The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-04

Some Of the clothes were found dons up
in bundles, others were cut and slashed, and
the lad himself was seen picking up and
handling other pieces.
The bleacher, who had been annoyed by
thefts OF the family wash TO the extent that
be offered his servant 500 II he could find
the thief, had been notified by the servant,
saw the youth and shot him.
HE WAS JUSTIFIED BY THE COURTS.
Yet the servant had lured the lad, an
easy-going, simple fellow, 70 his death in
cold blood
He had persuaded the lad to loan hius his
knife, then laid 1t on the green, invited the
boy 10 spend the evening with him, told him
to bring the lantern to light himself home
after nightfall, and when the boy had come
sent him to the green, ostenslbly to look for
the knife, which the servants said be had
lost, but in reality sending him TO his death.
Another case was that Of sister who had
been offended by her father and her brother.
She determined that they should die, so
when her father went to milk the cow she
followed him with her brothers hammer,
and in her brothers shoes.
She killed her father with the hammer,
then put the tool In private drawer IN her
brothers room.
She then left the house to visit friend,
and in the morning when her father was
and disrespectful conduct, and said that the
son had often wished the fathers death that
he might inherit his property.
The brother was tried, convicted and exc
cuted, and the truth Was shown only on the
confession OF the daughter herself.
One of the most striking cases from the
standpoint Of the novelist is that Of James
Baxwell, an Englishman, at Gibraltar.
be was charged with the murder OF his
6AnOhfpr ad atOOH mt ha 9
fold Co be executed.
There was no help for him through the
officers Of the law, but wishing to leave the
world at peace with every one, be held out
his hand to William Kaut the leading wit
ness against him. and freely forgave him
for causing his death.
This treatment melted Katt. who screamed
out that he himself was alone guilty.
He then told how he had
LOVED THE BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
of Bsxwell had obtained her consent to a
marriage and had asked that Of her father.
The father had refused strenuously, and
had clinched his refusal by saying that he
had rather see his girl dead than married 20
Kat.
Katt had pursuaded the girl to elope with
MIN; had cut off some of her hair while she
slept, snIeared a portion of the upper part
of tbs Woman's dress with blood and taken
the hair aud blood-stained dress to cave
on the place owned and occupied by Bax-
well.
Then he had given utterances TO cries and
groaus, made gradually fainter and fainter,
which we're heard by persons who after
ward testified to them 10 court.
When the executionsr turned 70 Baxwell
on the scaffold he was found TO be dead
No small amount of influence is carried
by the testimony of witnesses TO the per-
sopal Identity OF persons.
To show that 1t is very easy to be mis-
taken, or rather very difficult to be certain,
it is only necessary to mention the case of
Martin Guerre, perhaps the most remark
able case of mistaken identity on record.
Martin Guerre left his home, wife, child,
father, mother and other relatives in the
south of France. Eight years af.erward
came a man who claimed TO be Martin
Guerre.
He was accepted by four sisters, an uncle
and every member of the wife'S family with
out an instant's hesitation.
Nine. Guerre took up her wifely duties,
lived with the man three years, bore him
two children, and believed fully for shat
time that the man was her husband.
But after time the wife, supported by
the uncle who mad first received him,
brought charge Of falsely
PERsONATING HER HUSBAND
against the alleged Guerra.
The accused stoutly maintained that be
was Guerre, fully accounted for his eight
years. wanderings, submitted triumphantly
to the severe tnterrogatory OF the judges,
replied without hesitation to every question
on family history, named the time and place
of birth of his wife and relatives, both ear
and distant. described the guests at their
wedding, their dress, their sayings aud their
acts, and narrated many little incidents Of
the celebration, gave particulars Of the
birth, infantile sickness and peculiarities OF
the little son, and, In short, all details which
the genuine man might have known were
detailed by the impostor with facility and
accuracy.
There were 140 witnesses called, of which
forty declared on oath that they were as
certain az any one could possibly b. that
the accused was the real Guerre; and as
they had been intimate companions OK tue
young man they testified to marks and
scars which time had not eff&ced.
All marks, etc, we're found on the body
Of the impostor.
Sixty of the 100 witnesses were in doubt
and che remainder testified that the i'm
poster was one Armand du Tllh, called
''PRuseste, a hAbitusl criminal
BE outfaoed them all, but to the public's
surprise was found guilty aud sentenced to
dsoapitatiou.
i as chss WAS FaOponsN AuO Unity new
Witnesses appeared, ton for the impostor,
some seven or eight against him, and the
remainder uncertain.
The court was, at this trial, undecided,
so well did the fmpostor come forth from
every Lest, when who should come into the
court room but the veriEable Martin Guerre,
minus leg.
The impostor boldly outfaced even him,
arrogantly questioned him about facts in
his private domestic history. and seemed to
know more about the martial life Of the
Queries than the genuine.
The sisters Of Guerrs
RETRAoTED TREIR TESTIMONY,
accepted the one-legged man as the true
Guerre, as did the wife, and the false
Guerre, or Du Tilh, was found guilty aud
sentenced to death.
Just before his execution he confessed
that, becoming acquainted with Guerre, he
had been astonished at the marked physical
similarity between them, and determined to
extract profit from It,
He was possessed Of a most marvellous
memory, quick and retentive. Persuading
In different ways Guerre to tell parts of his
family history the tales fell into the waiting
brain of Du Tilh, and we're Immediately
placed away for future use. Many OF these
things Guerre had himself forgotten, Du
Iilh had not. The rest II explained by what
the later Americans call nerve
The cases are almost tnnumerable in
which persons have committed crimes and