The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-09-14

on hand, ready printed, TO save time; commen-
ces writing leader, when as the clock strikes
eleven large man with coWhide IN one
hand, and pistol in the other, and bowie
knife n his belt, walks in and asks him ii his
name is -; he answers by knocking the IN
truder down two pair OF stairs with chair
At twelve O'Clock, finds that his challenges
have been accepted, and suddenly remembers
that he has little affair of that nature to settle
at the beach that day at 3 O'Clock goes out,
kills his man, then comes in and dimes on stew
ed grizzly. Starts for :he Office, and while go
ing there gets mixed up in street row, and
has the heel OF his boot shot off by accident;
laughs TO think how beautiful it was done; ar
rivps at his sanctnm, and finds an "nfernal ma
chine" upon the table knows what it is, and
merely pitches il out of the window writes an
article on ''moral REFORM" and then starts for
the theatre; is attacked on the corner Of dark
alley by three men. kills two of them and takes
the other to the station house. Returning to
the Office at eleven O'Clock at night, knocks
man down who attempts to rob him, kills dog
with piece of paving stone, gets run over by
a cab, and has the tail of his coat stted with a
thrust from knife, and two bullet-holes put
through his beaver, as be steps within bis own
door smiles at his escape writes until two o.
clock, and then sstuTns in,' with the happy
consciousness of having two duels to fight the
next dav. No wonder that California editors
are objects of jealousy. Hereafter our eastern
cstemporararies will please do Us the justice of
believing no correspondent who may intimate
anything at variance with conclusions which
NAV be drawn from the above picture.
MrppPr ~ IVouFr snor "A shockino
murder occurred at Wolemsdorf, in this coun-
ty, yesterday friday morning, the particulars
of which are thus given to Us
A man named John Fl. B. Selbert, aged %
years, son of William Selbert, of Womelsdorf,
wished to marry young girl Of some twelve
or thirteen years ofagp, named Catharine Bouch,
residing with her mother, in an adjoining house;
and was repeatedly heard to declare that il she
refused to marry him, she would marry no one
else. On the morning stated, he watched his
opportunity, when the members of both iami-
/ lies were absent, and attacked the girl in the
ward, seized her by the throat and choked her
until she was senseless, then took an axe and
hsat apt her brains causing instant dsath stsh He
across her forehead, with the edge of The axe.
Selbert was Immediately arrested by constable
hendal, and was taken before John M. Stephen,
Esq, by whom he was committed to answer the
charge at the November Court The prisoner
was lodged in JAIL
Selbert, ii seems, was from his youth addict
ed TO fits of insanity. The desire to marry the
glrl-a mere child-was of course regarded "a
the whlm Of lunatc, and not much thought of
HIS constant intercourse with the object of his
regard, who lived in the next house, appears to
have driven him to desperation. He first at
tempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum,
but drank bottle of ink instead His next
thought appears to have been TO kill the gill,
probably intending to kill himself afterwards
The butchery is of too horrible a character to
suppose that it was perpetratpd in cold blood
but be that as it may, the matter will be thor
ouely sfted by the Court when the case comes
up for trial. The affair has occasioned great
excitement in Womesldori. i.-Berks and Sch.
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