Year: 1874

while he made an examination. When l had done this, he quickly took every thing which the wounded man had upon his person, including costly watch and plethoric purse, and placed them in his own pockets. While we were look ing in astonishment at this bold pro- ceeding, Sangin drew from his boot a long, murderous-looking knife, and plunged it into the bosom of the help less traveller ] The blood spirited into my face, and my person seemed, almost in twinkling, to be deluged with gore. Before I could regain my feet, Sangin, with the most unearthly yell I ever heard, leaped upon the horse and dis appeared. What situation was here -oh, cursed fate Completely lost in sea of bewilderment, cannot say how long I might have stood looking alter nately at the bloody corpse before me and my equally bloody self, did not the clattering hoofs behind me arouse me. l turned and saw a mob of horsemen bearing down in the direction where I stood. Leaving few to take charge of the unfortunate wayfarer, the rest turned in the direction whence they came, first having secured me on one of the horses.

 Fleet as the wind we pushed forward, until a sort of dizziness seized me, and felt as if was being whirled through some wild and awful dream, and yet with just enough consciousness to know that there was basis of reality to it all.

 All at once we halted on the bank of fire, which shot up a million forked tongues of lurid flame. A heavy black cloud hung all around, and the air was dense with a sulphurous odor. A dreadful mad-house noise resounded in my ears, and I thought that here was Tophet, and I was to be victim to tho insatiate Moloch. A muf1ed bell tolled one stroke like an echo from tomb, on my right, and, looking up, my eyes met black-draped gallows which rear time was allowed me to contemplate inclined, for I was instantly taken charge of by @ pair of hangmen and placed on the scaffold. The rope was ness which took the place of the walk ing to and fro on the scaffold, told me that stood there alone muttered a PIdyOIS puI DO1O10 O uOAOu bJAldO1cS were uttered, all that was substantial beneath me gave way, and dropped suddenly in direct line downward a piercing pain ran like Q dagger through my head; everything grew dark and red, and purple and white, by turns-until, after what seemed an age of agony, my feet touched something, 8 momentary light flashed upon me, and, in syncope, I lost all thought and memory and feeling:

 A murmur of voices crept upon my ear, and slowly and gradually I re- vived. l opened my eyes and found myself in the company of several people, some of whom were rubbing my hands, others administering restora- tives, and all, more or less, contribu- ting to my restoration. As my senses returned, saw that was in strange room and sitting by window. Out of that window I looked, and-great heaven what spectacle met my eyel It was the yard of prison, and pend ant therein, from the cross-beam of gallows, hung the ifeless body of San gin The sight at once recalled all the memories of the past; but there was hiatus which was yet to be explained. It was done so by kind attendant, who informed me that my fall at the courthouse steps nearly deprived me of life, and did deprive me of reason that after brief incarceration in my cell it was thought best to place me under medication, and was removed to the hospital department of the pris- on-that while there the criminality of Sangin, the author of the murder for which had been condemned, was dis covered through the appearance of my missing witness, some unguarded ex- pressions of Sangin himself during debauch in neighboring village, and other circumstances which had come to light since my trial that he was tried and condemned, and made 8 confession, in which he stated that he had administered nar- cotic potion to me, pushed me under the shed, and then after waylaying MT. Elburne, and takinga large amount of money from his person, had placed the watch and pistol on me, smeared me with blood, and then escaped that he gave poison to cabman who was cog nizant of how and by whom was placed under the shed. The cabman was my missing witness, and his re- covery from the drug, although he was for somo time in state of finsensibility, and on the verge of death, was the main cause of my salvation. That, fol- lowing the opinion of one of the medi cal board attached to the prison, I was placed at the window, in the belief that the sight of my would-be destroy CT in the hands of the law would have a beneficial effect. That when he mount ed the scaffold I looked calmly and vacantly at him, but when the drop fell swooned. As I revived, there were evident indications of the much wished for change, and when, with 8 clearer understanding, looked upon the dangling body of the villain, it was complete, and reason resumed it's reign. I returned to my home to recuperate my physical health, and it is in the pleasant days of convalescence that I commit to paper and give to the world this recital of my entrance into and exit from "the jaws of death"