The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27
The BOOEMARE IN TIE BIBLE
Story Told BY the Councillor to the Lawyer.
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you are doubtless wondering what
connection there can possibly be be-
tween these events and the boolzmark
IN the Bible. But have PATIENCE
The councillor paused for a moment 20
enjoy his guests Interest and then
went on.
After his wife's death, Josias. who
was now worth several thousand thai
ers, left US and went away TO set up
for himself IN the district of F.. We
learned later that fortune so long
sought by him. continued 10 smile upon
MIN and he became burgomaster Of his
village. But he was never seen here
IN s., and he never came back to the
cemetery in which lay Frau Josias-
1T was not long, moreover, before
this cemetery disappeared. il was SO
damp there that dangerous miasmas
developed. threatening the inhabitants
OF the neighbOring houses. At first, the
authorities merely ordered il to be
closed, but ten years later they decided
upon it's total suppression and planned
70 run a new road directly through H..
I'm the month of July the work be-
gan, and the labOrers digging in the
soft earth brought the first bones to the
surface. one morning, just as the men
were about to begin, they saw an old
beggar who had made her way into the
a
was picking UP the wooden crosses for
hrewood.
suddenly they saw her start back,
as If overwhelmed with fright. meat
while uttering a terrific cry. They ran
TO question her and by gestures ana
broken words she made them under
stand that in the ground before her she
had seen the head OF a dead person
move.
Look, look now.' she cried.
Every one drew back instinctively.
in very fact a head was moving.
stirred by no one knew what sUpernat-
uraI powers. One workman declared
that the minister ought 70 be fetched.
Another with more brains ran in search
I Of a doctor. They came to tell me Of
/ 1t also, and I reached the cemetery just
as the doctor arrived.
! The latter made merry jests at the
/ superstitions of the labOrers and, bend
( ing down, discovered a toad which had
/ somehow made it's way inside the cere-
/ bral cavity and could not get out again.
DO you seeea- he said laughing.
"But his laughter died away. An
| other discovery made him silent. This
was n long nail, fine as an embroidery
needle which, inserted at the base OF
4 the brain, traversed the entire head.
HIM, ne said. The murderer was a
/ clever. mani Death was instantaneous,
] there was no blood and. thanks to the
hair, no apparent trace. Ny worthy
! predecessor probably thought death due
\ to a rupture of a blood vessel in the
I brain
How are we going TO know the name
OF the victim and the other-the muir
derer? / thought anXiously. AS If IN
/ answer to my question. just then one
Of the WOrkmen overturned the crosses
OF the four graves that were in the cor
ner of the graveyard on one was tins
{ Inscription: Here lies Corneha JOsiaS
suddenly thought rushed through
my mind, lighting up my perpleNity as
the tightening illumines the dark clouds
| OF the tempest. ] believed l knew the
name of the murderer. but L needed
proofs before I could make my knowl-
edge known.
II rushed home to the library, where
| we are sitting now. I opened book
It was this Bible. The proof was there
! 1 no longer doubted. ] was sure.
''The next morning the police entered
/ the house OF Josias. They found him
/ seated at the table. The chief of police
/ approached him. placed his finger al
tho base Of Josias' brain, and said;
'Josias. accuse YOU of numbering
I your wife,
..Tbe miserable wretch trembled vio-
Ientlv and his teeth chartered as ht
stammered:
Yes. yes! God is avenged! This
book. ON I stihe.'
He fell dead, stricken with apOplexy
"And now, open the Bible at th'
page where I opened it upon returning
from the cemetery, at the page which
Josias himself marked the day before
the crime. Chapter Nv Of the book Of
Judges, and the twenty-first verse
Read it aloud"
The lawyer took the volume and read
Then Jael. Heber's wife, took a mai
Of the tent and took a hammer in he
hand and went softly into Sisera anC
smote the nailfnto mis- temples and fas
tened it into the ground. and Sisera
having been killed in this manner
passed from sleep unto death. New
York Sun.