The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-26
heard of the men who had gone iii pur-

heard of the men vino had gone in. pur-
suit OF
REBECCA's SUPPOSED MURD ERER.
| At noon a physician arrived, and ex-
amined the corpse. He founa that a
nameless outrage had been committed
upon the girl before the fatal kniIe had
pierced her vitals.
A foolish woman informed the despair
ing mother of this additional horror.
When Mrs. Bloch heard this her tears
suddenly ceased to flow. She CON-
pressed her lips, aud her, lace assumed
| stony expression. Without uttering u
word, she sat for hours and hours. At
| 3 O'clock the sound OF approaching h0rst s
was heard. FIVE minutes later the
pursuers entered the house; they had
oyertaken The preacher. His hands
were tied on his back. He looked
deadly pale. They led him up to tIe
corpse. He recoiled in horror.
"Haye you murdered her?" said Bur-
well TO him.
LAS GOD is my witness, I have not"
replied Messmore, in trembling voice.
"You lie," rej0ined The young farmer,
"you lieI There is blood upon your
clotnes, there ID blood in your room.
Confess your crime, and we will hand
you over to the Court ; but If you persist
IN your lies, we wlil tiog you Until you
tell the truth, and then kill you as the
redskins Kali their prisoners"
| IL am innocent" gasped the preacher.
Suddenly, Mrs. BiUcn, VINO mad been
lost sight OF tor few moments, and who
had meanwhile possessed herself Of a
large, pointed knife, rushed with the
yell of tigress upon The trembling
preacher, and plunged the knife lnLo his
breast.
He died almost instantly. All the
persons in tue house were awestruck by
THE FRESH DEED OF BLOOD.
Next day the Coroner arrived, ana
Mrs. Bloch was sent 10 tle WeellLg
ljall.
Two weeks later she was tried. and
sentenced to SIX months imprisonment.
Upon returning TO ner farm, ButWell,
her nelghbor, VINO had taken care OF her
mouse and tields in The meantime, tod
1er that his dog one day. mad smelled
tle ground near Jackson's cab i'll a
strange way, and tried TO dig IL UP there.
He had helped him, and he had brought
: 10 light biue jeans jacket, covered with
, blood.
"rhis is Jackson's jacket" said Mrs.
/ Blocn.
! II thought so, but he denied it. An
hour later, l caught him in an attempt
w run away. lnoned him, and since
= then have kept him close prisoner in
, my cellar"
7 lperhaps he mas murdered RebeccaW
II have charged INN Win IL, but he
has protested has innocence. Bat now
we VIII attend to him.
"And wnere is DinahW
"She has been crying ever since l
? locked jackson up"
BurWell called the neighbors together,
t and when they were assembled, Jack
son was brought up. he looked
, sULLEN AND DEFIANT.
i The farmers ulu MT say q word,
: stripped oil bis clothes. and then tied him
: TO Tree. hen they logged him merci.
lessly. The excruclatlng pain was
: too much Tor him.
a He confessed. Yes, he confessed that
0 upon his return to the cabin on the
0 nj sht OF the murder, he had found Dinah
: strangely excited. He asked her what
had occurred, and by dlnt Of blows anG
e threats ne made her CONFESS that the
D preacher had been with her, and had
violated her person.
He had then conceived the scheme to
revenge himself in a truly terrible man
ner upon his Wife's seducer.
10 Lnis end he mad managed to enter
Rebecca's room. She had been sound
| dSl60p, anu u6 ubu OuIIdSGu U0T, ana
tnen stabbed her. She hau uttered but
a lew feeble cries.
. Then he bathed his hands in the
: streaming blood, and had entered Mess.
more's room.
There was no light there. He be-
smeared the preacAer's clothes witt
j. blood, and told MIN he knew what he@haV
d done to Dlnah.
"Leave this part of the country a.
u once," he said 10 the terrified preacher
. who had immediately ieit the house.
n The farmers then tied jackson to
X large oak Tree, Win his arms stretcnet
out. Then they got their rifles, anl
Q began firing at him as az target.
h THE CRUEL SPORT
a lasted ten minutes Deiore me negro wa
VI dead.
e AT first they wanted to kill Dinah also
b but they c0ntenJed themselves with
fogging her witnln an inch Of her lie
$ Next day she was taken W Wheeling
II and sold to slaye-trader, VI no promised
II TO send her to New O1eans.