Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — The Victim of a Crime. [ARTICLE]

The Victim of a Crime.

A terrible chapter of crime, of remarkable tenacity of life, and of misfortune is related in the life history of Tilford Gregory, who, twelve years ago was a well-to do and influential citizen of Louisville, Ky. About that timd he was enticed by an assassin to a lonely spot 100 miles from Louisville, in 4 Indiana, on pretense of showing him a valuable tract of land for sale. There the assassin seized a favorable opportunity to fell Gregory to the earth with a club. He then drew a knife and stabbed him Beveral times to the brain. To make sure of killing, he attempted to search out the man’s heart with the sharp steel, and plunged the blade seven times in the breast of his victim. Gregory being a large, fleshy man, the knife did not reach the vital spot; yet when the robber le't him ho was at death’s door. In this condition, with his life’s blood gradually wasting away,he lay in that lonely spot all tbe afternoon and through the night till the next morniug, and when by chance he was discovered he was so nearly dead that it was feared ho would die before he could be gotten to the nearest village to identify the man who had been arrested in-the flight froin the wood. He, however, held on to life and identified the man. and the fellow was immediately hanged to a tree in the presence of his victim. Gregory slowly recovered, but thereafter was iucapaciated for business,aud his property gradually wasted away. He could once have drawn his check for SIO,OOO, but has been of late vears a street beggar, and now, at the 'age ol 00 years,he is slowly dying in a garret.