", liberated on the promise Of
amending their lives.
1t was in the month of October Of the same
year, that Catherine V was sitting by an
upper back window in her fathers house knit
ting though autumn, the weather was mild
and the window was hoisted about three inch
es. About sixty or seventy feet from the
house was barn, huge old-fashioued edi-
fee, with upper and lower folding doors; and
accidentally casting her eye towards the barn,
she saw small door ION range with the
front door and window at which she was sit
ting) open and number of men enter. The
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itself TO her mind, and the fact that her father
and the other males of the family were at work
in field at some distance from the house, led
her to suspect that that opportunity had been
improved, probably by some of Van Zant's
friends TO plunder, and revenge his DEATH
Concealing herself behind the curtains, she
narrowly watched their movements. She
saw mans head slowly rising above the
door, and apparently accommodating the prem
ises; it was Finley's. Their object was now
evident. Gong to the armory, she selected a
well loaded musket and resumed her place by
the window. Kneeling upon the floor she
laid the muzzle of the weapon upon the win
dow sill, between the window curtains, and
taking deliberate aim, she fired. What effect
she had produced she knew not, but saw sew
eral men hurrying out of the barn by the same
door they had entered. The report brought
her father and his workmen to the house, and
on going to the barn, the dead body of Finley
lay on the floor.
Catherine v afterwards married cap
tain of the Continental army, and she still
lives, the honored mother of numerous and
respectable line of descendants. The old
house is also 'in the land of the living and
has been the scene of many pranks of the writ
er of this tale, in the hey-dey of mischievous
boyhood.