The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-03
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 5.



ssueared by acts, the recital OF which com
peis decent people TO hang their heads in
confusion. II this rich and portiy dispenser
OF black pepper divinity had consented to
retire 20 obscurity, the Sentinel would have
been content TO let him severely alone.
This, however Is not his programme. He
has determined to earn a still wider and
still more cdious notoriety. We conclude
the monster, with the slime OF bis iechery
clintinS 70 his hands and his soul,
wants 70 continue the gospel business. Pic
sure him al the communion table. breaking
bread in commenOration OF the passion and
death o. Jesus Christ Look at his eyes as
tboy rest upon the female poytion OF
The congregation, OVERLOOKING with the
drool OF unholy passion. Look at his
arms, and think OF whom they have
embraced and where. This divine wants to
baptize more yielding victims. The water
that be touches in the performance of the
rite would blush. if it could, and would
turn scalding hot and strip the leprous hide
from his ioathsome carcass. But this elder
wants TO continue TO draw his salary as q
spiritual sdyiser q laborer in the religious
vineyard, and for this he proposes TO. figbt.
Blacks programme discloses means OF Je-
Tense in strict keeping with the infamy OF
the crime with which he stands charged.
His deep ard dsmning guilt awakens TO
feeling Of remorse in his soul, no contriEcp,
DO repentance, not even shame. With I'M
blushing impudence he prates OF Innocence
and asks the confidence and respect Of good
cisizeus. It's life and death struggle with
biack. He is on the ragged edge. His true
inWardness Is coming to the surface. Black
was great friend of Vc~s-~B Brother voss."
Voee had helped him in time OF need. Black
had lived in voss' yard when ''Coriane
was but child" and SO on through all tie
driyel about long friendship and deep graft
tude Notwithstanding all this, Brother
'vosS'' suspected his minister Of the
very deeds that now make his name too
offensive for utterance. voss aud lie family
had suspected them" and had watched
them" Whist commentary is thisl A
family susPectins their minister Of deeds
chat refined ears must not hear when they
are named Those who are anxious to get
ut The bottom facts viii stick a. pin just
here. tI
This Rev. Black having been caught at
issi, the Sentinel makes public statement
enich seemed TO be well authenticated.
but no names were mentioned. IndianaPo-
lis has many churches and mIny ministers;
the various denominations of Christians are
Represented, but OF them all only Black re-
garded the statement as pointing 10 himself.
Black confessed, 81 am the man referred TO,
but am not guilty" He admitted that all
che fingers pointed at him, but il was
an easy matter 20 convince Voss.
Che church, his friends and the world f bis
innocence To do this it was only necessary
W show that he was not in St. Louis with
certain LADY,, that he did not accom- any that
iedy on the train to St. LOUIS. Sure enough,
If this were true, then Black Was out of the
scrape. VIII the reader stick another pin
j,st here7 And now Black commences his
defense. he declared over and over again
20 his best friends, that on the night that he
war wandering around st. Louis he was in
Terre Haute. He was particular in his dec
isrstions-pcsitive TO solemnity. A min
ister, the pastor OF large and respect
able church, rich, good looking and
piOus it did not seem possible that Black
WIS deceiving his friends that he was coin
ing monstrous fslshoods for the vindication
Of mis- name and standing. But alas, such
was the case. He was in st. Louis at the
time he said be was in Terre Haute AID he
was with the woman that h asserted most
soIennly he was not with. This was the
initial faishood of the case and it has be-
come its central untruth. There is no way 10
modify it, no pallisEion Tor it; there IL stands
ss it was uttered, a damning, whitening,
crushing falshOod. viii the reader stick an-
other pin Just here? Caught in this initial
lslse statement henceiorth the case must
rest upon Acknowledgement posts, brace
and rafter. prop and bolt. all untruths-un-
til Blacks fabric of defense, rickety and
s4uallid, is eloquent Of guilt and proclaims
the downfall of Black This is Blacks
castle. Blacks retreat. In it he manufac-
lures his theory OF the case his missiles, his
boomerangs. After denying that he was in St
Louis. that he travelled with certain woman,
be is compelled to admit that his DECLARE
tons were false, and to manufacture his
1'ar-hr tO1 ecaAS W Cc. bOuiS WIN ttC
woman in question. We have his story OF
having agreed with Voss to furnish an escort
from Terre Haute for the woman, OF severe
cramps and palms. and the admi nistraticn OF
black pepper. But at Nation the woman
that Black was escorting was apparently
well. AT St Louis in company with this
sick woman, Back, who is said to be rich,
Instead Of taking carriage. wandered out
into the dark, and was q long time in reach
ing q hotel Az last they nhaul up at