New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-07
HAVE OCCURRED,

several years doing such tnkeri5 and msndng as
or three years before the Revolution he got into
trouble. Evidently he did not spend all his time
He snent a month of the hayins season in jail He
was released and then again arrested three months
were accused OF CONTRIBUTING money Apparently
they used the cave a basis for their business
passing off the spurious money in New-York State.
which is only few miles away. over that range OF
hills on the west. The day after their arrest they
We're taken to New-Canaan N Y, probably for
Il must tell one or two stories about a man who
well known character in his day. and looked
King and by that time [ think you will have all
the stories you want Major King was a tai man;
features. His legs long. his hands large. his
face long With a prominent forehead underneath
eral massveness of frame and feature and his Keen
found man Living in the latter half of the last
century. he was looked upon leader, owing 10
not member Of the bar he was permitted to prsc
tise in the lower courts; and not few were the
his marked physical and mental peculiaTities. at
tractsd attention to him wherever he was seen or
Indian and the Revolutionary wars
case which had an indirect connection with
Shays's Rebellion. At that time there vast
amount of i'll feeling between neighbors The re-
belIion was civil war in miniature About this
% h9Fs s S 9S6 10 a SI tne gg
PaIhizer with shays; suit for damages was
latter had secured the services OF Major King TO
defend him. the Shays man was known to be
the case to trial it was shown that the Shays
man. the time the horse killed. had been
within half a mile of the lot in which the
horse was pastured, carrying gun and hurrahns
dence, but the prosecutor laid great stress upon
1t and made a ldbOred argument based thereon
Major King when the prosecution had finished.
and lacOnicaIly addressed the court in these
words: May il please Your Honor The question
is. whether huTrahing for ShayS will kill a
horse at half mile Then he sat down The de-
PENDANT was acquitted.
1T is probable that Major King and his wife did
morning Mrs. King said she going make
visit at her fathers house, which was in the
southern part of the town, and that she would NOT
return until her husband came for her. This may
have been said In Jest or IL may not but whether
IT was or not Major King did not go for her I'M
mediately. In fact. days passed into weeks and
Gated with each other and than a score of
years had passed before Major King reached the
conclusion that his wife mad visited at her fathers
house long enough One morning. having nothing
and attaching dusty and long unused pillion be-
hind rode off to the house of his father-in-law-
Dtsmountng at the door he raised the knOcker
and let il fall HIS wife answered his knock for
admission. 1t is possible that like himself she
tired of living alone. and seeing the tall angular
figure of her husband aged since she him
last, had Intentionally answered his rap He was
the first to speak
=. Good morning. Rachel
. Good morning. Major King
" Rachel have you visited long enOugh2'
did answer. with merry twinkle in her eye, there
was a sense of Underlined happiness in her heart.
" Are you ready to go home?
Have you come after me?
Then I viii so with YOU And he having as
sisted her to the piliiOn behind him. the two now
well along in years logged away toward home
with the spirits Of a bride and bridegroom.