The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-09-10


"None at ALL was the answer; she
did not say and I did not care to ask.
Evidently some Great weight had fallen
on it and crushed it."
Such as q heavy, old fashioned wan
dow sashg" the farmer asked.
'sThats the very kind of thing that
would do it," the doctor said.
When Lawyer Terwhit-for he will be
recognized in the farmer--got outside,
he looked up to the sky and gave great
sigh and sob. II.
my Code" he exclaimed, half aloud,
Ito think that the bastard he had tended
so lovingly should have done It'll"
When the farmer returned to the Gold
en- Cross he was accompanied by two
strong men. They stayed below and
chewed straws while he went upstairs
and spoke to the landlady.
Madam he said, ''my name IS Ter
whit, and I'm a lawyer. came here to
find the murderer of my friend and neigh.
Dor, DR.. Hunston, the father Of the young
man whom you know. I have found him .
"Gracious goodness!' exclaimed the
landlady, "you have found him land
"Send for Mr.. Hunston," the farmer
said, land will announce it in his pres.
ence."
Hunston speedily attended the sum-
mons, and found himself confronted with
the farmer and two men chewing straws.
"Mr. Hunston," said the farmer, ''if
you will look nearer I think you will
know me, though my side whiskers have
been shaved off,
"Why, l declare, ..Hunston said, s'it's
Mr.. Terwhit!" ',~
Hur ston held out his left hand, but
Lawyer Terwhit pushed it aside, saying:
mo, sir. You are charged with the
murder of your father, and these men are
here to arrest yeu."
Hunston's face changed to purple, and
he endeavored to draw pistol from his
breast pocket. Having only his left
hand he was not expert enough to do
what he purposed, and in an instant he
was in the grasp Of the officers.
The young mans guilt was all now to
apparent. He resolutely denied every
thing. In the first place it was proved
that he lived extravagantly at Cambridge
and run into debt. BE had kept a mis-
tress, who had drawn largely on his re-
sources, and his gambling proclvities
had led him into other difficulties.
IDENTIFIED.
. It was shown that on the morning of
August 18th, a person answering his de-
scriptlon though evidently disguised. had
come down to Norwich by the London
coach. A blacksmith, whose forge was
about half mile from DIR. Hunston's res
ldence, saw young man pass his place
about nine o. clock that evening. On the
blacksmith and toe driver of Norwich
coast comparing notes, no doubt was left
that the man who came down from Lon
don and the man seen by the blacksmith
were Identical. Then there was the
wounded hand. When it came to be a
question of Importance, Hunston refused
to say how he injured his hand. It was
clear however, that on opening the sash
from which he had probably removed the
catch month before when mediating the
crime-he placed his right hand on the
sill. The sash fell, and hence injured the
hand. In spite of his frightful wound,
however, he went on with the bloody
work. No doubt he tied up the hand
and then worked with the left. This
CLEARED UP THE DIFFICULTY. ,
and accounted for the left hand being
used to cut the throat and open the lock,
and also for the impression Of it onlv in
the soil outside the window. The voice
of young Hunston had probably pacifed
the dog before the window fell. He and
the dog had been playmates for years,
and the dog was not given to suspect
wrong when his old friend was about.
To complete the chain of circumstantlal
evidence, some of the missing jewelry was
found in possession of man to whom
young Hunston had sold it.
Hunston swore solemnly that his faith
er gave him the jewelry on his last visit
home, but Terwhit swore with equal
clearness that he saw it IN the DOCTORS
hands the very day before the murder
when he was searching his desk for a
fruit knife.
Hunston was convicted of the murder,
and hanged at Norwich.