The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-13
Jhe# 'eeklg Aaupartil.
SATURDAY. APRIL a. 1854.
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Spring Badger. But l have not SIGNED
Spring Badger for months, having been
what is grandly called MARTYR to rheuma.
tism. Friends tell me that this vulgar affec-
ton IS completely gone out, and that l
should take comfort in the more exquisite
but genteeIer suffering OF what is called
neuralgia. ! wish it were gone out-of nv
wretched bones. Neuralgia or rheumatism.
it is all one to me. know that have lain
for weeks stiff and rigid as the ossiied man:
that an undue weight Of bed -clo,hing seemed
to fry and grill my flesh that could only
turn by slow and painful process, moving
cautiously at about hairs breadth per
minute; and that has,y movement in a
moment of forgesfulness, resulted in veil
Of such protrac;ed agony as to bring all the
members Of the household rushing to nv
bedside. My eldest son. fighting Indian
warrior, newly returned from the wars, be-
ing brought in, had to be cautioned aga,nst
too flial greeting: bis hearty military
warmth would have undone me utterly. Nv
second son, who serves bis sovereign q OF less
honorably in harmless domestic warfare-I
allude to the militia-comes rushing from
his tented fields; | am compelled sternly to
refuse his proifered hand. Both insist noisi-
~ on taking me northwards to the country.
Alas, take down northwards to the country,
unless for exhibition purposes, an ossifed
man and living skele,on ..
The only thing that helped to soothe the
latter stages of this wretched probation was
the opportune occurrence Of most inter-
estlng murder. say il advisedly, most
interesting murder. But for the well known
Burton on Trent murder case | should have
gwen way. 1t stimulated me. had ali
the details read 20 me. How Mr.. William
Rudd, Of Burton on Trent, and manager of
one OF the opulent brewing firms, by steady
attention to business. became paragon
among the brewers. How, rising every day
in estimation, he ut last had the happiness
OF Intermarrying with the opulent brewing
firms daughter. How they lived happily
together. How it came to be remarked with
surprise that Mr.. William Rudd was falling
into expensive tastes, keeping race horses,
fourth hands. opera boxes, besides other
less excusable luxuries. How Of a sudden
he became very pressing with Mrs. William
Rudi to effect heavy policy of her life--a
mere Formally as be put it. How Mrs.
William Rudd was take i in a mysterious
way shortly after, with spasms and sickness
which the best medical advice could not ac-
count Tor; especially as, after each visit Of
the best medical advice, Mrs. William Rudd
seemed to grow worse. How Mrs. William
Rudi died eventually: and how the heavy
policy was paid, with reluctance certainty.
How the opulent brewing firm had dark sus-
plclons suspicious streos theped into GER
tainty when gentleman, who was in the
habit of drinking with Mr.. William Rntd
IN familiar Intercourse, died suddenly; Rudd
having also, "a n matter of pure form effected
policy on his life. How the late Mrs. Will
liam Rudd was taken up, and portions of
Mrs. William Rudd sent up to London to
DR.. Alkaly, +. K. S. for analysis. How
Mr.. William Rudd was eventually placed
upon his trial. These things | say are
familiar to the world, who for many weeks
devoured all details greedily.
was deep IN the exciting trial. had
followed the convincing but nninterestng
address Of the State prosecutor, aud found
the wretch ed man at the bar guilty unani-
mously. had heard the bubbling enthusi-
a.tic harnngue of the sergeant on the other
side, add with my hand on my heart pro-
nounced my own verdict of not guilty. l
| listened (from my bed) to DR.. Alkaly, +.
| l.. s., (of London who, in n curious series
of experiments had Administered a milionth
part of n grain to dog and caused instant
death and to DIR. Litmus, +. Il. S., (of
Eilnburgh,) who had given double that
quantity to another dog of Scottish extrac-
ton, without imparng the ordinary relish
of the animal for his usual meals. To the
Sunday papers, for the gorgeous richness
| Of details and preRaphaelite dellcacy OF
touches, | owe debt under the Burton-on-
Trent business and, on Monday morning,
when my Indian warrior and his brother
arrived to take me to tho country, | found
could actually crawl, walking beautifully,
with only suppressed gasps and spasms. But
the learned Judge was charging. At two
| o'clock my domestic warrior enters with news
| that the jury had retired. AT five O'Clock,
my Indian warrior returns with word that
| Mr.. William Rudd had been found guilty,
that the Scotch dog had been justly dlscred-
| tied, and DIR. Alkaly's terrier giorlousIy
vudicated. The express leaves at halt-past
eight-the cab waits at the door. This time
| was not more than half an hour reaching
| it. We drove rs is customary at funerals,
and vet these moor bones of the ossifed man,
how they cracked and pierced me, as though
some one was striving savagely to snap them
across his knee, Every stone that paves
! the court Of Easton square station was a.
stab. We were in time, with fifteen MN
utes to spare.
| twas painful business, the extrication
/ Of the ossiied man and living skeleton, but
| il was done under cover Of night. Wrapped
| in an enormous horseman's cloak OF large
folds, nv poor swelled arms and wrists
swa,hed IN bandages, with u warm travelling
cnp drawn well over my eyes and ears. l
walked in the center, and leaned painfully
for support on nv two warrior sons. The
Indian. with his tall martial figure and coal
black beard. of which was justly proud,
held me tightly on one side, the domestic
| fighting lad propped me on the other. In
this order we gei on the platform, into
the long lines Of lamps and trundling trucks
and ayiug porters, and the general hurry
hurlv waiting on departing expresses.
"What crowd - says the Indian war
rier. A crowd indeed. expectaus, NOISY,
but respectable, with many policemen os'-
/ ting with them and keeping them back oY
persuasion and pressure. As re near the
carriages a curious murmur bursts out; We
are in an instant pressed on, hustled. and
surrnunded bv hundred faces, peering 81
u. with = strange curiosity. There be ".
"There he isl' "Yes, that's himf ms
va. the ungrsmma,iesl iuserjec,ion.) NO
il isn'tw "Keep back" "Let me see :
"Who Isl ?" But policemen fghs them %
desperately. and We stand in sort OF ring
at frst-class carriage. "What does II
mean 2" the Indian warrior saws, douhttuhy
ilknew what it all meant. There beside me,
stood the brave but m Oldest hero OF bundes'
cund, who had fought bis way into the e'.a,
del, and, through murderous Gre. carried
out the three European ladies on his erup
) per. His fame had travelled before MN
Heroes were dear and scarce in those days
The coal black beard, the little decoration
Of the griffin At his button hole, bad betrayed
the secret. Ny voice trembled rs WINS
pered, "My brave hoy"
A kind Of superior policeman, tightly