Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-06-26
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utt.tS=atIIt 4 S;idlt sifi so 4f5s 1;
'pigi giSShher SShhere ,ypu Phgosae5,. said the far
.mer so 4 A am .foYs too we'll Hhoth here 70 be
afraid of two madrnen. / murder d d ifftian
,rII5iTThere, I.5iTThere ,sII'Hm I'm q fool to care for for such
words, Dig, .seoonfopnd you: Many . q
horse sMttays M saiiIp ip the the woods; many mnn i
has found one ay sIa well as asI Come, neigh.
bgors, set the fdkdles las,o going and let those
m mfd men dig Of, .1.t oyi.. !. '''.s.''st
F6 And the spades sank into the turf, and
u the .erri6esd fled guests gathered arou1ld, ma md
Il the bride cllnpg to her husbands arm,
and the n music, pl Was dumb, and tho dogs
Is long omelansehol lly, vail filed the air; tid
ct last, just as, as, the rising moon flung her
Yellow beams upon the. the snewrlJE EARTH,
Ned Warren cried in an awful voice,
- ,ssHe is .he1rclV And the two friends lif.
i ted from the grave that which had been been
- man, with long death,grown black hal.
falling down over Ibis shoulders, 81 1
He had been shot il, the head and
through the heart and there, was now no
doubt in eithvepr. mind that f vas the
llpody iefp their lost friend. The farmer
seemed petritiedl, with horror, The bride
tel into q deathlirllike swoon, the guests
t tell away. from their host and looked at at
him askaneeao The. old fstlsr tore his
hair q and pleaded for mercy, but there q
was no mercy in any heart there. The
avengers were all, powerful. The great
room adorned for festival and mirth was
turned into courtroom, tt !, The women
We're thrust from it., the men lremained-
Onithe raised stand, where the fiddlerrss
had been seated dsolHE Harry. Bray, now took
hls scat, IL the ehlaraGter ,of Judge Lynch,
Ihe Jury was named, the, mock trial htir-
rledIpn, the accused sails called upon to, an.
swer. He pleadleedl not guilty, He de-, e.,
Med any knowledge Of the fact that a
gravel 1lqyoso near his home, He persis-
ted in the repetition of the statement
that he had found. she horse and saddle.
bags, but, he admitted that there had
been money in the latter.
yHo stood before them looking very un-
like ismurderer, calling on them for JUS.
tlce---calling on Sod to witness the truth
ofhis words; speaking of his young wife
and his old father; bidding his neighbors
remember that lie had never done them
any wrong. ta
4,
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 trial generally is; the
sentence the awful one of death; and in
less than three hours from the moment
on which they first SAT- the bridegroom
happy and bite, standing with his bride
at the head of the gay country dance, his
body dangled, a horrible sight to look
upon, from the branch o. the tree that
shadowcd what all believed to be his
victims gravel
When all was ever, they found the
old father dead in his chair, beside the
Fireplace, and found among ths women
hopeless, gibbering 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
saddened and altered, yet not remorseful
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 o coffee-room kept by
an old Frenchman in the city of San.
francisco, and being in low spirits, out
of luck and with slender purses, were
sitting disconsolately over their meal,
when hand came down upon either
Shoulder and q voico or;oJ.