Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-13


 non river, poisoned if I wouldn't yard arm the little fagot in rale earnest. What make | joyful hanniyersary of his wife's death, and fire eff guns that the whole blooming country may know what little beast 1t is. Sit you down, Bob there 2 glass-help yourself. TIis is what We mean to da. and he forth with related his scheme for the morn ing to Robins and Plum.
 They smoked hard and roared out in great peals 6f laughter The bull1heads of a little ship such as tho Tom Bowl ing are not, as may be supposed, of very formidable seantling. There is no doubt that Sloper in the hold heard these wild shouts of laughter which the muf3ing of the bulkhead and his own terrers would render awful to him, and we may be sure that as he lay in the black ness hardening to those horrid notes of merriment, he feared and perspired ex- ceodingly.
 Somewhere at about g o'clock next morning the Tom Bowling was got un- der way, and when all hands had break lasted, Joe Westlalle teak the tiller, and Plum, Robins and Tuck went to work to construct the machinery for the re- tired tailar's execution. They filed g big tub with water and covered it loose- ly with q taFpaulin. Close against this tub they placed q three legged stool. Alongside this stool upon the deck was q tar bucket with q ts,l brush sticking up iii it. 9Eay also procured and placed beside this tar bucket q piece of rough i4an hoop. At the time Chat these prep aratious were completed the cutter was running through tae Warp, which is some little distance past the Nore light. The river had widened into the aspect of an eeean and over the bows of tho craft the water stretched boundless and blue as the horizon Of the Pacific.
 They opened the hatch and brought the tailor cn deck. Needless to say, he had not slept wink all night. Who, accustomed to feather bed, could snatch even ten minutes sleep when his couch is Thames ballast? Sloper's eyes were bloodshot, and his eountenanee haggard. He looked ineonceiyably gTl- my and forloTn, and Bob Robins felt sorry for the little creature till he rec ollected on q sudden the mans reason for letting off his cannons. Tuck took the helm, and old Joe with solemn countenance and slow gait rolled Ier- ward to where the apparatus was sta toned
 "Now yen see your fate, ,'' he ex- claimed, lifting up his eyes as though he beheld a rope with . moose dangling from the masthead, and since no good eall come of cautioning q corpse, why then. sorry am that there aren t a company of people arter your kind as- sembled aboard this craft to witness the execution of my sentence upon you. Last night I heard that the reason ol your firing off your guns were to ceiepr@ug the hantliverss.ry of your wife $ death. l dunno. I'm sure, whether such a prac- tice wouldn't be considered ss more criminal and worthy of feall0iieF punishment than even the shooting aV . mans flag and degrading the honor oI it. But to ssT more nd enly be a-W'ss., ing of breath. Ny lads, do your du'y.
 Robins, with powerful arms, sraspet. the tailor, who sllriolSe6l murder ana struggled hard. Ills staussle les were @ as the throes and ceavulsions of 2 mouse = in the teeth of u at. He WIS dumped down osl inc three legged stool ln ''h instant Plum lathered his JAWS Wltn ' tlao tar h1assl. and i;iclsiilssss 7l9 tae piece of ls1alzesl iresi loop sxzspsst n aafl' S'i''7' per H checks ta Il tlaa l:4kissT WAS ;s A'S'ei' Ih hlead K faa4 asil. ii 5tilsg his les, ne tilted tlse sEo5l. aid a sioneF let