Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
AN NRPNDEW FAMILY JOURNAL and SM8 NRuWRY-HY AIM 10 MUSE TO IVTa0TM NNFFT
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SEPTEMBER Is, 1858.


| am happy to have pleased youl Ii
was thoughtful in you to select such a
place for your gold-the most cunning
burglar would never guess it ?D
You will lose nothing by your exceed.
ing ~cleverness,' he said as he was fixing
the bandage over Horace's eyes, : here,
my friend is a little present for YOU and
he placed q parcel in the mechanics hand.
The same road was driven over, the
same ~unearthly silence preserved in the
ph@ton, and lei day break, Horace was
left blindfolded at the door Of his lodg
lngs. He tore off the handkerchief and
looked wildly around him, but he saw only
great crazy houses and smoky manufac.
rles. The carriage and its mysterious
occupants had vanished.
He bethought himself of the parcel
given him by the unknown, and breaking
it open, he foand simply a hundred dollar
note enveloped in brown paper.
Early or the morning subsequent to the
event chronicled above, q boat containing
two persons, might have been seen pro,
ceeding at good speed up the Des P
river. Arriving within half a mile OF
Woodstock, the way lay through or be-
tween high banks, which were covered
with a thick growth of scrubby naples
and tangled with hazel. From the over.
hanging bough of a low tree, a white
handkerchief huttered in the wind. and
the signal did not long escape the anxious
eye of the taller of the two boatmen.
This is the very place! I know it?' he
exclaimed, triumphantly.
Flintwood, for the reader has probably
recognized our old friend, sprang upon
the shore followed closely by his compan-
ion; and after a brief search, the box con
tanning the mysterious corpse was discov-
cred. Immediately it was placed into the
boat. the handkerchief was removed from
the tree bough, and the light craft shot
like an arrow down the stream.
They drew uD the boat after a good
two hSurs sail, ar an obscure wharf in the
little village of N, and a carriage,
which was evidently waiting thei: arrival,
took them and their freight to a large,
old house situated q little distance out of
the village. .
Flintwood had the body conveyed to
an upper chamber of this building. and
when left alone with it, he unscrewed the
cover and looked upon the face sleeping
within its shadow. AS nc gazed, he saw
that there was warm Precipitation upon
the forehead Of the seeming corpse, and
a tinge of life redness ON the slightly
parted lips.
The young mar sprang from the room,
and IN fifteen minutes he returned accom-
panied by a physician. The man of sci
ence, after a brief examination of the body,
reported temporary suspension of ANNA
ton, induced by some drug administered
while in great bodily prostration." Fur.
thermore, the physician asserted that the
body was that of Gertrude Winchester.
the heiress and belle whose sudden disap.
pearance had caused SO great q sensation
OF grief and wonder in the fashionable
circles OF C--, some three months pre-
.vious.
Dr. Wellman suggested the most rigid
secrecy concerning the mysterious discov.
cry OF the body, and, in the meantime. ex-
erclsed himself to the utmost to restore
the ladyzto life and consciousness. His
efforts were successful, and by sundown
OF that day, Gertrude was able to con.
verse. so soon as deemed practicable by
the medical attendant. the story of her
abduction from the dismal vault of the
old country house was told to her, and at
her request Flintwood was called in, and
she gave succinctly the following account:
Fifteen months ago, nay father, Norton
Winchester, died, and, by his will, as we'll
as by right, | was made sole heir to his
great property. l had neither brothers
nor sisters. and my mother being deceased
some four years, | had no nearer relative
than a maternal cousin, who is known as
Col. Glines-Richard Glines, of the
Woodstock Downs. This mans envy was
excited, it appears, towards me, aud al
though he was careful to avoid arousing
my suspicious, | soon came to know that
he nurtured against me the bitterest ran.
cor. Probably this was increased by my
refusal to form o matrimonial alliance
with his soma d~issolute young man
whom | could regard with no other sen
timent than the most sincere pity.
Il have ever been fond OF equestrian
sports, and was in the habit Of riding cut
every pleasant morning on q horse which
my poor father imported for my use. On
the last of August, as | was taking my
accustomed ride, as it happened, entirely
unattended-ia passing through a strip o.
forest near W Moor, | was seizec
by a violent hand, and drawn from my
horse into a close carriage which hae
driven hurriedly up. Halt dead with ter
ror, yet | recognized in the countenanc,
of the man who held me firmly in my seal
the hated features of Col. Glines L,
stop my cries and agonized inquiries a
to what he was going to do with me, b
made but one reply-a low and almost in
! fernal laugh.
AT last, but all to soon, the carriag
stopped at the gateway Of the horrl
place Woodstocks terror-the house rel
dered terrible b. the Hilfstone murde
? committed there ten years agoAan
more dead than alive I was dragged wit