Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-10-13

The Hartford fMd) inf,aigmcr
says 1--WE urc again called upon 70
record another Of those terrible truge.
dies that Of late have occurred in our
county with shocking frequency.
From the best Information 40 have
been able to procure. the following
seem TO be the main facts connected
with ,bc aiIuir; Miss Smith, an el.
derby lady OF 6i years of age, was on
q visit IRON baltimore TO the family Of
Mr. VIM Robinson, in this county,
who resides in tho ncighborhood he.
tween Upper Cross Roads and Jar.
rcttsyillc. On Tuesday Of last week,
about noon Of that day, Miss Smith
started from Mr. lobinson's house to
pay a visit to j Henderson Kirk
woods family, residing about half II
mile therefrom As she was quietly
walking along the public road leading
TO Mr. Krliwoods and when about
half the distance had been accomplish
ed, she was approached and seized by
a young negro man, who was in tho
employ Of Mr. Robinson and had been
engaged on that day in cutting corn,
who dragged her from the road into
the woods near by, and where, despite
her struggles aud outcries, he accom-
plished his horrid designs upon her.
In the struggle that had ensued, near
ly all the clothing was torn from tho
person of Miss Smith, and she. was
abandoned By the negro In II condition
of complete exhaustion. She succeed
ed, however, in making her way back
TO Mr. Robinson's who started in pur-
suit of the criminal, and, according TO
one report of the matter, captured and
confined him in q corn house, whence
he escaped whilst Mr.. Robinson went
in quest Of an officer to convey him TO
! jail and according to another version,
Mr. Robinson did not succeed in cap
turing him at that time at all At all
events the officers Of the law were up
on his track and on Saturday last,
Constable Kosher, of Baltimore coun-
ty, succeeded in effocting his arrest
near Glen Rock, a place just over the
line in Pennsylvania. He was placed
on the cars Of the Northern Central
Railroad, TO be taken to Towsontown,
after q commitment had been obtained
from Justice Rutledge, when, on arriv-
ing at Whitehall, a station on that
road, the cars were stopped and par
ty, composed ofabout thirty men, took
the negro in charge to bring him d.
roctly to the Bel Air Jail, instead of
Of taking him to Towsontown. This
was late in the afternoon of Saturday,
and the party started from the rail
road towards Jarrettsville, on what is
called Kings road, upon the negro
confessing to the crime and giving tho
particulars of the horrid outrage, they
halted under tree and hung him up
on limb of it. lie was left suspend
cd during Saturday night and until IL
o'clock, NJ, on Sunday; when his re-
mains were cut down and buried in
the ncighborhood.
The negro was known in the neigh
borhood by the name of Jim Grow,
and was about eighteen years Of age.
The condition OF his victim, Miss
Smith, is precarious in the extreme,
and at last accounts it was feared that
she would not long survive her inju-
RIGS
Thus has swift retribution been me.
ted out TO one of the most helnous Of
fences known to the law. The ex
element in the neighborhood on the
coming 10 light of the crime which the
negro was guilty, was Of course most
intense"