Connecticut western news., 1874-02-13
SALISBURY, CONN.,, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1874.

| The Judge reprOVed h1m TOT h1s levity; and, after an exhortation to re pentance, which would have become the mouth of better man, old Paxwa1 sentenced the prisoner to be hanged at the end of six weeks. 1T applied in vain for writ of errc1 and stay of proceedings. Equally 1T vain appealed to the Executive elem ency. Governors of States are gener ally so much more just than the Grea Governor, that when it becomes ques tion of mercy, the responsibility ii commonly shuff1ed off on the latter.
 "Obed sent me 8 message to come and see him on his last night. He Wal the only inmate of the little log jail with walls three tiers of timber thick.
 "The iailer let me in and closed the door upon me. It wasn't usual then as now, to keep close watch on con demned criminals to see that they didn't anticipate their doom. If they hanged themselves, it was so much trouble saved.
 "'How do you feel, Obed p I in. quired, taking his hand kindly.
 Jest mid lin, he answered. You see I could 8 stood it heap better ii Kettle hadn't come here to see me-
 "'Die like man, I said ; there's nc help for it now
 ".I can't do it, he replied an what's more, / aOoas't.
 I looked at him in surprise.
 "' You see this yer rope,' he con, tinued :; made it out o'my bed-close this afternoon, determined, eff I had to be. hanged, to do the job myself but sence seen Hettie, I've changed my mind
 My astonishment increased.
 GA lawyer han't no right to peach on his client, hez he ? he asked.
 "That was a question including sev- eral others, among them the important one when the relationship referred to might be considered ended.
 "' At any rate, eff you give the alarm now, I'll kill you, he said, quietly; and before knew, he had grasped my arm with one hand, and placed the other on my mouth.
 "'You must submit to be gagged, he added, in the same firm, determined tone.
 "I felt that conscience didn't demand the imperilling of my life. I saw that Obed was desperate, and would stick at nothing. was, moreover, an infant in his hands.
 "He stuffed a wad of something into my mouth, and secured it by bandage brought round and tied at the back of my neck.
 "Then compelling me to change clothing with him, he bound me hand and foot with the cord he had prepared, and fastened me on his bed. Then bid ding me good night, he tapped at the door-my usual signal to be let out.
 "I do not know if I would have warned the drowsy jailer if could, as I heard Obed bid him 'gocd night in my voice and walk away unmolested. think was glad I could not; for I had never more than half believed in Obed's guilt, and despite the incon- venience to myself, I entertained se- cret hope that his plan of escape might succeed.
 "Of course, there was 8 hubbub when the sheriff and his assistants came in the morning. Of course, my expla- nation proved satisfactory; and, of course, it would have been carrying the doctrine of representation by attorney to an unwarrantable extent, to have hanged me in my clients stead. There were some who whispered that it was 8 concerted thing between Obed and myself; but my professional standing was sufficient vindication against such a slander."
 ella! hap P laughed an irreverent junior.
 The "death rattle" evoked by MT. Badgers last suck at his julep was tho only reply deigned to the young mans impertinence.
 "And what do you think of the case, after all ?" asked Bill Quipiey.
 "Oh, the truth came out at last 1! Ahab Grandy was paying me some notes he gave me one peculiarly marked, Enos Burdge, on the day he disap- peared. I secretly procured a warrant, and had Grandy's house searched. The result was the discovery of number of the murdered mans effects, among them watch he had worn for many years, and which was readily identified.
 "When confronted with the proofs of his guilt, Ahab confessed that he had waylaid, robbed and murdered Enos Burdge, after the latter had re- ccived the money for his land, and that he had buried the body at dead of night, where, if it should be found, suspicion would be likely to fall upon another.
 ''Ahab Grandy was hanged in due time and Obed Scott, who turned up after season, was happily married to Kettle Ward, who had never lost faith in her lover's innocence, in spite of judge and iury."-Ledger.