Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-07-06

quiry' important business Will prevent my
accompanying you In search, but will place
Two police at your command. Go onoe more 10
tne novel see Its inhabitants, and search cvevy
pars OF y. You may perhaps make some i'm
I suffered but very few moments to elapse
De,ore was on may way, accompanied by two
officers, and we soon reached Che oottaoe- We
knocked, and, after waiting sometime, an old
man opened the door. He received ue come.
what uneiyilly, but showed no mark of suspicIon.
nor, indeed, OF any other emotion, when We told
him we wished to search the house.
very wen, gentlemen, as fast and as soon %
yoa like" was the reply. 7r'7
"haVe you well, heFe7" inquired.
mo, sir, We are obliged 10 70 Tor water 10 a
spring at O considerable distance.n = 5
we searched the house, which did, I con.
iees. with kind of feverish excitement. *.
pecung every moment to bring some fatal se.
cret 20 light. Meanwhile the man Rszed upon
uo win an impenetrable vacancy of look, and
We az last left the cottage without seeing any
tning that could confirm my suspicious y I re-
solved 70 lnspeet the garden once more; and a
NUMBER oi oilers having been by this slime col.
leeseo, drawn to the spot by the eight Of a
sNAnger win Two armed men, engaged in
searching the premises, l made injuries of
some OF them whether they knew ANYTHING sbout
the well In that place. Icould get no informs.
tion at first, but at length an old woman came
slowly forward, leaning on q crutch.
"A well, cried she, "is II we'll you are look
ing alter. That has been filed thirty years.
remember IL as II 1t were only yesterday, how,
many time, when was young girl, / used
10 amuse myself by throwing stones into it. and
nearing the splash they used to make in the
water '-'
"And could you tell me where that we'll
used TO be" asked /, almost breathless with
excitement. : :
"As near as can remember, on the very spot
On which your honor is standing" said the old
IL could have sworn it," thought I, spripe-
ing from the place as if had Tod on a scor-
pion.
Need say that we set to work to DIG mn
ground. At about eighteen inches deep, we
came 70 layer of bricks, which, being broken
up' gave 70 view some boards which were east
the we'll. -'0-'' ~
81 was quite sure It was here. /" said the
woman. "What fool the old fellow vas
water" o. -O-
A sounding-line, furnished With hooks. was
now let down into the well the crowd preasino
around Us, and breathlessly bending over the
dark hole, the secrets of which seemed hidden
IN impenetrable obscurity. This we repeated
several times without any result. At length,
penetrating below, the hooks caught In an old
chest, upon the top of which had been thrown
great many large stones. After much time and
effort we succeeded in raising il to daylieht.-
Inc sides and lid were decayed and rotten: II
needed no iock-smith to open il; and We found
Witnin what was certain we should find, and
which paralyzed with horror all the specta tors
VINO mad not my preconviotions--W found the
remains Of human body.
The police officers who had accompanied me
now rushed into the house and secured the per-
son OF the old man. AS to his wife, no one
could at firet tell what had become Of her; after
some searcn' however, she was discovered hid
den behind bundle of faggots.
~ tnla time nearly the whole town had gath
steo around the spot; and now that this horrible
crime to tell of, which had been laid "a he
charge of the old couple. The people who pre.
dict after an evons are numerous -.
Inc oid couple were brought before the proper
authorities, and privately and separa teIy exam.
ineu. Inc old man persisted in bis denial most
pertinaciously, but bis wife at length confessed,
tnat In concert with her husband she had once
avery long time ago, murdered peddler, whom
tney had met one night on the high road, and
VINO nsa oeen incautious enough to tell them of
considerable sum of money which he had
about him; and whom, In CONSEQUENCE. thew in
auced to pass the night at their house. They
mad taken advantage of the heavy sleep prc.
auced oY fatigue, to strangle him, his body had
oeen put into the chest, the chest thrown into
the T well, and the well stopped up. :
The peddler being from another country. his
oisaPpearance had occasioned no INQUIRY: there
was no witnesses of the crime, and lie traces ha
Deen carefully concealed from every eve: Che
TWO criminals bad good reason to believe them
selves secure from detection. They had not
however, been able to silence the voice of con.
science; they fed from the sight Of their fellow
men, they thought they beheld, wherever they
tuned mute accuserS; they trembled at the
shgntest noise, and silence thrilled them with
terror They had often formed determination
70 leave the scene of their crime, to av to
some distant land; but still some undeniabIe
fascination kept them near the remains of their
murdered victim. --"-- :
Terrified at the deposition of bis wife, and
unable to resist the overwhelming proofs against
MIN, the man at length made q similar confes
sion, and six weeks after the unhappy criminals
died on the scaffold, in accordance with the SEN
tence of the Parliament of Toulouse. N