Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-23
|staken Identity

orist was the pastor of the
Ts s;IIsge church of Vellby,, IN
5lLIa IL was man of excellent
ID 1s,r act generous, hospitable !.
, SrrlT in the performance OF
a .,,,5 duties; but he was a man OF
ls s;anally violent temper-a
E to his household and a humll-
to himself. .o oh;,-
VAS a widower, with two cnll-
a'J daughter, who kept house
and q son, holding an officers
i,sion in the amy.
l Isnrorstrup. a village not far
T vi dwelt cattle farmer.
' P,,rns. who was in ill-repute
FL Il neighbors. The man paid
4' tbe pastors daughter, but his
,, rejected by both parent and
ION Burns had a poor brother
yiels. who was shiftless and
aTOv, and withal quarrelsome.
Oyist, needing farm hand,
tbis scapegrace brother OF the
who hated him. Niels Burns
Instantly provoking the pastors
pIJv irritable temper by his in
be and impudence.
br relations as master and SER
eliminated in the mysterious
Oearance which is the basis of a
Fated tragedy. Niels had been
10 dig a piece of ground in the
$ garden; but the pastor found
lot digging, but leisurely resting
spade and cracking nuts which
ID plucked,
pastor scolded him angrily..
hsu retorted that it was no bust
Of his to dig in the garden, at
Soren struck him twice in the
and the man, throwing down the
retaliated. Thereupon the old
lost all self control, and Selling
babe, he dealt the farm hand sew
blows with it.
Us Burns fell to the earth like
dead, but when his master, in
alarm, raised him up, he broke
leaped through the garden
/, and made off into the neighbor-
Wood. From that time he was
no more.
fore long Morten Burns, the rich
Ter of the missing farm hand, was
be around the village that the
IN had killed Niels and hidden
Cdy. These rumors and insinua-
passed from mouth to mouth,
IS the farm hand had disappeared
Fuspicion began to grow that the
had guilty knowledge of his
falIy Morten Burns appeared be-
the District Magistrate with
witnesses and charged the pas
Flth the murder of his brother.
OF these were a widow named
zen and her daughter Else, who
been witnesses of the final strug-
between the clergyman and the
hand.
third witness was a cottagel
"a Larsen. On the night of the
GLOWING Niels Burns's disappear.
ne NJ was returning home very late
lolStrup, and was passing along
OOfpath which hanked the pastor s
en- when he heard the sound Of
one digging.
eng that it was clear moonlight,
e'efmmed to find out who it was
was working in the garden at thai
rOu Il. He slipped off his wooden
climbed up the hedge and part.
tops OF the hazel bushes. Then
wine pastor, in a green dressing
ana with a white nightcap on
eau busted in dwelling the earth
spade; but more than this he
~ see for the pastor turned sud
\ around, as if some sound La6
1 HIS ear, and Larsen, being
Vi detection, let himself dow1
ran away.
hnsupon the pastors garden wa.
s. ~" under the direction of the
aae' The pastor welcomed thu
br.. party and called his farm
sS 70 AID. He was confident tia
so ~u.o md nothing to confirm
T,vuSa'lon against him. The
bIa" Slsen was asked to point GU.
En nvt ~ where n he had seen the pastor
bS9n ~ ,ne moonlight. He pointed
s ,.p Of cabbage stalks and refuse
a.. Ia9 not dug long when one O
and Ti Os out; Heaven preserv,
~a as all present crowded to lool
tbs a. y VISIBLE Isl. above the earth.
kno "s Is ), Nlels's hat" cried Morten
[b,r 1t Il well. Here is a securit,
ted i' I'M md him. Dig away!,' b,
s a. with fierce energy, and wa.
oo az ~ eagerly obeyed. 0'
Etss an n, arm appeared and in a few
d, M NE entire corpse was disin
il n 1nefe seemed to be no doub
cop1 WAS the missing man. Tn,
hes i hun not be recognized, for til,
hl his I' d, been "9 destroyed by blows
hi; ny Clothes, even unto his shir
Is fe1ln name on it, were identified
NC vas nc al+o1.