Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-28
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If the people of New Zealand place any reli
ance upon the reports spread before them in
their newspapers, they are not likely to have
very exalted opinion of the American nation
In the Auckland Herald, received by the last
mail, we find the startling announcement that
single individual, named Brown, had performed
the extraordinary feat of poisoning TO death all
the nhaDitants-1200-of the township of
Weepawha, Kentucky state" Mr.. Brown, it
seems had succeeded in amassing good deal of
money as miner, and went to Weepawha for
the purpose of entering upon a new life. Short
ly after arriving, he became acquainted with the
daughter of judge, and in due time made
proposition of marriage, which was Indignantly
repealed by the father. At this slight call the
evil IN his nature rose to the surface and he re-
solved 10 wash away the insult in the blood of
the entire population. With this dark purpose
in view, he repaired to a neighboring city and
secured bag of arsenic, large enough to poison
10000 people. His next move was TO the lake
from which the Weepawhas drew their supply of
water. There he deposited "hiS deadly burden"
In such way that it would be sure to flow with
the current TO the reservoir. While engaged in
this absorbing occupation, Brown was surprised
by the sudden appearance of the head waiter of
the "Stuveysant HOTEL" the principal place of
resort in Weepawha, but to dispatch him with a
huge knife was only the work of moment.
In few days afterward "a postman from Ver-
mont went to Weepawha, with letters from
Major Ephraim Biggs, the hotel keeper, whose
dead body he found stretched across the
threshold OF the front door. At this sight we
are told that he became alarmed and cried muir
der at the top of his voice. However, after
waiting several minutes without hearing a re-
sponSe, he rushed from house to house, and soon
discovered that the people were all dead Now
comes part of the narrative without which the
| greatest simpleton could not be induced TO be.
| lieye it. While galloping away from the town,
| the postman discovered the unfortunate
| waiter lying in pool of blood on
| the border of the lake. By the appli-
cation of cold water he restored him to
consciousness sufficiently to enable him to relate
what he had seen Brown do with the poison.
Immediately afterward he fell back and died "
The farmers from the surrounding country were
then collected together, and in a twinkling
Brown was traced to a hiding place close by,
where they prevailed upon him" TO make full
and complete confession of his terrible crime.
BY way OF absolution, they then strung him up
TO tree as warning to all woud.be PRISONERS
in the future. This work done, the farmers col
lected the bodies of the Inflated 1900 and buried
TO perpetuate the memory of the dreadful deed
by erecting mausoleum upon the spot. To
those who have been in the habit of reading the
news OF the day, it will scarcely be necessary to
say that the foregoing details have no founda-
ton whatever in fact, although the Auckland
Herald very modestly credits them to the Mil
waukee Independent journal which, we are
assured, has never existed outside the brain of
the unprncipled individual with whom this eX-
traordinary hoax originated.-N. Y. Times.