Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-09
THE FATE OF a hiuxAprEK.
a Florida Child steaIer Killed while T:y
lug TO EsCnpe.

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lug to Escape.
On Thursday morning Jacob Worthing.
ton, wealthy turpentine farmer of Madi-
son, Fla, awoke to find that his two
children, q team Of horses and $500 in
money had been stolen. Suspicion at.
tached 10 white labOrer, whose where.
abOuts q search failed TO reveal. Collect
ing an armed posse, Worthington started
in pursuit, and upon ar wing at Boston,
Ca, late Thursday night, learned that the
kidnapper had passed through the town
with his plunder just four hours ahead of
him.
Hard riding brought the POSSE in sight
OF the fugitive, at two o'clock Friday after.
noon, at a rocky gorge, on the banks of
the ChattahOOChie river, known as
S,ininulgo bluffs, or the DEVILS Glen.
Gaining the rocks, the kidnapper drew his
revolver and threatened to kill the drst
man who dared approach him. One of
the pursuing party, which had been
joined by the sheriff Of Brooks county,
fired at the desperate, and several shots
were exchanged without effect.
The kidnapper then placed the children
between himself and his pursuers, threat.
ening to kill them If he was further
mOlested. While he was delivering his
harangue, however, Mr.. Oxendine, of
Thomas county, an ex Confederate sharp
shooter, pressed his Winchester rife to
his shoulder and shot the desperate dead
before he was aware that he was under
aim. The children aud horses were
recovered unharmed, but the money has
not been found.
The Fatal Name OF walter.
Indianapolis Times
Forty.four years ago tho writer was
called in professional capacity to a
rudely constructed log cabin ia the woods,
l6 miles east of this city. A male child
was born--the first born of man and wife
whose intelligence and general cultiva
tion were much in advance of the society
in which they lived. They were deter.
mined to make themselves home of
plenty in the new country by their own
industry, having nothing but quarter
section OF good land and their household
goods. They came from Clearmont
county, Ohio. Three neighbor women were
there, and after tho little stranger was
dressed the mother, with black hair and
beautiful eyes, was asked to name the
boy. " want to call him Walter, but II
is an unlucky name. My great grand.
father was named Walter, and ho never
came home from the war for independence.
Then my husbands grandfather vas
named Walter, and no went to the war Of
1912 and he never returned. His oldest
brother was named Walter. He went to
sea and we heard that he became soldier
In Europe, but no never returned. We do
not know where aIy of them are buried.
| No grave stones mark their resting places
There is no war now, and trust never
will be in our lifo time In this country, and
am in favor of calling him Walter, that
the old family name may be retained
among us. Twenty-Five years from that
time Walter bade his widowed mother
farewell to join the army for the
defense OF the union and the homo Of his
childhood. He was good and brave boy,
bnt was missing after the battle of Stone
River. All efforts to gain some trace of
his death and final resting place proved
futile. NO one can tell where, when, or
how no died, or who disposed of his re :
mains. His mother mourned the loss of
her first born, and often regretted that she
had named him Walter. A lew years ago
she died at tho old home. On her death
bed she said Bury me beside my hus-