The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-01-29

As much under ne glance of lis eye as
before the muzle of his pistol, the
cowardly clamoers drew back. Per-
haps they were .ot sufficiently numer-
GUS to feel the fill effect of that mystic
rious reflex iutaence which makes q
crowd of men 81 much worse, and at
times SO much bitter, than any one of
them singly.
"At the end o some months my trial
came. 1t could have but L result.
Circumstances to- plainly declared my
gHilt. [ alone knew they tied. The
absence Of the jury was very brief. To
their verdict I pad but little heed. 1t
vas a single hidons word ; but l bad
long anticipatedit, ard it made no I'M
preston. As title repression was
made by the woris CT the Judge which
followed it +; andhis solemn invocation
that God might lave that mercy upon
me which ma Vas too just to yoEch-
safe, sounded like the ho!lowest OF hol-
low mockeries. It may be hard for the
condemned criminal to meet death !; it
is still harder fCl him who is innocent.
The one,w when the first shock is over,
acquiesces in nisdoom, and gives HIM
self to repentance the heart of the
other, filled with rebellion against
mans injustice, can scarce bring itself
to ask pardon Of God. [ had gradually
overcome this feeling, in spite Of the
good c~lergynar's irritating efforts,
which were mainly directed toward OK
tracting a confession, without which,
he assured me, he had 10 hope to offer.
"On the morning of the day fixed for
M execution, | felt measurably re-
signed. had so long stood face to
face with death, had 50 accustomed
myself to look upon it as merely q
momentary pang. that no longer felt
solicitcus save that my memory should
one day be vindicated. She for whom
L had gone to prepare n homo, had al
ready found one in heaven. The tldings
of my calamity had broken her heart.
She alone, of all the world, believed
me innocent and she had died with q
prayer upon her lips that the truth
misht yet be brought to light. All this
l had heard, and it had soothed as with
sweet incense my troubled spirit.
Death, however unwelc0me tie shape,
was now q portal, beyond which I could
see one angel waiting to receive me.
[ heard the sound OF approaching foot
steps, and nerTed myself to meet the
expected summons. The door Of my
cell opened, and the Sheriff aud his at
PENDANTS eutered. lie he'd III lis hand
a paper. It was doubtless my death
warrant. He began 10 read it. My
thoughts were busted elsewhere. The
words 'fuU and free PARDON were the
first to strike my preoccupied senses.
They affected the ~bystanders more
than myself. Yet so it was: I wGs
pardoned for an oGcasc I had mcccr
committed!
1.-The real culprit. none other, it is
needless to say, than he who sought
and abused my hospitality, had been
MORALLY wounded N 4 recent affray III Il
distant city, but had lived long enough
to make q disclosure, which had been
laid before the Governor barely in time
TO a me from q shameful Geath. and
condemn me to a cheerless and burden
some life. This is my experience. My
Judgment, as yours, in the case before
no, leads to but one oonolus:nn, that of
the prisoners guilt but no less con
tident and apparently unerring was
the Judgment that falsely pronounced
my own"
We no longer importuned our fellow
juror, but patiently awaited our dis
charge, on the ground of inability 30
agree, which came at last.
The prisoner was tried and convicted
at a subsequent term, and at the last
moment confe ssed his crime on the
scafold.
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