Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-14
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'oi About ten weeks ago q gentleman passed
through this city on his way to Arkansas,
where he intended to oaooate. AM Biik lishs
man by birth, he had been for years q COM.
mercial traveller for house in one Qf the
largest mercantile cities In Europe, and in
that capacity had visited every part of the
world. He was polished gentleman, and
spoke huently several d ifferent lang uages,r
and had accumulated an amount of inform
alton concerning the countries through
which he had travelled that was not only
valuable bat interestingtin the highest der
gree to those who We're fortunate enough to
be numbered among his friends. ora good
family in his native co1htry, he had m0ved
in the best circles of the cOmmoners of
England, and was, in every sense Of the
term, a perfect. gentleman, OF sensitive
and retiring disposition, he was lily calcu-
lated, however, to make keaequaihtances, and
lacked the ASSURING which we daily learn
is necessary ltqtlTive in this world Of ours.
He had heard glowing account OF our sis
ter State, and went to Pine Buff, where lis
means became almost exhausted. Writing
to his wife to remit to him at Camden, be
started tOthat place on foot, where he had
arranged. TO meet q friend. In this he was
disappointed, and the unsettled state Of
mail facilities preventing the reeeiptaot
means from home, he detegmined to return
to this city and await until, he heard from
his family. About this time two gen
tlemen from Kentucky arrived In Camden
on horseback, and put upat a hotel there.
In the morning their horses were missing,
and the citizens turned out, headed by the
city marshal, and started in pursuit of the
missing animals. They we're found tied in
the woods about q mile from towns aud
when GU the way back to town, with them
the parties met the gentleman of whom we
are writing. Being a stranger, he was I'M
mediately arrested as the lihorse thief, and
told by the marshal that if he would tell
whowere his confederates in the matter, he
would be released. A denial OF any knowl-
edge whatever Of the theft was all that
could be ELECTED, and the marshal then took
the halter off one of the horses and maxi
ing slip moose, passed it around the gen.
,tleman's neck and hung, him to a tree, I'M
I til, as the officer Stated afterwards before
| the magistrate '.he turned black in the
! face and his tongue stuck out half q yardi''
\ When life was nearly extinct he was drop
ped to the ground, and when it again began
I 10 assert itsel f. he was once more urged to
confess. rAs before, ynothing could be told,
I and O. second time, the hanging scene, was
\ enacted until death nearly came to the res
llcue.' He was;however, cut down, and then
taken before. a magistrate and committed
/ upon he,eyidenee thatrwOuld not hayede-
| tanned any other stranger for a single mo
'ment, In few weeks, during which time
heremaihed iniail, his trial came on before
| the Criminal Court at Camden! oand he'was
honOrably taequiJted,tne one particle of
evidenoe appearing to Rllcate hun, On
horse thief who lived not FAR from the
place, it was understood, had stolen the
horses. After his acquittal, the gentleman,
| too proud to ask for assistance, where, rhe
had been So foully wrOnged, started for
| this city, and lived upon such iprecarl0us
substance as his sensitive nature would al
| low him Co ask for by the,way, until he ar
! rived at Eunice Landing, Arkansas, where
| he sought for and obtained work. He toiled
/ along in the hot sun,ifor which he only re-
ceivedi his bDard,n untillJhef became sick.
\ Never having done any outdoor labor, the
Il sun, combined with the treatment he re-
ceived at Canden, habits effectshupoh him
Wishing to reach this city, where he hoped
| to hear tromlthpse wheCweTe dear -tQihim,
be took passage on the, deck of the Des
\ rived In this city SEX and worn outwith
\ want and snffering, and dlone)week ago to-
| day the morning papers told ofaman being
| found dead on the bluff, the COrQner's Jury
having returned a verdict that l''GeorSe
\ Russell had icome stohis death from waat
and expbsU're.p Such, reader,is thehistD-
| ry of the last two months of the life ofope
| who while living was an upright, gentle,
| Christian mar, and an honorable, high-toned
I gehtleman. SMay the sod rest ligKtlyi on
his grave, and God, who knows thessuffer.
ingsl Of his body here below, reward him il
4 that world where Che, wicked cease from
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