Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1881 — A Romance of the West. [ARTICLE]

A Romance of the West.

On the 29th of September,*!}#, fo’t I sixteen years azo, jefl Stone County, Michigan, With bn wtfe-l Intending to emigrate to Louisiana. Shine OIWW holder he fell in withTfmfr who Wave T* V 1 leaac Yjfirg, and/faho oßgalqMl prfclaim# toJke tr#feling in the tame d& rection they Were going. I Young was about 80, very plausible, and quickly ingratiafbd-hlmeelf In the'4 good graces of Baxter and He confided to bis oonfcpaaiansEverything regarding his flnanM|ri resources | and future plans,andßMLtfer, in : r«turn < made a similar reVttatfdn. Among J otbyr thilks, hmihflforiMP man thafike hafll Bld bis tarmlbr |2,- 5 000, and mat hdcarried the mataey. in •20 SoldJpleoA Xn albeit sjappef around hfo waitk <

Some time a®/ ‘tliis-ttee ffirtgmffis camped one night at a point between Dyke’s Mill, Li., and Magnolia. Ark. J The spot selected for a camp was at the ' tSKiylllpLfWEftiriSwMrf A apriow-etuleuMold water wushed Joßffcish||F When a simple repast was pn pared and eaten, Baxter lit his pipe, and rayi lag he would return loonjfltMilfld down i the Rif ft. Young and Mrx Buter re*

tog about too incident, of toe day’s I hoards ngdy .Baxter d'A pot rfo woman waited 1 n patently. One, two, three boars w*nt br t r«t neither appeared. Mra. Baxter was hot titot* oughly frightened. She ealled loudly rfoa-bar tomhanArbat received no rop»e e<ho of bar ow> yotee camp back to bes, bofoß OB the night W144-which .wept down the valfoy and through the topp of toe tremUirig, but efie jMiiher bapHl nor saw anythlbi: Bott hdr husband and bls oompanton had disappeared a. M>m*dately as If the earth bad suddenly opened and swallowed them up. Almoat distracted, she returned to , mounting pue of tae botaas, hastened to toghesr’est house/and soon had a body of men scouring the country in search of the mMug men. Tria seareb was continued nearl+Kweek without finding any trac< oC x<*n*©r Baxter, when it was, fair m preconcerted between toe two

men, and that her husband had heartlessly deserted her.. The wife so Hnmgaiy berqft would not accept this tbenrft Bhefemsted that her husbafid hadtx *en murdered 'by Isaac Young, and that Ums would show that she was Hot mistaken. . ' Acting op dhfo supposition she returned to net former home, and gathering all her available means, instituted a thorough sfiafCh. She advertised, €«proved detectives, scattered fctoflbills with accurate descriptions of her husband and Young, but all to no purKse. Nothing came of It, and the afr seemed a mystery which no bu man skill Could unravel. Yean Went by< tod still she remained In her mountain no me, hoping and praying for of her fttisclng husband— o£.even »cleW that would S4nt to his fate. The suspense in all ese years has been ‘trying. Since tbfet memorakJe-Afgtot She had become aaoldwomaa. By the sale of nearly WlhMfiects - which remained t6’ hpr after boxbuShtod’s disappearance, she h«d beM enSoled to buy a little cabin ‘Ktd a rew Seres of ground. and have money, enough remaining to keep her,' with close economy | from actual want And alone In that little hut she waited for tidings of the man to whom she had linked her fate.

Last week startling news reached that solitary woman in her mountain ln B h*P® of a letter written only last June, and dated ot Mslborirne, Australia. The writer said |fo had U*at day assisted to bury a mati--0T“ ok name of Saunders, but whoSe papers, which the writer had beenjchargeß Id titamibe, showed he was Isaac Young/ ah .American, jtnd who: confessed to H horrible krfme. Then Tdnswfefl a detailed aficotfnt of tne glen, sixteen years a *°" ~ ■ It seems Yotmg, had made up, his mind to rob and murder Baxter from the time he learned thaCßaxter uad Sfl 000. He followed hi m. quietlf’down the glen, stole Upon him unawares, and struck him a blOff With astlckor wood which killed him instant^J To secure the money and bfiry-the body under some loose earth atmktopes was toe wo?f trfw. very le w mtafttes. aud before J4rs. Baxter had Marled down the glen Young was miles away, lie hastened to New Orleans, took passage to Australia, changed bls name, and soeeujated with his ill goUsn gains. He p.ospJjrkd smasipaly, and, unlike the traditional murderer, died undetected and wealthy. He directed that Mrs. Baxter b*‘ found, if living, and pdd >2,000 with interest from the date of the murder, and he begged her to forgive him. This WBs all that the letter contained. But Subs&juetit in vestigation proved it to be true. .Baiter’s holies Were fouhe at »4be fooLpf the glen, anti ;decently bi*rded; and the Australian , party tarried out to ba Isaari Yodng, tfcfe rfrtirderer. Mrs. Batter dekliilel tlrt rfi uej with Indignation, but she rd&j tfoudldfle to take IL i * ■- The story is as strange as it is true. ■ t v.-