The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-12

told him i'm what situation had found
II. and that | had taken the liberty OF
admiring it for a few moments. lie
pressed It tenderly to his lips, sighed
heavily, and we walked away together
pass over the frenzled state OF Ieel-
ing in which we found the meeting.
Fear, or rather horror, did not promote
harmony; many quarreled with each
other in discussing the suggestions
| brought forward, and Macmillan was
| the only person attended to; he proposed
a nightly mounted patrol for every
| district. And, in particular, he oherea,
| as being himself member or the UNI
versity, that the students should form
| themselves into a guard, and go out by
| rotation to keep watch and ward from
| sunset to sunrise. Arrangements were
made towards that object by the few
| people who retained possession OF their
| senses, and for the present we separated.
| Never, in fact, did any events so
keenly try the difference between man
| and man. Some started up into heroes
| under the excitement. Some, alas for
the dignity of Man! drOOped into help
less imbecility. Women, in some cases,
| rose superior to men, but yet not so
often as might have happened under a
| less mysterious danger. woman Is
not unwOmanly, because she affrOnts
danger boldly. But L have remarked,
with respect to female courage, that 1t
requires, more than that of men, to be
sustained by hope; and that 1t dro0ps
more certainly in the presence of
mysterious danger. The fancy of
women is more active, if not stronger,
and it Influences more directly the
physical nature. In this case few were
| the women who made even show of
defying the danger. On the contrary,
with them fear took the form of sadness;
while with many of the men 1T took
that of wrath.
And how did the Russian guardsman
| conduct himself amidst this panic?
Many were surprised at his behavior;
| some complained of it; | did neither.
He took reasonable interest in each
| separate case, listened to the details
with attention, and, in the eXamina-
tiOn of persons able to furnish evidence,
| never failed to suggest judiciOus qneS-
| tiOns. But still he manifested cool
ness almost amounting to carelessness,
which to many appeared revolving. But
these people | desired to notice that all
the other military students, who had
been long in the army, felt exactly in
| the same way. In fact the military SER
| vice of ChriStendOm, for the last ten
! years, had been anything but a parade
| service; and to those, therefore, who
were familiar with every form Of hOrTid
y.
| death had lost much of their terror. In
| the recent murder, there had not been
| much to call forth sympathy. The
| family consisted of two old bachelors,
| two sisters and one grand niece. The
| niece was absent on visit, and the two
! old men were cynical misers, to whom
| little personal interest attached. Still,
i'm this case as in that of the Weishaupts
the same twOfOld mystery cOnfOunded
| & l. nf
| HOW, and the prOfOunder mystery of the
! WHY. Here, again, no atom of property
was taken, though both the misers had
hOrdes of ducats and English guineas
in the very room where they died. Their
bias, again, though of an unpopular
character, had rather availed to make
them unknown than to make them
hateful. In one point this case differed
memOrably from the OtheT-that, in
stead of falling helpless or flying vic
Tins (as the Weishaupts had dOne(
these old men, strong, resOlute, and not
so much taken by surprise, left proofs
that they had made a desperate defense.
The furniture was partly smashed to
pieces, and the other details furnished
evidence still more revolving of the
acharnement with which the struggle
had been maintained. In fact, with
| THEM a surprise must have been i'm
practicable, as they admitted nobody in
to their house on visiting terms. 1t
was thought singular that from each Of
these domestic tragedies a benefit of the
same sort should result to young per-
sons standing in nearly the same rela-
tiOn. The girl who gave the alarm at
the ball, with two little sisters, and a
| little orphan nephew, their cousin, di-
vided the very large inheritance of the
Weishaupts; and in this latter case the
accumulated savings of two long lives
all vested in the person of the amiable
grand-niece.
But now, as if in mOckery of all our
anxious consultations and elaborate de-
vices, three fresh murders took place on
the two consecutive nights succeeding
these new arrangements. And in one
case, as nearly as time could be noted,
the mounted patrol must have been
within call at the very moment when
the awful work was going on. | shall
not dwell much upon them; but few
circumstances are too interesting to be
passed over. The earliest case on the
first Of the two nights was that of a
currier. He was fifty years old; not
rich, but we'll off. His first wife was
dead, and his daughters by her were
, married away from their fathers
house. He had married a second wife,
but having no children by her, and
keeping no servants, it is probable that,
but for an accident, no third person
would have been in the house at the
time when the muTderers got admit
, tance. About seven o'clock a wayfar-
ing man, a jOurneyman cuTrier, who,
/ according to our German system, was
now in his wandeTjahre, entered the
city from the forest. At the gate he
made some inquiries about the curriers'
I and tanners of our town; and, agTeea-
: bly, to the information he received,
= made his way to this Mr.. HeinbeTg's,
= Mr.. Heinberg refused to admit him, un-
/ til he mentioned his errand, and
; pushed below the door a letter of re-
h cOmmendatiOn from a Silesian CORES
e pOndent, describing him as an excel
/ lent and steady workman. Wanting
8 such a man, and satisfied by the an
q? swers returned that he was what he
t represented himself, Mr.. Heinberg un
q bOlted his door and admitted him
e Then, after slipping the bolt into it;
+ place he bade i'm sit to the fire
O brought him glass of beer; cOnyeTseC
, with him for ten minutes; and said
d "YOu had better stay here tonight; III
d tell you why afterwards; but now III
n step up stairs and ask my wife whethe
/ she can make up bed for you; and d.
il you mind the door whilst Pm away.
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