The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-30

,,s Killed the Old Mnn-Carved Up the Chill
aren aad LEFT shc Faiihiess Old Woman TOT
Deaa-He Wanted 10 Meet Them In Heaven
FROM the New Orleans Times


he'd. The old mans wife was very fohd OF
hin, f,he caryer). She WAS tired OF the old
man. wives sometimes get that way. tit
a. n very wicked world. He and the lovely
wife OF the old man (made widow 10 tnis
summary fashion, disposed OF the BODY, ana
accounted fer the old mans absence ~ Tue
,,sral ingenious fashion. They had alice
time for awhile on the farm and the money,
and didn't miss the old man a hit. Two
hearts that beat as one" In The old, OLD
fashion, you see. -
nlev are very annoying. They asked i'm
nertinent questions. They had taken 1t
inio their undesirable heads that The old
mans wife bad seemed 10 be too fond OF
the hired man, and they connected that
fondness with the old mans disappearance.
n was very uneharitable, troublesome, even
ANNOYING. For, il she was, whose bust.
ness was Il anyway? Such things have
been since the world began. VIII be 10 lis
end. And, he was very nice hired man.
She had two or three, perhaps half a
dozen, children. They were her own un.
The old man had considered
them his also.
Annoyed by the impertinent inquiries OF
the neighbors about the old man whose
head had been caved with the axe, this fond
couple determined to leave such inqui'itive
people and seek TO enjoy their happiness in
some untried field.
They packed their belongings in wagon,
took the old mans money and the proceeds
of what the Tt.br0ken widow could sell
of the farm and stock. and started.
But II woman sometimes gets tired
of man. IL occasionally h1ppeDs that
a man gets tired Of womaD, and even
now and then Of a woman OF this al
iectionate kind. One evening while the
marty were camping the hired man, VINO
was now running the family, concluded TO
diminish his responsibility by killingOhe or
two OF the children. He took after them
with his axe. He had acquired facility IN
The use OF that instrument by practice on
the old man previously, aud succeeded I'D
brojning two OF them. The widow stood
tins like heroine. They were possibly re-
snonsibiities OF the busband-"the old
man v-and she was willing TO send them
after him. she helped bury them, and The
lover and the lady moved on.
Rut when the chosen OF her affections
proposed TO thin out the camp and tighten
the load still more by Draining one or TWO
more another night, she objected. she
nossibly had some tender souvenir con-
npcted with these. (Women are so roman
tic. and so much the creatures OF the affec-
lions n WhereupOn the charming man she
had endowed with her heart, and who had,
with his sidney little axe, delivered her
from the bad old man, the husband, pro-
ceeded TO inform her, with expressions
usual in such cases, that ii she interfered
he would brain her, too.
She couldn't believe him; for had they
not confessed their love-! She ala III
telfere. He mashed one or two. Then as
she continued to make fuss he " chased
her round the wagon" and at last cracked
in her own lovely head.
Then, like a shrewd fellow, he took the
money and his legs and left the lady OF his
love for dead. =,
But she wasn't dead. The axe bad
glanced. One or two OF the young ones
were killed, but she lived to call down
on the head OF her Oetrayer."
He was caught, TO shorten the story. lie
was tried and convicted, and bloOd'thlTsty
Judge sentenced him TO be hanged. This
wicked judge had probably not read the
sermon on the Mount, or he would have
told him, eco and sin no MORE"
But a condemnation and a sentence is
nova days only the beginning. Our MUIR
derer gets " change OF venue" something
the dear lawyers keep bottled up Tor the
emergencies OF tender.bearled murderers |
and such. II didn't do him any good. lie |
is found guilty again. Then they try
- new trial on exceptions" another remedy |
tor murderers. Somehow that wouldn't |
work. lie Is still condemned. Tben APP |
neal Ia. aS nsnal, made 10 the Governor |
lie won't do anything. 1t is clear Ills autc' !
tomato fellow, whose heart was too much |
or him, must hang.
So he prepares to hang. A year or more |
las passed. The widows soft heart may |
nave yielded several times in the interval,
md the knowledge that this lovely woman !,
lad cast him of may have overcome our un- |
ortunate friend, as only s".cn thing can |
overcome a sensitive nature.
At Gil events he can't get out to kill her,
70 he "prepares to meet her in Heaven"
Here Is the moral OF the story.
The State is Tennessee. No better place |
yoing TO start for Paradise. Our friend
starts. He repents. He turns pious, as
hey always do when convicted, and the
Governor won't pardon. He has "spirltual
advisers "a variety OF preacher-men. They
-ead aud pray with him. He is very penl-
ent. He studies his Bible-OId version.
On the fixed day the sheriff takes him out
before several thousand people TO hang him.
He is prayed with. He prays himself. lie
breaches a sermon an hour long. He wares
everybody 10 repent, and follow bin. He
pleads with them to /" meet him in Hea-
gen." He pitics their sad condition, and
Degs them to flee, as he has done, TO the
lrms Of mercy. He Is going straight TO
glory. lie pardOns everybody. He blesses
he crowd. and the the sheriff pulls the
trigger, and be begins kicking with the
blessing on his lips, and keeps 1t up for ten
kicking, not the blessing.
DO all murderers 90 express TO Heaven !
Is that the one certain road for us poor