The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-06

Thought I could avoid doing the deed
l intended if her parents would do
as 1 wished. Then Mr. Hunter asked
me if I was going to work that day. 1
told him no; I would not work, unless
it would be 1.-THE afternoon. This.
morning 1 am going to John Fsxssl
latter my clothes After he went to
the Stable, Louis went out to milk; I
carried the buckets out for her. I
spoke to her again, and she said,
Tom, it would be better if we were
both dead That was dangerous ad-
vice to give me then; it only strength,
ened my resolution to Kill her, as
we'll as Mrs. Hunter, for bringing the
trouble upon ua.
81 went into Sewelville, to Alexan-
der Williams s~hoe-shops and stole a
sharp shoe knife. Returned 10 Hun
ter's when Mrs. Hunter asked me if
I wanted to- eat my dinner. fsaid,
M! l don't want any Then 1 told
Lo1isa l had been Y to her house;
that her father and mother were down
20 her grandfather's and they wanted
her to come down there (My object
was to get her away from Hunter's)
While she was working out of doors, l
asked her, for the last time, what she
said, Tom, .Ilf have to sack you.' /
then got a tin cup and went into the
yard and drank four tinsful of hard
cider, which intoxicated me consider
ably. Chat was the first time I had
ever broken the pledge of the Lodge.)
| then went into the house, and asked
Louisa if she was going, and told her
that l would go over in the evening.
Had she gone then, l would have re-
manned at work, but MIS-. Bunter per-
suaded her not to go.) 1 then went
into the. kitchen aud got the razor;
Mrs Hunter told me that Alexander
was going to take Louisa over home
at noon, on a horse;) then went down
into the road, and up through the
clearing. 1 left the house with desper-
ate feelings. 1 stopped by a large
white oak tree and then determined to
go back and kill them both the
girl, not because I was mad at her,
but because 1 couldn't get her; and
Mrs. Hunter, because she had persuad-
ed the girl to do as she did. I went
to Lingo's to get a gun to shoot
Louisa, while she was on the horse:
couldnotget any, so Invent to Wilson's,
and they had none. AS I went, back
across the fields. Noticed q track, and
l knew it to be Louisa's. followed
her until she got to her grandfather's,
then l went up the hill, on the right
of the house (oli Mr.. Fox's.) When
I got pretty well up the hill, 1 looked
back and saw the girl and her little
brother, Willie Granville Fox, COM
ing up the hill; then / went up on the
the hill and stopped in a fence corner
Cwhere Louisa could not see me, or
had not, for she told me SO when she
came up.) I staid in hat place until
she came up to me, when we had a
considerable of talk Our talk was
about the promises she had made, and
the Inducements OF Mrs. Hunter,
which had overpowered mine. AT
that moment, my eye happened to
catch the route from Daniel Mumma's
gate along which we had walked in
happier momcnts-when l burst into
tears; and she cried also. asked her
then whar she was going 20 do with
the clothing | had bought for her.
She said 1 could do as I pleased with
it, and her too; but in her opinion we
could neve be married, and her faith
err and mother were both unwilling,
and had threatened her. She told me
she didn't know what to do, but she
was going over to take care of her
sister, and would make up her mind.
l told Willie Granville to go on, and
we would catch him. She told him
not to go, as she had a bundle OF
clothes and basket of apples to carry.
l offered to carry the clothes, but she
said she could carry them herself. l
told her that / had carried them over
there, and 1 could carry them back;
but she wouldn't give me the bundle.
We walked down the hill; the boy was
about ten yards ahead of us. I re-
solved in my mind to kill her when
we got to the ravine. Our talk going
down the hill was, isn't it enough,
Louisa, TO make a man commit most
any kind of a crime?' She said, Yes,
it is Tom. You've got my will; Il
wish that 1 was dead! I can't stand
so much trouble in my young days; !
am too young to stand it, Tom. Pap
and mother ought to have objected
when you were first coming, and no:
do it now.
II took her arm, and helped her
across the %ravine. / asked her if she
wa prepared to die, and she said she
was. We walked six or eight yards
from the r%avine, when the thought
flashed across my mind, noW or .neUer!!
I'll murder her and then 60 back and
kill Mrs. Hunter; and then kill myself.
/ caught her by the left shoulder and
showed her over into the gutter, on the
opposite side of the road Ga road lead
ing to Salem, where her body lies,
about a mile and a quarter away
81 took the razor from my pocket.
She hallooed as l threw her down:
'Oh! Tom, don't; III marry you'll
Then she screamed, ooh! pap, why did
you treat me soy" The little boy
started home, hallooing The first
cut I made was Oh the right side o.
her neck, across the jugular vein.
according to the finding Of the grand
jury, this wound was of the length of
ten inches, and of the depth Of two
inches.') The last words she spoke
we're: Farewell! Tom. Oh, 1 didn't
think you would serve me so.' l
made no reply, but went on with my
work! 1 made ten or twelve cuts on
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