The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-08-25
TRAGEDY IN THE FOREST.
By GEORGE C. MAXWELL.

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az preahiase' wheh uresha,n, tIie uistrict M
attorney, drove up 70 tne door. tas..if.l /
Come with me to the forest, he
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the other. 1--WE know her slightly, yet
well enough to make me sure that there
Is some mistake about it. 's No, it can't
be. go 5l20ss.s '.eaL ee+<s 'e}l
HIS companion shook ms head. :!
ttesalls you are 700 salgulne. - sDue you WAL
see ana !aage yonrsel1. Inere Is to be
-an inqu ues6 at 1ne LOCKS. -. :,
The Locks, as the name implied, were
on the canal. There had always been q
small settlement there, but since the
railroad had been built, depot, followed
by a postofice, the hamlet had grown
considerably. Close by was gap in the
South mountain, which led to what was
called the forest, a wild stretch of wood
land, from five to ten miles wide, run
nIng between nearly parallel hills, and.
extending for some thirty miles from
northeast to southwest. The name was
wen deserved, for excepting few small
houses, scattered here and there, the
inai Mn1ie s.h u,s1tlct was covered Win lts org
s. 81 .La. wSn u oaA ana cles1n9t, WIN
msun HSle ALL Inere grim nemloGKs snd pines.
5ne set'ieIs y, were PrlnclpaHy Q! German
esa aesoou., AZ. Gn9u alces'ors naYlng come
hosa um ''i0 T'n ala'.naIe century ana nan
9elore. 9e lhey renamed, IN a remarkable
fotSorI,,,a Tln;. Ioas.oa a.e. euss'lns vi me
81 stana Nf,o-,,,o,,.1,s SS1 "e.e senelsty
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II one OF the "Adest parts OF this
forest, high up on spur OF the sand
stone hills, lived, or had lived, old Will
helm STRAY, usurer, q miser, the
'crueiest OF creditors, it was said, and a
tyrant to his family and all under him.
He was supposed, however, to be the
,iches5 man IN the county and it was
u! ms ohly cnho VINO was now accused OF
MS muroef. - t..t.
---" 1t seems" said the District Attor-
ney, that his daughter has been CLAN
destinely meeting q young man, and that
her father hearing OF it fell into q rage
ana al thfeatened 10 turn ner out OF doors.
Ihere was notnlng against the lover,
unless It was ms poverty. HIS father,
coroner Wolcott, was once member OF
Congress for the adjoining district, and be
himself rising young lawyer. The girl
had first met him at the house OF an Old
school-mate. She was at Mrs. Collng-
woods boarding school, as perhaps you
pears to have wished hls only cmid 70
be brought up like lady. What passed
IN the interview between father and
daughter Is not tully known. Inc ser.
want glri overheard angry words, Int
couid not dlsungulsh their purport; sue
was sure tllat !ust peIore .ne aiterSs.;on :. a:s;
was oyer t = sne nasner 'telneo Sha.t1 attau ~ % az
nerlt Inc daugnter.l onortly a,IeI, tne
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NIL o. &c. DeiAs. so1i. % Ty;.I.;a t'na.et:
MISS o'fay .s nol,oMee ~ r ~ sm1mcs "a,cs
On her IN tba gaI afand;ng over the
dead body of her father Her AGITATION
on being detected was he saws con-
clus;ve exidance Of her on;lt 'Rnt this
is onlv on;n;on Tybe damnino facts are
tbe nyorrai On ;ntai,;aant n,ot;va for the
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deed blood on the linen cum OF lner
nght hand and the nnding OF an olien-
TAI oagger' wnlch sne nao long useo ior
a paper cutter, in a thicket close by, as