Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-10-21

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The girl on her part was to
perverted and calloused by tn
Abandoned calling she had fol
lowed from childhood to expe
rience any painful sentiments a
her unnatural crime.
She soon saw i'll the event
however, a source Of profit. Be
tween her lover, Hayes, ant
herself a system of black-mail
founded OH their threat 10 give
the history of his incestuous Ii,
aison TO the world, was estab.
lished, under which the mer.
chant was bled. persistently and
with an unsparing hand.
Finally he rcyolted, ,and threat
ened to brave the shame Of pub
licity and rid himself of his tor
mentors by prosecuting them for
conspiracy, using. their letters as
evidence against them.
The lrishman and his para
mour then determined 10 put
themselves in possession Of The
dangerous papers.
On the night Of the murder
the littleChinaman was dispatch
ed by his master to carry anote
to an acquaintance.
During his absence, Hayes and
Rosa introduced themselves in
to the lonely house without diff
ficulty.
They found Forbes in his-sleep-
ing-dress stretched on his bed,
and drinking cold BRAN
dy and water. Half drunk, and
wholly unsuspicious, he had left
his room door unlocked. The
girl remained outside to watch
for the return of the Chinaman.
At the entrance Of Hayes,
Forbes leaped to his feet. The
seized him at once, but
the merchant was a powerful
man, and struggled hard. The
contest promised to result in the
alarm of some chance passer-by,
and the girl .interfered. With
the dirk which, like most women
of her class in the tropics, she
was never without, she, in the
most business like manner pos
sible, dealt her father half a
dozen strokes in the face and
neck, while her paramour held
him by the throat. lie fell back
On the bed. The accomplices
then proceeded to carry out their
purpose.
While they were searching
the disordered room for the OBJ
iects of their coming, Forbes
recovered himself and recon-
menced the combat. Hayes de-
Tended himself with the cutlass
which he had found among a lot
of rubbish on the landing out
side the door, and which he had
been using to force the drawers
Of the desk open. While the fight
went on the girl employed her.
self in coolly destroying all the
papers she found. BY the time
she had finished a final blow had
stretched her father on the bed
again, with his stomach laid O.
pen.
Snatching up a bundle of
bank-notes ahd a couple of rou-
eaux of sovereigns,they retreat
ed. They closed and locked the
loor, and threw the key away in
The street. Hayes, who had me-
,hanically retained possession
Of the cutlass, dropped it where
The policeman found it next day,
md the pair made off together
lust as the boy returned.
Hayes and the woman were
found guilty, and sentenced to !
abor at the Essequibo penal
colony for life.
Nothing but the objection of
he authorities to impose the
death penalty saved the prison.
ers' lives. Frederic Forbes de-
nounced the verdict in open
Court, and demanded the execu-
ton Of the criminals. He be-
came eventually so yiolent that
ne had to be removed by the Of
ficers. a day or two later he
The penal colony at Masaruni |
S divided into communes like !
,he French establishments of the
same sort at Cayenne. The fell
ms live in gangs in quarters es-
.ablished within guarded area,
md are employed in cutting
.imber and working the fine
granite quarries for which the
district is famous. One day the
gang-master under whom Hayes
worked reported him missing. i
Search was made for him and
lis body found. 4
The miserable scoundrel had
been tied, naked, to one of the
luge nests the venomous red
.nts build aroundthe tree trunks,
md left to be eaten alive. Only
lis torso and head were left. |
The bare bones of his hips and
egs were in a heap at the foot
If the tree, and millions of ants
,xx-srr,1nd in his emDty body and |