The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-30

6lace two Of The police at your command: |
1ou can then once moro 70 70 the hovel and |
search every part Of 4. You may per,
haps, maks. some important discovery.
He allowed bue nv minutes to elaPse
before he was On bis WY accompanied by1
the two oficers. Affair knocking at the
door and waiting for some time the OLD
man opened tho door. He received them |
somewhat uncivilly, bat showed no marx
Of suspicion when they told him they
wished to search the house.
Every we'll; as fast and as soon as you
please" was the reply.
"Have you we'll here?"
ono sir; we are Obliged to get our water
from spring about quarter of mile
distant"
They searched the house but discover
ed nothing Of any consequence. Mean
while the old man gazed upon them with
an impenetrable vacancy of look as II be
could not understand why they were IN
truding on his property. Finally they
forsook the cottage, without fnd,ng-any-
thing to corroborate their suspicions.-
They, however. resolved to inspect the
garden. By this time number OF per
sons had collected together outside, having
been drawn to the spot by the sight of a
stranger with two policemen. They we're
asked if they knew anything OF well IN
those parts. They replied they did not
the idea. seemed TO perplex them. Al
length an old woman came forward lean
ing on a crutch.
IA we'll p said she. els il a well you
are looking for? That has been gone
these thirty years. / remember it as If II
were Yesterday; how l used to throw stone
into it. just to hear them splash into the
! water"
sHDo YOU remember where that vel
used to be p asked the gentleman.
.As near as l can recollect," replied
the woman, ''it is on the spot where yo'
now stand.''
He suddenly started as if he had trod
!, den upon serpent. They at once com
! menced digging up the ground. A
!, about twenty inches deep, they came to
layer of bricks, which, being broken up
J revealed some rotten boards. These wer
easily removed, when they beheid th
J. dark mouth Of the we'll.
~ was quite certain that vas the spot,
g said the cid woman "W hat a foot 20
! were to stopit up, and then have to travt
y 80 far for water"
{ A sounding line, furnished with hook:
was now let down into the well-th
l crowd hard pressing around them breath
/ essly bending over the black aud feti
; hole, the secrets of which seemed hide
u in impenetrable obscurity. This was re
0 peated several times without any result
I At length, penetrating below Thea mue
= the hooks caught 10 something of col
~ siderable weight and after much tim
, and effort they succeeded in raising
"a from the obscure hole. 1t was an oil
Q, chest. The sides aud lid were decaye'
~ aud it needed no ioeksmith TO open |
'p Within it they found what they we
re sure they would find. aud which filled Il
spectators with horror-the remains of
lir human body!
Id The police officers now rushed into Il
re- house aud secured the old man. As
'iy his wife, she at first could not be foun
u, But after fatiguing search she was d
ga covered beneath pile of wood, bell
lie much bruised by the heavy logs abo
ia her. By this time nearly the whole pc
or ulation of the town had collected sroul
Mt, the spot.
ed The old couple were brought before I
ger proper authorities and separately exami
he ed. The man persisted in his deni
to most obstinately; but bis wife at on
confessed that she and her husband,
~ very long time ago, had murdered pc
&c. dle< who possessed large sum of none
en- He had passed the night at their hous
er and they, taking advantage of the hea'
sleep that encompassed him, had strangl.
OF hin, after which they placed his body
ne a chest. The chest was then thrown in
he the well, aud the we'll stopped up. I'll
a selves free from detection, as there we
be no witnesses OF the crime, and its trac
TN had been carefully concealed. Neverth
ed less they had not been able to hush t
's- voice of conscience. They fed from the
or fellow men. They were intimidated
as the slightest noise, and silence thrill,
no them with fear. They had often thong
MT Of flying to some distant land; but son
ais inexplcable influence kept them near Il
Tor remains Of their victim. Terrified
he the deposition of his wife, the old m,
~, made a similar confession; and six wee
sr. after, the guilty couple expired on 4.
I'D scaHold.
he A
,ot -"That was horrible affair-tl
he murder of Dean, and the sealing up of
IL remsins 10 box !"
ed "What Dean % asked half doz