Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-02-15

footing during the relentless proBcrip-
ton of the Regulators, now began to
look up, and hinted that they had
known Of Jacks EatuEn- fr0m the time
of Sboner's murders@and had aided and
abeCted his purposes In every way In
their power; furnishing him with fresh
horses when the noble animal he rode
back from the States became fatinued t:
assisting his diRhts and uonCealnn ents
and furnishing him with inforna-
ton, as well as spreading the exagger-
atiugstories about him. One bluf old
fellow remarked:
"YOu are fools who talk about Jacks
being crazy He's as calm and cold as
a frosty morning up in old kentuck ;
and his head is as clear as a bell He's
Just got his Indian hghtin' ana Tory
hRtin' blood walked UP. In him by them
stripes That's a blood you know that
is dangersOmer than a catamount when
it once gets TIz -
Jack was now frequently seen, but it
was not known that his work was only
half done, and that he meant to finish
it, and he was regarded with great cu-
riOsity and awe. The five wretched
men were entirely unstrung and panic
stricken. They made no attempt at
retaliation, but all their hopes seemed
to lie in the effort to get out of his
II reach. That long heavy rine hunted
them day and night. They saw its
muzzle bearing on them from every
bush, through the chinlzs OF their own
Ca Ea4Eael
One Of them, named White, who was
an inveterate topper, with all his terror
could not resist his inclination for liq-
I uor, and after a confinement in his
house of nearly three weeks determin-
ed to risk ali and 60 to the store and
buy himself a barrel. he went in a
/ covered wagon, driven by negro,
I while he lay on the bottom in the straw.
4 The barrel of liquor was obtaiued-he
! got into the wagon-lay down beside 1t,
| and started for home. All the way he
never raised his head, until. near the
mouth of his lane, log had been plac-
/ ed on the side of the road which tilted
/ up the wagon in passing over It, so as
I to roll the barrel on him. BE forgot
/ his caution, and sprang up with his
] head out of the cover to curse the boy
/ for his Carelessness, and at that mo-
! nlent a rifle was discharged. He fell
/ back dead-sHOt through The eyeg The
I boy said that his master cut short bis
| Oahs, and exclaimed, There he is P'-
! at Che moment the gun fired. BE saw a
tall man with beard hanging down on
/ his breast and dressed in skins, walk
| ing through the brush with his rife on
/ his shoulder.
The next man, named Garnet, about
! two weeks after this, got up one MORN
/ ing about sunrise, and in his shirt
/ sleeves stepped to his door and threw
| it open to breathe the fresh air. He was
! then rubbing his eyes, being about half
| asleep; and when he got them fairly
/ open, there stood the gauht aVenEer be-
1 side q tree in the yard-the fatal rifle
| levelied, and waiting till his victim
| should see him distinctly. He did see
/ him-but it was bislast look. The bull
/ let went crashing through his BRAIN
/ Long is said to have told one of his
I friends that he never in a single in
! stance shot one Of these men till he was
| certain the man saw and recognized
/ him fully.
! All were now gone but Hinch and the
/ two youngest men Of the party, vii
I lians and Davis. The two 1ateer were
permitted to escape. They made a Sc
/ cret sale of their property and cleared
out during the night.
But lt was for Hinch he had reserved
/ the most inconceivaDle tOrtures. He
had passed him by all this time, while
| one after the other he struck down the
| tools and companions of his crimes
He doomed him to see them taIlihg
around hiHa with the certain knowledge
that the avenging hate, which slew
them, burned with tehfOld intensity for
his Hfe-that it must and would have 81,
One, two, three, four, Eve, six, seven,
strong men had all gone down before
that fearful rifie--eUeTV one Of them shot
through the eye g-GOd of Heaven land
the sharp agony would spangle keen
points Of burning light through his
brain, as if the ball we're alEeadY burst
ing through the soCketl 'I, too, must
be shot through the eye 20
From the time Of Rees' death he was
a stricken man. tEe became piteously
haggard--hfB eyes and gait and voice
were ali humble. His own imagination
became his holland hungry remorse
| grew stronger and stronger with feast
| ing at his heart He never left his
house for weeks, until the escape of
Williams and Davis inspired him with
some hope. He procured a fine horse,
and set off one dark night for Red Riv-
er. Everybody regretted his escape
for men had looked in quiet eXpecta-
tiOn upon the progress Of this affair, and
in strong faith that the sense of wild
border justice would be gratified in see
ing stern, righteous and unparalleled
vengeance consummRteq by the 4a1I OF
Hinch-the monster ins6igatOr and
chief actor an all the ErievOus outrages
which had reused the simple-heaIted
Long into a demon executioner of doom.
Hinch reached the bank of the Red
River sprRng from his foaming and ex-
hausted horse, after looking cautiously
around, and threw himself upon the
grass to wait for a steamboat. In two
hours he heard one putting down the
stream, and saw the white Wreaths Of
steam curling up behind the trees. How
his heart bounded Freedom, hope,
and life I-once more sprung through
his shriveled veins and to his lips. He
signalled the vessel she rounded to
bounded high and he gazed with ABB
sorbing eagerness at the crew as they
pulled Justify towards the shore. A
click-behind him He turned with a
shudder, and there he GBU8 : That long
rifle was bearing straight upon him
those cold eyes dWelt steadily upon
him for q moment-and crash all
was forever blacBuess to Hinch the
the Regulator The men who witness
ed this singular scene landed, and
n,g- ~ ~ he u aud
saw the murderer gallOping swiftly
away over the plain stretching out
from the top of the bank And SO the
vengeance was consummated, and the
stern hunter had wiped out with much
blood the stain Of stripes on his free
limbs and could now do, what I was
told he had never done since the night
of those fatal and fatally eIpiated
stripes, look his wife again in the eyes,
and receive her form to rest again upon
his breast.
1t was an awful deed. In view Of all
its circumstances, the provocatiOn, the
character of Long, the deranging inttu-
ence of the outrage upon his BRAIN
though no other indication appeared OF
impaired sanity-the mind is lost in uu-
certainty as to the judgment which
should be passed upon it. BE did aOt
remain in Shelby County but in what
direction he had intended to go after re-
turning to Arkansas for his wife and
children, could never hear. he is
probably living now his old quiet and
good natured life in the heart OF the
green wilderness ;--and it is likely as
not one of those two chubby boys who
rolled with him about the hoor of his
log cabin on that memorable night Of
which I have above simply related the
events and the consequences, viii some
of these days come to Washington from
Congressional Districts beyond the
Rocky Mountains.-C. ". Weber,
Why are the sun and moon like a
marriage Because they gov
ern the tide.
what DaDer bas tbe Greatest circuIa-