The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-23
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awake to hear it. But he met neither team light wagon
chae foot traveller TILL just he crossed Salmon
river tudging down to the bridge with bundle
over his shoulder on the end Of a stick.
Good said the pedder refining his
If you neighborhood maybe
can tell me the real facts about this affair Of old Mr. Hgg
boham Was the old fellow actually murdered three
nights by Irishman a niggerr'
Domncus observe at first
that the stranger himself had deep nge OF blood On
hearing this sudden question the Ethiopian to change
his skn Its yellow hue becoming ghasty white while shaking
and stnmInering he thus replied:
NO. mol There colored It Irshman
that hanged him last night at o'clock n His
folks can't have looked for him in the orchard yet"
Scarcely had the yellow spoken when he interrupted
himself and though he seemed enough before continued
his journey which would have kept the pedders mare
smart rot Domincus after him perpexity
If the murder had not been committed till Tuesday night who
the prophet that had forod it in all its circumstances
Tuesday moning2 Hgginbothams corpse yet
discovered by his family how the muato at about
thirty miles distance that hanging In the
chard especially he had left Kbaton before the unor
nate hanged at a These ambiguous circumstances
with Domnicu think of
raising hue and after him accompe in the murder
since murder it seemed had really been perpernted
But let the poor devil thought the pedder 81 don't
want his black blood head and hanging the niger
wouldn't Hggnboham. old gentleman!
It's sin know but should hate to have him come
second time and give me the Her
With these meditaons Domnicus Pike drove into
Falls which, everybody knows thriving
village three cotton factories Sitting mill make
The not in motion and but few of the shop
alighted yard
made his business order the oats
His second duty of course was to impart Mr.
catastrophe advisable however,
positive the
to be uncertain whether peperated by shman and
muatto by the of Erin alone Neither did he profess to
relate his authority that
toned report generally dinused
The story through the like fire gded trees
much the universal could tell
whence 1t had originated Mr. Higgnbobam well known
Parker Falls citizen the being OF
the Sitting mill and considerable sockhoder the cotton fac
tories The Inhabitants their prosperity in his
Such the excitement that the Falls Gazette
anticipated Its regular day of publication with
half form of blank and column of double plea empha
HiOOn-
boham Among other dreadful details printed de-
scrbed the mark of the the and
stated the number Of thousand which had been
robbed There much pathos also aon of his
niece who had from nng fit another since
her UNCLE found hanging the Mchaes with
his pockets inside The village poet likewise commemorated
the adys grief ballad The
ectmen held meeting and in consideration of Mr. Hggnboth
ANS claims the town determined handbs Offering
$500 the
recovery of his stolen
Meanwhile the whole population consisting
Of shopkeepers misresses of boarding girls mill
and schoolboys rushed such
terrible oquacty silence OF
the cotton machines which refaned from their din out OF
respect to the deceased Had Mr. Hggnboham cared about
posthumous his unmey ghost would have exued in
this umut Our friend Domncus forgot
his intended precautions and mounting
nouneed himself the bearer of the authentic intelligence which
had caused wonderful sensation Immediately became
the great of the moment and had edition
OF the narrative with voice like field when the mail
the village night and
must have shifted horses at Kmbaon o'clock the morn
ing
Nov shall hear all the paricuarsp shouted the crowd
The coach rumbed the piazza of the followed
by thousand people for mindng his own
business til then he left skies hear the
news The pedder foremost n the discovered Two pas