The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-04
OLE BONY'S CRIME.

| and yellow Jasmine along the brook and inten
ded to decorate her mothers humble mante
shelf, but she had been gone long time
Her large blue eyes were bloodshot, and
dark shadow appeared beneaths them, her flax
en- hair was diSheveled and the marks of bru
tai fingers stood out with intlamed prominenc
on her tender throat. She could not climb tn
steps and called out, family and piteously
Mother" The woman rose from her chair
| dropped her scissors and spools, threw he
work on the floor and gazed at her child-stu
petied and horror stricken. She caught her u
and pressed her to her heart, moaning:
My poor baby my poor baby! o my God
my Godi"
That night the child died. Mounted mel
and men on foot were sent securing the for
ests, and towards morning they brought in
| negro. lie was the criminal
The younger and
| MORE HoT-BLooDED
men insisted on speedy termination of tn
| tragedy, but other counsels prevailed Her
was a rare opportunity for the display of dey
elish skill. horrible ingenuity and cruel refine
| ment.
bob Angel goes down tonight, don't he p
said one,
"Yes-on the 49,"
"At IL ASP"
"Ies at II 49,
"Send him down on Bob's engine"
| The prisoner was held until the fregh
| train pulled up at the station. When Boil
| Angel descended from the fire-cab he was fol
| lowed by his negro fireman. The latter had
| evidently just finished his supper, for no wa.
| wiping the grease from his shining lips anC
chin with the back of his hand. He.procured the
! oil can and loren and was "oiling up" as
| long run between stations was ahead. The
negro had u neck like BULBS; he was some
| what knock-kneed and had splay feet of enor
nous size; he was large and strong, and coult
crack hickory nuts between his teeth like
hog. He was called cole Bony" because he
disdained to eat the meat only of chickens
He ate bones and ALL
I'm turn him over to Bony," said Angel
mot that mind doing it myself, but Bony
will enjoy it so much"
Bony was called aside and tho
CRIME REVEALED TO HIM.
"An' that's the Niger dar what done A?''
eyes"
Bony went to one side and "studied the sit
uation," bordering deeply. Angel eyed him
closely, endeayoring to decipher every express
sion as an index OF the thoughts that gather
ed under the woody pate of the negro. Bony
was sitting on the end OF cross tic, his elbows
resting on his knees, and his erimy fingers in
terlocked. He was bareheaded, and he soft
" tapped the ground with his long feet slowly
and alternately His head was bent and his
eyes were half closed. After sitting few
minutes he rose and shook himself like dog
that has been asleep. After this no went to a
telegraph pole and rubbed his back against it.
"HyarS mel" he said,
Tho prisoner was placed in the tender in a
sitting posture, his back against the pile of
wood, and his face turned towards the locomo-
tive. His hands were tied behind him and
his legs were bound together at the knees and
ankles. A gag was in his mouth. Bob Angel
pulled open the throttle valve and the train
slowly dragged its length into the night; and
all that could be seen by those left behind
were two eyes that stared back at them from
the last car. One of these eyes was rcd. tho
oil il,Axy ttDr 4l,ap nlatsr al 1tN
Il b'lieye rs de boss fur OF while, amt l,
cap,n?"
Without another word Ole Bony went to
the wood-pile and commenced to pitch the
fuel to the front OF the tender. Having done
this he began to pile it up on the foot-board in
two separate heaps. One contained the
RICH, REsINoUs
pine and the other the oak and the hickory.
lie then opened the furnace fro door and
threw in the pine rapidly. The prisoner sat
and watched it all
When lie had filled the fire box he rested
and amused himself by singing snatches Of old
plantation songs.
pine being rapidly consumed, the flames seeth-
ing and roaring. He threw in the oak and
hickory, the pine having sunk to give it room,
and remarked: "Hot 'nough directly"
The train reached Chickasawhay swamp.
Bony said:
II specks she's a-gittin' dry forred-lzin feel
'er erbumpin' n little. Take de can an 60
outside en- touch up dem steam-box valves
fore you go, dough, wants you tor help me
tic i'm ter dat boa'd, kaze he's gittin' resty.
De board II keep i'm straight. Keep a pert
look on do track, an-you kin come back-in
er bout--tiye minutes.
The helpless prisoner was secured to the
board as Bony directed, and Angel crawled
through the window neglecting, however, to
take the oil-can-but that was no matter. Old
Bony had thrown i'll more pine, and tho loco
motive was belching forth cloud of black
smoke which trailed out over the train like
the tail Of an
INKY COMET.
The glaring, staring, cyclopean eve Of the
engine was tunneling the darkness, blowing a
passage through the night for the head body and
10 which it belonged. Looking backward, Bob
Angel saw vision that made his heart stand
still. This is what he saw: The fire door had
been thrown open and intense light therefrOm
streamed upon the black clouds Of smoke and
upon the dense foliage.by the Wayside as upon
screen on which would be projected the
shadows OF interposing bodies. And he did
see strange shadows magnified into gigantic
oportions-frghtful shadows they were
that surged through the forest or were suspens
ed in the smoke. 1t seemed to Angel that
the gate OF hell was open, and that the shad-
oWs he saw were made by demons dancing be-
fore the sulphurous flame and IeYeling in n
Saturnalia of blood. One demon, larger and
moro frightfulsthanlthe others, seemed TO have
just returned from earth, for he bore in his
arms n human soul, dashed to board. 1t
seemed from the shadows that he laid his
helpless victim at the edge Of the opening
through which issued the binding rays from
the unquenchable fire, and that no raised his
arms in wild eXultation This monster, while
every muscle seemed to expand into distended
proportions, grasped his burden and raised it
aloft-the flames seemed TO roar and
CRACKEE HUNGRILY
and game lOuninQly for the Eoul thnv were 10
deyour. The brilliancy of the light was sud-
denly obscured Something must have been
thrown through the orifce-through the gate
Of hell-but tho intensity was Immediately re-
sumed, displaying the demon bending over,
his great naked arm stretched across the open
ing as if reaching to close the gate then sud
denly the shadows became confused-some
topping and falling to the ground, others
chasing each other into fhe forest and all was
darkness againl
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