The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-06-03

We extract the following interesting
incident from Sketches Of the OIden
Time" contributed by Mr,J. A. Dacus
to the st. LOUIS Republican:
In the year 1888 the Autocrat took on |
board at Vicksburg
FOUR PROFESSIONAL DEsPERADoEs
as passengers bound to ST. Louis The |
| boat had large number of passengers
aboard, and the professionals" could not
allow an opportunity SO promising of
fruitful results to pass unimproved.
Among the passengers was young man,
who had been intrusted with large sum
of money by friends in the East to invest
in real estate in tho West. Being of an
unsuspicious disposition and wholly un-
acquainted with the state of society then
prevailing in the Southwest, the courte-
Gus and specious rascals very soon OBJ
/ tanned knowledge of the fact that he
had money. He was
WORTH CULTIvATING
and Immediately all their arts were.
brought into play to fleece their fellow
passenger. Games were proposed. The
young man did not play. They finally
succeeded in getting him to drink with
them. They then felt certain of their
prey; but to their astonishment he was
more cautious than ever, and rudely re-.
) PEELED every effort to engage him In
game of hazard. Days passed on yet
they made nothing out Of him, bu: few
drinks. Something must be done. The
four confederates at last resolved upon
murder as the best and only means of
getting this obstinate young mans money.
One night he vas seen to enter his state
room. The next morning the room was
vacant the out, OF guard side door was
J ooen, a few drops Of blood in the bed
linen, and pool of the same on the floor
was all that gave any clew to his fate.
The passengers, however. fixed suspic>
ion upon the four Vicksburg accessions.
, There was no evidence, but
CIRCU INSTANCES POINT STRONGLY
toward them. A del utation headed by
gentleman who was still alive two years
ago and living in Louisville, Ky, waited
upon the officers Of the boat and de-
manded the speedy Decentralization of the
four worthless The Captain cheerfully
i complied The boat was brought to at
$ Island No 81, or Millcr's Island, about
seventy FIVE miles above Memphis, and
0 the passengers from Vicksburg were or
dered ashore The island at that time
a was supposed to be uninhabited since
0 the departure of Fred. Frankenstein. the
, woodman, who had for some years before
: kept wood yard to supply passing steam
: boats. For some months he had been
$ away! as he was the only known resident
: of the island, it was now supposed to be
destitute of human inhabitants. But
!, Fraukenstein who had only journeyet
for short time on the main land bat
1t returned the evening before from Ran
7 dolph with small boat load of supplies
! for his island cabin. He was well known
e to many of the people of Randolph ane
u was known to possess considerahl
e sum of money. The cabin of th
: woodman hads been generously tenderet
IS to the exiles from the Autocrat. Tha
IS night, in the still and sbadowy hour
J, when no sound broke the silence tha
l. brooded over the Germans island home
&c his guests lose up
l. AND MURDERED HIM
d there as he lay asleep, perhaps drealnin,
y peaceful dreams of the far off, vine c!a'
"a hills by the Rhine.
ot " hen his friends from town accordin:
II to promise previously made came to visi
70 him on the following day, they found hi
I. skull cloyen assunder, and he lay weller
q ing in his own blood, ghastly corpse
le Some years afterward, telon under tn
n gallows at Marshal, Texas, told hov
't Frederick Frankenstein died On th
:. island that night.
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