Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-10
AN PEss j VENICE.

E0l0tionS OF the battalion We're performed with
EpromptnessS and precision and the manual
9f arms twasf nearly equal to that Of the best
Thrilled European troops, had heard that
4 these 3Sepoys we're not 80 well disciplined as
! the English soldiers but sLanseer assured me
lii size the5 are smaller than The; English !;
1 but thoy roadily adapt themselves to- the light
uniform, and ore very hardy. %.a
Our second evening at Pudser was spent at
| Captain Lanseer's quarters, aud after supper
1--we, worked our way into story telling.
| "sGentemen," said Lanscer, as wo filed
our pipes tho second time, " can tell you
( very curious story of circumstances that have
transpired in this place within q month. IF
you can, think.o nothing better, will give
| IT to you"
Il OF course we could think Of nothing bet
ter. and the vote was unanimous TINT he should
proceed. t.
About four weeks ago, commenced tue
Captain, a wealthy zemindar, named Hoosian
Kahn &
zemindaY' interrupted Gilroy, /" what $
that?" .@
"A zemipdar is simply land owner, replied
Ianscer. AS was saying, the zemindar Hoo.
sian Kahn was found one morning dead in his
bed, with his throat cut in most shocking
manner. It was not cut clean across, as
suicide would have dono it, butit was hacked
frightfuly. Upon the floor, close by the bed
side was found razor covered with blood, its
stout horn handle broken, and the shank bent.
The zemindar had been an excellent man, re-
spected by the people, both high and low, and
his shocking death was the cause of much OK.
oitement And first it was thought that the
murder had been committed for tho purpose
of robbery; but not an article had been sto.
len from the house. The English watch, the
jewels, the purse, the leather pocket.book,
which, with the clothing in the room, wore
undisturbed. | was called to the scene Of the
murder MS soonas it was discovered, and, with
other officers, did my best to unrave the mys.
terry. There had boon some struggling on the
part of Iloosian, ms was evident from the condi.
ton of the bed but lie had not struggled much.
Wc found large bunch OF hair upon the pill
low, where tho murderer had held the head
back while the fatal work was being done
and this together with the broken handle and
bent shank Of the razor, signaled to us that
the assassin must have been fellow of i'm
monsc physical power.
While was gathering up his hair, one of
my companions called attention to some marks
upon the floor. A quantity Of blood had run
down upon grass mat by the side of the
bed, and notfar from this upon tho floor, were
several bloody prints which appeared to me
to have been made by mans hand They
were certainly not the print of human foot
l could only account for them upon the sup
position that the murderer had either slipped
and fallen or had boen pushed over by the
struggling zemindar, and that hero was where
hin bluouy hands had struck. Inc window
was open, and we found stains of blood upon
the stool very much in the shape of those up.
on the floor. This sleeping room was all our
chamber, and the murderer had made his ex-
its by the window into the tree, limbs of which
dropped toward the house.
The first person whom we called as witness
was an old woman who had been employed for
some years in the family. The zemindar's
US any coherent information. The old wo-
nized the razor as having belonged to her mas
ter and she also showed us the little closet
where it had been kept Tho closet door had
been opened, and the razor taken from the
dressing case, and that too, in the dark, from
all which it appeared that the deed had been
done by somo one familiar with tho promises
| There had been no robbery, so we were led to
the further conclusion that the murder had
been an act of vengeance. And who could
have entertained such feelings towards Hoo
I nfnr Ikuiui - w q LnI nnaot;onnd Znloo hut
she shook her head. She did not reply reply with it'll,
that proniptness which might have been expec-
tod from one who had no suspicious but she
seemed rather to avoid the subject. ques-
toned her, closely, but she was not inclined
to speak
. Do you know" said I, elf any of the
servants in the house had any feelings of i'll.
will against your master2" r
/ She begged me to ask her mistress. The
mistress had just then entered the room, aud
as she heard this remark, she spoke She
: said there was a servant who had such cnui
i ty against her husband; and she named the
! khidmucther,. Gholam.
I Khidmutcher," interrupted Ben Gilrov
! taking his pipe from his mouth, " whats
4 that 2s'.s ''s!.. 80,
- khidmutcher is table servant" ex,
claimed the Captain. "This hidmucher' shame
4 saoa Ghnlnn,, nd how ti1o most poworfu
fellow on the place. l knew him well. III
was high tempered and bold, but I had :ncye,
4 thought him vindictiye. Itsecms that two 0,
threedays before, the zcmindnr had punished
Gholam for some slight misdcmeanor, anc
the latter had declared that he would hov,
vengeance. Finally the woman, Zaloa, con
fessed that she heard the man make such,t
!. threat; and she had hestated telling it be
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