Wooster Republican in Wooster, Ohio

Night on the Abbey Bridge becomes aid to a wretched plan

A fragment from Chambers Journal recounts a suspenseful scene where a madman sets a trap on a rail near Hindlesham Abbey Bridge. A cautious observer and a helper manage to free the obstructing timber just as a train nears, ending in the maniac’s death and a postscript from the narrator’s wife praising his poetry found on the locomotive.