Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-03-28


him like a tiger, auI brought him to the
ground. Some persons near. rushed up
and parted us He went on to see Lucie.
The next day / went to her house she
wasn't there Was told she had moved.
1t was hard blow to me was very sick
with brain fever for month.
when 1 could 90 about again, be-
gan my search for Lucie but could not
discover any sign of her. | never saw
her but once more, and that was one night
in the dead of winter, about year after
she went away. found her lying out in
the street, with baby in her arms The
baby had frozen to death, and Lucie was
dying. ] tried to save her, but | could
not she died in about an hour after
found her. She told me her sad history
She had been deceived by Marx Hale,
and after her baby Was born, he left her
to starve." .....- q.
"Manton was silent, and could see
that he Was striving to control his feel
iDgs In few moments he raised his
head and went on fercely: .
1.-The fine gentleman had had his
sport; he had ruined and murdered a
poor girl who had never wronged him.
Look you, sir, if he had killed her with
knife, with pistol with "a club, your law
as you call it, would have hung him
But. as he killed her by a slower and
more terrible process, it had no punish
ment for him, 1t is nothing for fine
gentleman to kill poor girl in such a
way-O. your just law 1t will hang me
for killing Mark Hale, but it let him 20
free for numbering Lucie. judged diff
ferently. | swore to have blood for blood.
! i had heard Lucie say that God loved
her, and she often prayed to him. lprayed
too then. got down on my knees by
that gils body. aud prayed God, if he
'ever loved Lucle, as | did, to help me
take vengepce on her murderer. ] swore
to kill Mark Hale whenever | might find
him, For six years searched for him.
At last | found him not far from this
place. told him had come to avenge
Luce He begged for mercy-he who
showed none to her. | did not regard
his prayer. | shot him, and stood by
until be died Your penp'e found me
there, and brought me here They will
hang me now, for they say have com
mitted a crime, have not; | have pun,
ished one. Mark Hale deserved to die
the law would not kill him, and | did so.
Now you know why say | have done an
act of justice. Tell me, you who talk tc
me about God, if he loved Lucie, why
does he let them hang me for killing hel
murderer? You cannot answer me; you
know have done right. Your law is
made to shield the rich. and crush the
poor tprotc,is Mark Hale and hangs me.
} II listened to him with sorrowful
, neart. | could not realize, that in tht
midst of our bossted civilization, there
we're beings who were living in such tel,
rible darkness as tha: which envelopeC
this poor condemned one. | felt th'
truth of many of his remarks, and for ;
moment was silent. At last | said:
81 can answer You, Joseph Manton,--
; can still tell you that you have dom
, wrong God had his own way of doin.
! his work, and we have no right to take i
t upon ourselves to forstall him
".rhen went on to explain to him a
: we'll as could. the truth of the ex,stenc
} and power of God. and how he does car
t for those who trust in him. | endeaver
: ed to show show him his error and max
1 him feel his guilt. went to see him ev
: cry day. induced the government t
t postpone his execution for a month long
t er, in order to give the unhappy man tim
e to prepare for his fate; and | did what
o could to have his punishment changed t
i Imprisonment for life had task bt
t fore me- in trying to wake Manton t
t view the matter in its true light
a prayed daily and nightly for the poor fe
e low. and continued my visits to him. A
"a last noticed that he listened to me MOI
attentively. This gave me some hop
}. and renewed my exertious. FINAL.
I God crowned my efforts with success.
d "One morning as eLtered Manton
II cell, saw that he was more cheerful tina
t. usual. He came to me, and asked pa
i don for his unkiDd treatment to me. j
s told me he at last realized his guilt an
d his need of pardon, and begged me to prs
,e for him. In week after his, he was e.
/ ecuted | believe he died sincerely pen
:, tent. and think God has taken him
is himself. Now You know why did n
z Judge him as harshly as most persons d
d do not lessen the enormity Of b
d crime; think of him only as poor, b
4. nighted. misguided man. His sto
a should be warning to us, and it sbou
t teach us to do all IN our power to preve
70 others from growing up as ignorant al
is as blind as be was for God will no
le us responsible for our'ncglect. a5,
ia Doctor C--ccased speaking, and '
u we're all silent AS \ went home th
10 night. 4 could not avoid the convicti
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