Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-04-13
jamaica Tragedies.


Coaley. The husband started from his
bed and tried to escape but the soldiers
were too quick for him, and rihe-bullet
was sent through his shoulder, while the |
wife and children screamed with terror
Wounded as he was, the man dashed into
the bush and was preserved. although his
arm is now useless. There were thus only |
the woman and children left upon whom |
The brave veterans could exercise their
valor. The children clung screaming tc
their mother until they were threatened
with death by the intruders. The mother
herself was tied with rope, and prepara-
ton made for her punishment if she did
not discover instantly the hiding place Of
Pau! Boyle. She in vain protested her
ignorance. knowledge would, probably,
have been fatal 10 her; ignorance could
not save her. BY the special orders OF
Mr.. Ramsay, who accompanied the parry,
she was cast down with her face to the
floor, stained with the freshly y-shed blood
o. her husband, and in the presence of
her children received fifty lashes on her
naked body. Her hands were then tied,
and she was carried to Paul Bogle's chap
ell nd fastened up outside while the con.
stables and soldiers sheltered themselves
inside from the pitiless pelting of the rain.
Two days and nights she was thus kept
bound, the cords causing her the keenest
pain, but as she told the story, it was evil
IDENTIFY not her physical sufferings which
caused her most torment, but the thought
Of her poor wounded husband lying in the
bush, without any one TO bind up his wound,
and the agony of her children deprived at
once Of father and mother, and themselves
exposed to the cruelty of the reckless des-
peradoes. After being thus kept fastened
outside the building as if she had been a
rabid dog, Ramsay one morning took her
into the building, and after again asking
where Paul Boge was, put a rope round
her neck, and, throwin- the end over a
rafter, caused her to be lifted off the ground
by the neck, literally half-hanging her.
Finding all further efforts to extort by cru
city what the woman did not know, to b.
fruitess, Ramsay unbound her and let he
20 home. She was at home only twl
days when she was seized by another par
ty, taken down to Morant Bay, and sen
fenced to be hogged again. Even Ram
say recoiIed from the accumulated crueli
of this proceeding. and Iet her go, exclaim
ing, : 1 have fogged he--once,a and hall
hanged her already-let her CO.
A man was arrested at Stoney Gut
but he was carried to Morant Bay anC
need say what his fate WASP On his
way to the gallows his son, young lad
; who had been sent down TO watch his faith
I er's fate, and to show him he was not for
t gotten by his own, approached TO bid hin
i farewell, and the old man as the only tok
I en- of affection he could bestow took off hi:
i hat, which was a new one, and was hand
!, ing i, 10 his son. 'Wha, is that stoppage
e yelled the Provost Marshal. The caus,
!, was explained to him. ie him up ant
!, give him dozen, he roared; and the boy
: was tied TO gun and hogged while III,
fasher was being executed. Nay, more
z fer Ar E,ra,, s,hnnJ;n..a. Al ,o@l;.... l. .
! halves. The lad, on being united, was, ac
: cording to custom, compelled to run ih
gsuntlet. The soldiers, sailors. constables
and general medley of ruffians range,
Q themselves into rows, and the men VIII
9 had been logged. whether they had re
ceiyed twelve lashes or one hundred, wer
y forced to run for their lives, with thei
n backs uncovered and bleeding. The
l. were struck with sticks, the butt-end o
guns, with stones. with any weapon whicl
g could be got by the defenders of law an
L order, and the poor young fellow of whor
l. have just spoken was knocked down an
Is had two ribs broken. He contrived /
1t crawl out of the camp, and took Two day
q 10 reach home. His mother tended hiu
lr and, doubtless, thanked God that, allhoug
II her husband had been torn from her, he
Id son might live to comfort her in her ol
~ age. All, she had not drunk her bite
'o cup to the dregs! In day or tso aftel
en- wards Ramsay's human sleuth-hounds r,
ak turned; they arrested the mangled lad an
ch tore him from his mother mourning be
ut. slain husband, and they hanged him.
lss British Standard,
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ed AFFECTING CIRcuMsrANoE.-A Ne