Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-02-03

skull in places cleaned through, white and ter
rible. Her breast abdomen and neck were eaten
away, her limbs were putrid, green and mex
pressibly loathsome.
And vet to those putrescent jaws there was
born a voice-smothered indeed, and strange,
but distinct
q Come William. they srat for you! WAIT -
dare not turn my eyes from the intruder I
conld not. if dared, though heard a groan
behind me and fall
Then 1.-THE thing before me-sank down
upon the floor, in heap, dark and loathSome-
a bean of putrescence and dismembered frag-
ments
remember that did not faint, that did not
crv out. How long stood transfxeG, fascinated,
l know not but at last, with an effort and a
prayer | turned to the bed. Mr.. Hayden had
fallen upon the floor, face downward, stone
dead.
| raised and replaced him; | composed his
limbs. | closed his eyes and tied up his chin
crossed his hands upon his breast, and tied them
there. Then | bore out the body of his sister,
insensible but not dead, into the pure ar-out
of that horror and stencil into the storm of dark
ness-out of death into life again.
County Of Grand Trarerse, Michigan, S.:
-" Mrs Joseph A. Green, being duly sworn,
deposeth and says, that the letter of DR.. John
Morton, hereunto appended which she has
read, is strictly true, so far as it goes, though
much of the history of what occurred at her
brothers (the late Mr.. Hayden) house is omitted,
and thus she deposes of her own knowledge.
Mrs. JOSEPH \. GREEN"
!Sworn and subscribed before me, Notary
Public in and for the County of Grand Traverse,
and State of Michigan, on the 25th day OF
May, A. D. 1858.
JAMES TAYLOR, Notary Public"
sECounty of Grand Traverse, Michigan, S.
I II. 1,,1,- and
saws that he in company with George Green,
Albert J. Baily and Henry X. Smead, on the lst
day of April last, in the afternoon of said day,
did go to the house of William H. Hayden, then
deceased, and that they found upon the floor OF
the room in which the body of the said deceased
lay, and near the door Of said room, the putrid
remains of human corpse-a female, as the
deponent verify believes and AYERS; and that
they carried away and buried the body OF the
said HAYDEN, deceased, and found the grave OF
the wife of said Hayden, deceased, in the month
of August last, open at the head OF SAID grave,
and the said grave was empty, the body of the
said wife of the said Hayden, deceased, being
gone from said grave and that they returned to
said house wherein said Hayden died and, after
removing the furniture from said house, the de-
ponent did at the request of Mrs. Green, sister OF
said Hayden, deceased and of Mr.. Green, bro
ther-in-law of said Hayden, deceased, set fire to
said house ana that said house thereby en-
tirely consumed, with all that remained in said
house, and burned to ashes This | aver of my
own knowledge JAMES HUEsoy."
1--WE aver and soemnly swear that the above
affidavit is strictly and solemnly true, of our
own knowledge II. X. SMEAD,
GEORGE GREEN,
a. J. BAILY."
Sworn and subscribed before me, Notary
Public in and for the county of Grand Ira
verse, and State of Michigan, on the 18th day
of May, A. D. 1858
JAS. TAYLOR, Notary Public.