The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-07-07

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- bed, - bic BODY IN, BY dsnvins bic knees
y he kept his etfson the aoos.
When found be was speeches. and remained
npcechless until one hour ago. nisnow thought
that he win recover. He evidently vas deter
mined to die, as he could have relieved the
choking BY standing on hi. feet.
In haste, g.
A. Collins and Harrison Smith took the boy
James II. Willis over tho ground travelled BY the
murderer Kephart, from Eddyville to Cedar
Greek, where The bodies were found. The boy
has wonderful memory Of places and events =
the accuracy Of his descriptions and statements
arc astonishing. Before reaching Eddyville the
boy stated 70 Collins and Smith that Kephart
drove up to . tavern to inquire where he could
find pas,uragc for his cattle. The landlord adj
vised him to go up on the prairies back Of the
town, where there was good grass and cool
breeze; that on the river bottom it Was sultry,
weeds and no grass Mrs. Willis urged that they
go on the prairie where it would be cool, but
kephars drove three-quarters Of mile below
the bridge ON the river bank. Contrary to his
usual custom, he tied the oxen to "a tree. The
boy told them that they would find the bark
peeled of the tree; that they would find . log
not so long az rail cut where the FIRE was built;
that there were sticks gathered to burn lying
there, which himself and brother had collected !;
that his little sister had collected pile OF mus
Gle shells to play with, and near them his sister
Law soon after she was killed, and in the
weeds, where the wagon passed as they
left the fatal spot, re told them that they
would find table cloth that Kephart had under
and around his mother, after she was killed, and
then cast 1t out, as they rode along, into the
weeds. After the deed was done Kephart drove
twice across the Des Moines river and returned.
All these statements, made before they we're in
sight Of the ground, were found exactly true
There was the log, where wac the campfire, two
feet lees in length than rail cut, peeled log
there was the tree, the bark off and the ground
tramped by the uneasy, dry and hungry oxen
there were the wagon tracks, twice into the riv
er and twice out again, at different points, there
NTH weeds was found the table cloth, saturated
with blood, laying in the weeds, not far TO one
side of the wagon track.
On the road from Eddyyille to Maryville, Ere
mont and Cedar Greek, the boy desc ibed the old
mill, the clap board school house, the lone tree,
whore they took dinner, told ON which side ofthe
We took dinner" said the boy, " Kephart took
his knife and scraped a portion of mothers
brains off Of the wagon bow, and finging it OFF
his knife, it caught on his coat, he then tore q
rag to wipe his coat and you win find the rag in
the grass" The rag was found and the brains
yet on it. the details are too horrid to write.
FAIRFIELD, July 5th-l0! o'clock A. N.
have just witnessed the most exciting and
painful scene. 250 men from the vicinity Of
Batavia, where the murdered victims were found,
came into Fairfield one hour ago, organized on
horseback and in wagons, passed around the pub
lie park, orderly and quiet, the poor orphan boy
Jail, surrounded it and halted our citizens rapid
~ assembled-our County Judge asked to be
heard-next Wilson, Slagle, Collins from Bata-
via, Acheson, Negus, Lamson Myers, and others.
They were all listened to--they asked not to de-
fend Kephart, but appealed to all good citizens
to defend the law. All was Of no avail, they
had come for kephart--they had erected his
gallows and dug his grave on the banks OF Ce-
dar-Kephart they would have, and they held up
the lonely orphan boy. Next they took scant-
ling and battered down door after door to KEEP
hart's cell and took the feeble old man, black
with guilt, from our jail-he is now on his way
to his galows and grave.
The men who took him from our Jail were old
and respected citizens of our county and State.
They were cool, decided, determined-there are
no better citizens in the State, and right or
wrong, they took the responsibility.
o
eV On Tuesday morning the inhabitants of
Haverhill, Mass, were unpleasantly moved by
the sight of two efigies hanging to cords sus-
pended across Main Street. One of these was
labelled 'Caleb Cushing, traitor to his coun-
try" the other George johnson, false to his
his country, and his God" Their
appearance created considerable excitement, but
at O'Clock they we're cut down by an attache
Of the Post Office department, very much TO the
of the Douglas Democrats.
The CoNET.-Tile new Comet is visible at
present to the naked eye. Mr.. Bond, of the |
cambridge Observatory, says 'therc is no doubt
hat the comet is approaching the earth, though |
wing to the strong moonlight, its low position |
md increasing distance from the sun, it is doubt
I'll whether it will become very conspicuous to |
he naked eye" He further says, Gin the large
elescope it presents an appearance curiously |
Ike that of the great comet of 1858, on a re-
luced scale. The tail branches or in two
t""ems from the nucleus"
TEE ALBANY RATIFICATION MEETING. SPEAK
az Of the Lincoln ratification meeting in that
ity on the evening of Wednesday last, .he AL
any Evening Journal, says it was "the largest. |
lost enthusiastic, and, in every way, the most
anu SUCCESSFUL tlleetluS WIAffh has
allied the opening of any Presidential campaign |
within our memory"
Hon. Owen Loyeioy was one Of the speakers
I this meeting.
TIE Brass BAsp.-lt has been generally re
retted that our Brass md las been unable to
roeure til .ir instruments so as to be used on
ne glorious Fourth The Mandatory in New
DIRK, at which they were ordered to be made,
unable to finish them before the 10Th OF Aug
st next. In tho ID esntime Messrs. Baxter,
chiffer and Starkcr, have been appointed Trus-
aes to receive the donations of the citizens, by
HON they will be held until the instruments are
when the money will be applied as
pecified.
The Ban'l will, after the reception of the
ew in,tru nents, give grand Concert to which
II those who have assisted them will be admit
ed fee. Collections on the subscription al
eady in hand will be made soon.
O
WApELLo, June %, 1860.
Mn EDIroR. As Won arc aware there has lately