The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-07

pest friend. from whom he par..s ! :
love and ani'y only the night befo,.n 4
so tney hauled me along the nsss
inaklns me touca the body they 49, ~
that oiood came from II. which xss sA
iesels Iaise' Tor none was to Do -. 80. ~
Wnere me g.ass or the window haa - -
own hand In returning during the -, ~ "
ing crime said Philip Stans-s 1soose.
ne wiped his own hands on his 80 a.
he had been standing beside ma b
So they took me, along WITH ~.
my late beloved friend. snro Nv Vg
mill: and there, saying thar 49, es&
caught me red-hand in the -. III
Standsfeld was for strai wav .- 1aSss
me, by virtue OF his warrant a. Sss
trate Of the county, having bean os.usss
lain and deputy sheriff 10 his fa.hss -
this others debated upon as sssrs . ID! ~
with high hand, and without sa ssa.sn
law.
Then, so wonderful are the ws~.
evidence of things and Circumstance ~ y
they found one OF my shoes down \. y
water side where / had stood neh,rs =
tree. This they asked OF me to er,i.s' -
dozen crying at once: did DENY 49,
been during the night near to vhs-~ ~
dead body had been found?"
I told them that I did not tsrv -
truth. But / begged of them "a 49,
while told them how that evil spsr,s I
my knowledge and IN my esrAf L,
dragged a burden down 70 the wa1sr -
and set it afioat on the river.
But at this they all laughed aloud n.
those that were not Unaffected a =
were shaken in their belief Of nv ~
bling words, which seemed 10 them "a -,
guilt on the face OF them.
I cried and protested that they sAcp,,
never think so base thing pcsssAls !.
that 1 should murder my well-beaoxss
friend. and that wholly without rer.as
But they went and pointed out the dOua.
track of my feet TO the water side. ~
again with one shoe gone from my fsr.,
foot. back again 70 the window.
.sI will have his life for a hlack-hesr,1
rogue and the murderer OF my fasAsr~
cried Philip Standsfield. And he 81.
bring a rope. which put me in great -,
when saw Nichols run of TO do his wm
For they took me out to the duie-sree, asa
CARED read a kind of warrant aAus;
finding me red-hand in the act, whs&
stood on a wooden tub that was used n
washing. with the rope about my mech
and the other end rove over branch.
was in much tumult and perturbaiions I:
snirit when / thought that In anokAs
moment I should find myself In Abrshaci
bosom. for which. in my present stats
knew I was desperately iil-fitted.
Presently, standing thus with NJ
th,ourhts whirling about me. heard
,,oica 7 knew speaking loud and angry n
sha outside of the throng. 1t was The
,.oirs Of uTmphray Spurway. the Engas-
man. And that was small comfort to ne
- - 80, ras npvar Niyed Nc. Insss'
x,rs,;shmen. for common. have small
Kindness for ministers. So that looked
for no pause or mercy. Nevertheless |
cried 70 the man that l asked Tor irsll
with color OF law. And took all that
were there present TO witness. that i
should lie upon him, that was man q
substance and responsibility. II ne should
allow mine enemy TO shed my BLOOD With
out trial.
Then the Englishman. who had oesa
trained. as they all are. to me insunSs
of law-abiding, cried out among them ai'
.T.et the man be taken to prison. LEI
him be kept close TILL he have Iair uia.
a man is surely innocent TIL ne De proved
guilty in every country save In this IN
routh land of the Scots, where they SCI
man 10 a hedge and shoot him. or string
him to a tree and try him as he dansles
Give the man TO my hand, and viii Keep
him safe in mine house, and produce hin
unon warrant, for which, shall be surety
70 the whole extent OF my goods"
So I'm spite of Philip Standsfeld and It's
cabal. I was let go with umphray spur
nerious. so that very few dared say no y
him in all that country side. so a. soon
as I got him alone in his own nouss
began to tell him all the tale OF the de'
mons. at which relation, first OF all u
cried "Pshawr' and .'Clotted nonsense
with other expressions | cannot repeat
being unseemly to be written down BY
minister.
But after he had thought lHuA. n
babe me to repeat 1t all again from the BE-
ginning. and, indeed. several times over
questioning me of what had seen, III
now / said to him: "Ah. Mr.. spurway
bide a little, and you will come TO beliss'
In the demons"
tut, gull-headr' he said. very rudsy I
me, that am a minister Though TIL Asel
without charged. II win find your demons
for you when my good friend the com
missary comes from Edinburgh.
Then he told me how RI had Deem y
solved to hush the matter up now fns
Philip and his clan had been baked ~ ~
Immediate killing of me for the TACT 0a
that he, Umphray Spurway. had taken
upon him to write to one Mr. Geofs
Hume, merchant of Edinburgh. VINO ~
great with my Lord Advocate DaHymp''
to have him order public examinauon'
'.Then it will go hard II grip not you
devils for you. minister. as readily =
herd that grips sheep at a narrow sap
a stone dyke
These things ! set down as no -
them, for that was his strange anu ih
x.,Aaa.h ElIt deny NE