The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-22

words passed between them, and as they
left to go hpme,. Ellison, was heard to
saw - u Iil II IL . f,
eyes, pve cheated you and your
father out of land, and before I'm through
with you, I intend to get away every
inch Of land that you We got." lii1
When they lett the tavern, Ellison
had scythe, and Richard had an Ak on
his shoulder. A few hours afterward,
some travellers on the highway found the
body ~of sEllison on the road. BADLY
chopped up as Il With an Ak. OF course
the man was dead. ~
As. .Richard was Last seenin his COM
pany, officers went to the house of
Richards father, sndslearned that the
young man had not yet returned home. .
Search was made for the supposed
murderer without effect, until, at the
end Of week, word was brought to the
sheriff that Richard had been seen in
Smithfield, not far from the house of his
married sister, Submit. who dwelt in
that quarter, 3
1t was then conjectured that his sister
was acquainted with his hiding place,
and the sheriff called upon her for in
formations, AT first che pretended to
know nothing about her brothers move
ments but the sheriff, having made her
believe that Richards offense would not
be severely punished, and that it would
be regarded as justifiable homicide, she
at length confessed that her fugitive
brother hid in the neighboring wood dur
ing 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 deceived,
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 Submit
of the trial, of her, brother for murder,
and added that he had been convicted
and sentenced to DEATH SAISDAG
Submit, who had never dreamed Of
such an issue to the affair, now filled the
air witAher sshrieks Jacc,ned herself Of
being HER brother'si murderer, and ex-
pressed her determination to 60 straight
to Providence and zee the judge herself.
Others were NOW, ready enough to
accuse Submit of being her brothers
murderer !; i'm short, her brothers, sisters,
parents, and all her other relatives spoke
| of her i'm the bitterest terms. At first
her husband prevented her from going tc
Providence r but, unfortunately, she got
away, by 1eaping from high window
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. iShe remembered
the peculiar creaking. made by the, tack
ling of the gibbet When her brother
body wass lowered down, and it wal
present in her imaginatiQn at all times
especially when she heard any noise o
that description. sl1a aog
The husband of-Submit got divorct
fromher q sesn as her insanity .becams.
apparent, and she. led "A, miserable lif'
among her relatives, who continually
upbreided herfor ibeihg the betrayer o
her brotheriA .g-c~ Ia suasz
AT length, when her son became
man, and hdarried and settled at Black
STONE, Submit went and lived with him
and at his house she found LITTLE
peace. .U0TTfYTC Mon
'ButJthe poor maniac could never rest
she wandered about the country at al
times Of day and night, in sunshine ant
storm, summer and winter, in tn
deepest SHOWS and dfenching rains. Sh'
called often at the houses other brother
and sisters, but the welcome she re
ceived from them was 10 cold, that sh
made short visits; and; again, the poo
maniac went trudging over the ROUNDED
hilltop and stubbl lie field, through. bogg.
vale and tangled wild. wood, ever ant
anon listening, with short step and lifte'
hand, to the fancied creak of the weir,
gallows-tree on the distant hill, that on
might JbaseE imagined she heard con
, .tinually behind her, the " March On
sNfarchI ,Marchp which goaded Oh
Wandering Jew on his everlasting
journeyIaesHoED'I 10 ncifesE
At length came the Revolution Q
Governor Don. a She. seemed, to hhv
apeculiar fancy Tor following the suffrag
army, though at,a distance; and, on
|, morning, . Shel poor > creature, old On
withered WAS discovered up. to her chi
, in 4 swafRp, Inc shmistakable stamp {
: death on her sunken brow.