The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-02-22

Wonder, With ragged luT dap pulled uN.
Or hi, eycs pid son cser sega mafc per
fec, specimen of ibe 5ilapIdatel country
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smiled could harda hcp
What 3 lhe sases
4 murdcr insu and wife aud two
little children tbeIribrat cul ht night
and thc house set ou iire afterwards
Great heavens what uoustefl
We had continued tie conversation
throughout Ia whisper, scarcely above
our breath, aud.uow the conductor rose
and left me 70 study ,Ie faces of my lcl-
low passengers with curious jread and
horror
Somehow, as otlcu a. rey0lstd the
matter 10 my mind, my fancy would ct-
tie on coarse, pross.looking man oppo-
site, with a shaggy coat, with she collar
turned up around his cars. felt that
this man with the heavy hanging jaw was
Cain And a. / looked furtigeh across,
CAUGHT tie wide open biue orbs % the
fair little girl Obeyng the insmuaue-
GUS impulse Of nay heart Iarosoaud went
over to her
You have heard what we were saving
my childg
Yes IA murder. Oh, how horrible!
Douot be frightened; no one shall hurt
you
She smiled up ia my face with sweet
confdiug innocence.
Our stay at Exmouth was but bfief;
but dnring the delay ! could see llmt the
ever watchful detective lad changed his
seat for Que nearer the british man with
the shaggy coat
See, foltered the Young girl, they locked
the car doors at Exmouth; they are un-
locking them now.
She was right
Probably they were fearful that the
criminal would escape, remarked, IN an
undertonc.
VIII you may | trouble you to bring
me glass OF water?
rose and made my way toward the
icecoolor with difficulty, for the train was
again under rapid motion. TO my yexa-
ton, the goblet was chained to the shelf.
No matter, said she, with q winning
smile. | will come myself
drew the water, and held up the cup
but instead of taking it as she approached,
she brushed suddenly past me, opened the
door, and rushed out upon the platform.
/ Stop herl Stop her! shouted the dotee.
tive, suddenly sprlnging to his feet She
will be killed Conductor brakeman!
hold up!
There was rush, a tumult, hustle.
was the first upon the platform but il
was empty and deserted, save by hall
frozen brakeman, who seemed horror
stricken. :.
She passed me like a shallow, and
jumped of as we crossed Cairn turnpike
road, he stammerCd.
Jumped off the express train said tHC
conductor Wen, he added, Struggling
his shoulders, she must have been Killed
instantly. What mad folly
It's five hundred dollars out of my
pocket, said the detective, rucfully.
didn't want a row before we got to Bays.
water, but was confounded fool, A
woman cornered will do anything, | be
lieve.
What? / calculated, you surely do no
mean that child
mean, said the detective calmly, tha
child, as you call her, is Atilla Burton, I
married woman, twenty-six years Of age
who last night murdered four persons il
cold blood, and was trying to escape tt
Canada. That's what mean.
The train was stopped, and a party o
us, headed by the conductor and dctcc
tive, went back to search for any trace
. Of the beautiful young creature whose
{ loyeliness and apparent innocence had
appealed to my synpathics Nor was !
long before we found her, lying quit,
dead beside the track, frghtlally man
gled by the force Of the heavy fail, nm,
mulilatcd almost beyond recognition.
Wen, she's escaped justice in thi
world il not in the next, said the detcc
tive gloomily, as he stood ooEing dow
upon her remains.
DO you suppose she eX Xpected TO be abb
TO jump from the moving train withou
. iniuryi asked
Without much injury most womeI
arc unreasonable creatures. But ueyc
dreamed Of such insane folly, or, you caI
, reckon, / should have taken promp
measures to prevent it,
Q They lifted up the dead fair Thing, an
carried it to the nearest place Of refuge
d lonely farm house among the flolc
: hills, and we returned 10 the train, rcacl
+ ing BaYswater only alew minutes bebin
I our regular time.
And when in the ncAtmoning paper
i read an account Of the murdcrcss,
thought Of the slender creatures bla
r eyes aud rosebud mouth, with a stIang
!. lpitying thrill al my heart,
s Iifnt fof the CifIs.
: a wood engrayer being asked why /
i did not employ women replied - hat