The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-02-14

'certalncu more than that nc was
seen near the farm but two days be
fore the Ere, aud, after an inquest,
the Governor offered reward Of one
thousand dollars, and bills were post
ed describing the supposed murderer.
No means we're left untricd. Balti-
more was patrollod, and orders given
that every vessel leaving for foreign
coast trade should be ovcrhauled, and
yet without avail. Special police
visited other States. Cities were pla-
carded with descriptions, and indi-
viduals joined the State aud county
in swelling tho reward to such sums
as called on hundreds to qui; ordinary
avocations and turn special attention
to hunting the murderer. The South
Mountain was near the farm of the
uncle. Ola hunters who had hunted
foxes and catamounts, explored caves
and caverns never before visited by
man. All failed, and for three years
no means we're left uutried SO
great a crime had, perhaps, never
been committed in the State. Meet
ings in every county aud largo city
in the State were held and the exec.
utor Of the estate Of the uncle offered
(as there were no immediate hoirs)
the entire farm for the discovery Of
the murderer, and no one doubted
who he was.
Three years thus passed, when news
reached the settlement that young
Markley had been arrested, down on
the North Carolina coosi, near 0era.
coke Inlet, where he had been for
three years engaged in fishing. Per
haps no class Of human beings are
more dcpraved and secluded than the
fisherman of the coast Early in
February the shad approach this
coast, aud from then until May, are
caught in large numbers, by men
who have no earthly tics, aud know
no homes but their 'huts, and spend
their leisure in drinking. But few
survive two years, yet this healthy
young man was in his third year of
dissipation aud exposure, aud surviv-
cd. How he was identified, was nev.
or known. lie was brought to Fred
erick City and placed in Jail. He
admitted he saw the house on fire,
but denied any knowledge of the
deaths or the causes of them. At the
next session of the court he was in
dicted for the murder of sevon per-
sons, aud the trial was short, the
proofs conclusive, and sentence fol
lowed
Before proceeding further | must
introduce the principal witness, a
young lady named Susan. She was
raised by the family, and was not re-
lated to them-the child Of u dear
friend Of tho aunt, and was an or
phan. Sho had'RroNn to w0manhood
without feeling her orphanagc or de
pendence, and was more an equal and
companion Of Mrs. Nuey than de.
pendant. Her hand was solicited In
marriage by several young men, and
by none so importunely as widower
named P, who owned the adjoin-
ing farm, aud between whom and Mr..
Nuey there had been lawsuit in-
volying the title TO a mountain lot of
wood, aud the suit resulted in lavov
of Mr.. Nuey. Except this Que suit
there was known no cause Of disa-
grecment between these neighbors,
and the grown children of Mr.. p.
visited the Nuey's after the suit as
before, the father neuer, yet he EN-
braccd every opportunity to address
Susan. She declined his addresses,
as she did others, alleging she never
would quit the home where she
found those as near aud dear as her
own mother aud father, and as now
the cares Of children were added to
the anxieties attendant upon the in
creasing years of Mrs. Nuey's parents
diving with them she could not think
of deserting aunt, as she called Mrs
Nuey. Such was Susan, and such
was the relation between her aud the
Nucy family.
She appeared in court in mourning,
and although three years had elapsed
the presence of the supposed inur-
derer-the reccolection Of the past
scenes and the horud murder of those
who were more than parents-her all
in the world, so over came her, that
the court granted her full time to re-
lieve her feelings, and every heart
sympathized with the double and
distressed orphan. / will not detail
her entire testimony, but the part
most interesting and damning in the
case. She said, on the day of tho
murder her uncle and herself had
gone to Frederick City, aud in the
afternoon she and her aunt were in
MIR. Fishers jeweliy store looking at
some jewelry, when her uncle passed
by. They called him in and her aunt
begged him to buy a breast pin for
her (Susan Ho refused, alleging
that he had just paid his taxes and
had spent all Of his money, and seem
ed angry at the increase of. taxes over
the year before, asserting that the
farmers could scarcely pay them from
the proceeds Of the farm, aud hurried
them up to get ready to return home
as it was Saturday, aud many thing,
were to be done preparatory TO the
Sabbath. He requested them TO re-
main there, and they would star
home from there. They started ape
on theway home she and aunt plagued
uncle about the pin, jesting him
about the people feeling SO poor, anC
kept up a running conversation abou
people getting avaricious as the,
grew older, and he (uncle) evidently
Showed sorrow for not having pur
chased the pin, 1T was the first re
quest he had ever refused me, an.
nd showed regret az his potulance
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