The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-10-28
Thrilling Adventure In a Mich
iSan STanlp

The Detroit Free Press of the 3Olh ult.
describes an adventure of a German hatned
Henry Oss ter, of Nankin tow nship, who
was hunting a missing cow, and got mired
In piece of marshy ground. The mar
ratiye continues:
To his right, about ten feet away, was
knoll of solid ground, on which grew a
thorn apple tree, one of the limbs extend
ing almost over the mans head, and about
four feet beyond the reach of his arms
Thinking that if he could get possession
of his gun he might secure the limb, Oss=
ter took off his suspenders tied them to-
gether and made moose ON one end, and,
after careful and tedious work, lassoed
the rife and dragged it 10 him. This was
after he had been in the mire nearly two
hours, and quite a while after dusk He
was induced to believe that he had not
sunk any fer the last half hour, but the
extra weight Of the gun as he held it up
sunk him nearly to his hips in moment,
and he quickly laid it down.
Little tufts of grass, growing from spots
of solid ground, not much larger than bis
hand, were all around the man, but the
moment he took hold of one of them it
would pull away, having no real support.
Osster had a pipe with him, ard he got
this from his coat and twisted off the
German silver ring around the stem.
The ring he broke off between his teeth,
bent it up like hook, and then fastened
it TO his suspCnders, determined TO make
an effort to reach the limb. Fine after
time he made the throw, but the hook
failed to catch, or slipped off, or bent out
straight, and ten o'clock at night the
victim was up to his hips and slowly set
tling. Placing his coat ard Fest on either
side, he pushed them dowE with his
hands, and in this way kept his body
from settling as fast as it otherwise would.
He ceased trying TO shout, knowing that
he could not expect help before another
day.
AS Osster did not return at dark,
Starks feared that he might have shot
himself or met with some other accident,
and walked mile or so in the direction
from which the man was expected, and
stopped within half a mile of where he
was slowly sinking down to death Re-
turning home, he agreed TO make further
search an the morning, and when The
time came got a neighbor to 60 with him.
They took direction quite distant from
where Osster was to be found, and, to be
brief, searched the woods until nearly
noon, and then determined 10 60 to the
hamlet and if Osster had been there.
10 coming out of the woods they passed
within forty rods of Osster, and were
nearly half a mile away when one of them
fired a shot at a squirrel on The fence.
All night long Osster had been slowly
sinking, as the sun marked noon he was
up to his shoulders in the mire. Hearing
the shot, he put forth all his vocal strength
into one grand shout, followed by another,
and his voice was heard and recognized.
Even when his friends were within fifty
feet of him he had to shout 10 guide them,
as his head was Glow the grass. 1t is
needless to say that they instantly set
about the work of reseuing him. Logs
and brush were piled up in the swamp
until they could reach him. Finding ;hat
they could not pull him Gut by the arms,
the mire was seooped from his body, and
he was litteral:y pred out by a leaver in~
serted under bis feet.