Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-12-06

ment only resulted in showing that it
nad apparently not been occupied dur
ing the preceding night.
Days and weeks rolled on, and moth
ln3 was seen or heard of the missing
merchant. Advertisements appeared
IN the leading journals, offering a lib
eral reward for information concern
Ing him; but none was forthcoming.
The case created considerable excite
ment as we'll in the community at
large, as among Mr.. Young's immedi-
ate connections, but all attempts to un-
ravel the mystery proved unavailing;
and when, one morning, his office safe
was found open, and robbed of all its
It's valuable contents, the conclusion
was generally arrived at that he had
been foully dealt with, and that his re-
appearance was not to be looked for.
A distant relative of the lost man came
forward, instituted the necessary pro-
ceediDgs, and took quiet possession of
the property which Mr.. Young had
tolled through so many years to amass.
10 return now, to our Inflated hero
himself.
After drifting in his boat for two
days, the weather being fortunately
calm and moderate, he was picked up
by homeward bound Italian brig. AS
Mr.. Young spoke only his native lam
guage, of which none of his rescuers
understood a single word, he could COM
municate very little respecting himself,
and was barely able to make out the
name of the port to which they were
sailing. Just before entering the
Mediterranean, they were chased and
captured by pirate, to whom they
could offer no resistance. Their vessel
was scuttled, and themselves were car
ried as slaves 20 the coast of Morocco
By the Italians Young had been treated
kindly; at the hands of the half-savsge
captors, he met with nothing but hard
ship, being forced to toll almost inces-
sanity beneath burning sun.
After three years of this stuff ering, he
effected his escape by the aid fellow
slave, an Englishman, with whom he
was sometimes allowed to 20 fishing,
and with whom, under cover of night
he flung himself overheard and swan
to the opposite coast of Spain, where
they found themselves with no posses
sions but the clothes on their backs
They managed to make their way to
the nearest seaport town, whence they
intended, if possible to procure pas
sage to the United States. All went
we'll; ship was soon found, when in a
few days was to weigh anchor for New
York, and on which their services were
at once engaged for the voyage.
Almost on the eve of their embarka
ton, fearful murder was committed
in the house where the fugutives were
lodging. Circumstances pointed strong
ly toward them as the perpetrators, and
they were arrested on suspicion. Poor,
friendless, and ignorant of the language
of their prosecutors, they were unable
to make an adequate defense, and were
summarily found guilty. Mr.. Young's
unfortunate companion was executed,
and he himself sentenced to the galleys
for life.
After he had undergone the lingering
horrors of this worst of punishment for
five years, the real murderer was made
known by deathbed confession, and
Mr.. Young was set at liberty. His story
had excited the active sympathy of sew
eral humane individuals, and he found
no difficulty in procuring means of
transportation to his own country. In
few weeks he once more trod the
streets of New York, nearly eight years
from the time Of his enforced depart
ure; but he returned to find himself q
beggar. His relatives mad thrown away
his property in wild speculations, and
died, the year before, hopelessly in
solvent. ....
Broken in health and spirits, and pre-
maturely old, the once prosperous
merchant, after his protracte d misfor.
tune, incurred solely by yielding to a
sudden impulse of humanity, was
driven to the occupation of selling small
wares at a stall outside Washington
market, and might have been regularly
seen thus engaged for several years,
until FRUSTRATED by a lingering sickness,
which brought him to his end, under
circumstances of lamentable privation.
Who shall say that the ways of Provi-
dence in this world are not inscrutable !?
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