Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-05-23
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y the second faEthe Son, and the third fo
4 the Holy Ghost, and the blaze was ,niereI,
Z designed to attract the attention Of the
4 beholder. When Lambert struck the
\ old trace road, he discovered an ancien,
! or ruinons hut or log cabin, nearly oppo
II site 70 him, on the north side of this di
eIapidated and solitary road. The fnodt
J had now nearly gained her mefid ian. and
4 beamed withTf,sA aRdqineleudea splendoi
! on the SNOWY peaks of the distaut noun
tains, and on the cold and solitary land.
I scape just before him. There stood ID
solemn silence and Seeming desdrtion,,
the hut which contained probably, the
objects of his long andlaborious pursuit;
Eandbtos satisfy The anxiety of his mind
respecting the actual presence. of the
!, murderers,, Who would be OH tie, alert
and prepared for defeilce or a most dess
perate ehasadtef, he'had 10 make a silent
and cautious circle around the hut al
/ some little distance from the cabin in any
direction, These circumstances put at
rest all doubts and Gulhdcceftaartii Gulhdcceftaarntiies an and
Lambert had nothing now to- DO, obursto
act in the last scene of.rtIsis san gainal'v
dramat+to captafe the smurdeiers iorI to
lose ms lie. io4 fayeas adt IA ,s,,o,I, !.
H., lie had M Just seen through the shattered
clap-boards Which the door Vas made.
feeble light in the only FIRE place the
house could boast ia The house consisted
Toi bntItwp apartments, which were with
out any partition between--and only dis
tlnSulshed from each other BY step or
two down from the west to the east room.
The poor woman who had resided for
years ON this deserted road, andilived bvJ
selling cakes and beer to casual wayfarers,
sept IN the west room into which the
only door IN the house opened from the
road, and the east room 1cbrftainintr one
bed, as 1T afterward appeared, was occue
pied by the Two Villains 0fwholn Lambert.
was in pursuit. ,o o- ~,
Alter e. stepping a few PAGES back from
the door, Lambert gave i loud couch Or
two, to awakenthe old woman-and bold
y advancingEto the step, and stamping O..
the snow from his feet, desired admit-
lance IN ieigned voice-and. telling her
at the same, time that he was a stranger
who had lost his way-that he was nearly
frozen to death in wandering about-and
that ne wished her TO relight the fire to
warm himself. .-ss ...
2 She immediately obeyed, and soon re-
plenlshed and relighted the fire, whilst he
remained outside the door, under the pre
ience OF disrobing his feet of the SHOW
his real object being TO await the light oil
the hre' that he might fairly encounter
the villains. whom lie had Just heard |
stepped Stepped 3 SveaP flaurnaea ara and pa9l,s staEJJea
light of the fire. his first salutation was
the loud report of a musket from the
lower room, the two balls from which
struck the door-post an inch or two from
his head. No time was now TO be lost.
Reserying his fire, he sprang down to the
lower room, yet reeking with the smoke
of burning powder, and using his toma- |
hawk with dexterity and effect, Knocked
the villain senseless who had just fired
upon him, and whom he believed he had
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In the interim, while these events
were passing, the smaller villain of the
two had crept through small unglazed
window, Immediately above the side of
the bed, and was running off, in the
bright moonlight, directly toward the
north. Lambert soon discovered him,
and mounting on the bed, as the, fellow,
was running directly from the. window, a
straight line, clothing in hand, brought
him down onthis face, with two balls
from his own rifle planted precisely be-
tween the shoulders of the horrible mis-
creant. Then, seizing with giants
grasp, the sturdy villain whom he had
telled on the floor, and who seemed to be
reyiving for further combat, Lambart
placed his knee on, the fellows breast,
and asked the old woman for rope.
This she furnished by cutting BEDFORD
from one of the bedsteads. HiA '.l
With this Lambert bound. the fellow,
and dragged him to the Fireplace in the
upper room. Then absenting himself for
few moments only, he brought in the
dead man on his shoulders, and placed
the corpse side by side with the living
murderer 80 + lyua gi.j 531eY
When the day dawned, the work of
death, being finished, Lambert prepared
to return home, having accomplished in
few hours what would have immortal
lied any hero of the age of chivalry.
When deserted by his faint hearted com
panions, this man of iron resolution and
strong energies, never faltcred or betrayed
the least hesitation of purpose.
Lambert now accepted loan of a
horse from his aged and venerable friend
the old woman Of the .meuntairls.s He
next placed his living captive on the an
imal on the animal, alter having pinioned
his arms behind him and secured his
feet below the horse. And then fasten-
ing the dead body of the miscreant he
had killed across the shoulders of the
horse, and firmly lashing it to his com
panion in iniquiiy, he gravely led the
horse, with his burthcn Of murder and
carnage to the house of his brother in
law. Here he found many persons as
sembled from all sections of the country,