Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-06-26

VIZ thefe ana Eood IheiP any man who
hinders u.s. ;i.,. - ~
'Dig yMhere you chooses" said the far
mer. Il am too we'll Ibosn here to be
afraid of two madlnen. murder d than
r-I-There, I'm fool to care for. such
words. Dig, .confound you Many 4
horse strays in the woods; many man
has found one, as well as I, Come, neigh.
bors, set the fddles going, and let those
msd men dig, o5, ~. ,,.. ''' q
B And the spades sank into the turf, and
the terrified guests gathered .aroutld, md
tn the bride clpng to her husbands arm,
and the music was dumb, and tho dogs
long melancholy, wall filled the air; ahd
at last, just as the rising moon flung her
yellow, beams upon the ynew-dug earth,
Ned Warren cried in an awful voice,
,a"He is hercl' And the two friends lif.
+ ted from the grave, that which had been
q man, with long, death7grown black hair
falling down over his shoulders.
lie had been shot in, the head and
through the heart, and there was now no
doubt in either mind That it Was the
body of their lost friend. 1hc farmer
seemed petrified Hith horror. The bride
tell into dcath-like swoon, the guests
fell away from their host and looked at
him askance. The old father tore his
hnlr aid pleaded for mercy. but there
was no mercy in any heart there. The
avengers were all powerful. The great
room adorned for festival and mirth was
turned INTO courtroom. The women
were thrust from it, the mon remained.
On the raised stand, where the fiddlcrs
had been seated, Harry Bray now took
ms scat III the character Of Judge Lynch,
The jury was named, the, mock trial hur-
RED on. the accused callle called upon to an
swor. lie pleaded not guilty. He de-
MED any knowledge uf the fact that a
grave lay so near. his home. lie persis-
ted III the repetition of the statement
that he had found the horse and saddle.
bags, but he admitted that there had
heen money in the latter.
Flo stood before them looking very un-
like n murderer, calling on them for JUS
ticc--calling on God to ,yitncss the truth
of his words; speaking of his young wife
and his old father; bidding his neighbors
remember that he Ind never done them
any wrong.
But Judge Lynch had no mercy, no
belief in the possibility of false accusa-
ton; and this Judge Lynch was an
avenger of blood. The end was what
the end of such a trial generally is; the
sentence the awful one Of death; and in
less than three hours from the moment
on which ts'ct first saw the bridegroom
happy and bite, standing with his bride
at the head Of the gay country dance, his
body dangled horrible sight to look
upon, from tie branch o" the tree that
shadowcd what all believed to be his
victims grave!
When all was over, they found the
old father dead in his chair, beside the
fireplace, and found among this women
a hopeless, yibbering maniac whom they
would hardly have known for the ROSY
checked young bride.
They were avenged, but at what cost :?
The two men returned to- their homes
saddencd and altered, yet not remorscful
for they had but avenged their comradc !;
and this, TO them seemed common Justice.
The legal code of border life had been
adhered to, but for the last look at the
mad bride they could scarcely have rec
ognized how awful all this had been
They lived on together, friends still,
speaking often of poor Charley, and fan
cying that in some other world he might
even know how we'll they had revenged
themselves upon his murderer. And so
five years passed; and one day the two
went together into cofee-room kept by
ali old Frenchman in the city of San
Ernncisco, and being in low spirits, out
of luck and with slender purses, were
sitting disconsolately over their meal,
when a hand came down upon either
shoulder and voice cried;
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