Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-31

was an old log cabin with two rooms.
In one of these, on the left-hand side Of
the hall, Mrs. HOusden slept with her
feet toward the door, the bed extending
from the front wall to its facings. The
door opened against the bed occupied by
Mrs. HOusden's daughter-in-law, who
slept with her head toward the wall of
the hall, the bed extending toward the
opposite side of the room. 1t is sup
posed that when the murderers went
into the room they seized hold Of Mrs.
HOusden, and, before she had barely
time TO open her eyes, carried her out of
the bed and into the yard, where it is
thought they tied the plow-line-around
her neck and dragged her to the hog
gallows at the spring, and that she was
choked to death before arriving there.
This supposition is borne out by the fact
that the skin of her heels was scraped
of, ff,evidencing that's she had been dragged.
Though the night was dark, the muir
derers may have dragged her down
serpentine path leading to the gallows.
1t is surmised that ON the way her
clothing was caught upon plOw in the
path, and a petticOat torn from her
body. 1t was owing to the finding of
the petticoat that led the neighbOrs to
discover her cold and lifeless body an
hour after the perpetratiOn of the crime.
1t is said no one could have followed the
crooked path leading to the spring, on a
dark night, without having a perfect
knowledge of it. 1t is thought that the
muTderers hung Mrs. Housden to the
gaIlows in hopes that when found if
would be taken for granted that she had
committed suicide by hanging herself.
RHmors are rife in the neighbOrhood to
the effect that should the negroes prove
to be guilty, it will likely come out that
they were lnstigated by others, and that
they are not the only persons concerned
with the crime. Looking into probable
motives for such deed, this conjecture
would seem to be not improbable.
MAN KILLED.
From the Paris Intelligencer.l
On last Tuesday, Mr.. T. J. Bevel, a
citizen living five miles south of Paris,
was standing near a tree upon which
two men were cutting in order to fell it.
A limb of another tree had fallen and
was lodged among the branches of this
tree and those of another near by, and
thus held suspended. The tree upon
which the men were cutting COM
menced to fall, while Mr.. Bevel was
under the suspended limb,
which was suddenly released from the |
of the branches of the |
falling tree, and descending with terri |
bic force, struck him on the head, kill
ing him instantly.
SERIES OF SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.
PARKERSBURG, March ia very
singular series of accidents occurred at |
one mile from here. Shortly |
after Mr.. Alf Wells and his family had |
retired, Mrs. Wells complained of feel |
ing of numbness in her limbs, and re-
4uested her husband to help her walk |
across the floor. About half way across |
the room he expressed some fears, when |
she told him not to be afraid, and inn |
dropped dead at his feet. He |
gave an alarm, and a neighbOr, an old |
lady, in crossing the street to his assist |
ance, fell, breaking her left arm in two |
places and her right collar-bone. Her |
son, a young man, heard her scream, |
and rushing out of the house to her aid, |
fell against the half-Open door, breaking |
ais nose, and rebounding senseless to
the floor. DR.. Kendall, Fastening to |
-he help of the sufferers, also fell, and |
broke two of his ribs, and had-to be car
red home.