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1 ' ' ' ' 1' ' N " ; l' ' 1 ' 1 ' ' :. " .!"'.'.,. . ' ' - !"'.'' . The MiNSTok Journal. ' - ' .. " , ' - 1 , , ' - ; ' - ' 5 TEMX $1.50 Per Tnr. . VOL. 1. KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1879. ISO. 17. 7 1879. SPIHX G. 1879. MRS. S. A. WEST, Xaisliiormllc5 .3lilHnei KIXSTOX, X. c. Having Wn eucaped in th "manufacture cf of I,adlei Hsu for th- t.it f forS. JJ- ii r..iiim her nincT' tlianUH to )it pat ron, anil extendi to.4h-in and all flu public a cordial invitation to call and viaom her New Slock of Lailiei,- .Hide's, k Children IlatH, Helmets, Flowers nnl Trimmings All of which ha Wii m-lccldl with jrreat carp from th mot Fashionable and I,anr;t Houses in .NVvrYork. 1'hil.uh lpliia and Baltimore, and toni"ti of th " . LATEST WELTI ES of THE SEASON. ANo a full and complete Stock of LUHIvS DRKSS GOODS. KEADY MADE HUM'S, TiUMMIXO, NOTIONS, WiUTi: GOODS, PARA SOLS. UMBRELLAS, FANS, HOSIERY, GLOVES. CORSETS, Sec. 1, KviU'-mh'T tin- jilace. tin- NVw Store ad Joining th residency of S. H. West, ap: A-Zm Only An Idle Fancy. Twin only an idle fancy. Thev aid: and thev laughed, forsooth, At the foolish and fond delusion. The dream of a lovp-sick youth; The v ee tneof Snmracr idyl. Wh u all the world wa in tune, Ifclared hut a fevered frenzy. I From which I'd n-covcr wwn! i j '. ' i nu t, and thekl" exulted: We -ioke, and our hearts Hood still, Af if we PTf only actors. That moved at another" will; Aad all 'through i h Summer season, i; With moonlight, llowerx, and ong. j We thn ad dour lives together, .' And wove our affection t roust- i 'Twas only an idle fancy, ' That might linger the season through: Only a young man's folly, ' They Vaid hut they fpoke not true, j For time i the iet of honor, Though vouth i fickle and. gav. And the sweetheart I won that Summer Is the joy ot my life today : Seiecte'd... CONDEMNED BY A CLOCK. BY WILKIE COLLINS. I : TV Dr. A. R. MILLER, ii;'mst. . On a summer evening, years ago, a (or words to man was found murdered in a fidd nresumcd to ..ii also it was necessary to call the lady as a witness. In the meantime anoth er purely formal question was put to Mri Dubjaurg. Did he know any thing of the murdered man? . With some appearance of confusipn, Mr. Dubourg admitted that he had been induced by a friend to employ the man on spme vork. Further interrogation extracted from him the following statement of facts: That the Work had been very bad ly done: that an exorbitant price had been charged for it; that the man, on being remonstrated with, had behaved in a grossly jimpertinent manner; that an altercation had taken place be tweeen them; that Mr. Dubourg had seized the man by the collar of his coat, and had turned him out of the house; that he had called the man an infernal scoundrel (being in a pas sion at the time) and threatened . to 'thrash him within an inch of his life' that effect), if he ever come' near the house of again; that he had sincerely regretted A iiu.ii- i,ini-i ii , .icai .i i i;i laiii' lull ii( ill t;i a .,,!.. ;.i it in' Tv. ! Lnirland 1 he name of the field was hi nwn vinUnfP the, 'mnmpnf a r , t l I 1 1 K,lft A' ' Ms. - Cj - ' , l 9 m i a m w r r m m s A w a a v m V trai l. aim i li :na. 'pal'tloll H Piece. I ri an -thing-!- ! ! v - i .I..., II, r m 'in - ti r. ill w w a 1 "V-1-" a bemivt. ; ! ;iik1 lmiliW in 1 li m town wlin hnr weeks holiday, and to go on a visit to her parents in the west of Cornwall. While there she had fallen ill, and had not been strong enough since to re turn to her employment. Having given! this preliminary account of her self, the housemaid then narrated the following extraordinary particulars in relation to'hcr mistress', clock: On the morning-of the day when Mr. L)ubourg had called at the house she had been cleaning the mantel piece. She had rubbed the part of it which was under the clock with her duster, had accidentally struck the pendulum, and had stopped it. Hav ing oijce before done this, she had been severely reproved. Fearing that a repetition of the offence, only the day after the clock had been regula ted by1, the maker, might lead perhaps to withdrawal of her leave of absence, she had determined to put matters right again, if possible by. herself. ( Ulloe at ri-.-idi'itee covered his self-possession; and lastly, er that, on his oath (the altercation hav- an ins occurred! six weeks aero), he had ' ; indifferent character. On the eveniho- Hovr snnL-Pi fn tlia nnn rr (.f:tvpu - Honrd funmhe,: t.. ,.artie from the comr- j -,. , t- , ,7 I , f ; try. ' j:in.-i-jiii. j in fjiu-stion-a distaiit relative of j his, on the man since. n ' 1 employed as farm bailiff by a gentle- As the matter there stood, these ; man in the neighborhood, happened circumstances were considered as be I to be passing a style which led from ing unfortunate circumstances for Mr. the field into the road, and saw: a gen- Dubourg nothing more. He had tlernan leaving the iield hy way jof his 'alibi' to appeal to, and his ehar ! this aile rather in a hurry. He rec- acter to appeal to; and nobody doubt- ognizeii the gentleman (wiiom lie knew ed the result! by Hglit only) as a Mr. Dtilxmrg. I The lady appeared as witness l hey passed each other on the roau Confrontec I in opposite directions. After a cer- the question ! tain lapse of time estimated as being answer, she a -halt hour the farm baii.lt had oc- him. on the testimony. of the clock on casiun to pass back along the same her own mantlepiece. In substance, toad. On reachinp-the'stile he heard her evidence! was simnlv this: She j:in:'.-iyr !.,.. ..).,, .,n raised and entrrpil tltft fifild bint-o1 ni ir "lAt- -Un FkiiVirni-r ..v--- vv u v i . uvf vtVir i Jiv.il jL-r u uwvi i to see what was the matter lie found entered the rtom, thinking it rather a several persons running from the late hour for a visitor to call on her. further side of Pardon's Piece toward The clock (regulated by the maker a boy who was standing at the back the day before) pointed to twenty- of a cattle shed, jn a remote part of five minutes to nine,. Practical ex . i . i . . i '. . i .i . . . uio eueioiiier, screaming wun terror, periment showea that the time re i i ,1 . I ' i' .1 f t liM' . . . i . ivt me ony s ieet lay, iace uownwara, quired to wal the dead body of a man with his head itf pace, from I '1 11 . TT- ill. A. HARVEY & CO. Manufacturers of Fink IJuaxds of T O B A C C O, jml 12m. '. Kiiistou, X.C ions ;?;s;i:x FASHioNAiir.i: iJAHHi:r. and n viu inrssr.i:, KIXSTOX, x. a OfTlre over I'elh't ii-r'f l)ni' Store had put innocence in peril, had offered anyhow.' impunity to guilt. An infamous 1 had fair look at the man'i face, woman, a jealous quarrel and an ab- and I found tomething there to puixle . sence at the moment of witness on the and startle me. One day I had picked spot these were really the common- up in camp the daguerreotype of & place materials which had composed man dressed in citiren's clothes. It tIie tragedy. - . seemed to be that of a farmer, but the Whs It Mague Ism? " facc. one to W remembered. At I sat in the open door of the old boose, Ithas been asserted that Dan Vernou carbine across ray knees, and looked was the boldest and most crnel bush- into the face of our prisoner, it came whacker in Virgina during the war. to me all atouco that it was his fac When Sherman entered the Shenan- I had seen in the picture.- There was doah Valley some of our foragers ran- agreatchange in some particulars, sacked the house occupied by Mrs. but. yet I confidently inquired: Vernon, others stole all the poultry 'Did you have ? vour picture taken and livestock, and when the third set by ,of Lynchburg? came along there was a tragedy, I)an 'Yes,' he replied. was -in Confederate ranks up the 'Wm the case of red morocco?' Valley, and his wife and Your children 'It was. j were left in a bad situation. They .Then the picture Ihad found in camp had no food in the house when bun- ranst have been stolen from his house gry foragers demanded a meal, and by foragers jind afterwards thrown not a live thin? had been left on tht awav. The man looked at ma aa if ;.uer poking under tne ciock in the tarm. I he woman, despairing and ready to answer further question but dark, and failing to set the pendulum desperate, made a fierce personal at- I had none to put just then. T was going again properly in that way, she tack on the men who had entered her wondering at the curious coincidence. .1. I 1 iiri-ot t , Miller and Lumi3cr Dealer, Kiiiston, X, C, Is now prfjnred to till all orders for FlHS T- Ch A SS L UMJi Ell at thn lowest. Cash rates.. && Also koop on hand the clebratfd Tuckalioc Family. Flour. ' junl 12ii . i -ma - -V wun Mr. ' uupouag on bf time,, and forced to absolutely contradicted J. ty. JU KSIlN. K. V.. I.OKT1V. JACKSON & LOFTIN, a t Tonx i: vs at KIXSTOX; X. C. I'raetiee in I.i-mtir, ir,i-n,,1 Wayne aitjoiuing coiuitn - Prompt ami ellleieti t at li nt ion paid all lutv ineAK entrusted to thetu. SelllemeiltH of estates of di'eea -! n-olis a )terility. 9m" ( iliu-e on ( 'ourt Hnus!- Snuare, formerly c fupietl hy Jmi. F. Viirt.s. janl-l-iu the distance, at Tap- the stile to the ladv's horribly beaten in. Ilis watch wkis house, was jiist five minutes. Here, under 'him hanging out of his. pocket then, was the! farm bailiff (himself a by the: chain. It had stopped eyi- respectable witness) corroborated by dently in consequence of the concus- another witnes of excellent position sion of its owner's fall on it at 8:30. and character. The clock on being The body was, still warm. . All the examined next, was found to be riedit. Ij A W, ull,er valuables, like 'the watch, wis Theevidece'ojf the clock-maker proved j left on it The farni bailiff - instaully that he kept the key, and that there !" t't't OI'M 1 7(Jll t ll O. t ItM 11 nj tll navnontiir l.ol linnn nn n nnnoi xr t r aa t Vi a lirtL- ioiri.niij , , 1 i . ' .. , . I I . i . J . i and uuiioer mentioned above. and wind it up again, since he had At the preliminary inquiry, the performed both those acts on the day stoppage of the watch at 8:30 was ta- preceding Mr Dubounr's visit. The , ... . .1 - .i Ken as onennggood circumstantial evidence that the blow which had i . W.J. RASBERKY, -A.it i"iiv Vt liiiw, KINSTON, X. C. . 1 "on i t. of -T.t'hoir rreene aiid Will attend tin Jonen. 9i OHlce ou Courl House Snai-e, at accuracy of the clock thus vouched for, the conclusian on the evidence was irresistible. Mr Dubourc: stood convicted of liaving been in the field janl-rim i Wm. W, N. HUNTER, 51 PEKIOR fOI RT ILKllk. PROBATE JI DCK ANI Kx-OlHcio XOTAUY lMT.lt 11 C for Ijonoir County. killed the man had been struck that time. ' I ' l. L . 1 ..... ll .11 1 xue je&i, question was, ii any one at the time When the mruder was had been near the body at 8:30? , The committed: of having, by his own ad farm boiliffdeclared that he had mt mission, had a! quarrel with the mur Afr. Dubourjg hastily leaving the field murdered man not long, before, ter by the stile at that very time. Asketl minating in an assault and a threat it he had looked atf? his watch, life on his sjde, and, lastly, of having at- i owned that he had not done so. Ceif- tempted to set up an alibi by a false i tain previous circumstaiues,. which he statement of 'the question of time. ! mentioned as having impressed them- There was no alternative but to com- ; -selves, ou his memory, enabled him to mit him to talie his trial at the as- feel sure of the truth of this assertion sizes, charged -with the murder of the without haying consulted his watclj. builder in Pardon's Piece, j He was pressed on this important The trial occupied two days. ome tn sirVeTst"' Nith of the ! P''but lie held to his declaration'. , No new facts of importance were iourt iioui.e niinv Kiwos ' M 1 ' " i At 8:30 he hail seen Mr. Dubourg discovered in;the inteval. The evi- ! hurriedly leave the held. At 8:30 dence followed the course which it had I had taken at the prelirainarYP exam- a Sit 1 " .i K i...i . : . . . . i . i krpt ron-tantlv on hand and f it! iu-h d tr. e of i the watch ot ttlC murdered mail char, , - Jatirwtf stopped. - next attempted to lift the clock and give it a shake. It was set in a mar ble case, with a bronze figure on the top, and it was so heavy that she was obligcdt to hunt for something which she could use as a lever. The thing proved to be not easy to find on the spur of the moment. Having at last laid her hand on what she wanted, she contrived so to lift the clock a few- inches and drop it again on the man tlepiece as to set it going once more. The next necessity was, of course, to move the hands on. Here again she was met by an obstacle. There was a difficulty in opening the glass case which protected the dial. After use lessly searching for some instrument to help her, she got from the footman (without telling him what she wanted it. for) a small. chisel. With this she opened the case after accidently scratching the brass frame of it and set the bands of the-clock by guess. She was flurried at the time, fearing that her mistress would discover her; Later in the day she found that she had over-estimated the interval of time that had passed while she was attempting to put the clock right. She had, in fact, set it exactly a quar ter of ah hour too fast. No safe opportunity of secretly put ting the clock riht again, had oc curred until the last thing at night. She had moved the hands back to the right time. At the hour of the even ing when Mr. Dubourg had called, on her mispress she positively swore that the clock was a quarter of an hour too fast. It had pointed, as her mistress had declared, to twenty -five minutes to hine-j-the right time then being, as Mr. Dubourg .had asserted, twenty minutes! past eight. Questioned as to why she had re frained from giving this extraordinary evidence at the inquiry before the magistrate, she declared that in .the distant Cornish village to which she had gone next day, and in which her illness had detained her from that time, nobody had heard of the inquiry orthe trial. She would not have been then present to state the vitally im portant ircumstauces to which she had justisworn if the prisoner's twin brother had not found her out on the previousjday, had not questionded her if she knew anything about the clock, and had not (hearing what she had to tell) insisted on her taking the journey with hiiri to the. court too next moru- BUILDING CONTRACTORS, BUM) and DO OR FACTORY. KIXSTOX. X. C. . in?. Price I.iM of V l.itht (ila tl Sa-h. ami 8x10, flights, $1. 00 8x12, 12 lights, SI. 20 9x10, 12 lights, 1.2r 9il2, 12 lights, SI. 30 Uil3, 12 lights, SI. 10 9xU, 12 lights, SI. 50 9xir, 12 lights, SI. h 10x12, 12 lightR, SI. 40 10x14. 12 lights, SI. GO 10x15, 12 lights. SL70 lOxlC, 12 lights, lf.00 10x18. 12 lights, $2:10 inations with; this difference only. Had any other person been. observed that it was more carfullv sifted. Mr. in or near the field at that time? ! Dubourg had jthe double advantage 1 No witness had beendiscovered who of securing the services of the leading ; had seen anybody else' near the place, barrjster of th4 circuit, and of moving Had the weapon turned up with the irrepressible sympathies of the ju- r which the blow had been struck? It ry, shocked atjhis position and eager had not been tound. Was any one for nroof of his innocence. liv the i.."-MI - I- .:- I- - "- evidence had irrisistible despaired the prisoner lilinuN 140 ! associated with doubtful character, took his place tn the dock on the Blinds SI. 40 male and female; but suspicion failed second day there was but one convic- at a late hour on the second evenin lilin-ls SI. 50 to point to any one of them m par- tion in the minds' of the neonle in the iurv acnuitted the prisoner with- ticular. "court: evervbodv said 'The clock will i out leaving their box. It was too I v , ---- o : . HlmiU: ! known f rohhprv hnvinor nlnttilv tint am nft lahrst i av the - - J w T .ViVUV VI 111V IllCh v C . lliv Hlinds S1.00S been the motive of the crime) to have told against him with such ui'"i? entertained a grudge against the mur- force that his own counsel i ! Si ir dered man? It was no secret that he of the result When The evidence virtually decided the trial. There was a creat burst of relief in the crowded assembly when the woman s statement had come to au end. j. She was closely cross examined as a matter of course. Her character was inquired into; corroborative evidence (relative !to the chisel and the scratch es on the frame) was sought for, and was obtained. The end of it was that Wind. si.2.- Blind SI 40 U1uk1s.S1.50 Blinds SI. 50 Blinds SI. CO In this state of things there was no hang him much to say that his life had been All other Mc uvade to order, and estimates fwmih-l on aivltv-atiott, 1 " llrai ket and Mouldinc to order. ja2t-ly LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS! iSxitlmii Stanly, (IX rkltX.KN's UKt K SMKt) alternative but to request Mr. Dn- It was nearly two in the afternoon,! saved by! his brother. His brother bourg well known in and out of ' the and the proceedings were on the point alohe had persisted from first to last, town as a young gentleman ot iude- of being adjourned for half au hour, pemlaut foriune bearing an excellent when the attorney for the people was character to eive some account of seen to hand a Daoer to the counsel for himself. tlip defence. I The counsel rose, showing signs of J. He immediateh' admitted that he had passed through th e field. But, acitation which roused the curiosity of in contradiction to the farm bailiff, the audience. He demanded the im he declared that he had looked at his mediate hearing of the new witness, Offers the beat Harrains iu DRY wtch,at the moment befire he crossed whose eydeuce in the prisoner's favor ,xjxrv'.j, uuoiu, onvi,-, K) - i j uic siucj auu itiiib itic liiuu uj ii va. fie UeCIare.l IU uc wu i m ju mil ltc TIOXS, CONFECTIOXS and exactly 8:15. Five minutes later, that delayed for a single moment , After the BLSr FAMILY (1110- 4 is to say; ten minutes before the mur- short Colloquy between the judge and upiiiww 4 i der had been committed, ou the evi- barristers on either side, the court dec- TOlurrn rmiN uvitvp dence of the dead mans watch he ided to continue the sitting. BVH f' V1CVTV nil jiiiiu pm a visu iu h iauy uviug ueur j. ne witness, lapjiearuig iu iuc uujl, tJelll n.nm. !ief needI"1 8,an,a?ri1 a"l with her until his watch, consulted, cate health. On the evening when uciei ol home cusumptton and demand i .. i . . . i. 1 . i i : L .. ...li -jit. .i r ; pv . wrVn ,r. once more ou leaviug iuc latiy s uouse i me prisoner nau paiu nia viau w WOW ana A A All A K Hi Stock. infVrmd hini that it w ftafi . 1 11. 1V cKo , fnl that Udv'a rvire as COUXTRT PllODfaE WlVTFn TTara urns iyt tUa Aafa an 'alibi.' It entirely satisfied Mr- been permitted! (by previous arrange- Dubourg's friends, lo satisfy justice j ment witli her mistress) to take a ;N. B. (Jnlen. for any !Wxk not intorc SlU-dwith ronttueK aud difir4tch. li-Ot. in obstinately disbelieving the clock for no btrtter reason than that the clock was the witness which asserted the prisoner's "guilt! He had worried everybody with his incessant inquiries; he had discovered the absence of the house-maid after the trial had begun and he had started off to interrogate the girl, j kuowing nothing and sus pecting nothing simply, determined to persist in the one everlasting ques tion witli which he persecuted every body: The clock is going- to hang my brother; can you tell me anything about the clock?, Four months later the mystery of the crime- was cleared up. One of the disreputable companions of the mur dered man confessed on his deathbed that he had done the dee!. There was nothing interesting or remarkable . i ! . s-n 1 in me circumstance, inance, wnicu house, and in the struggle a gun was when he sat up on his bed, looked mo discharged aud the heavy ounce ball square in the eye, and said: killed two. of her children as they I am Dan Vernon, the bushwhack clung to her skirt. The foragers were er, and I killed one of your men no better than thieves in this instance, last night before turning in here!' and had the official attempt . to dis- 'Dan Vernon! I repeated after cover their identity been successful him. they would have received just punish- 'Yes. It is a j good joke on your ment. Acts that should forever curse comrades, who took me for a scrub the perpetrators were often committed soldier!' by foragers unknown to officials in I was so taken by surprise that I authority, and this was one of them, could not utter a word. He was as The woman left the murdered child- cool as ice, however and he contin reii on the floor and fled with the oth- tied: ers up the valley, and her fooUteps 'It would give Sheridan great joy had scarcely , grown cold when the to string me up or see me shot, but my avenger of her wrongs appeared and time isn't come ycL I shall be going demanded blood. for blood and more, pretty soon!' j Dan Vernon was permitted to leave Now, that was pretty cool talk, con the ranks to become a destroying au- sidering that I was there to guard gel. The children were buried under him and had my carbine for a shot, a cherry tree in the yard by our men, with fifty comrades within hail, but but no hand wiped up the dark and he went ou: terrible blood stains on the farm-house I have ray rifle under the straw, floor. The husband and father, pant- and could have shot you long ago. I ing for vengeance, crept into the didn't want to, however. I fee) good- deserted house three nights' after the natured this morning, and you need burial and dipping his fingers into the fear no harm. j uudried blood, he swore to rest not, 'One cry from me- will alarm the but to kill and destroy as long as life whole post,' I managed to remark. was left him. Poon! Let's hear you yell out I do not know . what Dan Vernon once!' I was when he left his home to become Our eyes met. There was nothing a Confederate soldier, but I do know malicious in his, but they put a strange that when he returned to it as an spell on me. His voice, too, had a avenger he had no more 'mercy in his strange tender influence, and when he liciiib iiiuii a iigcr. t c ucaru iruin t noi.ru ww- tu iusa imu iuj vauiccu ui nm at once. A scouting party n- water and haversack of food I obeyed ding up the Valley lost its captain and I without .the least hesitation. He two men by successive shots from a drank from the canteen, and as he Henry rifle, and the man who fired chewed away at the food he remarked: them escaped throught the woods. 'This is pretty good fare for a hun- That night a vidette was struck from gry man. As I can.t stay here to eat his horse and his throat cut. Next it all I shall beg the favor of carry- day a teamster was killed. In one ing the rest with me.' weeks time Dan Vernon had killed 'He was looking into ray eyes, and thirteen men. He left no wounded I could not force my lips to utter a behind him. When he fired it was word of objection, j with a dead aim, and the victim went! 'I hear that Sheridan has offered a down with scarcely a cry from his reward for me, but no one will ever lips. earn it, he said as he drank again. A refugee who came m, gave us He was not fifteen feet from rny such details of Dan as we did not carbine, and I was thinking how sure know, and when it was known that he ly I could hit him, when our eyes was bushwhacking, our advance scouts I met and he said: . i were detailed to hunt him down. 'No use trying! If you want to " They pursued him in vain. Knowing shoot me blaze away, but I tell you every acre of ground in the Valley, you can't hit me.' he not only eluded pursuit but many We looked at each other lor half a of the men pursuing him never came minute and I felt my carbine slipping back to us. If their bodies were from my grasp to the ground outside, found, a bullet hole was. proof that My fingers had no etregth to hold it. Dan Vernon had added another vie- Dan laughed in a dry way and said: , tim to his list. In four weeks' time Why don't you shoot?' he had scored thirty-four victims, and 'You shall never leave this place foraging and scouting parties dreaded alive!' I said in answer, but I hardly that one man more than a whole regi- recognized my own voice, ment of Early's array. He' would Pooh!' he carelessly replied, 'I am murder a picket at one point , during ready to to leave now? I shall go out the night, and next day bushwhack a of this other door here, and you will troop ten miles away, and he moved sit right where you are! with, the stealth of a tiger. No man I was looking full at him, and to ever gave an alarm after knowwing save my life I couldn't move hand or of his presence. foot- Each limb felt as numb as if Well, what I'sct out to tell was how asleep.- wc captured Dan one fine day and 'Well, old boy, good bye to yon how singularly he escaped. Parties said Dan as he picked up his rifle were continually hunting him without from the straw, and in another minute success, while our party one day found he was out of sight. I was sitting him without searching. About fifty mouth open and eyes fixed on vacancy of us were thrown forward one day vhen a comrade came down from the from the picket pot to a new position picket-post, shook me by the shoulder just deserted by the enemy. Included and cried out: in this new territary was a log-house, 'A nice man you -are, fast asleep supposed to.be deserted but when we and jour prisoner gone came to investigate we discovered a Was I asleep? No! .Was it a 'Butternut' curled up and asleep on a dream? No! But the prisoner was rude bed in a corner, lie had gone gone, Ihere was talk of a court to sleep within the Confederate Tines martial in my case, bnt it never oc and when he awoke, the blue-coats curred, as the prisoner was supposed to were about and beyond him. . v be only some common 'Johny Reb.' .Who the prisoner was no one seem- Had it been known that my man was ed to care; but it waU the accepted o- the famous bushwhacker I should have ' pinion that he was no more than a been taken out and shot for permitting -private soldier, and I was detailed to him to escape. I permitted bim, and guard bim until he could be sent back yet I didnt. I was as helpless as if to headquarters. The man betrayed without power or muscle. That night no alarm when roused from sleep. As when he crept in on a picket and stab far as we could see he was unarmed, bed him to the heart I wondered If aud when the boys joked him on his the poor victim fust saw those strange, capture he coolly replied: wild, magnetic eyes glaring into his Well, it ain't nuthing to weep over, to deprive him cf even power to ask I was gittingpurty tired of this thing, for mercy. i f v
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