Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-05-04
horrors cf his situation, but he was no cow
ard, and he determined not to die without

horrors cf his situation, but he was no cow
ard, and he determined not to die without a
struggle.
He set himself to work to find some way
Of escape. He examined the window but he
saw at glance that escape in that direction
was impossible, the window was so high that
he might hurt himself or make noise when
he jumped out, and that would bring the
murderers on him before he could prepare
for them.
| While he was making these examinations,
he was startled by the creaking Of the ricke-
ty stairs as if persons were trying to silent
ly approach the door and the next minute
he heard them trying the bolt, which he had
taken the precaution to slide when first COM
ing into the room, there being no staple he
merely drove small penknife in the door
frame to hold the door shut.
In the meantime Deley drawing his revolv-
er, tried the nipples with his fingers to be
sure it would serve him true when wanted,
he next threw quilt over chair then stri-
king light put it beneath the quilt so that
it would not betray him.
He did not have to wait long for it was
pushed gently open; and he heard them
moving with a cat-like tread toward the bed.
They reached it-there was silence for a
moment, then two powerful blows, two fierce
oaths; and Deley unmasked his light disclo-
sing the two assassns standing by the bed,
their arms barred to the shoulder, and each
grasped murdcrous looking knife, ready for
their work of death.
BY the foul fiend we'll have you now g''
yelled the old man, making at Deley with
murder cleaning from his eyes,
/ An H.
pistol-his finger pressed the trigger-thcre
was quick sharp report.
Fire and furies he has done for me! AT
him Bill and cut his heart outw shrieked
the old man as he staggered and fell to the
floor.
With demoniac yell Bill started to do his
fathers bidding. He was too late; before
he had taken three steps towards his ipten
ded victim, Deley again fired, and the son
fell without groan with bullet through his
brain. ..-.- .....
Deley did not stop to see if the old man
stairs, when the old woman met him with a
cooked rifle and attempted to shoot him
through the head, but he was too quick for
her. Dropping at full length on the floor he
seized her by the ankles and throwing her
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senseless on the hoor--the fall causing the
rifle to explode; the charge scattered the'ceiling
! D,ley leaped over the old woman, making
his way to the shed, where his horse was
He luckily discovered another horse beside
his own. aa....r
Mounting that, his own being so lame as
to be impossible to use it, he started at full
] speed for the next town. He arrived there
in half hour. The old murderer having
falsely represented the distance, it being but
two miies from where his horse broke down
| Deley without dsmounting went before .
magistrate telling his story.
In half an hour party headed by Deley
and the magistrate was riding at breaknech
pace to the scene of action. They arrived
there but the house was deserted by all save
the son, and he was dead with bulle1
through his brain and one through his body
the bullet from the rifle having passeC
| through the ceiling and the sons body.
). While they were searching the house one
of the men thought he heard groan, anG
followed the sound to the window, when look
1 ing round the house for the cause oft; they
| found the old man where he had thrown him
self from the window, in trying to escape
when he heard the officers coming He was
taken on a litter and conveyed to prison
where he died three days afterwards, hi!
. wounds being mortal.
i The woman was never heard Of after
/ Knowing that Deley would return as soon a!
assistance could be got, she mounted Deley'i
horse, and plunged into the forest.
They followed her trail and found tn,
horse wandering about the forest. After ri
ding him short distance in the country sh,
turned him loose SO that they could not tracl
her.
\ nyy neley continued his Journey, but not be
fore he received the thanks ofthe magistrate
and the reward that was offered for the ap
prehenSion Of the murderers of the English
man which he was justly entitled to.
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i The VIRTUE OF TlN PAN AT THE END OF
Docs TAH.-We have been informed BY
an officer of the United States army Of mos
remarkable instance Of ingenuity and pres
ence of mind in q sergeant Of the army, which
occurred a few weeks ago, by which he saveC
his own life and that Of his party.
"A sergeant with about twenty five soldiers
had been sent out some miles from Fort De
fiance, New McKee, to guard some stock
which were sent to Craze, when unexpected
ly they found that the party were surround
ed by about four hundred hostile Navajoe
Indians. The brave and skilful sergean,
took position on an eIniRence and by volley
from the long shooting rifles Of his party a,
first drove off the savages, who however
soon rallied, and were preparing to storm the
small party on all sides. The sergeant, in
taxing his brain for an expedient by which
to convey intelligence Of the desperate peri
in which his party was placed, took single
dog which had accopanied the party, fasten.
ing to his collar note written with pencil
Informing the commander at the fort Of hi,
situation, took . tin cup in which he pu,
some pebbles, which was confined with !
piece Of cloth over the top, fastened it with 4
string to the dogs tail, and started the dog
loose, knowing that he would, in his alright
run to the fort He dashed with his greatest
speed to Fort Defiance; the note was discov
cred and read. Straightway party was
sent to the rescue, and arrived just in time
to save the lives Of the whole party. Thi:
sergeant justly merits commission which
we hope, will be awarded him by the Presi