The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-27
AVENGED BY HIS GHOST.
HE STORY OF a REMARKABLE MUIR
DER IN TESNESSEE

| The Hsver cave Up the Dead and ADDED Il
She Testsmeny Of the spectre-rsfea $40
| Acquitted. the Murderer Forty Years AZ
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mssd9W toweEd home: after ar the days work
stlsnes sae who sppesred % abfuIsy Coming,
as Hlndman expressed It :" out ofthe ground"
that he was greatly alarmed.
M. said hEiaSdnsa." but suppose You are
9ss a. am or
NV %sq bs @ pS pants and 00a'' See this slit in
mechanically more than critically made the
= ua &sea ana
~ my name is, or was. Lebanon Mercer:
tic river. He III led ne because would not
JAILED me e. tho bank Of the river By telling
5sI an that he mot Immediately after we
:. The stranger then described the pace where
he was buried. and gave the names OF parties
Among them . peddler named Pcntieost and a
man named Burfleld. who had received one OF
& 1s
as asst It 9 9Iln come. and Hindman tainted from
I When he recovered and made his way to the
house his indisposition was 30 marked thnt9
neighbor was sent for and restorativss applied.
a e es an xn tae the uni
e him fer sse
SLOAN and athers il strict coincidence BY and
by the wonderful occurrence spread over the
siusion that Mercer had appeared In the twi:
light IN his own proper person; that he had
5ee9 aRG
upon Gamble.
breath S q saspIeio9 hsd ever rested upon
he was regarded BY many rs martyr. Hind
looked upon asa tool q MerceT,s. This IN.
fanG pass
slncsd from t9e statements made in profound
secrecy that Mercer had been murdered and
to hin eT bs hs sp aad d.
RAD ;, ra an, ssfoand, below Ksya,oldsbuTs; a
Into the G river az this point bar lad been
moaa
the morass and the banks washed and stirred.
A week or ten days after this oec9r re yea
noldsbure. The features We're nnree egnizaSfe.
There was an absence of any, swelling. as is
@ sh sess 0wH b rg h Soo Mas
FOOT Tks two 81. small iisssrs On tRo left hand
We're on RAt6h lie yarn s0s eoshas
everywhere was to be found Q slate colored
Gt Sss sia ipa In
TIVE rendered sysrdist thst e re s body was
to his death by violent means at the hands Of
some person to the jury unknown, and that
been exhumed and found its way Into the river.
Tho story told BY the chest to HindHan Was
ysstisate. Gamble was arrested ana brought
testied that R.r hasband had IN his posses.
s sisn S5i0 N lives: tens a.. ana t%sntihesa One
f's
its eennineness: and her husband had made
mssmornnduI OF is nrmber date nnd ir niI
EosssssSn when hs I'LL home The ,a shsToi
Disappearance 81 Mercer. and had taken y
minute description oi the same for ths rea
msatGs s after sse SiI and
Ss a thu st s &,cas Sas not a% bsas
OF some shady transaction 10 which ne mad
been engaged. That there was u good deal Of
company at CANDLES house that night. and
Gamble occupied o room with him; that dur
Ing the nigh, no was aYakened bya ssufhe ~
the middle q The Led ard a1peared to be dss-
He heard him say" Ply Cd, Mercer. | am
Same Near falling out q bed and .awakened.
e ses sboat s waEes
into the stall where the peddler was, and. with
ness on his knees swear that he never would
reveal or repeat what he had heard. He had
never spoken Of # on that account until recent
~. and then to Hindman.
Gamble oame hom "a thsD ni9 q MeresSs dis dis
appearance long after everybody had retired.
peculiar colored clay. and that he accounted
Tor his absence by stating that he was with
his brother -tn!law and got the mud on him In
brother I'm. law could not remember anything
pnd o. DIT on the Slothing q ths corpse
clothing. and was peculiar TO- . morass or low
place ~ the mouth OF certain stream where
the steamboat had grounded. and did not ex-
Let elsewhere on the river except near Clifton,
l0O miles above. Other witnesses testified