Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-06-16

diligently until about i've O'Clock
Wednesday morning, when she was dis
csrned by her father at the crossing at
Nelson and Horne streets, near to the
fatal swamp.
ur .l.,s HER CONDITION.
1t is ineOnprehensib how one so
young and fragile could have undergone
such terrific punishment and butchery
and yet survive. With torn clothing,
begrimed with dirt. and with worse torn
body, bleeding, and with gaping stab
wound, and cuts, and bruises, the pitia-
BILE form too weak to cry, and having
been robbed of the power to laugh, stag.
gered she knew not where. When told
by her papa that he was near the place
and called her short time before, and
asked why she did not answer, replied,
tOuehingly, II was asleep, papa" thus
describing her unconscious condition
during the night. Her terrible condition
cannot be placed upon paper. She was
taken to the house of W. w. Smith.
SEARCH FOR THE BRUTE.
The demOnical perpetratOr of the un-
surpassed wickedness, failed to forever
hush the sweet lips of the angel child, as
he exultantly thought. 1t seems almost
miraculous that the prattling tongue
should ever speak after being stilled with
such devOuring pain, but it did speak,
and the magic words were more electri-
zeal than utterancss ever made by ac-
cOnplished scholarship or divinsly gift
ed el0quence. An overwhelming tide of
sympathy and affection for the child and
her family, and righteous indignation
for the guilty brute swept over our en-
tire community. Instantly the most
complete measures shaped themselves
for the apprehension of the criminal.
Women who had tainted at the break
fast table upon listening to the sicken-
ing details of the crime soOp recovered,
ready with superhuhan courage, to do
anything they could in the matter, and
men who had been almost paralized at
the recital OF the revolving sin were
livid with rage, and determined if possi-
BILE to find the chiefest of transgrsssOrs.
Dispatches were sent in all directions,
and parties of men went in along every
line of travel and secured the woods
everywhere. Men were sick at heart,
business was left. and the only business
was the all important business of secur-
ing the outlaw whose identity had been
clearly set forth by the simple words of
the crushed victim. Never was there
such day of gloom for ChebOygan;
every countenance was clothed in the
unmistakable pariphanalia of gloom and
grief, through which flashed and famed
the bitter condemnation of a righteous
judgment placed by the Almighty in
the breast ofevery human being. As the
awful. long day wore away, and the
TOst dilligeht, thorough and skillful
means failed to elicit any knowledge of
the flying wretch, the peoples sorrow be-
came swollen to boundless proportions.
But tie offender. loaded with a ton of
enormous guilt, could not out travel
the certain wings of outraged justice,
and about five o'clock in the afternoon
Ivory Littlefield brought to our town
prisoner named Tillott ComstOck
Warner, who had been arrested by
M. B. Champion, who left with Mr.. Lit
tle6eld early in the morning to search
for the brutal fiend, within two
miles from Mackinaw City, to which
place he was going. There was no
opinion as to his guilt or innocence, but
after some tests being applied for the
purpose of obtaining the truth. several
things indicated Warner to be the guilty
one. One person, great admirer of the
pure Nsttie, overcome with conviction
of Warmers guilt, struck him hand
blow, but otherwise no violence was
done the prisoner, who. was carefully
provided for by the officers, and safely
lodged in the County Jail.
IMPRoMPTU INQUIRY.
Wednesday evening and night, up to
two o'clock Thursday morning, was
spent by hundreds Of our citizens in
seeking information concerning the
guilt Of the prisoner, and while there
were several strong facts strongly sug-
gesting his guilt, there was no willing
ness to accept any thing short Of evil
dencs confirming, beyond the possibility
Of doubt, the conclusion. To this
statement exception must be made to
those hot-headed persons who are always