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*Mr# Fredoux, whose waggon had come up,- and was standing about twenty yards distant, approached once and-again to warn Neteoif that; at fbrist^ca was Impossible, ftwas to his interest to submit. Preparations to start werobeing made by Kelson’s people, and the’oxen’ were bronghtrnear# Mr. Fredoux once more repaired to the rear of KeLeon’s* Waggons At? this moment hie stepson' heard his fathertalking-to himself or prayfiagk and lifting arcoiner of the frontsail, saw him standing, in the hinder-part of the'Waggon,'with a pipe in one hand* and a luoifer match- in the other,immediately'over the spot wherSlTolbs. of gunpowder lay.He apprehended no dangers as the gunpowder was ; well'covered up; bntg as the event proved, Kelson most havemade hiB Why tb if, for the moment after Mr. Fredoox's voicewas heard from the backef the waggon, an explosion tookplace, and blew the wretched cause of it to* atoms. The son,who was standing at or near the forewheel,' was flung to adistance with, others above him# He rose, wounded inseveral parts of the body, and made his way to where thehinder part of the waggon. had stood. There lay sixblackened bodies one of which he judged to be that ofFredoux, from ^ the elastic shoes which remained on his feet,all else was a cinder. Kot* willing to believe bis sensesr hetottered to Fredoux’s waggon,* but Fredoux was not there.He, the innocent^ involved* in the destruction1 of the guilty.had sped to meet his Lord and Advocate at the bar of eternal justice.
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Watchman and Wesleyan Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Jun 20, 1866
Page 6
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