Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-10

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ieceiving us /? If the store has never I
been opened since that time, his skeleton, {
most like, is there now. A bad job we
made of it. Come along"
Might have been worse" said the
first speaker, as they staggered along,
and / heard something muttered about
'necks stretched
l followed, stealthily, at little dis
tance, convinced, from what had heard,
who they were. But who, thought /,
will be witness against them ? My
wife's evidence would be hardly sufficient
even for circumstantial proof. Still [ re-
solved to mark where they lodged, and
on the way hit upon plan.
When | arrived at the sailors board
ing-house where they stopped, while they
were drinking, gaming and swearing near
the bar, 1 sent man for assistance, and
when it came the two were seized, with
out word of explanation from US, and
conveyed to Jail. They made desperate
resistance, and were at first assisted by
some of their shipmates, who were soon,
however, restrained by the landlord,
whose assurance that justice should be
done was enough for them.
We put the men in separate cells and
allowed not a word to be said to them,
and meanwhile l related my suspicious
and the plan proposed for their detee-
ton (; and on the following day it was ap-
proved and adopted, and at night put
into execution.
In the course of the day we visited
them, and to the inquiries why they
were arrested answered that it was for
theft, committed on the preceding day.
This was intended to lull their suspicious
of the truth, and prevent, if possible, any
premediate defence against the charge Of
murder. / did so, and the men, relieved
of their chief anxiety, laughed, cursed
danced and sang all day in their cells
, confident that they would be able tc
f establish their innocence of the charge.
One of the two, we discovered, in the
; course of a carefully worded conversation
was OF a nervous and superstitIous nature
, and upon him we fixed as the instrumen
4 of the success of our stratagem. AT nigh
: he was taken from his cell, suddenly
i gagged and blindfolded, in silence, place.
}, in a carriage, and conveyed to the stor
/, where the murder had been done, owe
:. three years before.
a Some dozen in all, officers and others
u were present, the affair being kept secre
o from the public. When the door wa
n closed, the bandage was removed fror
the mans eyes, and he found himself,
d his unconcealed horror and disappoin
j.; ment, in the presence of that stern an
h solemn assembly, and in that fatal store
" Inever saw remose or alright so vivid
le depicted as in his CLASSY eyes and ash
re complexion, and when the gag was r
" moved from his mouth he fell upon b
a knees and exclaimed
Sc 40, sirs, what are you going to do wi
me ?"
IN " Stand up p said the grey-haired 9
II torney who come up with US. The m;
| humbly obeyed, though his knees treI
or bled, and two of US supported him, viii
I'M the faint light of the two lanterns I
vealed the agonized workings of
in soul.
ne Unfortunate man." said the attornt
IRE "we have brought you hither by mig
= to place you face to face with the m
,er you murdered in this store more th
emf three years ago."
ant 81 did not murder him, it was
to i" Silencel p interrupted the attorn'
&c" You were engaged in the bloody bu
re- ness, and you vainly thought that
ld's judgment of God would not overts
sity you because the eye Oh in'n n'u no' >
LET you, and you and your companion
fed on three years cruise. But
ncb blood of the murdered is ever eloqut
first Their spirits often rise from the deac
eep point out the guilty. And in this ft
ink ful case, though so long period
rev elapsed, the skeleton of John Hagne
and about to confront you, and see if y
,een eyes are able to rest upon it, while
d of bring other and oUer,cietning pr
and against you Look there.
hing Those present stood from Before
IL" guilty man, and he now saw upon
lis floor, near where the murdered Has
had been found, something covered :
one a white cloth, as If a dead body or a sk
MY ton lay beneath.
old Shall we remove the cloth p a
into one.
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