Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-05-10
EATON, PREBLE COUNTY, 0. MAY 10, 1856.

10 the She1lii and then he goes TO the bench
and whispers 10 the judge. Henry Bilptr
starts up and moves towards the door, but in
an instant the hand OF lhe sheriff is UPON him.
All is excitement the most intense. Directly
he mass at the door begins to give way, and
four men are seen bearing upon their Shoul.
derS chair,-a large stuffed chair. II and in
:hai chair sits Mathew Hampton, not dead, but
alive. True he is pale and ghastly, hui b is
eyes are open and his lips move. A; length
he chair is set down before the bench and The
Old physician Of NJ, asks permission 10
S ,eak. A. soon as that face became known,
~ was quiet and order was restored.
The physician says Lhatneither OF the wounds
which Mr.. Hampton had received, is mortal,
hough he al first thought they were. The
Hlo" upon the head and the stab in the breast
combined TO produce astate Of catalepsy which
resembles death so nearv tha many an eX-
perienced person might have been decei ved.-
When he CAV" out that Mr.. Hampton was
dead, he thought it was so. But when he
found that Hampton was living, he kept the
secret to himself for fear that certain man
whose presence was much needed, might be
missing
AT this juncture Mr.. Henry bigger made a
s wage attempt to break away from the sher-
III, but it did not avail him. The jury were
directed 10 return to their box, and then Nj.
Hampton was requested to speak. He " rs
loo weak 10 rise, but he spoke plainly and in
a manner that showed his head 10 be clear.
lie stated that when he reached the bluff
on the night Of the disaster, he discovered
that his pocket book was gone. He stopped
his horse and was trying to think where he
had lost it, when some one came up from the
road side. He he'd just time to see that il
was Henry bigger when he received blow
on the head from a club that knocked him
| from his horse - then he felt q sharp, singing,
burning pain in his bosom, and with mo-
mentary starting Of his muscles he opened
his eyes. He saw that Bllger was STOPPING
over him aud rOnsacking his pockets. He
could just remember OF hearing the distant
galIop of horse that he thought his body
was being dragged TO the load SIDE, and alteI
that he could remember nothing till he awoke
in his own house and found the doctor at his
bedside.
For little while longer the multitude had
to restrain themselves remember The judge
Sald something TO the jury, and that the jury
whispered together for moment. Then the
prisoner stood up once more, and the foreman
said
"Not guilty.!
| pulSl IOllH HChlly oHOuto " Wv
peopie-Abel Adams sank back into his seat
but III moment more he was seized by Scort
OF stout men, aud with wild and rendlng shouts
they bore him into the free, pure air, where
the bright stars looked down upon them. A
!ille way they had gone when they met q
young woman whose hair was flowing in the
night wind, and wrnging her hands IN agony
!, They stopped and set their burden down.
i Abel saw the woman and he sprang forwsrc
ana uPht her to his bosom.
"Mary Mary-Pm nnocent-innocent-
free"
!, The wife did not speak. She only clung t.
: her noble husband, and wept on his bosom.
A wagon box was torn from its axleree-
} the blacksmith and his wife paced therein
and they were borne away toward their home
and after lhey had passed from my sight
could hear lhe glad shouts Of the compulSivt
people waking the nigh, cir and reverbeEatlnt
among the far distant hills.
On the next morning before the stage start
ed, Learned that Mathew Hampton had de
Z termined 10 make the young blacksmith &C
/, cept of one thousand dollars whether he wa:
willing or not.