Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 April 1874 — Page 4

*A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. P.

S. WESTFALL, KDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRS HAUTE, APRIL lA. IStf.

TWO EDITIONS

Oft a a a a The FIRST K^TTIO^ -«n fridaj JtvottlAK, has a larger -rtntlftn ftje *OrrcHmt!t»K town*, where It It aold bfiwntajmMi

Hv '1* .. Tht JOOVD KDITIOK", oa f*i«iMay KVmi inf. 9am Into tbe tuwdi of «wiy *W naaltui person in th« cltv, *ad the Swroen of thM immfldliic Tldnlty,

Every Week"» I in

TWO

In wkt«I» an Adrerttseftirnla" appear for ONB CHARGE.

MUSIC A UKEMJL LSL It we are not uMcan, tb« naawk has been made, and possibly repeated, that there Is no accounting far taste* We have always been pvw.K*Un attempting to account for the taste which originated, and keeps1n exf^eiqw, the custom of singing at funerals. If a lVmeral service is held in a ohureh where there ia an organ, and the organist be a man or woman of unexceptionable taste and judgment, and a food player, there may be but little, if any impropriety ia a voluntary upon that instrument on entering and on departing from the church. And if there must be singing at any ftinerate it should only be at those held in churches. Rut even here it seetns to us out of taste. If the uoualobe pNpamd and carefully executed, iUavety apt to be merely artistic, and so eextremely tnapprop iate. If it be not prepared beforehand, it is very likely to be execrably poor, and so again oot ef aTl taste. Resides if there is real and deep sorrow, something more than mourning according tothelafcest style, those whose hearts are burdened are in no mood to listen to music, or be in any way comforted or benefitted thereby.

But as said before, if there must be music at any funerals, let it be confined to those hekl in a church. If a choir of singers is brought into a private house it has too much the appearance of a setup joh. If three orfour good singers are selected, it lias more yet of the set-up appealauce. If it be left to those who may chance to attend, it is simply abominable. If music hath power to soothe a savage, then on the other hand, much of the music that we ha*e at funerals has power to transform almost any civilized man or woman into a savage. During the singing done in this way, the most appropriate prayer that could be offered by the mourning, woi|ld be for deliverance from thetr Mends, their musical friends. The only possible good that such music can do is, as a counter irritant, to make the sorrowing ones forget their grief by putting their nerves and all their finer sensibilities to the torture. There is no place where it issodlffie&ftoliirtjeill things done decently and in order as at funerals, and there is no place where any violation of good taste is so painful. And of all the difficult things to manage well at such times Is music. Tberefcre, we were heartily glad that, at a recent funeral of one of the most prominent citizens here, and of one who himself was extremely fond of good Bautdo, the order was given for no tnusie.

There is another objection to this custom. There are ye& few appropriate funeral hymns. These hymns as a role are such as to harrow the feelings rather than sotitfea and comfort. Row often is a whole congregation set to weeping by the very readingof one of these bymnp, and the friends writhe in ^orlare. (Senerally a funeral is held to be successful according to the quantity of tears which can be wrung out of those who attend, and hence, prayer, ^remarks, and singing are ^tttttnANMBfews infl pincers to extort manifestation of pain. And the hymns sung an often the most objectionable part of the whole service. We have an old and mi fashionable notion that one of ti chief purposes which should be aimed at in the religious services attending the last rites performed for the dead, should be to ootnfort, to dry tears rather than call forth more. So if there ntnfc besingingat funerals we still protest against the kind of hymns generally used on such ocqw&o?-

TimMYltTKRlOVS fftiY If stnxioot pawm^oriti^piciouswli?ls, desire to know for certain whether sons or hnsbaiftl# ar*!i#gbi$ patrtmsofaaloons they can ^xambie (Mr poctato while they aresleeping.and In fW they find a peetftiar kind of a that doee not fit any dodr at ho«#, they

oat and try in the deomof ecaBeo# the saloons, and if it fit^^ae ywtlWy shrtiinjt of

may set it dpwu as afixed feet noun, or bturtwmfr, «s the 6m

wiU, tb thattW^wsiaor may b*,Ti»*e an Inter** fn theseloon

9 o'clock according to tbe requirements of the Baxter law, but, lest any should gaffer in eeneeqaeiiee of this early closing, all regular cOKtamaiaaws «uppUedwithal' wliMi admits them at any hour. Why dkiu't tbe saloon-keep-ers pee a resolution declaring that keys would not be furnished to jmmm signlug the pledge not to sign petiftaw fcjr permits tfce "nobby** th*^ jm~- men now i» the key. Maiu^eds of boys and young men think they are mighty Aarp, end look wise, beeause they have of ih-p key

How -'jtrt* arec-^tipind# j**

rn Wiii ^"ett it Lu-Ji eng*„ 'i In the Ikj fttrniafa these keys, thereby give one more taetlroour, «M| U. are just for tbe mean MiWlt »*toh M" engirtdu There is no use crying *l„:.»e to «, they «e partthnfc.

MWtoVlil IMH ippW

3T S XF' )RQ OSCX MORS. A el .. I •!. some traces of colored blood in its veins, but with skin as frir and white as that of any i«w hfld, was wicn to the school' 1 the Sewnd w«*d» Mtercfipoo tfu^iiier elevatod her nose, and t. I that shehadnHyet fOle«i 1 uite so low as to teach "niggem," and would resign before she would do It It would be 't^r for b—to resign -.ny vf, The tkuv ha» nte In title ai^ry when one b' i* ebove

l*oWn|t

is sbove'teach in fhe prfb-

lie snhonln The colored children of this State haw a perfect

j^*e™l

wards or townships in i.eh they live. Any distinction in this respect, based txpon color, la dearly contrary to the inwiirt" .We a*» glad this

come up.. And we hope it will be F«*b«d to dechdon. Hie teachers in our Normal School* are probably as intelll* gent, refined, and honorable as this beligewmt teacher in the Second ward, or any of the rest of teachers in the pablic schools of the qUy, and yet they do not consider it beneath their dignity to teach colored pupils. And the students there do not seem to find it any serious ineon venience to occupy poaitlori* in the same I)IIWWI with the colored students. This reminds us of a toct which occured in Yale College a year or two since. The classes at Yale, as they enter college, are divided in alphabetical order, into three or four divisions. But at the end of the first or second term they are divided according scholarship, the best scholars going into the first division, and soon down to the third or fourth. A young man of colored skin entered, and in alphabetical order his seat was apt to one of those superior white persons who, like the teacher in the Second ward could not endure such close contact with the inferior race. Just before the close of the term the father of -the white boy visited the college, and was also Indignant at the indignity put upon his son. He went to the Professor and protested. The learned man listened patiently to his statements, and when he had no wore to say, he quietly told the outraged father that he need give himself no further trouble about the matter, as it would be arranged satisfactorily the next term, for he saw by the marks in his book, that the colored student would be in the first division and bis son in the third. These people who are so high and mighty in their notions about the colored folks would generally be saved from close contact with them if the separation were made according to talent and merit. We are bound to say that we believe that the teacher referred to above, whose name we do not know and do not want to know, is not a fair representative of the public school tcachera generally. As a body they are sensible and progressive.

ABBY AND JULIA SMITH. The town of Glastonbury, Conn., seems destined to become famous. It is the residence of two aged,, maiden sisters, Abby and Jfulia Smith. These sisters are wealthy, each paying a heavier tax than any other person in town. They are now engaged in an earnest protest against being taxed without representation. Th^y refuse to pay my more taxes till they are permitted a voice, or a vote in the disposition to be made of these taxes. Last fall some fine cows, which were pets with them, having been raised by their own hands, were driven away by the collector to satisfy the claims for taxes. These were bought by friends and returned to them. At the regular town meeting held in April, these two sisters appeared and asked the privilege of saying a few words to the voters. This was refnsed in the town house, but the crowd followed them out and (hey spoke from an old wagon cutside, and with a great deal of force, and not without effect upon their hearers. These two old ladies are not noisy, rampant reformers seeking notoriety. But they are quiet, modest, and thoroughly educated ladies, who are in dead earnest in testing the principle, tipe violation of which started the American revolution, "No taxation without representation." They intend to make an appeal to the Legislature of the State. These women may not win, but their ramie will sooner or Jate. It ia simply abominable that the law should provide no means by which two of tie heaviest and most intelligent tax-payew should have a

THS flench steamers, or rftEher Che French officers and crews by which these axe manned, seem in danger of getting a hud reputation. Only test Autumn the Preaeh stetmer ViBe du Hfrw wfcit down with ittn4r*4ii«f mmkdk board, and charges of carotoesness and cowardice were ftedy made against the officers ami crew. Now we have new* of the

TImi

pipiei»f«(» end crew wote

all trasadbrred in safety to another steamer, the Greece. But In this case also direst charges of inefficiency and cowitrdioe are made against the captain and the rest of the crew. What Is the truth in this

cmc

we cannot *cli. Rut It is

most unfortunate that these twp jrteam•r»i*ft*Jd kavetxdoage* It* Dw »p«Sh and that such serious chargcs should be made in both osses. People will be careftil how they put their lives in the hands of i^neh triors tl^ Ihw e^bltah a

Crk*atios,

or the burning of bodies

of the dead, instead of burying them, seems to be gaining ground. It ia quite prohal i. that the ot^etfoof oome

wr*G#

prejudice if fro*

life was not extinct. But this can hardly equal the horror of being buried alive «|x 4n*%*uider grdtUb4, Rut^fo ready to Join a cremation society yet

FEE, NOT LICENSE.

Thequestl«yiof demanding*^ft'01® thewf asCuiIng a permit to sell lkjuur is iHania—join at the pveeent time. Many of the strongest and heat friends ef tbe temperance cause olgect to the fee on the grmund that liquor selling la wrong, and (hat thawftwett tew* right to license it. And here is just where they make a mistake. Without pronouncing tbetr principle right or wrong, the teat is that tbe tee is not, and does not secure a license. The Raster bill provides that the man who can get a majority of the voters in his ward or township to sign a petition for a permit to eell liquor shall have that permit. The petition once signed by the required number ef voters, no discretion is left to any one hi the matter. But the bill further provides that when this permit is granted, cities and towns may demand before it shall become valid that the holder shall pay a certain amount into the treasury of said city or town. The city or town docs not, and cannot grant any license, but it can demand a tee from those al ready holding a license or permit to sell and a permit which ia perfectly valid unless such a demand is made. To say to any man that he may sell liquor on condition of paying a certain sum of money is one thing. It is quite a different thing to say to a roan who already has a legal right to sell, that before he can exercise that right he must pay a fpe. The latter it what It is proposed to do.

And this in just, too. The liquor busi nees ia largely responsible for the disorder, crimes, and pauperism, for whieh taxes are demanded, and it is just if the business is made legal, aa it is by the Baxter bill, that it should pay a special tax to help meet the extra demandB made upon the treasury on aooouut of it. Every city and town should demand a good round fco of those engaging in the business.

This al&Q would throw upon the -city authorities the responsibility of exPcn ting tho law. We believe roost fully that the responsibility is thcifs already, But a requirement of ttys sort would put the matter beyond all question. The police are very prompt in arresting any person peddling without a permit. It is safe to predict that they would be as prompt to stop any liquor seller who should violate a city ordinance. The fee ought to be demanded. It is right in principle, and it would very materially fUrther the faithful execution of the law

POISONED LIQUORS-DEATH IN THE CUP.

BY IUSV. N. BRAKEMAN.

I desire to lay before the many readers of The Mail a few facte concerning the adulteration and poisoning of nearly all kinds of intoxicating drinks—facts which have been bmncbt to light through careful and patient analysis, made by the most competent and reliable chemists in the land.

FACTS ABE STUBBORN THINGS.

And here area few very mulish ones: The United States, it is said, excels any other country in the use of champagne wines, consuming 1.000.000 baskets annually! .The whole champagne district exports 800,000 baskets. Russia takes 160.000 France 1652,000 Germany 146,000 England 220,060 other countries (excepting this) 100.000 making 788,000 baskets in all, and 'leaving 12,000 for Columbias happy land. And yet we drink 1,000,000 baskets every year! Now the mulish fact i»: we get but obe basket of the pure article in every 83K of all we use! And the 988,000 baskets, is a miserable sham^ compounded of poisonous drugs, the only genuine thing in it being tho dreadful pain which the vile stuff produce*.

Again Madeira produces, annually, 30.000 barrels of wine. After supplying all other countries out of her abundant store, Amorica takes #0.000 barrels from what tcft! By what peculiar turn of the wrist—what iRsgUh-is the wonderful feat performed Ask the compounders. Any of ttarih can give you

A "SATrSFACTOlnr HX IT. AN ATION." In a lecture delivered at Wood's theatre, in Cincinnati, ov»rme year ago, Dr. E. O. Dalton said Jj

In I860, fotir fiiHutf ln New Yorlf reported to the commissioner of internal revenue. 226,000 nntt«m pure spirits for the mannfacture of bogus wines. And as this spirit composes only 1-KTfO 1-5 of the new liquor, from two to four mil

U1 tut? JlVW

Ions of gallons of tho vile stuff from those firms 1s palmed off on unsuspecting venders and drinkers. These deadly streams are pouring forth from four or five hundred such dens In the United States. Where ag^i^c chance* for a

^There Ts^dfspat^fth this business Worth of abetter business. Hie whisky romes'in under tie epver of darkness, and five or ten times the quantity transmuted into wine coiriQS to the light of Nfciy the next morning. Some of these experts own the buying of a barrel of whisky of a countryman, and, before nighCWli hita back a barrel of wine made from a portion, of it, *L a profit pi 500 per cent. They 00 it, and then boast of it.

A Frettah merchant boasted (hat from two barrels in his cellar he could produce any kind of wine desired in six

,MAS«lft0"«njr*

TERKE HAUTE SATTTBDAY EVENING MAIL

llfpiijWWiinffl.

They are the rule, iMhcr thrift tbe exception. What, then, Mr.Wine Uusasler, are you drinking Let us peep into vour cup of death. In that cup I see a little wblskv, alum, Bnudl wood, oak, Htwduat, filbert fctfkn, lead, copperas, Mtter aUnortd, cHer%, laurel water.

In another eap of port wine, In fltct, in all cups, Dr. Cox found water, cider, vinegar, or a mixture of water and sulphuric arid with the juice of elder berries, privet berries, logwood, alum, pot-

f—

flavorHTVith var!bus on», such a^ lavender, cloves, cinnamon, bereamot, h*,flf^rturdiJ&r-

waithlngs of brandy casks, elder berries, oggoqilf jait of tartar, green dragon,

guides, if you will make clear the teet

cudbear. Tbe wine consult them, will Of such Jf&mil cqnnxnitda for wisest above railoated. Tfcottaends of dollar* have been found Invented In wine dealers for art iotas used in making wicea, bnt not one dollar for giape or grape juios. Tbe frauds In bogus wines are reckoned at 9MXMKX «u»«aUy in New York,

So much for the daw creature—the delicate, delicious drink—f** Innocent, soul-cheering, brain-inapt ring, litegiving WINK! Is not he a fortunate tippler who gets a taste, even of the genuine article? Barrels, or even bottles, of pure wine are aa scarce in the'publie market aa rise tickets in a lottery.

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BUT HOW ABOUT BRAXDY?"

No better. Bather the worse, as the drugs and the poisons used in adulteration most be move virulent and powerfill to make tho stronger drink. A tew years since, in tho city of New Orleans, the writer had the rare privilege of looking over a "spirit dealer's recipe book." Its revelations were astounding, lta mode of "converting old whiskies into old brandies*1 was one of Its most interesting and affecting chapters." No lover of "brandies*' need lay to his soul the flattering unction that he is more aure of a genuine article than his neighbor, Mr. Wine-bibber. No less on authority than Dr. Cox, of Cincinnati says: •foot more than one per cent, of all the brandies of this country are genuine!" Again he savs: "They (the brandies) arc abominable compounds, made from recipes,,with no

reference to wine,

than a monkey haa to a man!" Of some of tho best brandy, fresh from tbe custom house, just imported and duly Inspected, he says that they, when subjected to a chemical test, which he personallv superintended, ''showed a basis of whisky and fuse oil fixed up with slup., nitric ether, prussic acid, copper, choioroform, Guinea pepper, tannin, sometimes a little brandy, nut often not a drop."

The same eminent chemist examined two rare specimens brought to Cincinnati by a druggist, under tbe apprehension that they were of the first quality, but his analysis and experiments showed that they were vile adulterations. For instance, to use his own language: "blue litmus immersed became scarlet, a polished spatula in fifteen minutes was as black as ink, rapidly corroded, and when the rust was wiped off, tbe instrument was copper plated. That mire brandy from a reputable house in New York contained 55 per cent, of alcoholic spirits, and the balance Bulphuric nitric ether, prussic acid, Guinea penper, ftasel oil, whisky, but not a drop of Drandy.

The second specimen contained the same adulterations in larger measure, and caoutchouc besides."

If a druggist is so deceived in purchasing medicinal brandies, how is the common drinker duped in his daily potations? They abominably beyond description. As vile as Hudibras' "nostrum full-fraught with tho deadliest evils—a poisonous compound concocted for devils."

Old Crimes Retold.

OUTLAWS OF THE UP-

PER WABASH. "I",

^ATROClOfS CRIMES PERPETRATED WITH RARE AUDACITY.

THE OLD WAREHOUSE MAN.

Murder and Diabolical Revelry at a Farm House.

SWIFT AND TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.

About twenty-five years ago the Upper Wabash was infested by a gang of outlaws—robbers, incendiaries and assasgins—ivho committed the most heinous crimes with unparalleled boldness, and whom the authorities were either too inefficient or too timid to prosecute and punish with the necessary vigor.

At length, however, these outlaws committed two murders under circumstances so atrocious and startling that tho whole people of thfet part of tho Hoosier State became intensely excited, and not until then was the desperate gang broken up, moat of its leaders expiating their misdeeds on the scaffold*

The outlaws had their headquarters in the prosperous Uttle city of Lafayette. They numbered about twenty men, aud their loaders were John Stocking, Abraham Rice and Timothy DriscolL Among tbe other members were Sam Riley,

Dutch" Peters, John Longley and Casper Sdret. John Stocking, aiias "Captain Book," or

"ou SOCK," ..

was already a man of upward of fifty ream at the time when the events we are about' to narrate occurred, and he ftirnfehed the brains for the lawless operations of the gang. He waa a native of New York, aOThe people looked uoon him with a sort of awe for they whl^ nirod into each other's ears that he had killed at. least filly persons, and there were even fools enough who firmly believed that "Old Sock was entirely bullet nroof. He never went out with his fWBow-meittbers on their lnfhmous excursions, but remained day and night at a small saloon which he kept Hi a frame shsmtv. on the aftuth aide of the public

murderer*

and robbers divided their spolla. Among the wealthy resident#of Lafcy. etto was an old Englishman named George Roae. He carried on a large warehouse business in an iminewie wooden building on the

bank*

of the

Wabash and Canal. «e owtwd several fine houses in 'ra*]*" ing a man of eoeentritf habits, he preferred steeping «1W» V" his o8d wawhow*. was also weU known that he kept'WMr *wy large auin of gold in the safe standing in UmmRH*wLaSolni»g the one where he

"'^Oid Book" and hia gang had long had thai* was upon the age3 proprietor of the

wareWduse

Ujo

.raileO t*.

on the eanal. tin the

6th or May, 1855, they a«ertained that Mr.

Bom

had

,*£ar, honey, ajflb mixtures

su.000 in gold, ana they immediately resolved to rob and murder him that vary iilghtf old Seek" went during the day thfo

warehouse, apparently In o«*r

to purchase some mw seed, but bi reaUtv to reeonnoitre the ground, andto »ee where the kennel of the big watch-dog

*Tht weal^er ft«vtwed the seoiuidvetar,

I*!!

for in the afternOan rain began to pour down, and about nine oUow a tremendous fromi*ratgrpi broke out. The uproaroT the ©jiSfihta drowned all other sounds, and so about half past ten o'clock Rice, itriaooll, Loiudey. Riley and Soret set out from "OldSockV saloon. In a few minutea they had crossed the small bridge over the canal, and soon afterward they stealthily crept up to the side door by which they were to enter the warehouse.

Driaooll, a very powerful man, was already going to apply his jimmy to the side-door, when loos suddenly whispered "Stojpl I see a light through this crack,

Rico crept eautlooaly to tbe grated window at tho rear end of the building, and. to his disgust, saw old Rose sitting in the counting-room poring over a blank book.

When he returned to his companions, they uttered muttered curses, but deemed ft prudent to

POSTVONB THK FEIX DBKD

they had In contemplation until their unsuspecting victim nad retired for the night.

But what were they to do in the meantime? The thunder storm had abated In violence, and, if they returned to old Sock's saloon, they might be seen by somebody, ana place themselves thereby in imminent danger.

Suddenly, young I/mgfey said: I^et's go to the old Dutcbman'a house on the canal. He has two pretty daughters, and we may have some Am there until it is time."

This proposal was at ouco accepted, and they set out for the place Longley had indicated.

The oid Dutchman waa an aged fltrm er, named Charles l^ahrenbaclj, who lived about half a mile from Lafayette, In a small brick house, with his two daughters, Mary and Barbara, who were respectively eighteen and twenty-one years of age. Old Fahrenbach was in verygood circumstances, and he, like old Mr." Rose, was known to havo generally a large sum of money in his bouse.

The villains knocked at Fahrenbach's door, and a young man, of herculean fig ure, asked what they wanted. It was Fahrenbach's son, Xaverius, who had arrived the day before from Chicago, on a visit to his father.

The unwelcome visitors tried to push him aside, and to forco their way into the house but Xaverius offered them so vigorous a resistance, that they succe^i eaonly In accomplishing their object by STABBING HIM IX THE BREAST AND AB

DOMEN.

The unfortunate young man sank to the ground, uttered aloud scream, and expired.

It has never become known who stabbed him. The murder seemed to intoxicate the scoundrels. They dragged the corpse of their innocent victim into the yard, and mutilated it there in a shocking manner.

Meanwhile, the noise had aroused the other inmates of the house, and old Fehrenbach and his two daughters appeared in the hallway.

Upon seeing them, Rice, Driscoll, and their companions, rushed into the house. The old man was at once overpowered, and bound hand and foot ana then his two daughters, notwithstanding their violent struggles and despairing cries, were subjected Dy the fiends to

THK MOST BRUTAL OUTRAGES. Thereupon the whole house was ransacked, lour bottles of applejack were emptied, and, with their pockets filled with monev ond other valuables belonging to old Fahrenbach, the murderers set out on their way back to Lafayette.

This time, upon reaching Mr. Rose's warehouse, thev found the whole building shrouded in darkness. The proprietor had retired to bed. The side door was forced open, and Rice, who on account of his feline agility, was called

The Man-Cat," crept up to the kennel of the watch-dog, and before the animal began tb bark, threw him a large piece of poisoned meat. Then he lighted his dark lantern, and asked his companions to come in.

Driscoll and he walked on tiptoe toward Rose's bedroom. When they reached the door, they stood still and listened but thev did not l*ear anything but the deep anil regular respirations of the aged

The unfortunate old man did not awake even when the two villians broke into the room. The next moment Driscoll's powerful fingers encircled his throat. Then Rice tied the towel round it, and thus poor Mr. Rose was

THROTTLED TO DEATH

Thereupon the other miscreants were called in, and a general search commenced for the key to the safe In the adjoining counting-room. At length it was found, together with Mr. Rose's watch and pocket-book, tinder his pillow. The three articles were tied to the dead man's body with a string, so that, had anybody tried to take them while he was asleep, J10 would have surely been awakened. One of the members of the gang, in his diabolical infamy, stuck his knife into the eyes of tbe corpse 1

In the safe they found seven bags of gold and nearly three thousand dollafs in bank bills.' They removed the bags to the side door by which they had entered, and then piled up combustibles in the middle of the warehouse, and set fire to them. When the flames had made some headway, they left. Outside, they separated, and did not meet again until ten minutes later, at Old Sock's saloon, where thev and tho spells they broogbt were received by the proprietor with the utmost satisfaction for already the fire alarm had been sounded, and the engines oould be beard hurrying down toward the canal—a sure indicauan that the flames were doing their destructive work. ...

But they did not do it as rapidly as the robbers and murderers had expected for, while they were already celebrating their eudt»ess fn copious potations of Old Seytfe rbfgut whisky, ami swore by all the gods that no one Would he able to find out that Mr. Rose had been murdered and robbed, ..

HLtebAii •(.

A TBtnrujoro srwrs

Was in liking place in front of Ike "burning warehouse. Among the hundreds of people who had been dmwn thither by the notes of the fire bells waa Mr. Rosea only daughter, a young and prepossessing married

pKiltnew

that her

feto*w«i In the

burning warehouse. "I will give one thousand dollars to whosoever will rosette my fether from the flames she shouted out in a voice of heart rend-

"fvo^ytning men rushed boldly into the warehouse. There was a moment, a minute of bwathi«a suspense. Then they ^ppe^.Theywew cwrybw An old owit)* My is saved orted tho good dilughtof, bAfchto h€«elf

fber transports «wce of sheet du-

latlon. wis Immediately discovered that Mr. Rose had been murdered. The choked 1 neckband his eyes had run ont of their sockets!

tH Mr. nose naa ocen muraerec towel, with which he had been 1 to death, was Mill round his ne his eyes had run ont of thetr socl

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The warehouse was laid entirelv in

The warehouse was laid en ashes. Htesngely enoagh, the

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authorities had not began to take any steps to ferret out the perpetrators of this horrible crime at a late hour en the following morning, when peepkL who had passed old Fehranbach's houskand who, noticing the corpse of his murdered son tying in thf yard, had entered the pace, and released the old from hta fetters, and paia the necessary attention to Ids daughters, who were found In a most shocking condition, told in Lafeyetto what they had dammred. Tho story of this

ADDITIONAL 1IORBOR

Snraed like wildfire. Hundred# of excited men hurried to Ftehren bach's house and an hour afterward he and hia two daughters were brought with the corpse of the murdered Xaverius to town. Nothing could exceed the horrible appearance of the remains of the poor young fellow. Ills koe had been stamped into a nuns of bruises by the heels of the heavy boots of his murderera^uid, shocking to relate, the hogs In tbe yard bad begun to tear the flesh mm his legs!

The description which old Ffehrenbach and his daughters gave of tbe persons who had perpetrated this abominable outrage, left no doubt as to who the miscreants had been, and the sheriff, followed bya large crowd of exoitsd people, repaired to Old Sock's saloon.

They found the door locked, and had to force it open. There were but two rooms in the little shanty. In the first they found Old Hock in Ins shirt sleeves, ana hardly able to conceal his trepidation. In the back room lav Rice, Driscoll, Longley, RHcy and Buret, drunk and snoring. They wore all manacled without any difficulty. Then Fehrenbach and his daughters were brought into the saloon, and they immediately identified the men who had done tho fiendish work at their house.

Then tho sheriff searched the saloon. Behind tbe bar he discovered a trapdoor in the floor. He and several others owned it, and descended thostalrcaee leading into the oellar. To their surprise they found the cellar lighted by means of a brightly burning amp, boBide which lay a shovel. The ground had been dug in, and covered "with a little earth were found the seven bags of

Cthat

had been takcu from Mr.

's safe. These bags contained Rose's name, and the mark of an express 00mpany. Old Sock had evidently been interrupted whilo he waa burying the stolen treasure.

This discovery, which convicted Old Sock and his gang of the murder of Mr. Rose, exasperated tbe populace that was waiting outside so greatly that, when tl»e manacled criminals were taken out of the saloon in order to be conveyed to the county jail, a rush was made at the prisoners, who were only saved from summary

LYNCH JUSTICE

Bv the heroic conduct of the sheriff and bis deputies. Once in their cells they were chained to the walls, with the exception of Old Sock, whom tht* sheriff put into the dark oell, with nothing to rest upon but a wooden bench.

After sleeping off their intoxication, the prisoners, notwithstanding their desperate predicament, put on a oold front, and denied having had anything to do with either of the two murders. The sheriff, finally, in order to obtain from the prisoners a full confession*, that might lead to the apprehension of those members of the gang were still at large, resorted to

A CURIOUS STRATAGEM.

Noticing that young Longley, notwithstanding his efforts to simulate utter unooncern at the dread fate that stared him in the face, was secretly shaking in his boots, he had him placed in thofirst cell. About eleven o'clock the same night, he caused one of his deputies to rush, seemingly in great terror, into the jail, and wake up the chained Ixmgley, to whom he said:

Longley, prepare for the worst. Tho vigilants are outside. They want you first."

Longley uttered a cry of terror. You ain't going to give me up to them he said, in a trembling voice.

What shall I do?" replied the deputy sheriff. "There are two hundred of them outside, and the door Is open."

Longley then offered to confess everythingif his life were spared. The object of the ruse waa attained. Several citizens, who had been waiting outside for this purpose, were called in. and to them the frightened young villain told the whole story. Hb informed them also that the remaining members of the gang were undoubtedly hidden in a cabin In the woods, two miles fifom Lafayette,, belonging to a man named Wilson Davis.

Theoonfestdon was afterward confirmed by Riley and Suret, who, upon hearingtnat Longley had

made

a dean breast

oitbe horrible affair, confessed likewise, and, beside, acknowledged nineteen burglaries, larcenies, and other minor crimes, in which Old Book's gang had been engaged.

Old Sock, Rice and lriscoll, however, persisted in their denials. On the following day, "Dutch" Peters, Rixon, and Bell, three other members of the gang, were arrested by fanners in the woods. They trere "tied to trees ami

Mercilessly whipped,

Until they confessed that they had committed several horse thefts and other crimes in the neighborhood. Notwithstanding their abject supplications they were hung by their exasperated captors.

This violent execution, in consequence of the crimes of the gang, was loudly approved by the people of Tippecanoe county, whose capital lafeyetie is.and the only regret expressed waa, that Old Sock and the other outlaws then in jail, bad not shared tbe fete of Peters, Rixon' and Bell.

The trial of the surviving members of the gang, except those two who had fled to parts unknown, commenced on tbe 31st of May. Longley, Riley and Buret wero permitted to turn State's evidence, and, after pleading guilty, were sentence ed to penal servitude for life.

Old Sock demanded a separate trial, bat was convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. The same doom waa pronounced upon Rice and Drieooll.

In consequence of an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ity^tod it, the three culprits were not executed until the 4th of

Jan

nary. 1856. On that day a booth, adjoining to the jail, was erected in tho public square of Lafayette. In it was erected the scaffold. Only twelve citijsens w«rc allowed to witness tbe legal strangulation of the three culprits. A vast and excited crowd a:as surging round the Jail outiride. _»•

At .twelve o'clock sharp, the* cooit honse bell began to toll

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slowly

and:

mournfully. The three doomed men were led out by a window upon the scaffold. They died game, Abe Rice

"^ofd Sock, how shall we bv standing up, or kneeling down '"Standing up/'wasOld "Oood-bv, gentlemen!' said Dnscoll.

The drop fell the same moment-and tho three monsters were launched into

outride became riotous,

aa soon as the hanged men were is, HMA. their corpses had to be shown toy ^leJTSdet, 0

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