Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-31

TT Nns murdered ne4F 65hooaD Statfc1, % the /
kichisaA Central Road, ~ niles this side Of |
Chicago.
| III appears shat NcArgar had been IN voor-
mans house, with whom he hid had some little |
quarrel on 4 previous occasion, and while be was
sitting On chair, speaking 70 Voorman's wife,
roofman got behind him With an axe and struck |
him 70 hard a. TO let the head Of the axe into
McArgar's mead up to the handle. After be was
struck be got up and went out Of the house, and
vent about mile frsm the house, ~ asceftain.
ed by the track of blood on the road He sal
down, where he was found dead thirty six hours
afterwaTd. An inquest was held, and the Jury
returned verdict that the deceased came to his
death by . blow with an axe, inflicted by limo
thy Vocrman. Fo0rnan was at the house ad
joining during the time Of the inquest, but thro
the negligence Of tie Justice, be was NOT arrest
ed. NORMAN has fed 10 parts unknown. He
Is about five feet eight inches high, rather stout
~ made, heavy head Of hair and quite gray, Fifty
fvc years old, blue eyes and fair complexion;
he Ia ii,tie lame, as he has had one Of his legs
broken, which has left scar. a reasonable re-
ward will be paid for the apprehension Of the
murderer.
Then we say that McAarger, or, more proper
ly, McCargef, has met the doom his crime pro-
yoked atlast. Justice, though tsrdy, has over
taken him at last. Some ten years before the adj
vent Of railroads, when there was a lonely road
along the sand ridge through the wilderness be-
tween Michigan City and Chicago, there we're a
few poor log cabins at which tor want Of better
accommodation, travellers were compelled to stop.
In one Of these cabins, near the scene OF this ira
gedy, lived one McCarger, with his wife and son,
= lad about IA years old. To that cabin there
came one night lonely traveller, from the west,
tired and foot sore, with his staff and little bum
die, and pair of boots in his hand, walking IN
his stocking feet, because the boots hurt his feet
so that he could not wear them without pain.
This traveller was native Of Ireland, who had
been to Illinois toiling through the Summer to
earn money to send to the old country for his
wife and children, and he was now on his way to
meet them in New York, to guide them to their
new home in the West. Of course he had the
money with him. These facts he made known at
a wood cutters camp into which he strayed, and
where he stayed all night, but he did not tell his
name or 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, Tor
he had been unwell but thought he could reach
"Gibson'sn that night, where he could get better
accommodations. never did reach there. The
wood cutters showed him across the river, ''the
old fork of the Calame," in the direction OF Glib
sons, but with McCargar's house intervening,
and they saw him steering directly towards it,
but short distance 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 first said
that be came at the time and stopped awhile and
then went on four miles that night to Gibson's.
The woman said that he stsid all night, and was
better in the morning and went on. "Did he
wear his boots ~
ooh yes--I gave him something to battle his
feet with, and they were well in the morning"
McCargar himself said that the man did not
stop at all he saw him go by just at night with
his boots swung across his stick, just as describ.
ed by the wood cutters. This was lie, for he
was in Chicago that day and did not go home
till 9 o'clock Two weeks after the travellers
body was found at the bottom of the river, six
miles below McCarger's with the back OF his skull
mashed with his own walking stick, heavy oak
cudgel which was found near him. The body
did not float there for the river vas frozen but
track of handsled was seen upon the ice and
McCarger's boy owned sled The writer of
this article was foreman ola Jury ofinquest up
on the murdered mans body, and had the man
McCargar, his wife, and boy separately. and with
out any suspicion on their part that they were
suspected, before the Jury as witnesses. The
boy was first examined He had upon his feet
at that moment, the murdered mans boots, and
we felt a sort OF prescicnce OF that fact the mo-
ment we saw them, but kept our thoughts in the
background, while we drew out other matter.
We then said confidently, "Your mother says
these are not the fellows boots he had with him
that you traded for. ~
swell, she les-she knows well enough that
they are. gave him my old ones and half
dollar, and went with him q good piece on his
way"
True, we thought, but it was on the way to the
grave.
'.Did not your boots fit you better than these
do?"
"Why yes, they want SO big"
The murdered man was already buried, but we
dug him up and found these boots would fit and
that the boys boots wo'd not by more than two
inches.
KEEP Up WITH FAsI,IoN.-''Ma, can go and
hear the negro screnaders to.night?"
mo, my DEAR l cannot think of letting you
go to such performances"
"Why, everybody goes to hear them, they
sing such comic songs, and tell all sorts of fun
ny stories, you can't help laughing all the time.
/ do wish you would let me CO."
''You must not urge me, Charley, for can
not throw away money on fellows who go about
disguised as negroes singing silly songs that
have no good tendency, and telling silly stories
tnat are not calculated 10 improve tne iiiHu'
but to do hurt. And more than that, do not
believe that any of the better class of society
visit the concerts"
Indeed, Ma, then you greatly mistaken,
for heard Judge Browns boys say that they
were there with their father and sisters, and
saw Mr.. Jones, my Sabbath School teacher, go
in last evening; and was in the store to-day
where they sell tickets, and the minister OF the
Brook Street Church came in and purchased
three or four to take his family"
"Are you sure about what you tell me, Char
ey?"
ayes, Ma; and Mr.. Smith remarked, when he
sold the tickets that the concerts were attended
by very fashionable audiences"
''Weil, that alters the case some you may
70, and tell your sister Angelica to dress for the
concert; and will accompany you; believe
here is nothing but prayer meeting at our
church, tonight We must keep up the fash
on."