Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — Whisky and Negro Runtiong-Two Terrible Deathbeds. [ARTICLE]

Whisky and Negro Runtiong-Two Terrible Deathbeds.

A correspondent of the Carlmville Free Democrat, writing from Anna, Union cornuv describes the last hours of two negro catchers, of southern Illinois, a* fol—lows:

“Yesterday vve had a very striking examJ pie, illustrating the adage that ‘the way of | the transgressor is hard.’ There died here | in this town a man by the name of John B I Jones, who had rendered himself notorious by tne very active part he had taken in arj r est,n S runaway negroes, an.! more particujlarlyas the leader in arresting the I J,m ’ "i.* 10 w * s Remanded on a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Cuton, of Ottawa, and was there rescued and run off to Canada. Ihe man Jones had a partner by the name of Curtly, who fully, participated in a!) of his exploits, sharing the spoils equally. This Curt y, from the effects of exposure and bad whisky, was taken sick, and in eight days died, rnakmgjust before his death some very ; startling revelations, confessing that he was i a murderer, that he had a wife and two chil- ; dren living, and many other things, which so. ! [ rl Shtened Jones that he fell pn the floor fearfully convulsed, and never was sensible after, but lingered a week, and ©a the very same day and hour one week lal^r,died j V lO mos t horrible of all deaths, on the floor, (for they could not keep him on the bed) suffering almost the tortwre ©f the damned. He died as only those do wlh> die of that fearful disease, the deliriasn tsenx-ns. iWe went to his funeral. No e>»e spoke a. word of consolation to his bereared family. He lias left a wile— a nice wope— ami several daughters. No prayers were e&ored, no fliymn chanted, but twelve e* fifteen men ivvent to the house, opened the coffin, for his friends to take tlievr last iooi; then placed in the hearse, and itsune-dinSely deposited it in the earth, there *© await the fi- ; nal resurection. ‘One aasd a half years am),* ! remarked the gentleman, ‘I Iseaid that man deliver an excellent prayer and a s»ood exhortation in the Methodist chards in this, town.’ He was then eons:,dered an exemplar/ man, and as one of pillars of the church.”