The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-10-27

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raised, finger on the trigger, ready for work.
In the house was a family named McMurtry,
an Old man and some small children. The
| only other inmates were Reilly Campbell
and his brother Bud. The leader Of the
mob called out to the McMurtrys to leave
/ the house, which they Instantly did, stand
/ inc out i'm the woods shivering and waitin
I for what horror they hardly knew. Prepar-
I ations were instantly made by the two men
/ in the house for a fight to the death. Quar-
! ter was neither asked nor given. The mob
( opened FIRE and the CampbeHs answered
/ them. Then the firing came fierce and fast.
A Croan and muttered curse came from the
outside, and a little group hurried maD of
( in their arms It was Hice johnson, a we'll
tO-do, respectable farmer. He had ball
through his breast, and bled TO death out on
the road with the pistol balls flying over his
head singing his requiem Then a gTOan
came from within, and Reilly Campbell fell
in pool Of blood at his brothers feet--a
corpse But Bud stood to HIS guns, logged
" firing away into the night whenever he
saw fash Of an enemy's gun. How long
this wild warfare might have lasted no man
knows But Buds ammunition gave out
and his shots became less frequent. The
mob closed in on him. Thirty-nine to one
surely it was madness to resist longer. Bud
did resist, however, and, barricadng doors
and windows, he stood ready with a dubbed
gun in his hand to defend his life to the last.
suddenly he began to smell smoke about
him Then he knew the horror of his fate.
The
MOB HAD FIRED THF CABIN.
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outside, with leveled guns waiting Cor him
Death by fire within, death by TIE bullets
without; which would he choose? The
smoke became denser, he could hardly
grope around the room. The blaze was
leaping up around him like mad " Volt
The roof was a mass of FIRE Then the door
was burst open, and out of the fire and the
binding smoke that man could not breathe
and live, out of this very mouth Of hell stag
0eTed man with singed clothes and grimv
face and b!eared eyes, clinging to the end of
a gun. Twenty pistols were Ieveed at him,
but he fell before the hands that were so
anxious to pull the triggers could move. 4
dozen men gathered around him, bound him
hard and foot. and dazed and half dead as
he was, dragged him down into the woods
A rope was quickly brought and az the
smoke Of Che burning cabin Ioated through
the trees it touched and moved the dangling
body of Bud Campbell.
Nobody knew where Mary Sullivan was
all this time. More than one Of the mob af-
forwards confessed that if Mary had been
there the job would not have been such an
easy one. a night or so later some men re-
turning from a visit TO a neighbours thought
they heard a mans voice pleading with some
ore for mercy. They were not positive, but
thought the person address sed was called
MARY" The next day the Iifeless body Of
Crockett jenkins was found swinging from
the limb Of a giant oak at the top of a tall
hill. The moral proof that Mary Sullivan
committed the crime assisted by her mother
and sister, seemed to be conclusive. but
there was no positive proof. And so when
Mary and her mother and sister were arrest
ed nothing could be done to them They
were all discharged, and wh-n Mary went
back home she found
DEATHS HEAD NOTICES
glaring at her, warning her to leave the
neighborhoOd. All the rest Of her friends
were either dead or wounded or had left
Bud Campbell was dead Reilly CamDbeU
was dead Crockett jenkins was dead her
brother Tom had gone away to recover from
his wound, which had begun to trouble him
again her mother and sister had apd: she
was an ontcast and alone. But in spite of
all this the wOman's indomitable COURAGE
never failed her. She went out to make ar
ranCements about selling some cows, prfmed
and oiled her pistols aud then wrote defiant
letters to her enemies. On the 2gth Of Sep
tember she rode over 70 old farmer HubbeU's .
and asked for lodging for the night She
had her little five year-old child with her
About ten O'Clock voice called her to the
door. Her usual prudence seems to1ave
deserted her She did not even take ner
pistol which for five years had meyer left
her hand day OF night. Shereached the door
opened IL ana peered out. The night was
dark and windy. Heavy. rainy clouds hid
everything, and she failed 10 see the five /.
men with pistols in their hands standing
within few feet Of her. She opened the /
door and stepped out Three strong pair of
arms reached out from the darkness. and in 1
an instant she was whired away ont TO tbe /
pubilc road. She knew what fate Law in
store Tor her, but uttered neither threats nor
entreaty She said never word, but walk I
ed along quietly with her captors. They
bound her arms and feet, and. tossing her
over horse as though she was a mealsack .
'heY joined the mob which was waiting for
them on the road. They rode on tin Mary
recognized with a thrill Of borror that thew
were approaching the place where Jenkins ,
was hung. They halted under the very tree
and the leader taking rope from behind if
solemnly fastened the moose about the oyo-
man neck. She never fnched. They
TOOK her of the horse, dragged her ia the /
Ioot OF the tree, threw the rope over the /
same limb from which Crockett Jenkins had /
dangIed week before and drew the woman I
up a convulSive, horrible shudder ran
through her frame, but she spoke never a /
"ord. The wind moaued dismaIy through
the branches of the wood, whispering to the /
trees as it went that a woman's body. cold
and stiff in death, was swinging from In,
tallest branches of the Old oak tree.
a FAITHFUL DOG.-A touching instance
OF canine hdelity Is reported from Elkbart
ING. dog that had been trained to guard /
stable, refused to leave his post, tboueb
the stable was on fire. His remains, bearing
evidence that be had died in fearful agony
were found in the entrance to the stalls I
There he had stood watch over sthe horse
that peIished with him. The exhibition of .
ialthiuiness is all the more noteworthy from /
the fact that the dog was not chained and