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

eoic uuOuI Ills uHYinB buOt Lie
fathers landlord in Yorkshire, and
tnet he believes this accident is q
Judgment on him. / havo seen him,
and he says tho name of tho man lie
murdered was Rowling, which is the
name yoh mentioned, think, and il
You will como with me to the hospital,
where tile poor wretch is lying, you
can hearibis yarn for yourself"
| was thunder-struck. [ got the
third ofiieer 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 tho help of clergy
man. who was passenger, we reduced
it to writing in n tangible shape, and
it was about something like this:
50, Charles Cappermolc, lately re-
siding al Martens Hole, near Don
caster, Yorkshire, but now passen-
ger on board the steamship Monico
Capt. Narner) in mid-Atlantic, having
met with an accident by falling down
hatcawey, AMI being, as l we'll
know, within short time of death, do
make this solemn statement and de-
clare The same to DO true, so help me
God
81 ang farm laborcr, and until re-
Gently was living with my father and
mother ut Martens Hole, whore my
father routed small farn under MIR.
jonathan Rowling. Tho same farm
had been i'll the possession of my faith
er all MS life, aud of his father before
him, and it was orr whole living.
''Mr. Jonathan Rowling had II disa'
greement with my father last year but
one, just before Micbaelmas. about
somo hedges which he insisted my
father should renew, but which had
always been replanlcd before that time
at the expense of tho landlord. My
father refused to replunt them ut his
own expense, aud MIR. Rowland gave
him noeice to quit, which expired at
Michaelnas last, and lie subsequently,
turned my parents aud myself out of
the farm in the middle of winter.
"Aiy mother was in very feeble
and delicate state of health, and the
eviction cansel her death, aud my
father, being broken,hoarled and
ruined, was compelled to so into the
workhousc.
az determined to emigrato to Amer
ici. and. with tho assistance of II
benevolent society, | obtained my
passage money and outfit and enough
cash in my pocket 10 prevent my be-
, lug e'r4.-;i~ouek rs It pauper on land
ing in Sic United States. l booked
my passage OH the steamship Monico,
but bo,ora starting on the vo., ,go I
saw my father i'll the workhouse. his
misfortuAes had so shattered him that
h. was dying, and cxasperated and
lilled with inii3nation, l determined
TO bo reyanGcd on Mr.. Rowling, who
had been the cause OF my mothers
and my fathers deaths, and my ruin
aud emigration.
81 hal bought revolver to talo
with me, and. tramping to Doncaster,
laid in wait for Mr.. Rowling on the
evening OF Thursday, tho oath of May
last. knew that it was his habit to
walk through the plantation, which
adjoins n lane called Danks's lane,
every night between s and 8 o'clock
his purpose being to sec if any rabbit
snares had been laid by polchcrs-
aud hid myself behind some bushes
in this plantation, close to the path.
L presently heard footsteps, and di-
rectly atterward [ saw Mr.. Rowling
walk along close beside whero l was
hiding. As soon rs he got past me
stood up, and, aiming the revolver at
him, | shot him in tho back. Ho lifted
up his arms, and, with o great cry,
fell, face forward, dead.
'it was nearly dark, and I crept ont
OF the plantation into tho laue without
anyone seeing me. L walked that
night to Wakefield, along by-roads
well known to me, ard from thence,
on following days, to Hudderslield,
Ashton, Manchester, Newton and Liy-
erpool, from which port was to take
passage to New York.
Gin Liverpool 1 heard the murder
spoken OF for the first time, and, to
my surprise, 1 found that Mr.. Rupert
Rowling (Nlr. Rowling's nephew was
charged with it. [ never thought for
n moment that. they could find him
guilty of the murder he had not COM
mitted, aud l took no steps to let the
truth be known, When [ agterward
learned that he was convicted of the
murder and sentenced to death I
knew I ought to go back and own the
de ed and save him, but could not
bring myself to dose. and I went on
board the Monico, well knowing that
/ was leaving behind mo an innocent
man to be hanged for the murder
had committed. The revolver with
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, the
doctor and myself witnessed it, and
shortly after five bells Q0.3O o'clock
at night Cappermolc died, being bur-
led at sea the next day, Tuesday.
l had been melancholy and de-
pressed. without hobo before, but
now began my anxious time.
Cappermole's statement was of no
use unless L could get tho knowledge
of it to the authorities in England in
time to stop my friond Rupert's execu-
ton on Thursday morning, and it was
race against time. We were, in
ordinary course, due at New York on