Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25
nllsrellonr.
 4 CONNECTS STORY.
I Was told that had committed murder.

cell of gloomy pllSon.
 kuew nothing of it-had no recollection l of ever having had such an intention agaius anybody, much less of doing the wicked deed 1 Whom had murdered?
 Moses GiIwroth, the usurer
 Ha! Moses Gilwroth! Let me think. 1 hat been to get bill discounted. He had char sed me sixty per cent, for had needed req te, ms. He was a small mean, wink ed, dirty skinned sordI,t old wretch, with an eye like g hawks and a nose like his bill aud remem Der having wondered il such thing had |; soul.
 So had killed him, had 1? How? when Whele?
 " lth q burglars crowbar, in the dead houl of hight, ill his own office where he slept. nau beat u lis brains, and myself and co partners in crime had robbed the place aud made vh with the booty. 1 lad been taken ali besmcaleu with blood bat my acco npiices had escaped.
 Ibcu, along with my conlcdcrates, 1 had committed murder and robbery, and there was p.oof enough to hang me? This was a .anar tale for me to hear fer the first time ii the place wbere Was, win no remem- brance whatever of anything alter leaving the u,u,ets office, except going into drinking s,oon and calling for some braHJy. Could it be possible that 1 ng drauk too much, had illlcn in with wicked Strangers, aDd while llr d st4.e oi temporary insanity, had been persua- det or forced ihto lle awful crime of which stood charged It must be so, ii the story Was tue; Tor on no other hypothesis could l iraue any explanation of tie mystery.
 l haA been committed to 'lke my trial, at,>. ln Ghe cUIli,.e of law it c..inn un. Meant: ll@ 1 had sccurud eminent cuaasti wilJ wt.:iiot able 10 set Ii, any better F'ea i'aa tHnt i nud diumk freely ln,uu%h ti!c c,erio j','Le,.:n. lhe murder, and Wits li...,,.. ,I3 tame u lerprir;ltiiig the Lo.T,rI d'r;t. ..,so !}at i hta bcth o|tH, "t 'I i'i1I iiN"i, iti "'.':'''''. ",h two suspicious looking ilIet, reej.n. down through d d;t'a, harFow street. in tie drec- ,;on of G.iwroliis office. Some .,,1 ;l,.r t.jis bad b.en st .4lcy q |. u,v i. a Ii; T. nas tow alley, about qHa".r ct ;t il ic ';,,,'l]! ..vgn ihe p}ac. of c.nc ',r a n,3a H.io Wi, te.in nirg home fro T a ,r4,;ng o,tic" wuo.t .t ,ta.! hel at Mo:k b"ol@h he E, .!it. anu Who, ca'tr3 t',e p,'.vc, d,v.r'i nla ito ll.r Eant!-. l cDuht ih,n n.!tl v Il !;;;t !. ,n@c, ;;:l ca b ti!t ; Il tn tir 'n:- l;;, ,nl found lcsnpaTe win i,I ,oi, iiAr Sat <. in au4wvr 10 questions, that hui je@n k .ia- d wolf and getting well nai Tor it, exh b J"g the money ha,! stolen from the nsiSer's C. flee as proof. Enrlv the next noruil. t'le murder had been discovered and siX"J npo me. and had been committed to take my tri. al with no rrnenl',:ance of the flc'S, a~ l have already declared
 The p!ea of my counsrI which w'S tfrc and honest one, amounting to no,'og Wi h the ccul and jlry, and Was found guilty ot ulurier in the fist degree. A motion for ! new trial also avaled nothing, and ia the proper course of justice l was sentenced to be hanged by the neck till dead.
 I pass over the intervening time between the sentence and the hour of my execution, and come to- the strangest part of my story.- I was conducted to the gallows attended by minister of the gospel, the high sheriff, and other officials aud found myself surrounded by a vast concourse of people, who had come to see me hung for one of the darkest crimes known to the law.
 could perceive at glance that had no sympathy, that all believed me guilty, that was looked upon as a wretch for whom bang ing was too mild a punishment and yet in the very depths of my soal, I was innocent as child of the crime f,r which I was 50 suf:e:.
 Do you feel, my friend, that the grace O God has yet marked a change in your soul 2 inquled the clergyman, iu mild loaa of hl- mi'ty, as side by side, We ascended tue steps of the dreaded scaiioId, up which so many poor culprits had gone before me with quaking knees and saking hearts. Do yon humble yourself in the dust, truly repent and confess all your sins, relying only on the merces el Christ, who died to save all the vilest crimi nal alike with the lightest transsressor !'
 It was evident that he still believed me guilty of the crime with which I stood cha. ged, notwithstanding my ofl-repeated declara lion to the contrary.
 II should suppose" answered l, some what offended, " after all the conversations we have had together, that it would hardly be ne cessary for me to again assert that am inno cent of the guilt of murder; and that of all my sins, SD far as know, have repentei long ago. and humbly and sincerely asked for giveness."
 Do you say, then, here on this dreadful gallows that is about to launch you into eter nifty, that you are unconscious of ever having done Moses Gilwroth any wrong!
 With my dying breath say it."
 He looked at me steadily for few moment as ii debating within himself whether or no t.
 believe my statement. and then asked if