The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-06-03
A Thrilling Story.

- Inr11I1ng 0tory'
The Griffin News says a gentle
man from adjoining county, inspired
by the memorable words of Horace
Greeley, go west, young man, go
westw left his Georgia home to
seek his fortune in the Lone Star
State.
When he arrived within the limits
of the state he Immediately pur~
chased fleet pony, and set out to
view that far famed country. He
travelled on from day to day amid
the fertile lands and romantic seen
cry that lay before him like fancied
pictures in a dream. He passed on
rapidly from place to place until he
came TO the rich prairies which
skirt the northwestern portion of
the State. In that sparsely settled
section, while riding along a well
worn trail, he suddenly came upon
dead man lying in the way. He
rode up, dismounted, and upon eX
amining the body, was horritied to
find the blood still trickling from a
severed vein. He looked about for
evidences of violence, but found
only a knife tinged with gore, lay
ing by his side. AS soon as he
could possess himself he realized
the position in which he was unfor-
tunately placed, and stood there
like one almost bereft of reason
trying to think what was best to be
done about the matter. He rea-
soned with himself. Said he: "This
is well worn trail and companies
OF men are constantly passing over
it. IF l stay here they may come
tupon nae and charge me with the
crime, and slay me on the spot. If
l go on they may come and find the
body and pursue me in hot haste,
and overtake and slay me as they
would a murderer. If L go back
and tell what 1 have seen, and they
come and find the man still warm
and no evidence of any one having
been near him but myself, they will
arrest me and try me for the crime
and hang me-"
He thought best to move the
body from the trail and hide it in
the grassy marsh near by, and then
pass on. He took the body and
dragged it to the place, and was
about to leave when a new deter
mination seized upon him. He now
thought best to take the body back
to the trail from whence he had
dragged it, and to return and tell
how he had found the dead man,
and what he had done with him.
He returned and told his story,
and went back with them to the
place of the sad disaster.
There was the body still warm,
and there the track over which he
had been dragged to the marshy
place and back again. The evil
dence, they said, all pointed to the
stranger as the murderer, and he
was at once arrested and placed in
prison. Days came and passed
away and still no new developments
were made. The community set
tied down into the belief that the
stranger committed the deed.
Friends came to his assistance, but
they knew nothing OF the crime,
and could only shed a sympathetic
tear over his sad and unexpected
fate. The time of the trial drew
near and still all was as night to
him. But there is a mysterious
hand which overshadows the desti-
nies of men! There is & provi
deRce which shines even in the
darkest places, and brings to light
the hidden things!
A stranger came to the village
seeking a lost friend. He was told
of the dead man found, and, upon
examination made, recognized the
articles which had been taken from
his person as those of his friend.
He said that his friend, some
months before, in company with q
Kentuckian named Blue, had left
his home in the eastern portion oi
the state TO purchase lands in the
prairie country. He had with him
one thousand five hundred dollars
in cash. Blue was stranger, but
seemed to be a gentleman, and was
bound upon the same errand. They
left together, and he had tracked
them on to the village below, where
they were last seen together coming
in that direction. Now he was GER
tain that the murdered man was his
friend, and desired that Blue should
be sought for, and made to give
strict account of his mysterious
death. No effort was spared x
secure the Kentuckian. He was a
last captured at his old home il
Kentucky, brought to Texas, trieC
and convicted OF the crime anC
hung. On the gallows he confessed
the murder. The stranger boy wal
liberated and returned to Georgia
thankful to God for his mysteriou
deliverance from an ignominioui