Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-17
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a dFB. OFianerty anu MI. Ianegan
private tutor to her son, were arrested fol
I the murder of her husband BY poison
The lady betrayed her accomplish and q ed
and Lshegan was fried, CONVICTED, and sen.
fenced to be hanged and CHARTERED al
Dublin, which sentence was carried into
execution. And now comes the story:
A Templar and friend of mine, Mr.
David Lauder, fat, good humored, super.
stitioas young fellow, was sitting in his
lodgings (Devereaux court, London one
evening at twilight. was eating straw
berries and drinking madeira. While
chatting away in cheerful mood, aud
laughing loudly at some remark made by
one of us, my back being toward the door,
perceived my friends color suddenly
change his eyes seemed fixed and ready to
start out of his head his lips quiyered
convulsively; his teeth ehattered large
drops Of Precipitation flowed down his fore
head, end his hair stood nearly erect.
As | saw nothing calculated to excite
| these emotions, naturally conceived my
friend was seized with a it, and rose to
assist him. He did not regard my move
| ments in the least but seizing a knife
| which lay on the table, and with the gait
| of a palsied man retreated backward, his
eyes still fixed on distant part of the
! room, where he stood shiyering and at
| tempting to pray but not at the moment
recollecting any prayer, he began TO repeat
his eatechism, thinking it the next best
thing he could do, as, What is your
name? David Lauder! Who gave you
that name? My godfathers and my god
mothers, in my baptismp etc. e.
! / Instantly concluded the man was mad !;
and turning about to go for some assistance,
was myself not little surprised at the
| sight of tall rough-looking parsonage.
many days unshaved, in a very shabby
black dress, and altogether of the most I'M
couth appearance. The stranger and /
stood for moment, opposite each other,
staring and motionless. At length he broke
silence, and addressing my friend, said in
low, croaking voice" Don't be fright
ened, Mr.. Lauder. Sure it's ne that's
herep t. ..-
When Davy heard the voice he fell upon
his knees, and subsequently fiat on his face,
IN which position he lay motionless. The
| specter, as l now began to imagine it was,
stalked toward the door, and was in
hopes he intended to make his exit thereby;
| instead of which, however, having DELHI
eratsly shut and bolted it, he sat himself
down in the chair had previously occu-
| pied, with countenance nearly az full of
horror as that of Davy Lauder himself.
| was now totally bewildered and scarce
knowing what to DO was about to throw
jug of water over my friend, to revive him
| If possible, when the stranger, ia his croak-
ing voice, cried .a p '-a
" For the love of God, give me some of
that, for | am perishing." s..r ..E
hesitated, but at length did so. He
took the jug aud drank immoderateIy.
My friend Davy now Yentured to look
up little, and perceiying that was be-
coming familiar with the goblin, his cour-
age somewhat revived, although his speech
was still confused. He stammered, rose
upon his knees, held up his hands as if in
duplication, and gazed at the figure for
some time but at last made up his mind
that il was tangible and mortal. The effect
OF this decision on the face of Davy was
as ludicrous as the fright had been. He
seemed quite ashamed Of his former terror,
and affected to be stout as lion, though it
was visible that he was not at his ease.
He now roared out in the broad, cursing,
Kerry dialect-"Why, then, blood and
thunder, is that you, Lanegan ?"
All, sir, speak low said the wretched
being.
How the devil, resumed Davy, " did
you get your four quarters stitched together
again, after the hangman cut them off you
at Stephens Green ?'
All gentlemen, exclaimed the poor
culprit, speak low. Have mercy upon
me, Master Davy; you know it was l
taught you your Latin. | am starving to
death !"
You shall not die in that way, you vii
famous school master p said Davy, push
ing toward him loaf of bread and bot
tie of wine that stood on the table, but
standing aloof himself, as though not
quite decided as to the nature of the in
truder.
The miserable creature having eaten the
bread with ayidity, and drank two or three
glasses of wiGe the lamp of life once more
seemed TO brighten up. After pause he
communicated every circumstance relating
to his sudden appearance before us. He
confessed having bought the arsenic at the
desire of Mrs. O'Flaherty, and that he was
aware of the application of it, but solemn
ly protested that ii was she who seduced
him. de then proceeded TO inform us
that after being duly hanged, the sheriff
had delivered his body to his mother, but
not until the executioner had given slight
cut on each limb, Just to save the law
which cuts bled profusely, and were proba-
bly, the means of preserving his life. His
mother, conceiying that the vital spark was
not extinct, had him put into bed, dressed
his wounded limbs, and rubbed his neck
with hot vinegar. Having steadily pur-
sued this process, and accompanied 1t by
pouring warm brandy and water down his
throat, IN the course of an hour he was
quite sensible, but experienced horrid pains
for several weeks before his final recovery.
His mother filled the coffin he wasbrought
home in with bricks, and got some men TO
bury It the same night in Kilmainham
burial ground, as if ashamed TO inter it in
open day. For long time he was unable
TO depart, being every moment in fear of
discovery. At length, however, he got off
at night in a smuggling boat, which landed
him in the Isle of Man, and from thence
he contriyed to reach London, bearing
letter from a priest at Kerry to another
priest who had lived in the borough, the
Pui put Va NAitOu Was " Sct ullu dulnlltcu
into monastery in France. But finding
the Southwark priest was dead, he then
went to Scotland, using various DISCUSSES;
aud returning to London. was afraid,
though possessing some little money sent
him by his mother, even to bay food, for
fear of detection but recollecting that
Mr.. Lauder, his old scholar, lived some
where near the Temple, he had been direc-
ted by porter TO the lodging the night
previous.
My friend Dagy, though be did not half
like it, suffered the poor devil to SIT in the
chamber till the following evening. He
then procured him place in the night
coach TO Rye, from whence he got 10 81.
Nsllery, and was received az | afterward
learned from very grateful letter which he
sent TO Lander, into the monastery of La
Irappe, near Abbevills, where he lived in
strict seclusion, and died, heard, some
years since.
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