Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-09-17
AZ Ole 5torp QelIcu
; the HUSBANDS REVENGE.

IdG nuSoANU - he v Elm GEs
zfQSpmewherei about the year 1885. VIII
liam Broadway a young man Of five and
twenty. then living in the interior of the
Stste ofNew York. left his family, consist
ing of wife and two small children, and
= wcnt South. fona tour OF speculation. He
@was absent nearly a year. and stated, or
his return, that he had been very success
ful, and had purchased place on Red riv
err, whittier he proposed to remove his
family. and there settle perhaps for life
HIS vile. pleased with the novelty Of
ehange,readily sssentel to the new arrange
snent; md as soon as their northern affairs
were properly settled, they set off for THEN
new home, which in due course of time
they reached in safety.
But Airs. Bsaauay was sadly disappcint.
ed in finding the place so different from
what she had pictured in her fancy. TIE
settlement was new, and everything was
rough. The houses. many OF them. were
= built logs. anl even.the best of them
lacked the finish Of her northern home
while ths flraiture was. generally Of the
pfainest aud coarsest description, and
scanty at that. But worse than all were
Z 1.-The inhabitants9 Composed principally oil
rough spectators, negro traders. gamblers
and outlaws from different quarters. with
s, such females and children as looked tc
them FOR support Mrs. Broadway. who
had been well educated and brought up in
reiasi ssiety y. sought ia vaia among them
for suitable associates and companions,
aad. being stranger in a strange land,
coon became depressed and homesick.--
Cnder-the peculiar circumstances, she I'M
gnardedly rnade.some remarks not compli.
mentary TO the place and its inhabitants;
and these remarks being reported with
such additions and exsggsrations as scan
dal-mongers generally use for embelish-
ments.. she soon founi herself surrounded
" open enemies. and subject to such petty
wnAeyances and prosecutions as little. ma
licious minds delight to inflict upon those
they secretly believe to he their superiors,
and both envy and hate for that cause.
Six months had not passed away, ele
William Broadway felt the necessity of re-
moving his family from that unpleasant
and lawless locality sand this he was pre-
pairing 10 do, when an awful tragedy &C.
> surrei. which changed the peaceable man
into a bloody nvenger. Some business,
at o neighboring settlement called him
home for couple Of days; and on bis re-
turn be found his house in ashes. and
learned that his wife and children had all
been murdered, under the most atrociou:
and Separating circumstances-hi poor
wife, previous to her throat being cut
having been subjected to treatment worse
sthan death, blythe three ruff ans concerned
inths hoifitls affair 1. j - ~
TO fond husband and father this was a
terrible blow, and for day and night
William Bradway remained beside the still
smoking ruins OF. his dwelling, some o.
thetime walking slowly around them with
his eyes bent on the ground, and some Of
the time standing aad gazing at them with
an abstract air. as if he were recalling the
past, or looking into the future He had
shown no violent sorrow even at the first
but had received the awful intelligence as
one mental y stupe6sd--as one VINO could
not clearly believe the facts and compre-
heni the whole extent OF his loss. 1t was
observed that his features suddenly became
deadly white, even TO his lips. and then
gradually changed to livid hue. which
rem4sa Cd, without alteration. and without
being afterward tinged by even the slight
..Who did i,e'' he inquired, in tone Of
unnatural calmness..
Three men were named--George Har-
baugh, James Fawcet, and John Ellery.-
These men were known gamblers and des
peradoes. and had been suspected of being
robbers and murderers. They did not live
in the village, but had visited it occasion
ally, and one Of them had, sometime pre-
viously, had a quarrel with Broadway. and
threatened revenge, though the latter little
dreamed at the tine that anything 50 ter
rible was meant as had been accomplished
= tits but Justice to say. that though tht
Bradways as previously mentioned had
made themselves very unpopular in tht
place, there were very few of the resident.
who openly sanctioned the horrid crime,
that had been -commitfed and there wer,
some Who boldly expressed hope tina
the vile perpetrators would vet meet with
Just punishment; but though the rufiian.
had made. no secret of their hellish deeds
and hal even boosted of them before they
left the place. no one had made any at
tempt to arrest or detain them, and thel
.nG&6na 1oone knew whither.4 Ala
II was about ten o'clock in the m ornng
thai William Broadway first saw the ruins
of his home, and heard the awful news o
his irreparable loss; and all through the re
mainasf<sfehst day, sana the night which
followed, it. he conducted himself in tb
manner we had described, seemingly ia
kipanepcties ofthe curions groups tina
GATHERED around him, and replying to non
Of the idle questions put to him.
The next morning he went into neigh
bor's house and asked for something t.
eat, which was given to him. lie offere'
to pay for this; but the man of the hous
declined to receive any money, and, wit
expressions Of sympathy, invited him t
make bis ;hsme there for = few days.
"No." returned Broadway, Il intend t
leave the village to-day"
"You don't look asif you'dgot strengt
to go far" said the MAJ in kindly ton
,s--@I havetbat within which will sustsi
mew reioined Broadway. +. ...s.-s So {.
He then inquired into the particular
of the awfultragedy. and the direction ia
ken by the murderers--speaking calml
hiu1s5l 2tlislenins calmly to al tn