The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-31
THE Neutrality-suspicious..
AN EPISODE or THE IntsM REsELLION
or NINETY-EIGHT.

| AN EPISODE OF THE IAfSM REeELLION
or NINETY-EICHT.
The DevlIish Deeds of a Monster-Hans-
lag Men ON HIS Own Radk-His
Death Of Torture.
ft' [CincinnaH Enqairer.l t'--.s .
| In no other country In the world, perhaps,
did such savage and diaboheaI scenes occur
bloody year Of 1893 War has given birth to
many monsters whose hearts are gram
tie to the tender feelings Of pity or remorse,
and Those sweetest egnloymeatt is t9 reyel in
are abundant on the historic page OF every
nation; but tyrants though they WERE there
Ks still some good deed linked with their
names, md Byron says that wfnen Nero died
some hand unseen strewed flowers upon his
tomb" But the pen of the historian has no
such pleasing fact to record In tracing the
lines Of the infamous scoundrel who Is the
subject OF this brief sketch.
| Among the monsters which the Insured
ton Act. passed in 1896, called into loyal
activity, none have surpassed
| THE, WALKING uALtows" ~
for atrooity, nor more distinguished Tor moral
! depreiyity. '-4E =" gs
This wretch came from England TO Dublin
when q boy, and became apprpntised to All
apothecary, a business that may he ranked
among the most peaceable and humaDe pur-
suits, at the same time by the opportunities
it AFFORDS to reconcile imperfect understand
ings toa taste for cruelty afforded but trifling
monster of whom we write. Drawing tooth
or opening a vein though they might afford
amusement to petty or uninterestlDg talents,
were beneath the aspiring genius OF Hepen-
game afforded by his profession under the
restriction OF the law, and no lOnged for
higher and noble game.
HE TURNS HAEGMAN.
An opportunity was soon offered him. Two
brothers. the only support Of thelr aged an
! widowed mother, were arrested for a crime
Of which they were innocent the murder OF a
| drunken soldier. They were tried by packed
jury found guilty, and sentenced to be
executed, On the might previous to their ex
cOgnized on the streets, was assassinated.
Hepenstal, hearing of this, proceeded, dis
guised., to the castle, and offered to perform
theduties Of common aangtnen withoutfee or
out the performance in his own manner. His
proposed method was. to adjust the rope
round the culprit's neck, and hosting him on
his back, he being an extraordinary tall man,
Of the soldiers until the victim was strangled.
His request was granted and the next day
Hepenstal had the pleasurable satisfaction of
legally numbering Two innocent men. ~
r. HORRORS ON HORRORS ACCUMULATED.
| The disturbed state of the country and the
powers transferred from the magistrates to
! the army, inspired him with an OpDortunity
those OF an .executioner. His speculations
were reduced into activity by the interest of
bis brother, then clerk in the Dublin police,
BY whose Influence the Walking Gallows was
by being appointed an ensign in a militia
regiment. And now he found ample authori-
ty and scope to display his peculiar talents
Hearing of the deeds Of his friend and com
! pA,SN
in another part Of the country, he determined
to Guido him in loyalty and ferocity He was
deputed to command flying party for tray
cling certain district appoItioned out to his
declared under statute out Of the Kings pro
lection. Hepenstal entered the village OF
Mowvres, at the hour of midnight, when the
innocent inhabitants were enjoying repose
after the labors OF the day. He ordered the
alarm drum to beat, and soon each inhabitant
beheld with horror the ministers Of terror at
| his bedside; the night resounded with the
taunts and curses OF one party and the
screams and dying groans Of the other 1t
fire to the village, Hepenstal was about de-
parting when he perceived three men rushing
from a burning dwelling They proved to be
an old man named Smith and his two sons
They were captured and dragged before
him.
HANGING AND TORTURE.
Hepenstal, with the malignity of fiend,
looked upon his three unarmed and helpless
victims A smile Of satanic hate shot for
! moment across his dark features, and ap
preaching the aged father, he dealt him a vio-
lent blow with his broad, open hand upon the
cheek. The old man staggered for a mo-
ment, and, with the blood squirting from his
mouth and nostrils, fell stunned to the
ground. The soldiers INDUCED in coarse
and the latter, again approaching. the pros
| trate man, and kicking him with a heavy
boot, ordered him to rise
"Get up, you id old rebelr' he shouted,
land witness the execution OF your sons" at
the same time dragging the bleeding vic
tim to his feet
This was too much for the younger son,
who, suddenly snatching q bayonet from one
OF the soldiers who guarded him, sprung at
Hepenstal, driving the weapon at his heart.
The blow however, was warded off by the
musket of one of the men, and the captain re-
ceved but slight wound. But this inf1ria-
ted him to the highest pitch Of vindictiveness
and ferocty. Ordering the cord of drum to
dictions, with his own hands hung each Of the
young men successfully across his athletic
shoulders until the spark of life was COM
pletely extinguished
After the ftfbtgue he underwent by the con-
found himself unable to go through the opera
ton with the wretched parent whom he or
dered to be shot. This was Immediately done,
and next morning the three bodies were tied
to the tail of a cart and drawn through the
streets in military triumph.
THE MURDERERs
received the thanks of the government for so
Loyalty and effectually putting down" the
rebels, and Hepenstal with party OF Suffolk
Fencibles, sent from their own country to
keep order in Ireland, were ordered to the
county of Kildare. His propensities for MUIR
der and blood were not extinguished by his
transfer, and the same revolving scenes were
enacted under him with the same wantonness
and savage ingenuity which had always char
acterized him. Full of zeal to promote the
an Irish victim, he generally seized upon
every one whom he suspected of sedition, and
without inquiry Or trial suspended them on
his back, and hanged them in his own peculiar
manner.