New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-09

shrouded in impenetrable mystery One or other of
these two men must have done it, and yet the strong
proofs Of the abb each produced were not to be
tested. .r-
That ssmurder will OUT is a creed that men hold
TO with an intensity proportioned to the delay Even
the spirit of the doomed girl seemed to be speaking
with terrible emphasis of menace through the words
cut deeply into the stone at the head OF the grave
Although the significant memorial goes, :" the
savage murderer escaped for season the detection
of man, yet God hath set his mark upon him, either
for time or for eternity and will assuredy pursue him
to certain and terrible, but righteous judgment "
And what subsequently happened seems to prove
this. Some years had elapsed when there returned
native of the district, from the bleak Canadian wlds
who had there established himself as farmer. In
| the course OF conversation he stated that he was
present at the deathbed Of man Of bad and dssipa
ted character-no other than Llewellyn Richards,
whom he had known as boy. He appeared to be
laboring under some strange terror at his last mo-
ments spoke through the agency OF some stranger
or other-of dreadful struggle on marshes-of an
appalling murdercry-of dying woman.of fleeing
from pursuing Nemesis and in the midst of this
recital falling back dead with fearful groan, point
ing fingers and the sweat Of unuterable agony upon
his brow There remained little difficulty then of
putting the tangled meshes together. The murderer
| had been pursued, and God had set his mark upon
him, pursuing him to certain and terrible punish
| ment" ..-..se,s,..... g.,.s.sg
| haunting the marshes--a covering, gibbering idiot
| harmless but moaning evermore the burden of his
great sorrow-"My poor darling In the water! Muir
| dered-dead u
l. was out on my accustomed ramble one uninviting
day, having desire to make stretch, il possible,
far Swansea across bleak and lonely tract skirt
| ing the sea, and known as Crymlyn Burrows On
my wayI passed the beautiful old abbey ruins then
by the iron works. anon by the shore of the canal,
the river turning sharply off into an estuary on my
right The bleak, bare tract, with Swansea Bay
gloomily opening out, ard the wild mountain heights
on my right-the gray, frownng sky-the utter soli-
tude-the lonely chapel of St. Margaret, and the
brown, bare blackening desoation still ahead made
me lose heart The long evening setting in decided
me to go back ere had gone much more than half
way. ..s 81.
1 turned at last, fearful of being benighted if
went too far. Shortly behed in the distance the
dark figure Of man looming and coming towards me
with hurried steps, tossing his arms aloft and gesti
cuating wildly. confess to q slight touch of dread
as he came nearer and nearer A more pitiable and
| shocking sight never crossed my vision. '.-
His once tall figure was bent, and SO haggard and
spectral was his form and aspect that shudder ran
through me. His eyes seemed burning in their sock
cts his cheeks sunken, his hair and beard were long
and matted, his frame was feshless that of skele-
ton, and his ragged garments futtered in the wind
Glaring rather than looking before him, muttering
clenching his hands and borne onward and supported
by energies beyond that of his hunger-wasted form
like wretch pursued by an evil spirit that left hin,
:" no rest for the sole of his foot" He approached
passed and was gone. looked after him in vague
fear and deep pity as he gided EDWARDS into the
darkness Of that spectral regon-the fitting place fol
so troubled spirit to wander in.
4 " My little girl-my loved one! Inthe water! Oh
| white God! Lost drowned !" So he
moaned and nuttered. / then knew that had seen
4 the wreck of poor Black David, who for more than
twenty years had survived the dreadful shock but
the deprivation of his reason had brought the IN
happy man no oblivion of the dreadful past.
| He is since dead-his wasted body being found on
the stark Crymlyn Bog, on morning as desolate as
his own life had been. ,. e l--.o