The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-05

recOlleeted that it was situation of
excessive agitation; but if they alluded
70 the horrors of the moment, no situa- =
ton more naturally opens the heart to
affection and cOntiding love than the
| recOil from scenes of exquisite terror.
An examination went on that night
before the magistrates, but all was
dark; although suspicion attached to a
| negro, named Aaron, who had Occa--
slOnally been employed in mental serVi-.
ces by the family, and had been in the
mousse Immediately before the murder.
Inc circumstances were such as to
leaVe every man in utter perplexity as
10 the presumption for and against
hlm' His mode of defending himself.
ana ms general department, were
marked by the coolest, nay, the most
sneerlng indifference. The first thing
he dld, on being acquainted with the
suspicious against himself, was to
laugh terOciOusly, and, to all appear.
ance, most cordially and unaffectedIy.-
lie demande whether a poor man, like
himself, would have left so much
wealt as lay scattered abroad in that
house, gold repeaters, massy plate, gold
Snutt-bOXeS, untouched? That aTpu-.
ment, certainly, weighed much in his
favor. And yet again it was turned
against him-fOr a magistrate asked
him how HE happened to know already
tllttb AlOlAlAll6 ldNl bttll lOuCutue TRUE
1t was, and "A fact which had puzzled,
no less than it had awed the magis-4.
trates, that upon their examination Of
the premises many rich articles of
bijOuterie, jewellery, and personal
ornaments, had been found lying unde-+
ranged, and apparently in their usual
situations; articles so portable that in
| the very hastiest flight some might
nave been carried off. In particular,
| there was a crucifX of gold, enriched
! with Jewels, so large and rare, that of
| Itself 1t would have constituted a prize
of great magnitude. Yet this was left
! untouched, though suspended in a little
OraJOry that had been magnificently
| adorned by the elder of the maiden sis.
ters; there was an altar, i'm itself a
| splendid object, furnished with every
arJlcle OF the most costly material and
workmanship, for the private celebra--
ton of mass. This cruciiiX, as well as
everything else in the little closet,
must nave been seen by one, at least, of
the murderOus party; for hither had one
OF Jhe ladies He'd; hitheT had one of the
murderers pursued; she had clasped the
golden pillars which supported the al.
tar; had turned, perhaps, her dying
looks upon the cruciiX; for there, with
one arm still Wreathed. about the altar
IOOJ though In her agony she had
| turned round upon her face, did the ell
der sister lie when the magistrates first
broke open the street door. And upon
the beautiful parqueJ, or inlaid floor
! which ran round the room, were still
! impressed the footsteps of the muir
derer. These, it was hoped might
furnish clue to the discovery of one
at least among the murderOus band.
They were rather difficult to trace accu-
rately; those parts of the traces which
lay upon the black tessellR being less
distinct in the outline than the others
upon the white or cOlOTed. Most un-
questiOnably, so far as this went, it
furnished negative circumstance in
favor of the negro, for the footsteps
were very different in outline from his,
and smaller, for Aaron was a man of
colossal build. And as to his knOwI--
edge of the state in which the premises
had been found, and his having so ia.
miliarly relied upon the fact of no rob-
berry having taken place as an argu-
ment on his own behalf-he cOntended
that he had himself been amongst the
crowd that pushed into the house along
with the magistrates; that, from his
previous acquaintance with the rooms
and their ordinary condition, a glance
of the eye had been sufficient for him to
ascertain tine undisturbed condition of
all the valuable property most obvious
to the grasp of arObber; that, in fact, he
! ldd seen enough for his argument be-
fore he and the rest of the mob had
been elected by the magistrates; but
finally, that, Independently of all this,
he had heard both the officers, as they
conducted him, and all the tumuItuous
gatherings of people in the street. ar
guing for the mysteriOusness of the
bloody transaction upon that very cir
cumstauce of So much gold, silver, aud
Jewels being left behind untouched.
Continued in our next.)