Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-17
ALoGeING CAMP.
rate that BeteII aim just After the
h -. were Ciasped on His Wrists.

saith who was putting In DIS hreb year
LOGGER. was Jonah. Everybody re-
o % his peculiarities, and when Men,
o1inee Kendrick said he was Jonah the
.oitbel was fixed upon him, and as a DO
-.n he has since been known.
Pagarding this as joke TO begin with,
..a men finally came to look upon Smith
" mysterious character, and at length
ao,',e one with q smattering OF BIBLICAL
ioorning suggested that the only thing TO
a. Win a Jonah was to throw him over
Soard. From that time Smith lost caste
rapidly. >, n,..,.;
mao aid half dozen times day. "He's
aJonah. and he ought to be run out.
There's something unhealthy ABOUT hlm,
- never vet knew any good to come
s-or, one of those fellers. We had a DO
ann on the Flambeau two years ago,
sn6 we had to get rid of him, and pll miss
nv guess if we don't find it necessary to
shove this one before long"
little by little the few intlmates OF
smith fell away, and he presently was as
ronnDletelv isolated as though he lived In
tbsse wastes alone. Nobody would eat,
Len or work with him, and at night or
an SUNDAYS in all the conviVialities and
smusements of the camp he was lett out.
me treatment which he was receiving
began TO tell on him after awhile, and as
he crew more and more sinister in appear
a. re the conviction Of the men that there
was .omething uncanny about him
Strengthened prodigiously.
one sunday just befo the holidays,
when be had tried unsuccessfully to
serape an ACQUAINTANCE with several OF
the men, be at length cornered one OF
them. Jack Humphrey, and asked him
what was the matter.
Il don't knows anything's the matter"
said Jack, trying to move of.
well. something ails you men or me,
wbichis itY' insisted Smith.
"Its YOU, them" said Jack. you're a
Jonah, and that's ali there is to it,"
Beyond that Jack would say nothing,
but Smith, continuing his interr0gatories
from man to man heard from every one
of them the, unanimous decision of the
camp that had been arrived at. The in-
tolerable loneliness OF Smiths position
made him well-uigh desperate, and it is
believed that he would have left toe
camp had not a new arrival of men
brought one individual of whom he could
make companion. The two were then
together all the time, and a confidence
was established between them WHICH at
last some OF the men came TO admire and
then TO envy. Jonah, as Smith was then
called, was gayeT, brighter, and appar-
entity healthier than ever. He went about
his work IN lively fashion. He whistled,
sang, and laughed. His eyes grew bright
and his cheeks red. He made renewed
attempts to render himself agreeable to
bis associates, and if he failed to con-
vince them that be had been misjudged
be found consolation and companionship
with Hitchcock, his new friend. All
bands remarked the change that had
come over Jonah, and nearly all were
wiling to admit that they might have
been mistaken.
Things ran along in this way until last
Monday, when Hitchcock revealed his
den ity to Kendrick and a few others.
he had come into the camp in the dis
yuise OF a lum6eFmaB, but he was a de-
leetiYe who wanted the man called Jonah
Tor a murder committed three years ago
IL Kentucky. lie had gained Smiths
confidence. and had heard from his own
lips a complete story of his crime, the
last and most important confession hav-
ing been made on Sunday. The two men
had talked freely Of their past lives, and
the detective, in order to draw out his
associate, had related the details of some
crimes In which he had been
Jonah's lOng-enforced silence
and his desire for companiOnship got the
better of MIN and he, too, confessed. He
gave every detail of his crime, revealed
some things which had never been undeF-
stood, showed how he had been LED into
the plot, and 70 I'd that if he lived long
enough and W. able to do so he would
make such PREPARATION as was possible.
In fact, he had already inclOsed one in
ilallment of money TO his victims family,
and the detective explained that that was
ihe clue which brought him to the timber
country. When Hitchcock had finished
dis story and mad notified Kendrick that
be would expect him TO assist IN the ar
rest wbichhe was about to make, the lat
Ter could hardly contain himself.
~ knew it all the time," ne muttered.
Il knew ne was Jonah. j gave him the
name and ithas stuck to ham. l never
make a mistake on those fellers."
After iustructing KendricS fully as 70
The part he was to play, Hitchcock set
out with him for the place where Jonah
was al work.
"ln simply clap the wristlets on
MIN, /" said the officer, ''and then, when
have informed him who 1 am and
What | intend 10 do with him, you step
up and take one side OF bin while l take
the other"
As the two men approached Jonah he
seemed pleased at the return OF bis COM
2auIons, and greeted them pleasantly.
hitchcock was III AT ease, and kendrlok
was embarrassed, but the detective step
ped up as he had agreed, ana in a mo-
ment JOnah's hands were in the irons.
he dropped the saw handle which he had
eeld, ana turning CHASTITY white and
M al ~ he II
cock told him that be was prisoner:
or"
The sterhness OF the detective aud the
quick movement OF Kendrick to the side
81 me bewildered Jonah convinced the lat
YER that be bad been trapped, and as the
.ull force of his betrayal broke upon him
.osr0aneu in agony.
"My only frieudi"
AZ that instant there was a cracking
ana splitting noise, a mighty wbizZ, and
acfrsh That shook the earth, all in sucn
qulck succession that no one of the three
cyuid do no more than spring inyOlunta-
Iily from his tracks. The tree which Jo-
nan had nigh felled as be was interrupt
"a, and whose condition all were too
mueh excited 70 notice. had come down,
qua under IL was the handcufed murder
~. Hitchcock and Kendrick escaped
WIN few scratches and bruises, but
'p 11 legs were ground 10 powder.
men, after an hours work, with the
'Assistanee Of other men who had been
summoned, the mangled body was re-
,goved, consciousness was gone, and tire
turned Tor moment only before death
put an end TO his su1erings. The injured
nan nad been removed 10 the boarding
louse, where be recllned on some blan-
4ets M the middle OF the big bunk room.