Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-27

and rose. My. Trench rose too, and drew
his pistols from his pocket, and as Mickey
drew himself up to his full height, the two
men stood confronting each other with the
table between them Mr. Trench slowly
raised his his right hand aud pointed his
pistol full .. McKey's face, who folded his
arms and stood calmly looking into his op-
poncnt's eyes. II n
Suddenly Mr. Trench felt that Mickey
was merely acting on the defensive, and
with sudden impulse he threw the pistols
on the table within McKey's reach, and
said
You scoundIel, you know you dare not
hurt me 7
''He looked at me steadily, and then sit
ting down gradually and quietly on the
chair without trusting himself to look at
the pistols which lay loaded and cooked on
the table before him, he put his hands to
his head leaning his arms on the table, and
said in low voice:
"'What do you want me to do, sir r
"'To give me possession of your house
and place at once said ], and to come with
me now into Carrickmacross,
"I will, sir, he replied.
He rose, put his iron finger into the
place where the handle should have been
and turned the bolt, and walking up to the
other men in the kitchen said, 'begone out
of that till give up the place. They
stared at him and wer perfectly astounded
'Begone l say ! he repeated and he pnshed
them out OF the room.
The young woman then came up to
him-What is this, Joof she asked.
/" You must 90, said he, kindly. Don't
talk-leave the house.
.She went at once. He put out the fire
by kicking it about the floor, took sod and
twig' from the garden and handed me legal
possession of the house and grounds
" And now continued, come with me
to Carrickmacross
"He hesitated 'Sir will follow you in,
but don't ask me to go with you,
' Why mott lasked.
" Because always swore no man should
ever take me alive, and if was seen to go
with you the people would say you had
taken me prisoner.
81 understand you, said /; can trust
you then to follow meP
1'He seemed almost hurt ut the question.
4 would not fail in my word for thousand
pounds 7 ,
" i have not doubt OF it, leplied /; and
I mounted my horse and galloped into Car
rickmaeross.
II told my head clerk and confidential
man all that had happened. He could not
believe his senses and thought | had lost
mine, We'll, said, Mickey will be here
within an hour, or have been dreaming all
the morning
He will never come was his reply,
"As the hour approached, confess be-
came very nervous and anxious; and at
length about the time had stated, the
clerk came into my inner room looking
somewhat pale, and said, Mickey wants to
see you in the Office, SIR
"There he was quiet but firm rs evor. l
told him to return to HIS house for the pres
ent, and that would see him handsomely
provided for in America. He left and said
no more.
1.-THE sequel was sad enough, He never
reached America. Hearing
that he was very ill, I resolved to go and
see him once more. l rode TO the house,
and found poor Joe Mickey lying on his bed,
q corpse-the same stern mouth, the same
noble forehead, but hollow and sunken
cheeks. The young woman knelt beside
him weeping
"'When did he die I asked.
"'This morning, sir. she replied, and her
tears flowed fresh and fast.
"'What did he die Off
| "a decline, sir. He never got the bet
ter of that day. The people said you took
him-which your honor knows was n rank
lie and it broke his heart that they should
say sor
This victory over Mickey 50 discouraged
the Ribbonmen that they marked MIR.
Trer 3h himself for murder. After the mur-
der of Mr.. Bateson, Oh Carickiergus, he
became aware, by the confessions OF the in
former, how nearly he had escaped on sew
eral occasions on which men had laid wait
for him on the road Meanwhile be was
warned by young woman that her sweet
heart, who had joined the Ribbonmen, was
on for the next job. Inquiring what this
meant, he found that the order for his assas-
sination :. already gone forth, and that
the men charged with the murderous task
were waiting to execute it, and this young
man had been named as the agent of the
murder of the next man who should be
marked out as victim. Mr. Trench, how
ever, sent the youth to America, and in o
few months he came back quite another
man, and took his sweetheart with him AZ
his wife.