The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-15

corpse. Inc captain ceased his ser.
mon and whispered conference took
place among the officers.
The stragglers were ordered to give
over their muskets for inspection. All
were found to be loaded, es usual at
such an outpost, and none had been
recently fired of. Barrels, and bayo-
nets too, shone like silver, without
stain, or rust, or flaw, on steel OF
stock. The bayonet scabbards too
might have been examined, but some.
how in the excitement this was over.
looked. The delirious fellows arms
at the guard house bore the search
equally we'll. 1t was certainly mys.
ferrous. The eight sober stragglers
all agreed about one thing, or seemed
to agree about it, that they had drunk
liquor freely at the negro hut and had
then broken up into small parties with
no show of ill-will so far, but none ap.
peared to recoliect who constituted
the several parties, or when or how
Parr became separated from tho rest,
or who had been last seen in his COM
pany. All but Parr had returned to
the hut for more liquor and were there
found by the first lieutenant. The nine
were sent up to Romney next day ard
put in irons, but after preliminary
examination all were released but the
Welshman, who was sent to Cumber.
land jail to await his trial for murder.
Stonewall Jackson shortly afterward
displaced us all from that gloomy re.
gion and destroyed the beautiful
bridge. The Seven Days fight was
scarcely over when the Welshman,
wasted away almost to o skeleton
from the effects of nearly years inn
prisonment on low diet, rejoined as at
Harrison's Landing. He had been let
out of ;ail for want of evidence against
him.
But what was always curious to us
was the after career of the young fei.
low who tainted over PARIS body. He
was never day we'll after that, though
he had before been remarkably active
and vigorous--the best athlete in a
company of athletes. He was con-
stantly in and out of the hospital, a
study and puzzle to the medical men
who saw that he was ai]ing, but could
not diagnose his ailment. He wasted
finally away and died in military
hospital in Philadelphia, of some long
Latin named disease, according to
hospital report, which had to give
some scientific reason for his death.
He died the same day that the Welsh
man was discharged from Cumberland
Jail.
Not long after, in September, 1862,
the. cavalry of both sides, maneuvering
after the battle of Antietam, came into
contact near Harper's Ferry-a very
tritiing affair indeed. One of the
wounded Federal cavalrymen was
brought to the rear. Death was settling
down upon him and he began
to speak to the surgeon in
charge of murder on the out
posts not quite a year before. The
surgeon, amazed, listened attentiyely
and heard the dying man insist that a
Welshman accused of the murder was
innocent. But the cavalryman, when
he had got that far, was seized
by the last agonies and his
voice was silenced forever. This
man, who had been transferred from
our company to the cavalry regiment
in which he met his fate, was the talk
ative person who had called at
tention to the wound in PARIS throat.
What did he know? and how did he
know il?
The mystery of that night at the
Wire Bridge was never cleared I'M,