The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-25
Murder OH Out.
esmingIy TrifIing Circumstances Bring Grim
inaIS to Justice.

Of them had been patched. The re-
malnder Of the curious chain Of evidence
upon which he was convicted. will best
suit with twilight or q blinking can
ole. being too long for O letter The
fell0W Do:e most excellent character.
and had Committed the crime for no
other reason that could Be alleged than
being led into an intrigue with this
poor wretch, his pride revolted al the
ridicule which was likely to attend the
discovery"
i'm the reign Of good Queen Anne
there lived in Derbyshire, England, a
certain John Waters, and Anne. his
wife, he being q farmer in comfortable
circumstances. They apparently lived
happily together, and were esteemed a
loving couple, only the neighbOrs no.
uced that he was much older than she.
They did not quarrel but her fond
ness for other mems society was more
pointed than is usually considered dis
Greet for married woman. She had
q lover, and preferring him to her aged
husband, the two entered into con-
spiracy to murder him. Accordingly,
be was strangled by the wanton wife
and her lecherou5 paramOUr, and the
body hid under a manure heaD i'm the
missed John Waters, the farmer and
the grief of the faithless wife was so
wen feigned that the honest villagers
never even sullied her name with the
breath of suspicion. It was not long.
however. before one of the neighbOrs
had a dream which was that Waters
was murdered and buried in the COW
house under a manure pile. He paid
no attention to it at first, but on the
following night il was repeated. and
again on the third, Then he told his
wife, which, of course was equivalent
to telling the neighborhood, and a con-
stable being called search was made.
and the half decOmpOSed body of the
unfortunate farmer was found. The
guilty wife was at once taken into GUS
tOdy, when she speedily confessed, inn
plicating her guilty paramour. Punish
ment was meted out 20 the two mis-
, creants for petty treason, which in
those days consisted in being strangled
and burned before life was extinct.
Nalerius Maximus relates the follow
ing story which properly comes under
the head of murder brought to light by
a dream: Two travellers, journeying on
the confines of Arcadia, when they
came to Niagara one took up his lodg-
ing ~ a friend s house. the other at an
inn He that lodged in the private
/ house thought he saw i'm his sleep his
fellow traveller begging his help against
I the innkeeper who was attempting TO
murder him. Upon which he leaped
out of bed, determining to see after his
+ friend, but on further cOnsidera ton
/ looking upon il as merely the fiction of
dream, returned to his couch He
/ soon fell asleep a second time, and
again his friend appeared to him
wounded and bleeding saying: Re
\ venge my death, for ] am killed by the
( innkeeper, and am now being conveyed
/ in a cart. covered with earth and
straw, toward the gate Of the city" He
/ still felt convinced it was a melancholy
/ dream and was disposed to address
! himself TO sleep a third time, but some
Z thing whispering to him that il would
/ have been objectionable neglect if
/ there should be any truth in the warn-
ing. he rose, fastened to the gate and
/ there found a loaded cart, as the ap-
+ paritiNn had told him. Upon investi-
/ cation a recently murdered corpse, still
warm. was found: the innkeeper was
accused, prosecuted and hanged.
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In the year 1883 La Dame MaZel was
the owner and pOssessor. of one of the
finest residences in Paris. She was a