The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-04-30
VOLUME 8.
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the man was dead.
AS Richard was last seen in his COM
pany, officers went to the house of Rich
ards fathers and learned that the young
man had not yet returned home.
Search was made for the supposed
murderer without effect, until, at the
end of a week, word was brought TO
the sheriff that Richard had been seen
in Smithfeld, not far from the house Of
his married sister, Submit, who dwelt in
that quarter.
1t was then coniectured that his sis
ter was acquainted with his hiding
place, and the Sheriff called upon her
for information At first she pretended
to know nothing about her brothers
movements; but the sheriff, having made
her believe that Richards ofense would
not be severely punished, and that II
would be regarded as jnstifable bomi-
eide, she at length confessed that herfu-
gitive brother hid in the neighboring
wood during the day, and came to the
house at midnight for food.
Accordingly the officers lay in wait
for him at night, and as he came out OF
the wood they seized him and carried
him off.
Perceiving how she had been deceiV-l
ed, the husband of Submit, and others,
would not enlighten her in regard TO the
probable fate of her brother; but man
coming from Providence spoke to Sub
nit of the trial of her brother for muir
der, and added that he had been con-
victed and sentenced to death.
Submit, who had never dreamed of
such an issue TO the affair, now
filled the air with her shrieka, accused
herself of being her brothers murder
er, and expressed her determination TO
go straight to Providence atd see the
Judge herself.
Others were now ready enough to ac-
cuse Submit of being her brothers MUIR
derer; in short, her brothers, sisters,
parents, and all her other relatives spoke
of her in the bitterest terms. At first,
her husband prevented her from going
to Providence; but, unfortunately, she
got away, by leaping from high win
dow, and arrived in Providence on the
very day that her brother was executed.
She arrived at the gallows just as the
body was taken down. That moment
her reason forsook her. She remember
ed the peculiar creaking made by the
tackling of the gibbet when her brothers
body was lowered down, and it was pres
ent in her imagination at all times, es-
pecially when she heard any noise Of
that description.
The husband of Submit got divorce
from her as soon as her insanity became
apparent, and she led miserable life
among her relatives, who continually
upbraided her for being the betrayer of
her brother.
At length, when her son became a
man, and married and settled at Black
stone, Submit went and lived with him,
and at his house she found little peace.
But the poor maniac could never rest;
she wandered about the country at all
times Of day and night, in sunshine and
storm, summer and winter, in the deep
est SHOWS and drenching rains. She
called often at the houses of her brothers
and sisters. bat the welcome she receiv-
| ed from them was so cold, that she made
short visits; and again, the poor maniac
went trudging over the rounded hill top
and stubble-feld, through boggy vale
and tangled wildwood, ever and anon
listening, with short step and lifted
hand, to the fancied creak of the weird
gallows-tree on the distant hill, that one
might have imagined she heard contin-
ually behind her the "March on! March
march," which goaded the Wandering
Jew on his everlasting journey.
At length came the Revolution oi
Governor Dorr. She seemed to have
a peculiar fancy for following the suf.
frage army, though at a distance; and
one morning, the poor creature, old anG
withered. was discovered up to her chir
in a swamp, the unmistakable stamp O
death on her sunken brow.