The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-05-28
AN EARLY HANGING.
A Romantic raery af murdeF and Exern
ten Years Age.

on tho bill. Il was the last part 0
the place to oil up with graves, as
tho people who laid their dead dowr
there summed leaving them close Il
the murderef's last resting place. /
was pointed out 10 strangers and chill
dfcn With the words /: arhe French
man lies buried there the first mar
ever hung 10 Somerset county"
| One day Ia December, 1915, whot
the snow lay several feet deep upot
the ground and the pIncs bent under
helr heavy white load, at q long ,low
wooden tavern on the summit OF the
Alleghenies, there stopped n sleigh
containing Two gentIemcu, whs
ailgnied, went In aud asked~for rS
freshment for themselves aud lhell
horse. They spoke very broken
English, said they had not long been
in this country, and were travelling
for pleasure. The counirymen lou1g.
Ing about stared at them, because
they did not often sep such guests nj
Statlor's tavern. They were hand.
somely dressed In the fashion og The
day. The elder was tail, large, llne.
looking, with jet black hair aud eyee.
Tho younger was pale, slight, intel-
leclual In appearance, with large, oft,
brown eyes and chestnut hair.
Among The crowd OF idlers and
drinkers at the tavern was q drover
who took drop Too much and brsg.
ged OF tho fino sales he had made Of
his cattle In Cumberland, from where
he was just now returning home with
his money 10 his pocket. The drever
rode away on hIs white horse little
while before dusk for bis home, some
miles of. The Frenchman soon after
Inquired where tho next god stop.
ping place was TO be found, ordered
their horses and sleigh aud drove In
the track Of tho drover, saying they
were 10 haste TO reach certain place
BY the next day. That night the
drover's waiting wife saw hia horse
come home without bis master, with
his white coat spotted with blood
stains. Tho tlFovsr'+ i,bds wss found
next morning stin ansi stark. With .
bullet through his brain, shut from
behind. Tue nelghborhooi was
reused. The Frsuceman ~sers as once
suspected aud pursued They were
found at public hDuss soue distance
on, sitting quietly Ia = room In The
second story. When they suddenly
became aware that there was an ex.
cited moh Of countrymoa alter then.
they were too much excited and fright
sd to use ths iItlls EnglI.h they
knew and ceuid only gesliculate and
chatter 10 their native tongue, which
was all los, on the booFa of s .merset
county.
At length, being tco hard pressed,
one OF them jumped from the haol'
window OF the room. II was the big
one. The little one tried 10 follow
but was caught by the clothes by 4
burly Dutchman and held for mo
ment suspended outside. Snne one
was s5Ing to shoot him from below,
but the Dnlchman said that no would
attend to-the iiltls one, and shat those
below should look afteT tha big one.
lie was answered by rife shut and
the biz cne, who had been trying to
run through the deep snow, fell dead
rhe little onA. WAS taken to Somerset,
tried and found gully Of the drover's
murder. Tne money which The
drover had carried pon his person
was never found. II was supposed
by many that the Frenchmen had
throw lg into the firo whea they
found they were g,Ing to be mobbed
The pale young gentleman protested
his innocence, said he had influential
friends and family In his own coun.
try, to whom the authorities here
would have to answer for their troat.
ment OF him. lie persisted 10 the
last in the declaration that he and
his dead compagnon de voyagc had
passed the droyer on the road and
parted with him In quiet and friend
lily manner. He demonstrated vlo
lsntly when the officials came to puI
him into cart with rude pine
coffin and take him out TO be hanged
and tried to brsak the coffin to pieces
He wore about him q miniature, Sc
with pearls, Of lovely girl He
gave his nams as Noel Huguel.
Many wondered II that girl die
not walt and watch and nine IN
France for her beautiful lover. wh'
was hanged by the neck until he wa
dead 10 the fAr-off mountains Q
Pennsylvania. Many thought him
victim Of circumstantial evidence
that tho drover's murder escaped sec
free with the money, and that Noe
Huguel was an innocent man, hl
mysterious disappearance never at
counted for to his friends 10 France
He was refusvd the privilege