New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-28

stronger heavier man than /. and, try as might,
could not throw MIN. | remembered my pistols
were under my pillow, and the DIM iIgJt OF dawn
struggled into the room ! managed 10 push and
drag my asSalant toward the bed and with
one hand reached for my weapons. while
/ still grasped him with the other, shattered aad
bloody as II WAS. fired He did not fall Or make
any Outcrv, but knew he was hit. His i0gers
still kept their nod, but could feel his strength
was failing. We struggled on TILL man aged 10 get
him into the front yard--there ne fell, and the Two
men on guard, seeing their leader down, He'd for
their lives was too exhausted TO IRE after them.
Ii was broad daylight. and could scarcely be-
heve my senses when | saw that the miserable
house breaker lying there was my old master Df'
Book"
Astonshed beyond measure the coiOred man ex-
claimed Is this YOU, DR.. Boc& =
Yes you've killed ine, Harrison Page was the
Why did you come as you did You are the
last man | wish 20 natm. Y0u are a Sheriff II you
have warrant for my arrest III surrender now to
II haven't got any warrant" Book growled, with
an oath.
frightened children and 60 TO his fathers, While he
collected his arms and ammunition. The dying man
the preparations finished and then ne said:
" You won't leave me here on the ground, Pagef
Il cant help you, slr," said Page, my own safety
depends on my escape Ny family must .eek ny
fathers protection. Surely his services IN the yell
low fever days viii prevent any Port OIDson man
from harming a hair Of his head"
As Page turned u go he heard snap, and looking
he was TO reach his gun. and holding II against his
knee, fired. he bullet whlstled haruilessy by.
Page seized MS gun before he could tire the other
barrel and put II out OF his reach. :,
. Put the bed and give me some Wster,
said Book at last, and Page ana MS wife contr'yea yea
TO get HIN on the bed, and the woman took hlm
water. Then they left HIM.
Pages flight and his experiences were told by
himself a. follows:
My family took the nearest path to my fathers.
| struck Tor the d pths Of the wood. After while
saw thick smoke rising IN the direction OF my
house. | knew what that meant. Believing my
family were out of their reach, walked on.
skIrted the roads, climbed THIS hiii aud con-
cealed myself among the underbrusn
saw my wife and children come IN. saw
my fathers family reused and the women and chil.
dTeu gather III the yard, and oy the GrstlculatlOns
knew the story was being told and retold | heard
the shouting. cursing crew come up the Orde-patn.
| saw them drive the half-cl0tned women anc
children into the woods. l saw my two y0uhget
brothers captured as they stood. saw the cursed
demons surround the house, and-OOh ia heaven!
how can / tell the hOrroTs.-i sa my father-that
good Old man who went to Port Gibson when white
He'd towards, who left his own race u MN
lister to the dying IN his masters family, whose
bounty fec ali Ge white and colored. and asked not
dollar III return-I saw that old man dragged cut
OF tho hJusc and shot Oh the thre-nOiG ana tne
torch applied To the house. l saw my nephew httle
JIM frightened and crying from an upper window
through the slnJAe and lame Tor help IRON those
whlte-skInned devils. 1 saw one leiIO", IhoIe
humane than the rest, put mp ladder
run up and take the boy out Of The WINDOW
and as he held tho child BY one hand, using the
low ,hOt tue child anu laid the body beside my
fathers on the threshold, and with their mus1ets
and bayOnets they pushed the burning brands
about the DodIe. ana roasted them IL the GOALS
God grant they we're dead | don't know suppose
l tainted up there Oh the hill, for the next thh2
remember Is the driving oil or my mother
and sister and my own poor wlIe
and children without even beng allowed I'd
visit the spot where their dead iay smOnldsrlng.
l am zJing North now into Canada II eau get
there. Ii l do | shall seud tor my wife and chll-
| dreu."
Mr Wallace gaze him some money, babe MIN
| good-by aud rode away. he helped "a collect the
remnants OF the scattered family, and three months
later assisted the wife with the children Of the
| fugitive 10 JON her husband in Detroit. whence
| they went into Canada. The husband had already
established himself there, working al his trade-a
! blacksmith.
| Nr. Wallace was in Washington on a visit a
short time ago, and walking through the Treasury
| Department encountered an old Mississippi ac-
| quaintance, a cOlOred man, now employed In tho
Department, himself a refugee. Naturally tue lat
| ter mad many questions 10 aek about people at
home, and this stOIy Of a crime part OF the H.
| formation III reply.