New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-17
A MURDERER MURDERED.


On Friday evening last a man named McArgH was
murdered NJ ar Gibsons Station the Michigan Cen
trail Road, twenty -four miles this side Of Chicago.
1T appears that McArgar had been in voorman's
yious OCCASION and while he was sitting on chair,
speaking to voQTmsp's wife, v0orman got behind him
with an 81 and struck him hard o. to let the head
Of the into McArgars head up to the handle. After
he was struck he got up and went out of the house,
and went about mile from the house as ascertained
by the track Of blood on the road. He sat down,
wtere be was found dead thirtysx hours afterward.
An inquest was held, al the Jury returned verdict
that the deceased came to his death by blow with an
az, inflicted by Timothy Voorman. voornsn va al
through the negligence Of the Justice, he was no
arrested. Voornan has fed to parts unknowp, Ha
10 about FIVE feet eth. inches high, rather siouy
made, beevy head of hair aud quite gray fry Ave
Isme a. he has had enc Of hs lego broken which ha'
left scar. A reasonable reward will b paid for to
appreht nsion Of the murderer
Then we say that Mr.. McArgar, or, more properly,
McCsrgar, has met the doom his crimes provoked at
last. Justice, though tardy has overtaken him at last
Some ten years before the advent of railroads, whe
there wss lonely road alorg the cambridge through
the wilderness between Michigan City and Chicago
there were few poor log cabins at which, for want of
better accommodation, travellers were compelled to
stop In one of these cabins the scene of this
tragedy lived one McCargar, with his wife and
son, lad about II years old. To that cabin there
came one night lonely traveller, from the West, tired
and foct-sore with his staff and little bundle and
pair Of boots in his hand walking in his stocking feet
because the boots hurt his feet that he could not
wear them without pain. This traveller a native
of Ireland who had been to Illinois toug through the
Summer to money n send to the old country for
bis wife and children, aid he was now on his way to
me ct them in New-York, to guide them to their new
home in the West. OF course he had fhe money with
him. These facts he made known at wood cutters
camp into which he srayed and where he stayed all
night but he did not tell his name where he came
from, or any particulars BY which he could be traced.
When he left the wood choppers camp it was late in
the day. for he had been unwe but thought he could
reach "Gbsons" that night, where he could get bet
ter accommodations. lie never did reach there. The
wood cutters showed him across the river the old
"fork Of the Calamie' in the direction of Glbsor's
but with McCargar's house intervening, and they
saw him steering directly toward il, but short dis
lance from it; and no one but McCargars family ever
saw the man alive again. They each told different
stories about the matter when separately questioned
The boy fret said that he came at the time and stopped
little while and then went on four miles thM night
10 Gibson's The woman said that he stad all night,
and was better in the morning, and went on. Did
he wear his boots T.
"Oh yes-I gave him something to bashe h' feet
and they were well in the morning."
McCargar himsef said that the man did not stop at
ID; he ssw him go by just at night, with his boots
.wurg across his stick just described by the wood
cutters. That was lie, for he was in Chicago that
lay and did not get home til o'clock Two weeks
aer the travellers body was found at the bottom oil
be r1ver, six miles below McCsrgars with the back
# his skull mashed by lis own wslking-sicx, heavy
,ak cudgel, which was found near him. The BODY
lid rot float there, for the river was frozen, out
rack Of hapd-sed was seen upon the ice, ana NC
csrgais boy owned sled. The writer OF this article
vas foreman of Jury of inquest upon the murdered
mans body, and had the man McCargsr, bus WIFE, aud
10Y separately, and without any susp'eion on tneH
,urt that they were suspected before the jury as W.T.
esses. The boy was frst examined. ne hAu uVon
lis feet at that moment the murdered man oools' anu
We felt sort Of precedence OF that iaet me m'menl
We saw them, but kept our thoughts 10 the back
round while we drew out other mater. We taen
aid confidently your mother says those are not the
FLOWS boots that he had with him that you traded
Dr."
"wen, she lies-she knows well enough they are
gave him nv old ones. and bsf dollar, and went
it'll him good piece on his way
True we thought, bat i, was on the way 10 the
rave. .-
did Mt your boots cit you better than these =
q" Why zee, they want 50 big
The murdered rssn was already buried, but we dag