Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-24

-~Ar nc rolOs you WCIS bCAA-
ing rae about the trouble that your
sisters hance had got into. It's q
most extraordinary thing, but this
man, Cappermole, has been telling the
Doctor q tale about his having shot his
fathers landlord in Yorkshire, and
taet he believes this accident is q
judgment on him. have seen him,
ana he says the name of the man he
murdered was Rowling, which is the
name Won mentioned, / think, and il
you VIII come with me to the hospital,
where tie poor wretch is lying, you
can hearlbis yarn for yourself"
I was thunder-struck. [ got the
third officer TO take my place for q
short time, and hurried off TO the side
OF the injured man.
His statement was somewhat ram
bling, but with the help of clergy
man, who was passenger, we reduced
1t TO writing in a tangible shape, and
It was about something like this:
81, Charles Cappermoie, lately re
siding az Martens Hole, near Don
caster, Yorkshire, but now a passen-
ger on board the steamship Monico
Z Capt. Marner) in mid-Atlantic, having
met with an accident by falling down
Il hatcaway, AMI being, as / well
know, within a short time of death, do
make this solemn statement and de-
clare Jle same to DO true, so help me
/ God.
81 ana farm laborer, and until re.
Gently was living with my father and
mother at Martens Hole, whore my
father routed a small farm under Mr..
Jonathan Rowling. The same farm
had been II the possession of my faith
er all ais life, and of his father before
him, oad IL was orr whole living.
'Mr. Jonathan Rowling had Gisa'
greement with my father last year but
one, just before Micbaelmas, about
some hedges which he insisted my
father shoald renew, but which had
always been replautcd before that time
at the expense of the landlord. My
father Refused TO rcplant them ut his
own expense, and ..AIr. Rowland gave
him no5ice t. quit, which expired at
/ NicbaoinIas last, and he subsequently
turned my parents aud myself out Of
the farm in the middle OF winter.
"My mother was in very feeble
and delicate state Of health, and the
eviction caused her death, and my
father, being broken-hearled and
r0ined, was compelled to so into the
workEousc.
81 determined to emigrate to Amer
ica, and. with tho assistance Of n
benevolent society, 1 obtained my
passage money aud outfit and enough
cash IN my pocket 10 prevent my be-
iUg t'Jr---s~ugseil as pauper on land
/. ing in t1e Uaito1 States. 1 booked
10y passage on tho steamship MonicO,
but bo.ore starting on the vo, 'ge
saw my rather in the workhouse. bis
misfortuAes had so shattered him that
ha was dying, and exasperated and
ilIed with iniiSnation, determined
I TO bc reyanced on Mr.. Rowling, who
/ had been the cause OF my mother
and my fathers deaths, and my ruin
aud emigration.
81 hal bought revolver to take
with me, and. tramping to Doncaster,
l laid in wait for Mr.. Rowling on the
evening OF Thursday, tho oath of May
last. 1 knew that it was his habit to
walk through the plantation, which
adloln5 n lane called Danks's lane,
every night between and o'clock
his purpose being to sec If any rabbit
snayes had been laid 10y polchors-
aud hid myself behind some bushes
in this plantation, close to the path.
l presently heard footsteps, and di.
rectly aGterward 1 saw Mr.. Rowling
walk along close beside where | was
hiding. As soon rs he got past me ]
stood up, aud, aiming the revolver at
him, l shot him in the back. He lifted
mp his arms, and, with great CRY.
fell, face forward, dead.
''it was nearly dark, and I crept out
OF the plantation into the lane without
anyone seeing me. L walked that
night to Wakefield, along by-roads
well known to me, ard from thence,
on following days, to Huddersfeld
Ashton, Manchester, Merton and Liv
erpool, from which port l was to take
passage to New York.
''ln Liverpool 1 heard the murder
spoken Of for the first time, and, t.
my surprise, found shat Mr.. Ruper
Rowling (Nlr. Bowlings nephew wa.
charged with it. 1 never thought TO,
q moment that they could find hin
guilty of the murder he had not com
mitted, and took no steps to let tn
truth be known, When 1 asterwarC
learned that he was convicted of tn
murder and sentenced to DEATH
knew ought to go back and own til,
deed and save him, but L could no
bring myself 10 do SO, and I went OF
board the Monico, we'll knowing tha
1 was leaving behind me an innocen
man to be hanged for the murder
had committed. The revolver will
which / shot Mr.. Rowling is in my
box. All of which is true, as [ de
clare"
Cappermole signed this statement
and the clergyman, the Captain, tn,
doctor and myself witnessed it, anC
shortly after five bells QO.30 O'CLOCK
at night Cappermole died, being bur
led at sea the next day, Tuesday.
had been melancholy and de
pressed, without hone before, bu
now began my anxious tine.
Cappermole's statement was of n,
use unless l could get the knowledg,
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