New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-08
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CUTHBERT JONESS PERIL
ELUDING HIS FATHERS MURDERERs.
HOW WOULD BE-CONsUL SAVED HIS LIFE YEARS
AGo--sOME TERRIBLE MOMENTS.

AG0-SOME TERRIBLE MOMENTS.
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WASHINGTON, June IA writer in T" The Sunday
Herald" speaking of the statement that Cuthbert
Jones, of Louisiana about to be made Consul Il
Callas printed in several newspapers last week. recalls
the incident which gave to the rumor that the
United States Attorney had been requested to
get out a warrant for Joness arrest as a murderer
Nearly half century ago there lived in the parish Of
Catalonia, La two planters, Jones and Liddell, who
owned nearly the entire parish between them differ.
ence of opinion that ended in pistol and knife
fight, in which Mr.. Jones was badly wounded The
ieud grew until nearly every gentleman the Blaoh
and Ouachita Rivers either in sentiment in per-
son. side or the other. Early in January, 1870
General st. John LiddelI who we'll Con-
federate brigade and division commander killed
board the steamer ST. Mary at landing on Black
River by Mr. Jones who, at The time, happened to be
accompanied by his two sons, the younger one being
about sixteen seventeen years old. They all
Immediately arrested and while at Harrisonburg. the
parish seat awaiting legal action, party of General
Liddelrs friends took the Joneses-faher and eldest
son-from the Sheriff who had them custody and
shot them to death. they had been disarmed they
could make no effective resistance.
Cuthbert Jones escaped as by q miracle He his
father and brother fall and die with their faces to their
slayers Then his enemies. determining not TO leave
of the Joneses to tell the tale started to hunt him.
lie was in in the second story of the building
where they all confined and soon they came to
his hiding place He was entirely without arms
friends The leap from the window would dash him to
pieces below, and to remain meant death in moment
more. Alongside the lower window sill there
ledge just wide enough to get fair finger grip Hav-
ing been to school in Germany Cuthbtrt Jones
fair gymnast for his age The window open.
While his hunters breaking in the door he lightly
dropped out of the window swinging down at arms
length and moving two three feet to the right vas
of sight and hanging sixty feet in the air. He heard
the door give way and in the furious crowd rushed.
They Immediately the open window and concluded
that he had somehow bad escaped that way. Fortu-
nately the night was pitchy dark of blackness
except in the far South the pine torches only
made the immediate darkness blacker So he was un-
seen How he kept his hold so long he hardly knows.
But when he heard the last of the crowd descending
the stairs, he moved bach, and by tremendous effort
got hold of the window sill and drew himself inside and
fell on the floor.
Cuthbert Jones is applicant for the Callas Con-
sulate. lie is well qualified for that any other posi-
ton in the Consular service. He speaks German,
French Spanish and Italian he does his mother
tongue. General Grant appointed him Consul to
TripoI in 1876, when he just tweny-one. and tho
records of the State Department testify how well he
performed his duty. He has the air. breeding and bear
ing of gentleman He would have been transferred to
Santiago de Cuba as Consul under Garfield ii he had
not been q Democrat and the Republican Senator from
Louisiana had O man of his own political faith named
instead