Connecticut western news., 1878-05-16
Married after the Verdict.

 In Antioch, on the Contra Costa shore of the broad San Joaquin, there has. lived for some time past somewhat sing gular old man. Geo. Mitchell
 Whiskey was his besetting sin. On the morning of the 25th of January last old Georgewas missed from his customary sleeping place in a room back of Dahnken's drinking saloon. His watch mans lamp was found with the glass shattered, near by, blood, spots and stains were discovered on and about the wharf, and as pistol shots had been heard in the night, it was strongly sus- pected that he had been foully dealt with. Search was made in the shallow water and mud about the wharf, and the body of poor old George was found-a | ghastly hole entirely through his body and clothing made by pistol ball.
 Suspicion rested on one J. F. w. Hank, who had been about the neighboring saloons the night before, very drunk and Aourishing a pistol, and who in one saloon had sad in a wild, rambling sort of way that he had shot man who had tried to rob him, and had seen him fall off the wharf, and if anybody was miss ing, Che had done it" Hank was Captain of large three-masted schooner, the A. P. Jordan, that had been lying a
 week or two in, the river, two miles below Antioch, to let the fresh water kill the r S,, TJ Ja hol l Sr,
 town several times, but was not generally
 known. It happened that just as the
 dead body was fshed up, some one dis
 covered that Capt. Hank had left the l wharf in his small boat, and was then
 sailing away toward his vessel. Con-
 stable Pitts immediately chartered an
 Italian fishing boat, and accompanied
 by two stout fishermen, started in pur.
 suit and captured the fugitive.
 Throughout the trial there sat by the | side of the prisoners lawyer, and much
 of the time toward the close, by the side
 of the prisoner himself, a pretty, ele' I gantly dressed, intelligent mai
 den, Mary Augusta Raymond. It was
 given out and generally understood thai
 she was his Jia1acee. She seemed de
 voted to her lover, and exceedingly de
 spondent. She watched him constantly
 and paid the closest attention to all the
 proceedings, anxiously scanning the
 faces of the jurors, and only on one ol two occasions, when something very di verting was said, did her features igh } up with smile. When the jury ren dered the verdict of '' Not guilty" some of the spectators expected the young lady to manifest her emotions by some marked demonstration, but save tn, tightening of the grasp of her small hand on the arm of Capt. Hank and
 long drawn breath, there was nothing. Then the lawyers, the clerk, and thu Court had whispered conversation then Hank was sworn by the clerk. H signed his name to something, and thel MT. Mills directed Hank and Miss Ray mond to stand up facing the Judge, witt hands joined. The bewildered juror and other spectators now began to un derstand the situation, and Judg Dwinelle, in his most impressive tone and manner, began to recite the marriag service. Said he !: "Joachin, do yo1 take this woman to be your lawful welded wife ?'' and Joachim said he did ? and the Judge said Mary, do yo take this man to be your lawfully wedde
 husband?" and Mary said yes, and the they were solemnly pronounced husban and wife. @ @ -s