The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-25

as If nothing had happened, making DO reply
| to the questions addressed him by Mr..
Christian as to the cause of the shooting
/ 81 ANOTHER STATEMENT.
i. n. Swartz was another witness OF the
shooting. He came upon the scene just as
the first shot was fired, and as the second
shot was fred he saw both men run west On
Vermont street, Moritz a few feet ahead,
running in a zigzag course, as If to dodge
the bullets. Harding followed for half a
square, until opposite Shower d Christians
planning mill, swapping his pistol ineftec-
tually. in order to give Moritz the benefit OF
the remaining shots in the revolver. Hard
ing then walked west on Vermont street 10
Delaware and went north without making
the slightest effort TO evade arrest.
THE STRICKEN HOME.
The house of mourning on Pratt street,
near the Fourth Presbyterian Church, pre-
scented in the afternoon of the fatal day a
scene that would have softened the hardest
heart. No one who gazed upon the broken
hearted father yesterday as he sat beside the
diving couch of his darling child would have
found it in his heart to condemn the terrible
vengeance that he had inflicted upon
the head of her alleged destroyer.
The dying child had hidden adieu to world
which had brought to her tar more of sor-
row and anguish than Is wont in one so
Young. Her father, to whom she had been
as dear as life itself, sat by her bedside I'M
able to stay the departure of the young life
that was fast fading out. The soul had
voluntarily started out into the unknown
ocean which flows around the world, willing
to trust to the mere es of an infinite
harsh Judgment of her fellow
mortals. She was her fathers pride, and he
fOndly hoped, not without good reason, that
she might be the comfort of his old age and
an ornament in his own chosen profession:
In few brief hours the father was stunned
by the confession ofhiS own child as she re-
cited the tale of her cruel betrayal and ruin,
and that too by one whom he had trusted as
brother and regarded as bosom friend
for years. AS he sat thus, the picture of
wretchedness, watching the shadow of death
on his first born, there were not a few strong
men unused to the melting mood, who
wiped away the tear of sympathy from their
eyes, as they contemplated the tragedy in
real life, whose closing scene was
being enacted before their eyes.
The policemen, enured as they were to
scenes of misery and suffering, talked in low
tones and moved more quietly than was
their won't while they stood guard over the
house in which the girl lay dying. The
young being lately so full OF life and health
and spirits lay moaning pitifully upon her
upon her lips as her spirit paused to take its
eternal flight. The cry of agony which she
Uttered at intervals seemed to arise as
much from anguish of mind as from
physical pain, as ie the terrible memory of
her sad and cruel fate was ever present with
her, even in her last moments. If she
had erred she had also suffered, and her life
was rendered up as sacrifice to her first
transgression. No one who looked upon the
father of that household would for mo-
ment think that life had any pleasures in
store in future, and the fact that he was
goaded on to seek the life of one who. as he
thought, wrought all this ruin with his own
hand. Mrs. Harding Flora's step-mother).to
whom Flora was as dear as any OF her own
blood, went from one CONFUSION into an
other, and added to the sombre coloring of
the mournful scene. Harding himself made
not the slightest movement to
escape or evade arrest during the
long, dreary, snitry afternoon, and
it is doubtful whether he paid the
slightest thought to his tate present or flu
ture. The memory OF SUCH an experience
as the man is undergoing is such as endures
as long as life remains, and his most init
mate friends hesitated before they in
vaded the sanctity of his grief
with what would under such
tragical circumstances seem but hollow
words of sympathy and coincidence. 10
such as did approach him to soften his great
sorrow with their presence. he never ut
tered word, but his tears flowed unin-
terrupted, and the only acknowledgement OF
their presence was a pressure of the hand,
and his gaze was, as ever, upon the lace OF
his child. 30 rna r.ra
shortly before O'Clock in the afternoon
Flora breathed her last, and her earthly
| troubles were over. Notwithstanding her
excruciating pain, both bodily and mental,
as her young life went out in gloom and
darkness, her features after all her pain was
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lief, assumed calm and peaceful look, as If
she had dropped of to pleas
ant dreams. kindly hands smoothed her
young brow and tear dimmed faces
bent over her form as they closed her eyes
with loving touch in her last eternal sleep.
For the father of the betrayed girl there was
no such relief The law of which he had
been himself the avenger was yet
to be satisfied, and its form
alities to be complied with.
The eyes of his loved child had scarcely
closed before he was called upon to accom-
pany the officers of jIssice. He made no
| Sign of dissent to their request, but as before
went with them 10 answer for his actions as
| if nothing in the wide universe
moved him save alone the ruin of his darling
child, just budding into the prime of young
womanhood. and the bitter recollection of
her sad and tragic taking of. - o'
| a.sa ARREST AND EXAMINATION.
ATT o'clock Mr., Harding was taken before
the mayor in his court to havea preliminary
examination. There were but few specta-
tors in the room, and the bond was
readily fixed at $4,000, on pre-
liminary examination being waived.
He was taken to the Jail followed by his at
torneys and friends, the latter showing
Willingness to stand by him to the last. At
the Jail office the bond was signed by Judge
Gorion, Mr. David Stevenson, Col. w. r.
Holloway and Thomas f. Ryan, and judging
from assertions made there and
on the streets, the amount could
have been indefinitely multiplied,
and bondsmen easily afouud. During the
afternoon, members of the prominent legal
firms proffered their assistance to Mr.. Har-
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