The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-02-15

floating on the water minute later, by
the light afforded by fash of light
ming, and all was over with Mary Per-
haps her poor brothers. prayer had been
heard and answered, and God had bless
ed Mary sooner than either Of them
had expected.
Then somebody on the boat said that
Mary and Frank, just drowned, had an
other sister on the boat called Ellen
Then Holmes and the two sailors, full
Of the devil by this time, caught hold Of
this poor little Ellen, who was hiding
away, and threw her out into the sea, TO
join the rest of her family. A whole
family was thus thrown overheard in
less than ten minutes,
Then Holmes caught hold of a fifth
passenger called Black, but one of the
sailors said that Black was friend of
his, and, besides, Black had wife on
board. So Holmes, who had bit of
human nature about him still said shed
be hanged II he'd part man and wife
yet a whlle," and spared Black. Then
Black and his wife embraced each other,
and the wife spent the rest of that awful
night on her knees saying her prayers,
and thanking the good God.
The long-boat now had only twenty
eight passengers counting Holmes) and
did not set so low in the sea as before,
but Holmes thought there were several
people in 1t yet too many. SO he got
hold of a passenger named Charles Con-
lin, who crouching down among the
women. "Come," said Holmes to the
crouching man sit is your turn" Mr..
Holmes, DEAR" whined Conlin pitifully,
i" Mr.. Holmes, dear, you wouldn't put
me out, would you Y'' "Oh, Conlin,
dear, whined Holmes, initiating him,
oh Conlin dear, / will put you out,
won't 1 20 and giving the sign, Con-
lin was thrown into the sea. The poor
wretch begged and pleaded for life, but
it was of no avail. He was hurled in
to the ocean like the rest
Holmes and the sailors rested awhile
from their work of destruction, and
Holmes threw himself into the stern of
the boat, and fell asleep; slept with the
load of three men and two women sent
to their account by him in less than an
hour, the coolest criminel ever heard
of.
When he awoke the next morning he
found that there were still several pas
sengers left, two of whom had been
hiding during the night. When these
two were discovered they commenced to
tail out the boat, hoping that their SER
vices might save them. But Holmes
waited till they had bailed out all of the
water, and then threw them overheard,
one after the other.
Seven human beings had now been
thrown overheard. There were only
twenty-five left on board. The long
boat was lightened by over one thousand
pounds, and Holmes was satisfied.
A few hours after all these horrors
had been committed, the long-boat met
passing vessel. The crew was taken
on board, and it was proved by the
facts in the case that not only were all
those awful horrors of that night sheer
murders, but that all these murders
were unnecessary. If he had only wait
ed twelve hours, seven people would have
been alive who were now dead, and the
man Holmes would have had seven
crimes less to answer for at the bar of
God.
He answered for them an the bar of
man. He was tried for his crime, and
was sentenced for five years to the
States prison.