The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-15

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when your opinions shall change
"Of you! never| interrupted the
youth: 81"
81 would speak, sir, and not listen.
There is something in this affair that |
do not yot comprehend but tell the
! Misunderstanding he has friends as
well as judges in us.
The youth would have spoken, but
she vanished from the door so rapidly,
hat when he reached the hall her light
form was no where to be seen He
paused a moment, and then, rusGi''!n Q
from the house, he took his way di-
rectly for the cabin of the hunters.
Richard finally returned from the
exercise of his official duties. II had
been one portion Of his business to
superintend the arrest Of part of
gang of counterfeiters, that had, even
at that early period, buried themselves
in the woods, to manufacture their
base coin, which they afterward circu-
lated from one end Of the Union to
the other. The expedition had been
completely successful, and about mid
night the Sheriff entered the village,
at the head of a posse Of deputies and
constables, in the centre of whom rode
pinioned, four Of the malcfactOrs. At
the gate of the Mansion-house they
separated, Mr.. Jones directing his as
sistants to proceed with their charge
to the county jail, while he pursued
his own way up the grayelled walk,
with that kind Of self-satisfaction that
q man of his organization would feel,
who had, really, for once, done very
clever thing.
1t was the custom Of Richard, on
his return from any absence to learn
Immediately from Benjamin all that
had TRANSFERRED during his absence. On
the present occasion after long and
close examination, he succeeded in
learning from the Steward all that he
knew. not only concerning the rescue
Of the girls and the death Of Brave
and the misunderstanding, but of the
attempt to search the hut, and Hiram's
discontinue. The Sheriff was no
sooner possessed Of these facts, which
Benjamin related with all possible ten
derness to the Misunderstanding, than,
snatching up his hat, and bidding the
astonished steward to secure the doors
and 90 to bed, he left the house.
1t has been already said that the
SCOUT of common pleas and general
sessions Of the peace" or, as it is
commonly called, the "county court, y
over which Judge Temple presided,
held one Of its stated sessions on the
following morning, The attendants
, of Richard were officers who had come
to the village as much to discharge
their usual duties at This court, as tc
escort the prisoners and the Sheriff
knew their habits too well, not to fee
confident he should find most, if moi
all of them in the public room of the
, Jail, discussing the qualities of the
keepers choicest liquors. The ar
rival of four malefactors in the Gus
| tody of dozen officers, was an event
, at that day, in Templeton and wher
= the Sheriff reached the Jail, he founC
e every indication that his subordinatel
: intended to make a night of it.
s The nod Of the Sheriff brought two
of his deputies to the door, who il
their turn drew Of six or seven of til,
} constables. With this force RicharC
led the way through the village, tow
Y ards the bank Of the lake, undisturbet
by any noise, except the barking O
= one or two ours, who were alarmed b,
+ the measured tread Of the party, AM
l by the low murmurs that run through
< their own numbers, as few caution
0 questions and answers were exchang
i ed, relative to the object of their ex
: petition. When they had crosse,
the little bridge Of hewn logs that wa
8 thrown over the Susquehanna, Rich
d ard pause. and collected his troop
: around him.
: 81 have required your assistance
my friends" he said, in low voice
It lin order to arrest Nathaniel Bump
I'll pc, commonly called the Leather
:; stocking. He has assaulted magis
IS trate, and resisted the execution Of
search-warrant, by threatening til
q life of a constable with his rifle. [
d short, my friends, he has set an ex
IS ample Of rebellion to the laws, and ha
become a kind of outlaw. You wi
e form yourselves in complete circl
e around his hut, and at the word 'ad