The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-03
MURDER WILL, OUT.

| the State. From end to end IT Is one |
const stant succession ofhigh hills. There |
| is nothing in the shape of wagon roads, |
as they are understood in the rest Of the |
State, known. The hillside paths, stony, |
Irutted out by the heavy rains Of spring |
and fall, are almost impassable to
wagons even in the best portions of the !
Iyear. But here are magnificent views |
of wildness. From the tops OF many OF
the hills one may obtain view oil the !
surrounding country extending many |
miles in every direction. Hon. John A.
Bingham, who used to represent this
district in Congress. called 1T ihe
| Switzerland of Ohio. The people are at
least fifty years benind many other II
tions OF the State. They still live III The
rude log cabins, the sites for which have
| been dug out OF The hillsides. The chief
employment is tobacco raising, ana has
been for Dalf a century past. They pro-
duce very poor quality of the Weed,an
alter IL laborious process of curing 1T Is
sold tor about $3 per hundredweIgnt and
shipped 10 Baltimore, where it is export
ed TO Frauce and Germany to be usea in
imanuIacl uring. On account of tn e in-
surmountabe hills the people travel al
most exclusively on horseback, and a
Tourney of eiglteen or twenty miles is
considered days ride.
Some twenty years ago a drover aud
cattle buyer was known to have gone
down into this county for the purpose Of
gathering up adroye OF nOrses and cAG tie,
Tor the Baltimore market. He was
known to have had considerable money
upon MS person, and was last seen at
! dusk as he left a little town called
Whigsville on his way TO another called
otransville, about four miles distant.
He said to mis- most at the former place
that he would ride on and reach the
latter place by bedtime. Nothing more
was thought OF the matter AT Whlgsville
t Eor several weeks, until some friends of
The drUVer came there inqurlng for hlm,
and then it was discovered That he had
never reached Saransv.lle AT all. 1t is
remembered by the good people OF Wings
VILE that the night on which the drover
lueparted from their village became very
: DARK, and they say that murky clouds
IuVefuung the Sky i'll every part and
/ vivid flashes OF lightning, followed by
!. terrific peals OF thunder, came IN RAPID
o succession. But it was not till late at
= might tnat the threatened rain began to
. des scend.
The friends of the man who had thus
suddenly disappeared made as careful
: an Investigation OF his disappearance ;
il was thought possible to make under
S he circum ,tances. He had no near
" =
and thus the matter died out sooner thai
e it otherwise might nave done. But the
q people of tnat section remembered the
mysterious disappearance and related
during all the Intervening time curious
l. legends of the probable manner OF mis-
e taKing off. Ola settlers have departed
from tne stage OF existence and another
Il generation has been born, and still or
= stormy nights and during certain sea
nj q 1 rplutaI hN
e old wives, and children are made tt
shudder and draw closer around thu
lcabln hearth.
N But within the week the mystery has
" seemed to have as superstitious anC
) wonderful a partial solution as it ha(
torgln. A young ady, not yet eighteel
ID years ofage, and who was accoruiugl,
ie born some two years after the droveI'
disappearance and could have only hear
re the story as a tradition, ha
e. dream, which was in shor
is that the drover had been murdere
and his body concealedin a certain spot
or Hearing the peculiar circums ances c
" the case, your correspondent calIe
il, upon the young lady. She was found a
40 her parental house, an unpretenCiou
farm residence situated upon the hill
ke side. Sue is OF light complexion, rathe
y, lretiring in manner, not especially pretty
" but possessing remarkable eyes. The
are large, and, although bright, sti
n possess an indescribabe dreamines
OF that can not fail to attract attention
he Upon being presented to a stranger sh
d4spIayed the ditfidence natural 70 on
nm used to the ways of the world. Bu
" upon my remarking that | mad come I
IN near her relate her dream she seemed
IN. regain possession OF herself, and keeE
ing ner eyes fixed upon the grount
lspoke almost word tor word, as 70
W lows:
'e- II had heard the story OF the disa
el pearance of the drover, twenty yea
oh ago, just as every one has in these part
and l had dWelL upon it much in m
Of thoughts. II seemed to me very strans
ny and very unjust, and | could not ret
iat within myself and have 1T all remain
re- mystery. So had L been thinking lai
Thursday niglt alter retired, anu upo
ve dropping asleep. think l lmmediatel
ca began to dream. 1t seemed to me Unat
he was in q place familiar to me, though {
nd account of the great darkness l cOu
not certainly recognize landmark
~, Presently the lightning began to fla,
a. ~, aud the thunder to roar, and betwee
NV the flashes l began To see where l. was.
nS knew 1t was the portion of The road abo
"a mile beyond SarahsVIlie toward Whie
vile. l was walking along, but
tes length L sat down and something s. seem
ing to say, Wait and see what will happel
Wo | did SO, and almost Immediately L h
ing held man, stranger to me, riding
the hillside. He seemed in great has
ue and l thought he was hurrylng on
ing oarahsyille before the rain should com
a So far as | was concerned, l did n
ar. care to seek shelter, but somethl
nd seemed to call all my attention to t
stranger. Almost Immediately / SO
r. another man emerge from the darkne
md of fence corner opposite, and with
arV heavy club or bludgeon in his hands
aI ran up behind The man on horseba
an. and dealt him terrible blow on /
head. There was fall, q grou
and then | seemed TO awake;
ing though, as am now certain
are did not. That was simply pa
, In of the dream. When J. next look
ION the murderer was concealing the body
the the dead man in huge hollow tree.
recognized this place also, and 81
llu- awaited developments. The murder
e it next took tue money from the sadd
'om bags ami placed it in large bag of
ICE, own, and, taking the saddle from
her horse, turned him loose. Then TAXI
up the money in his hands ne started aw;
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