Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-16

sum OF money, which had been exhibited
frequently in the prisoners prescnce.
8. When they left the village they trav.
eled downwards and OH foot-on the 10th,
Pace was seen fastening towards Augusta
on horseback.
6. Before that time, Pace was not worth
more than l23 ccnts--was dependent ON
llolbcrt tor clothes On the 10th, and of
forwards, Pace exhibited a proiusion of
monoy--purchasod horse, saddle, &C., for
S97, and laid out 500 at one store.
Z, Ilolbcrt kept his money in black
silk handkcrchict-on the 10th, Pace was
seen with great many bills rolled up in
similar handkerchief.
8. The prisoners saddle bags, his hat,
his coat, and his pantaloons { the last bloody(
were found on the spot.
.. W hen Pace was arrested he had ON
rHolbcrt's hat identified by the private
mark put on by the merchant and his
boots identified by nail driven through
the heel of one of thcm
lO. On the morning after the murder.
the prisoner was dressed in su tof clothes
which had been carried by iIolbcrt as
dress clothes, and cndcavored TO pass off
note of S2l, the propcrty cf Holbert.
II. When arrested the prisoner had
llolbcrts watch in his fob; witness on
being asked how he knew the watch, said
that 1T was the same, peculiar piece of
paper which he described, would be found
in the case. The watch was opened in
Court and there was the paper. The Judge
told the prisoner that il he would name
the persons from whom he procured these
articles, he would suspend the trial, and
send for them. He was silent.
Such was the evidence on the part of
the prosecution. In itself each fact was
unmportant, or at most could furnisi, no
more than ground of suspicion; but when
taken In conncxiou and unexplained by the
prisoner, they proved too strong for his
escape.
lie was found guilty, and suffered on
the galows.
lie had been pursued and arrested in
North Crolina Though seized when
armed anu surrounded by his friends. he
submitted in silence and without asking
the cause of his arrest
lie had dark, sullen, downcast countc
nance.
"A villain,
by the hand of nature marked
quoted and signed to do n deed of shame"
Such was his appearance and dcneanor
at the time of his capture during his i'm.
prisonment, at his trial and under the gal
lows.
lie was visited, while under sentence of
death, by clcrgymep of different denomi
nations; but their efforts of religious con-
soiations were received with thanklcss
sullenncss.
lie denied his guilt but he could not
or would not explain single circumstance
ot-the great many that were brought aganst
him.
Under the gallows could be seen the
same sullcn, vllainous aspect. Immedi-
.ately previous to the execution, he whis-
pcrcd n the car of the attending minister,
Rev. III. ID. Duncan, that Holbort's papers
might nc found undcra log-where he did
not distinctly describe. A search was
made at a subsequent ime, but the papers
were never recoverc4. Unless this could
be called confession,
He died and made no sign
save too that as the Sheriff, John Walker,
Yves about to turn him off, Pace kiched at
him.
And, perhaps. never did more cold
bloOded, rcmorseless villain meet his appro-
pirate fate. 1t was cold, calculating.
money-making murder. For vile trash,
had he, in the lonely depths of the forest. at
the dead hour of the night, risen ON his
companion, his friend, his bcncfactor, and
wrung from him at once the hard earnings
OF his honest Industry, and his lifel But
most bitter wnS tho rot rihufinn kl,e ,,roG a. 4.