Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-04

which md the etife Dy -wnlcn " was
entered were familier to him. He was
to have allowed Mccarthy to cross the
the stile first, and following him close
", as he descended itat the other side,
he was to have dealt him, with his,
heavy loaded stick, such a blow upon
the head as most have; felled him to |
the ground, and, and he lay stunned
in the graveyard, he would have easily |
him. The sounds of vio-
lence in that sequestered place no ear
could have heard, and no human aid
would have interfered to prevent the
of his atrocious pur-
pose.
The women, who, in the large barn
like room, were attending to the pre-
parations fer supper at the further
end, and had caught nothing of the
conversation of the two men who stood
near the door. The effect of'the might
not very improbaBly have been that no
one would have known in what direc
tion their walk had lain, or could have
conjectured where the body of MacAr-
thy, If lie had been murdered, was con-
cealed. 1t might have lain under the
wall of that rude cemetery undiscover-
ed until the next funeral brought peo-
pie into its solitary enclosure. At this
point all turned upon the, presentiment
which had so mysteriously determined
Mccarthy, without any motive Of which
he was conscious, against the going
over the stile before him. Mccarthy
was too powerful man to have been
'assailed on fair terms, with reasOna-
BILE chance of the intending assassin's
success. H., :. -
When the trial was over, Mr.. Ben
net, ms informant, who thought not
i'm the case, and a junior .tarrister at
the time, had listened to the trial with
deep interest, found an opportunity of
speaking to-the. prosecutor, and asked
him some questions upon the most'ex-
traordinary point in the strange occnr-
renee deposed to. What passed was
to the following effect: t
lyon state that you were prevented
from drinking the porter by pain in
the back of your neck. Did that pain
affect all the back of your neck; and
it not, to what part of your neck was
it confined y -.
alt was in one spot only, close IN
der tie skull, under the backbone"
"Was it severe pain I"
"The worst Ievertelt.r Let,
Had you ever had the same pain
before Z" ] :,
Never any pain like 1t before or
since" ).
"Can you give me an idea OF what
the pain was likep
at covered about the size of the top
of a mans finger pressed hard against
the neck, and it felt like a red-hot bull
let.n =. 4,
"Did the pain;iast Iongi" - =.
ait came whenever l raised the
porter towards my mouth. and stopped
80 soon as set the vessel down again;
aud | coald not drink or holu the YES
sci up while it.iasted." f =,
Some persons will account, upon
natural, though complicated theories.
for the mental and physical ippres:
sions which they may suppose resulted
in this sensation, and in the consequent
escape OF the prosecutor, Mccarthy,
from deep-laid scheme of murder.
Others will see nearly insuperable
difficulty in the way ct such an ex'
PLANTATION. 1t is, in any case, one oi
the most remarkable instances of jus
tice satisfied and life saved by.mysteri
GUS premonition that have ever mel
with. ~. ~ ~
| :. The hired assassin was convicted
and although his intention had been
defeated, his crime was then. i be
lieve, capital one. The wretch wht
employed him was ALSO. il. l remember
rightly, convicted and punished.
| IIelate this story with very exact
recollection of the terms in which i
was told to me, and with conscienti
ous anxiety to reproduce the narrative
accurately. tits extraordinary enough
/ think, to merit be rescued from Oh
lliriOn.
A sarcastic lady saws the only thiuI