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Wisconsin Chief, The (Newspaper) - January 30, 1864, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin THE WISCONSIN Published by T W. Emma VOLUME 13. POET JAN. 30, 1864, per in Advance NUMBER 2. FOR THE A MURDER A CONCLUDED FROM THE NOVEMBER Again the excited populace gathered around the rude scaffold under the This there were three candidates for the in- stead of I was for I did aot understand or by what we were to escape the doom so closely There WH were side by the ropes the sentence and the people impatient for the They seemed to literally thirst for Their voices reached us and made the flesh creep on the No mercy in the eyes glaring upon Arthur seemed and bore many a cruel insult without deigning a Gerald was Not a per escaped his compressed but his eye ed his hatred of that crowd His long hair hung in a heavy mass over his broad and his hunting shirt was bared on the but every muscle of the body and was as rigid as if of His arms were pinioned and his clenched hands worked with the violence of his Up the open space through the ber and out across the I turned my eye constantly for signs of Were we to dit en that and fur no crime And without even the mockery of a trial before such a tribunal said with assumed evident we have tried with closed The testimony is over- Arthur is already convicted of and this of aiding and are convicted of resisting the laws in procuring the release of a and also of stealing from the the body of one of our citizens last Saturday evening Ton were you Unbind these and I will choke the falsehood down your ruffian hissed Gerald between his Markly foamed with and forgot striking Gerald in the The latter sprang and before the wretch dreamed of the planted his heavy boot full in the The people fairly bowled their and ranged around the each one eager to avenge the act of and ringing away through the still was a whistle from near my elbow Gerald must have made for I saw him lift his head from the haud It was instantly answered by another in the and followed by the ringing tramp of a hundred horsemen they as swept down the each man armed with tomahawk and In their was a female closely The crowd around the outnumbered the horsemen two to but there was that about the latter which had a magical and the people parted like as the sturdy men rode up and surrounded the Markly paled a moment as he saw the new but and called on the people to stand firm and vindicate you red-handed shouted whose arms had been liberated by one of the law shall be vindicated and justice have her Ere Markly was Gerald had lifted the noose from his own neck and thrown it over that of the gentlemen continued you are used to setting as and Your dent is guilty of all I have charged The testimony is and twelve of you shall de- cide whether before the sun goes he shall not swing on the tree where he hoped to hang those innocent of no Twelve of you advance and be seated here in said the twelve men were compelled to enter the are the same condemned this boy to death for the murder of old Mr He was The murderer is before you and we shall see whether you will be as ready to give him to the You gasped try ing to wrench the rope ever his head and push through the shall coolly answered Gerald f caused the death ol one I in the State from which you fled a I might have for- given you for but for your attempt to take the of another I For the murder of Mr. your friends and neighbors shall judge The trial was but Arthur Moore's evidence was given in a. touching and now that the boy had power behind many began to be less clamorous for his Slowly at and with frequent tremors creeping over she detailed the horror of that night of blood j how she had entered her father's apartment for some article of and caught sight of the and that murderer was She fled and Markly was a piteous sight to with mortal fear and shaking from head to he looked the wretch that he A lifetime of crime was at length and Justice to be meted out upon the Like most such he proved a coward at The justice of a The very men who but a little while since were raging for the blood of an innocent and were about to take his life in the name of law and were now ready to visit the same doom upon the man who had ever led and As the wave of feeling beat they now beheld but a lain in him whom they had so long trusted and him with were the same cries that smote the still air when a ed boy mutely appealed to their sense of reason and Markly sought to but could A life of crime stalked in before and the words were crushed back into his blackened To was A motion of the aud the wretch slowly went up towards the heavy the stout frame writhing in its terrible The rough men were and Gerald turned away with more of pity than anger upon tKe God have mercy upon he and sprang from the planks to the Till the sun went down and the shadows veiled the that form slowly moved in the evening and the Regulators went to their sadder and wiser At the body of the President had as had the band and its That cruel so called ceased to Their leader was and their fearful no With came a sense of the great wrong they had often and of the cruelty of MOB The next witness was the veiled woman who came with the As she sprang upon the a murmur ran through the excited l- Who is she was on every lady lifted her and Jessie Saville stood face to face with the President of the trick is shouted the cowed calling frantically to the said hear what she has to DISSIPATION IN HIGH few days according to current a most dis- graceful scene was witnessed in the lower honse of One of the members of that body is said to have appeared upon the floor and de- livered a maudlin speech while deeply The conduct of the representative the more disgusting from the fact that the theme of his incoherent talk was the death of Senator of It will be a day for in some re- unfortunate when the people learn to place none but sober men lu Chicago Com. Adv. May we live to see the day when the people learn to place none but sober men in

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