St. Mary's beacon., 1861-01-24

I ycSto P4SoSu uu wy Svvuk Wbb alM0&
forgotten; Panhenius was still high il
the royal favor, loaded with riches and
honors; when one night. a. he slept, ha
wss heard by bis servant 10 cry out fos
help. The valet rushed ia, and found
him ina state of extrsme terror; and
although be aatributed it 70 . dream,
thsss - s0snething in his manner
something IN the hideous words which
he dropped. which convinced the servau,
that his conscience was troubled by some
awful crime. This impression was
strengthened BY recurrence of the same
circumstances q few nights later aud Al
these attacks occurred with frequency, he
was watched, aud beard to declare tha,
he had murdered his friend Accused
of the crime, be confessed it. owning
and establishing beyond oil doubt bis
owa guilt; and thus q Crime long con-
ees.ed WAS discovered by the troubled
conscience of the murderer man whom,
none suspected, aud who had carried bi.
dreadful secret for years.
Luthsr tells story Of certain Ger
man who, in his travels, fell among-t
thieves; and they being about to cut his
throat. the poor man espied q flight of
crows. and cri-l out. "Oh, crows. [ take
you for my witnesses aud revengers of my
DEATH" About two or three days after,
these thieves drinking together at an inn.
q company Of crows came and alighted
upon the top of the house. At this the
thieves began to laugh; and. said one of
them. look yonder arc they who must
avenge his death whom We lately slew"
The tapster. over-hearing this. declared it
to the magistrate. who caused them to he
sppreh:nded and. in consequence of the
contradictory statements and evasive an
swsrs, urged them so far that they confess
sed the truth. aud received their deserved
punishment.
At Paris, in the year 1851, q ysung
woman bad her brains beaten oat by .
man with n hammer. near Saint Oppor-
tune Church. as she was going to mid
night mass. All her rings and jewels
were stolen. The hammer with which
the murder had been committed WAS fsuad
BY the side Of the corpse. and recognized
as belonging to poor smith. who lived in
the neighborhood He was Immediately
arrested. and although he earnestly denied
the crime, he could not account for the
hammer; he was. therefore. by the cruel
practice of the times. put to the torture.
in order to induce confession, and died
from the severity Of the punishment. -
Twenty years afterward, one John Flam-
ing. sergeant Of the subsidies at Paris, be-
ing at st. Leups. village at Montmo-
rency. chaneed. at supper, to say he had
left bic wife at home sick. and nobody with
her but little boy. There was an old
man then present, named Mous,ier, and
son-in-law Of his, who Immediately went
that night away, aud at ten In the morn
ing came to FIaming's house, with each
Of them basket ol tAsrriss and a green
goose" intended as presents for the hus-
band. They were admitted by the boy.
whom they Immediately murdered. but his
cries alarmed the woman, who, locking fast
her chamber door. cried for help ont at the
window. The neighbors came to her res
cue. and captured the two williams. one of
whom had hidden himself in the chimney,
and the other in the cellar. These two
being condemned and brought to the place
Of execution. Moustier asked to speak to
the smiths widow. aud permission having
been grated, confessed that he had stolen
the hammer froG her husband and had
Herewith killed the young woman at st.
Opportune's. The poor smiths innocence
was thus established after he had been in
his grave twenty years. and the real mur-
derer was executed, after eluding justice
for the same time.
In Lcicestershire, not far from Lutter-
worth. miller having had quarrel with
. neightWr. killed him. and buried the
the body in the adjoining ground. The
man, of course, was missed, but nobody
could tell what had become of hina, and no
suspicion rested on the miller. who sson
afterward sold the mill, and went abroad
Very many years aftcrwards--drawn by
an irresistible impulse toward the scene of
his crime-he returned TO the vallage an
aged. worn-out man. But he was recog-
nizcd at the inn. and stunned by the in
telligenee that that very day the present
owner of his old mill. in digging we'd in
the garden. had discovered the bady Of
man. Investigation was made. aud. from
certain peculiar features. the body rss
identified as that of the man who bad been
missed 80 mysteriously twenty years be-
fore. Suspicion began to rest on she form
er owner Of the mill, who being arrested,
confessed his crime - ~
10 Msnts.ra city. Of Lorraine, The exe-
cpsioucr. in the night. and during the. ab-
ssaoe of the master got into the caller of
merchants house, where he 6nst murder
ID the nasid. Who was seut By her n1istressto
fetch sone wine; and afterwards murdered
the mistress. who came down into the
cellar to learn the cause Of the servants
abseuce- This dene. hs appropriated all
the property he could find IN the house.
and escaped. without detection. The u.er-
chant. upon Ills return, Discovering the