The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-11

from their' steps a;' md nd; voices already
ii the ha1l: she heard '16,e Ter = master mas
run HASTILY into e: the hsiI, crying out,
tEao,td a,s Jssusf Mary, MsrY, save , me!'
The ed servant, III, Re resolving e give What
aid she could. seized a, large poker,
and washuEryingsto :hisr assistance,
when she found that they had nailed
up The door 81 teti communion b ,n at At the
Held of tie stairs, stairs. what passed af:
tef this she could not tell ell; T for : when
TIE Impulse s. o6f intrepid fidelity bad,
b9en ba1kef5dd, and dihl size found that her
own safety was as j, provided for by means
which made it impossible to aid a
poor fel ellow-creature who had just in
'voked her name, theag generous:heart-
ed Creature wasi vsercome by ,ainig,uish
(. Of mind, and i,a sank down on the stair,
where she lay, Unconscious Of all
that hucceeded, until she found her
selfraised in the arms of a mob who
had ehtetea etea The house, 81: - And how
came they toI have entered r.: In, a
way char lii tiFi{ fy!diffe dreadful. he
night was star.lit; Il the patrols had
perambulated tRe ;sttestt; f Without no.
:ticing anything suspicious, 5: ;when q
two foot-passengers,1 WHO were Il follow 'l1te'
ing in their rear; observed dark-col-
dted d ar stream an tr.serMng II I'm the causeway
One Of them, :at the same: instant
tracing the. stream backwards with
his eyes, observed that it flowed from
under the door of Mr.. Munzer, and
dipping his finger in the 'trickling
fluid, he held it up up to the j {, lamp-light,
yelling out at the moment, '.Why
this is .blood!'' It was So. indeed,
and it was yet warm. The other saw,
heard, and like an arrow flew after
the horse-patrol, then in the act Of
turning the corner. One cry, full of
meaning, was sufficient for ears full
of expectation. The horsemen pull
ed up, wheeled, and in another mo.
ment refined up atMr. Munzer's door.
The crowd, gathering like the, drift
ing Of snow, supplied implements
(which soon forced the chains of the
door and all other obstacles. But
the: numerous party; had escaped,
land all traces Of their persons, had
vanished; as usual: -.
Rarely did any case occur without
Aotne peculiarity more Or less inter-
leatinag: In that which happened on
Ethez following night; making the fifth
in the series, an impressive incident
varied the monotony Of horrors. In
this case the parties aimed atewere
stwo'elderly ladies, who conducted: =
female boanding- school. None of: the
pdpibihad as yet returned to school
fronntheir vacation but two sisters,
young girls of thirteen and sixteen,
coming from distance, had stayed
/ itschool throughout the. Christmas
holidays. howas5 the youngest Of
these who gage the only, evidence Of
any value, and one which added /
new feature of alarm to the existing
panic. Thus il! was that her testi-
mony was given: On the day before
the murder: she and her ID ialsteer i were
sitting with the old ladies in a room
fronting to the street i; the elder Ia
dies were reading, the younger ones
drawing. Louisa, the youngest, nev-
er. had her ear inattentive to the
slightest sound, and once it struck
her that she heard the creaking of a
foot upon the stairs. She said moth
ing, but, slipping out Of the room,
she ascertained that the two female
servants were in the kitchen, and
could NOT have been absent > that all
the doors and: windows, by (which in
gress was5rpossible, were not only
locked,' but boltedl and barred, IA
fact which excluded ali possibility Of
invasion'' by!!1moanso of.sfaise@ keys,
|sdu: she felt psssusdsdothssy she: had
fheardtAe poand of;k'he4vy foot apo1
the stairs.s ,ItIasIhowsver, daylight
and this gave hef confidence. 80 that
without communicating her alarm to
anybody, she found courage to tray
erse the house in every direction
and, as nothing was either seen o.
heard, she concluded that her. ear
had been too sensitively awake. Ye
that night, as she ~ in bed,, din : ter I,
Tors assailed. her, especially becaus'
she: .saensideRed. d ythat, ii i. 50 Ia large
house, Some closet. or other nigh
fhava beenaoverlooked,san and, in Ipartic
tUlaf, She did not remember to hav'