Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-25

They declared that on the oft mentioned
night they were proceeding along the road
which runs from the pastors garden to
the wood when they met a man carrying
a sack on his back, who passed them and
walked in the direction of the garden.
His face they could not see, inasmuch as
it was concealed by the oyerhanging sack,
but as the moon was shining on his back
they could plainly descry that he was clad
In pale green coat and Il whito nightcap.
He disappeared near the pastors garden
hedge.
No sooner did the pastor hear the evil
dence of the witnesses to this elect than
his face turned an ashy hue and he cried
out in faltering voice, II am fainting!"
and was SO Frustrated in body that he had
to be taken back to prison.
There after period of severe suffering,
to the intense astonishment of every one
no made to his friend, the district magis-
trate who had first arrested him, the fol-
lowing TRANCE confession:
/ "From my childhood, as far back as l
can remember, have ever been passion
ate, quarrelsome and proud, impatient of
contradiction and ever ready with a blow.
Yet have seldom let the sun go down on
my wrath, nor have borne i'll will to any
one. When but lad l slew in anger
bo5 ,eft IN his ,vay When as stndent T
rnant IN foroian trayel entered nm sIioht
nroyooatior into n hroil with a German
youth in Leipsio challenged him and gave
him wound that endangered his life.
After pause of anguish he continued:
"I will nov confess the crime which no
doubt have committed hut of which 7
am nevertheless not fullv consoious That
7 strnck the ,,nhannv man with the shade
Lnoyv f,1ll we'll and have nIreodv con
foSeod ybetber 4 ,ynre With tho Aat eide
or With tbe charm edoe T could not in nv
nassion d;scern that be fell down and aft
erward again rose and ran AWAY That ia
all that I know to n surety. What follows
heaven haln ma-fonr witnesses have
seen-namely' that T fetched the corpse
fro,o tbe wood and hurled r. and that this
must he substantiallv true 7 am Obliged TO
believe and will tall Won wherefore.
.srhreo or fonr t;mes in nv life that T
know of n has hannoned to me- to walk in
NV e,een The last .;me--about nina
yeors ooo-Jw nayt anv to nreacb n
fnnaral sermon over tho remains of a man
who had nnexnected,v met with n dread.
fuj death was MI a loss for n text when
tho words of n u;so man among the an.
cient Greeks suddenly occurred to me,
Call no man happy until he be in his
grave
'To use the words of heather for the
text Of a Christian discourse was not me-
Thought, seemly, but / then rememb bered
that the same thought, expressed in well
nigh the same terms, was to be met some
where in the Apocrypha. l sought and
sought. but could not find the passage. Ii
was late. I was wearied by much previous
labor, I therefore went to bed and soon
fell asleer. Greatly did marvel the next
morning when on arising and seating my.
self at nv writing desk 1 saw before me,
written in my own handwriting on piece
of paper, Let no man be deemed happy
before his end cometh. .-Syrach xi, a..
"Mark now-when the two witnesses
this morning delivered their evidence be-
fore the court, then my previous sleep walk.
ing suddenly flashed across me, and l like
wise recalled that in the morning after the
night during which the corpse must have
been buried had been surprised to see my
dressing gown lying on the floor just in
side the door, whereas it was always my
custom to hang it on chair at my bed
side.
'sThe unhappy victim of my urbridled
passion must in all likelihood have fallen
down dead in the wood, and must in my
sleep walking have followed him thither.
Yes, the Lord have mercy! So it was, SOFT
must have been.
On the following day sentence of death
was passed upon the prisoner-a sentence
which many felt to be too severe but not
so Soren Qvist. He longed he said for
death, and he maintained his strength of
mind to the last, and from the scatfold he
addressed to the bystanders discourse OF
much power, which he had composed in
prison during his last days. Then he was
beheaded
One and twenty years after Pastor Soren
Oyist of Vellby had been accused, tried,
condemned and executed for tho murder
of his serving man. an old beegar man
applied for aims to tho people of Aalsoe,
the parish adjoining Veliby.
Susnioions were aroused by the exact
likeness the beggar man bore to Morten
Burns of Ingyorstrup, who had lately
died. and also by the curious and anxious
inoniries the man made concerning events
long past.
The nastor of Aalsoe. who had buried
Morten Rnrns took the vapabond TO his
narsonaoe and there the fellow. all unoon.
scions Of the nortentons notnre Of the nd.
mission. aoknowledeed that ho was NeiIs
p,,rnS tbo yorv man for whose snnnoscd
n,,,rder Tho nnstor had suffered tho shame.
f,,I de.th a. . cr;miraI
ui WI, I.,.a.
Morto,, hod n,,rsed n ,mortal batred of So.
rau On,st n' Srom tho +imo M ho refnsed % him his
.,n,,ei,+nr and hod t,ator,,,ired on royonoe
IT, ,ras ho who comnelled Niels to take sery.
;ao ,u;t,, +ho nastor Ha had snnrred him
oo ~ h;s re,1aated ne offanses in tho eynecta.
t;on that 1 viplence would result. owing to