Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-11-19

The earnest protestations Of 1be uuf51<4
nate man rang in my ears, and his face i '5
torted with anxiety and passioD, rose trez
/ befare me.
l passed the afternoon writing ansxt<<
to several business letters which had fo115
me out IN my retreat, and soon after dio11I
retired to my room weary with want 81
sleep the previous night, and with the ex--
citement of the day.
Ii had been my habit for many years q
make every night short notes Of The evef<1
OF the day, and this evening as usual, "a
down to write my journal. had hurdI3
opened my book when to my horror, Aba
| deadly chill that l had Experienced Ia the
morning again erept around me-
listened eagerly for the voice that bad
hitherto followed but this time 10 vain; f1l
a sound could hear but the ticking Of =
watch upon the table. and, fear, ii
add, the beating Of my own coward M <
got up and walked about, en1eozn>. &
to shake of my Fears 1l.6 c<,ld a<5ov.
however followed me about, impending, as
]: seemed, my very aspiration, hesitated
Tor moment at the door, longing to call
up the servant upon some pretext, but
checking myself / turned to the table, and
resoiutely sitting down, again opened my
journal.
As turned over the leaves of the book
the word Bristol caught my ear. One
glance at the page. and in an instant the
following circumstances flashed across nv
memory.
had been in Bristol on that very day-
the day on which this dreadful murder had
been committed
On my way to friends house, l had
missed at Bristol, the train had expected
to catch and having couple of hours to
spare, wandered into the town, and enter
ing the frst hotel came to called for
some luncheon. The annoyance felt at
having some hours to wait was aggravated
by the noise a workman was making in re-
placing pane of glass in one Of the coffee
room windows. | spoke to him once or
twice, and, finding my remonstrance of no
avail walked to the window, and, with the
assistance OF the waiter forced the man to
discontinue his work.
In an instant | called the features Of the
workman. 1t was the very man had seen
IN the felons' dock that morning. There
was no doubt about it. That hideous face
as 1t peered through the broken pane, had
Fixed itself indeliolv in my memory, and
had identified itself, beyond the possibility
OF conbtr with the sinister countenance
that had impressed me SO painfully in the
morning.
| have little more to add. Immediately
hurried back to town and laid these facts
before the judge. On communicating with
the landlady of the hotel at Bristol, she
was able to prove the payment of small
sum on that day to a travelling glacier
She came down to K, aud from
among a crowd Of felons unhesitatinglv
picked out the convicted man as the persun
to whom she had paid the money.
The poor fellew being stranger at Bris
tol, and having only passed two or three
hours there, was utterly unable to remem-
Der at what house he had been employed
myself had forgot the fact of my having
ever been in that town.
A week later the man was at liberty
Some matter-of-fact people may endeavor
tn divest these circumstances of their, to
me, mysterious nature, by ascribing them
TO disordered imagination and tie fs3rtns-
tous recognition of q prisoner condemned
to die.
Nothing will ever efface from my mind
the conviction that providence in this case
chose to work out its ends by extraordiu-
airy and supernatural means.
Here ended his story, give it to you
without addition or Establishment, as lie
told it to me. 1t is second hand, confess,
but hitherto | have never been fortunate
enough to hear story with aught of super
natural in 1t that was not open to the same
objection