The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-03-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

KICKERS AND BEAVERS. murdere. ef twelve human beings, he having Kickers and brayer.' are thus hit off by a confessed to the killing of Ault for whose mar- Yankee contemporary:—The mole possesses der he was arrested. The story is a horrible much electricity in his heels. one, almost beyond belief. The Weise family The donkey may not bs much cf a singer, but for generatious has been a bard one, although , you couldn' argue him into an admission of the the member under arrest now was considered fact. the best. He and his family narrowly escaped The mule is the most unhealthy animal in death at the handsof his father, old Bill Weasel, the world—unhealthy to have around. Any who locked them in their log cabin, and fired wound which a mule-may-happen to give you it. After this, in the course of a fight, the old may safely be called "an a-bray-eare." man killed his brother. He was wrested, but Don't call a man a donkey, my son, because c iced he would never go to jail. Ache was he won't hear to reason; but politely remind him en Its way to Moo:field, he sprang from his that the man with the biggest ears is the least guards, (belied into the Potomac, and drowned inclieled to use them. himself. Lije, the son, then became the leader of a gang of thieves, who ravaged the cone- his leaves the try, though he was never caught at it. Early championship solemnly asserts that a Iranin 1861 Phil Yokum, a simple-minded man in Aar or o correspondent ptnk idthec gazoo and the camel. the vicinity of Petersburg, disappeared. In nkbet B:divided between the kanIf Sullivan could only be persuaded to get tip 0-I,lser Ault was found dead in the road, and an argument with the rear section of a sensitive We .se was arrested, but released. Five or six mule we would take back all we have ever eaid mysterious dis.ppearances followed, when one about the mule having no refining influence. dev dogs belonging in the vicinity carried to Another strange thing is a mule. A mule their kennel, several porttens of human bodies. has a quality—one among many—that of hearSearch was made, and at the foot of ' the Leap,' wig. A mule's hearing is wonderful. He never a precipice 200 feet high, in a lonely spot, the fails to hear when you don't want him to, and contains of six or seven bodies w.re found. It one never was known to hear when you wanted witenot swaps led that Were* was in any way him to. connected with their death. The next disappearance was that of Hardy Coffman, a prominent citizen of Hardy county, Virginia. The m yetery of his d i eath s, after a lapse of 24 years, cleared up. Eleven persons were the Leap, which is on the road to 'Howard's Lick,' a well known summer resort prior to the war. It is so long ogo and the people of the neighbourhood have changed so that it will require several days to get a correct list of Wease's victims, as he ref asee to give the names of more than six. including Ault. He says he met Ault in the road, and remarking that he had killed one foe that day and would kill another, shot him dead. Coffman who had been under sentence of death at the hands of Wease and two confederates whose names he does not give, was caught on his way to Howard Lick, and taken to the Leap, where, while praying, he was shoved off. No one went to see if the fatal plunge produced instant death or how long he lived. This was the case with the others killed there. When the close of the war made it necessary for Wease to change his residence, he went to Virginia and remained unknown and unheard of until his return to Grant county, one year ago. Tremens done excitement exists over the revelations. Weese cannot live long on account of ago and disease.