Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1857-04-02

and asking aims at the doors of houses
The child called him father" and they
pursued this mode of life for about five
years when a misfortune befell them. A
theft having been committed in a house
which they had visited in the morning.
Powleska was suspected and arrested, and
the blind man was once more left alone.
But instead Of resuming his former habits
henow disappeared altogeth'r;and this cir
cumstance causing the suspicion to extend
to him, the girl was brought before the
magistrate to be Intercepted with regard
to the place of concealment.
"Do you know where Michael is?" said
the magistrate.
HE is dead" replied she, shedding a
torrent of tears.
AS the girl had been shut up for three
days without any means of obtaining in
formation from without, this answer, to-
gether with her unfeigned distress, natur-
ally excited considerable surprise.
Who told you he was dead?" they in
CURED.
Nobody"
"Then how came you to know it?"
II saw him killed."
"But you have not been out of PRISON.
81 saw it nevertheless"
"But how, was that possible? Elk
plain what you mean?"
Il cannot. All | can say is that | saw
him killed."
"When was he killed and how?"
at was on the night | was arrested"
"That cannot be; he was alive when
you were seized"
"Yes, he was; he was killed an hour
after that. They stabbed him with a
knifel"
Where were you then?"
~ can't tell; but saw it,"
The confidence with which the girl as
serted what seemed TO her hearers impos-
sible and absurd, disposed them to imag-
inc that she was really insane or pretend
ing to be so. So leading Michael aside,
they proceeded to interrogate her about
the robbery, asking her if she was guilty.
"Oh no." she answered.
"Then how came the property to be
found about your"
81 don't know; I saw nothing but the
murder.
"But there are no grounds for Suppos-
ing Michael is dead; his body has not
been found"
1t is in the acqueduct."
"And do you know who slew him?"
"Yes it was a woman. Michael was
walking very slowly, after I was taken
away from him. A woman came behind
him with a large kitchen knife; but he
heard her and turned around, and then
the woman flung a piece of gray stuff over
his head, and struck him repeatedly with
the knife; the gray stuff was much stain
ed with blood, Michael fell at the eighth
blow, and the woman dragged the BODY
to the ~acqueduct and let it fall without
ever lifting the stuff which stuck to his
AS it was easy to verify these last as.
sertions, they despatched people to the
spot; and there they found the body with
a piece of stuff over his head, exactly as
she had described. But when they asked
her how she knew all this, she could only
answer:
81 don't know"
"But you know who have killed him!''
mot exactly; it is the same woman
that put out his eyes; but perhaps he will
tell me her name tonight; and if he does
| will tell it to YOU"
Whom do you mean by he?"
"Why Michael to be sure.n
During the whole Of the following night
without allowing her to suspect their in
%tention, they watched her; and it was OBJ
served that she never lay down, but sat
upon the bed in a sort Of lethargic slum-
Der. Her body was quite m~otionless, ex-
cept at intervals when this repose was in
terrupted by violent nervous shocks
which ~peryaded her whole frame. On
the ensuing day, the moment she was
brought before the judge, she declared
that she was now able to tell them the
Of the assassin.
But stay" said the magistrate, did Nj
chael never tell you when he was alive.
how he lost his sight?"
"No-but the morning before I was ar
rested, he promised me to do so; and that
was the cause of his DEATH"
"How could that be?"
Last night Michael came to me. and
he pointed to the man hidden behind the
.scaffolding on which he and | had been
He showed me the mar listening
to US, when he said III tell you all about
that tonight and then the man--"
Do you know the name of this man?n
ut is Luck. He went afterward to a
broad street that leads to the harbour,
and he entered the third house on the
right -"
What is the name Of the street?"
Il don't know; but the house is one
story lower than the adjoining ones.-
Luck told Catharine what he had heard.
and she proposed to assassinate Michael;
but he refused saying, it is bad enough to
have burnt out his eyes fifteen years be-
fore, while he vas asleep at your door,
and to have kidnapped him in the coun.
Then | went to ask charity. and
Catharine put a piece of plate into my
that might be arrested, then she
bid herself behind the acqueduct to wait
for Michael, and she killed him."
"But since you saw all this, WHY did
you keep the plate-why did you not give
information"
But [ did not see it then. Michael
showed it to me last night"
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