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Show Romantic Career of a Swiss Desperado. ed of crimes enough to send a dozen A men to the scaffold. He was sentenced to be beheaded. His From the Indiauapolia Journat, Tth. From the Swi Times. execution, however, was delayed until One of those frequent and apparently time of his the 1st of May. Until then Harder man-ifest- unavoidable railroad accidents, D8aiel Harder was atn ihe resulting years of When the greatest fortitude in jail. in the death of a fireman and bralteman, unnatural death twenty-seve- d year eve of the executioner visited him on the and the severe scalding ef the engineer, are and until his twenty-seconbeen had irreproachable, and his death, Harder joked with him occurred near Ogden en the IndianapoMs 'conduct told him he need not fasten his which he suffered iu and WeMern Railroad, in act of injustice head to the block, as he would lie stil! lis, Bloomington nobleman Prussian ol'a hands about before the last nine o'clock. Ow at night 1807 till all was over. He added to the heads him from a to the recent severe rains the road ing of high rank converted man, friend, grind the edge of your bed in sections had become rather un village Bchoolniastr into a axe "My so that you kill toe atone well, eventuand and when conductor Al. Wood-ward- 's relentless enemy of society, blow." On the scaffold he turned to the safe, was scaffold. It to the him' train reached one of these places ally led Landwehr immense multitude ana cxciaimeu in a the rails spread, throwing the engine Gnesen the afier shortly loud tone, "Now see how a man dies !' and five cars off into the ditch. John batiallion had returned from the war Then he knelt down behind the block, Shea, the with Austria, and after Harder who had and engineer. Jack Wright, the his head on it. He grbwlcd fireman, and one of the brakemeu by the served as a private in that corps, had aiouaput when the executioner fastened him name of H. P resumed his duties as schoolmaster at to the block with Carey, were upon the en- the leathern straps. he that near Gneseu, of ' the accident, and a time at the tfrodzyk. village " lie said, calmlv. gine slow Hett-etedare "ion very Von t, Baron when the huge machine pitched into the Hccideutally met the while the headsman took out his terrihle ditch they became entangled unier the the Major of the battallion. The axe. "Strike! Strike!" The axe fell of liquor, so that they wero unable to 15aron was under the influence before twice the head of the great out- - machinery extricate themselves. While thus held and without any provocation whatever, i - ... l Harder very grossly. iaw was severeu irom nis oouy. Jvot a prisoners the scalding ftaui commenced began to 'abuse few of the superstitious spectators dip was taken lo deluge them. The Harder tried to get away from him, but in Haider's out in a few momentsengineer ped their handkerchiefs him and in his and escaped with epit the Baron struck blood. a severe along one arm and several face. This was too much for the village burns about the choohmster. He turned furiously upon hips and shoulders. His A Case. comrades were not so lucky, and before his assailant, and although the latter could be removed from the wreck was in full uniform, beat him severely, Yesterday a number of women visited they broke his sword, and, left him bleeding the Brooklyn Morgue to view the body the flesh had been literally cooked upon and almost insensible on the ground. found in the river at the foot of Kintr their bones, and though stiil alive, they On He then left for parts unknown. street on luursday morning. Lach de were suffering the most indescribable out the following da a summons was issued scribed or marks about the tortures. The fireman was take Horrible Peatii. Logan 2dc 1 c. Brancli, XVI. WHOLESALE Dry Goods, tiroeeries, Hardware, Doots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Crockery, GlaKKvrarc, Aotlons, Arc, V'c. Stoves and Tinware, Drugs Gents9 fc Medicines and Boy's Ready Made Clothiny, IN GREAT VARIETY. Queer peculiarities feet, teeth, mouth and hair of a missing first, and lived in horrible torture 'until husband or triend, and established be nine o'clock yesterday morning, when yond doubt, in her own mind, the dead ueatn ended his sunerings. Carey whs man's, identity. Mrs. Floyd, of b'li not so fortunate, the heavy machinery Grand street, Williamsburg after exam having ratten upon one ot his ankles so that he could not be moved. He lay there nin;; the clothing, said that the body must be that of her Charles without power ot motion until nearly Diehl, an insurance agent, who has been twelve o clock, when, by almost super RETAIL AND 1 against him by the Gnesen military tribunal, and, failing to appear, he was sentenced to be shot. All the efforts to ascertain his whereabouts remained fruitless, and six months afterward the affair was well nigh forgotten. lhere was but one man who remembered it with the keenest bitterness, and that was Daniel Harder himself. While hu had hWden from the police he had brooded over the great wrong that had been done to him, and determined to wreak a terrible revenge upon the Baron The latter lived in a Von Hettstedt. Gne-ecvery fine mansion, two miles from on the 3rd after Shortly midnight of August, 18G7, a fire broke out in the The mansion at three different places. in laid was ashes, and, speedily building owing to the rapidity with which the flames spread, one of the Baron'gchildren The conflagration perished in them. was evidently the work of an incendiary, and the people's voice at obce designated Daniel Harder as the mna who had done I. CELEBRATED SINGER SEWING MACHINES, Wood's Champion and Excelsior Mowers and Reapers, Bain, Whitewater and Studebaker Wagons, ALSO, son-in-la- Winchester and Democrat IJght Spring Wagons, human exertion, the workmen succeeded missing some months. Her description in extricating him from his fetters. oi the height and build of Diehl. corres then endeavored to remove his They onded exactly with that of the dead AND EVERY DESCRIPTION OF man. Mie said that Diehl did not live clothing for the purpose of bathing him in oil, but found that this could not be happily with his wife, and weut from home last September, saying he was go done, as the flesh would crumble under the slightest touch, which would caue ing to Germany to recover Borne proper the sufferer to utter the most heart-renty. inree weeks ago lie was seen in ing cries and pray the bystanders to end Buggies to Order oil Short Sot ice. Williamsburg. As nothing could be done While Mrs. Floyd was describing her his torture. a woman accompan that would afford the least relief, the missing ied by an officer from police headquar terribly burned man could only await ers. examined the clothing and body the coming of the angel of death. He At first she was positive that it was her lingered, however, until about nine o husband. Further investigation, how- clock yesterday moruing,,when he, too, same manner as his ever, convinced her that she was mis found relief in the comrade. taken. Both men reside in Urbana, where All Kinds of Produce Forwarded to Any Point on the Shortest Notion. it. On the dead man's left arm is a scar A reward of $1,000 was offered for Two German women were the first to they have lamilies dependent upon them All Orders Sent to M. THATCHER, Logan, will Herein his apprehension, and the gensdarmie call attention 16 this mark. One identi for support. Wright was well known been upon the the of the whole district was sent out to fied the route, along having of her the as that husband, Prompt Attention. body road for several years. Carey has only hunt him ud. It was discovered that he other saying it was that of her son. had been in the neighborhood, but he In the afternoon, a young German been employed a short time. Lngineer Daniel woman called at the Morgue. managed to elude pursuit. Before Shea, whose wounds are not of a serious Harder had set lire to the Hettstedt seeing either the clo'hing or the body, nature, was taken to his home in Tcrre mansion, and henceforth bis career was she claimed the body as that of her hus Haute. Ihe wreck of the cars was that of an outlaw knowing that his life band, having been told that her descrip cleared away sufficiently to allow the of the trains yesterday morning The peasants began to lion of her husband, was forfeited. corresponded in passage look upon him as a dare devil, endowed every particular with that of the dead with almost superhuman powers of en man. She bad described the scar on A In oodurance, fiendish, malignity and the the arm, saying that it was a bullet Mountains. We next wound. At the side of the elevator con most indomitable courage. rfi HAVE OPENED IN LfoGAN & OGDEJT, BRANCHES OF OUR WAOoN find him associated with a band of high necttng with the cellar are the dead mile from Jamestown, About one and MACHINE DEPARTMENT, bo that the people of the North vast of the forests made robbers.who W way hile the keeper was man 8 clothes. Russell county, there lives one of the Counties can purchase without coming to Salt Lake City. the Gnesen district their from which the raised crank turning and whose chief he became soon after the gloomy depths below the platform on most remarkable iamuics in all this ward inconsequence of Lis superior in which was the body covered with ice. commonwealth, and, probably in the telligence. the weeping woman stood examining United States. Mr. Jas. J c Ones, Supplied to thM polnti m being the bait, after much itudaod experience, and know that 1'nrrh.w r The band, under his leadership, be each article of clothing and recognizing who is now in this cuu reljr ud tliii recommendation. on city serving When eame a scourge to the district. It com it as belonging to her husband. mitted hundred of lawless acts : it rob the body rose above the floor the wo the petit jury of the United States bed, killed and burnt, and at'oue time man, looking at it, said : "Oh, sir, that Court, tells his own stery, and says fought a regular battle wiih ten mounted is my husband, Ferdinand." She said that he was married before lie was gendarmes, m which two or the latter that his name was Ferdinand A. Meeker, seventeen years old, his wife being were killed. Harder delighted in bid of Troop avenue. He went from home five days younger than himselt. ding defiance to the authorities. Once last November with $700, which he had only he visited Gnesen in disguise, and called taken from a savings bank. He left a They lived together seven years A few hours letter saying that he would never re without children, when his wile gave MO WEILS, upon the Policemaster. afterward h sent that dignitary a let turn. Three weeks ago he was seen in birth to twins, a boy and a girl. In ter, in which he informed who his visi Williamsburg. Meeker had been a sold the fifteen years which lollowcd, SULKY HAKIX. MACHINES tor had been. During the year of 1870, ier in the war, and was wounded in the nineteen children were born to the the impudence of the Harder band be arm. On bis return to Williamsburg he happy couple, each of the first three came so great that a detachment of reg obtained $400 pension moaey.. The Celebrated THOMAS NXCHf TIII7VO IIABKAW, warranted to mke th btt t nlar cavalry was sent out to scour the So positive was Mrs. Meeker that the births beins: twins, and each subseBed and to bo the beot cnltivator for grain, (rain, corn tr potato!, yet invented. .Our belt farnra a Harrow on trial. woods and hunt the daring criminals body was that of her husband that she quent birth alternating between can have Then IteDartmeriti will W irWe Information and ordert for TCRBINJC WIIKE19. Pkll'T down, but all to no purpose. Harder begged to be allowed to take it home twins and single births until the MACHINES, OK1ST and SAW MIL1S, or other article not uuualljr kept lu stork. became such a terror to the district that The other women had been equally pos fifteen years were accomplished, and the peasant did not dare to give informa itive Mr. McGuire for the tenth time M OS E.N TnATCIIER, AGENT, LOCAV. tion that, might iead to his apprehension examined the body, particularly the scar nineteen children composed the lam bein twins of seven The Mayor of the village of Dilitzka, on 'he left arm. He ascertained that it ily circle, pair BARXARD W1IITK, AGENT, OODEV. who had volunteered in lb72 to lead the was not a scar, but an abrasion, caused born dunn ir the time. .Mr. Jeffries 20tf H. B. CLAWSON, Superintendent. . geiisd'armes to his place of conceal by the ice whi.h had been placed on the is only 45 years old, and is still ment, was brutally murdered a few body to preserve it. in appearance ana very weeks afterward. It was this assassin Who the man is or how lie came to his youtatul wife never had better stout. His ation that finally led to the arrest of the death, is a mystery. If he committed in health life than at the present, her a (treat bandit. The murdered Mayor of suicide, he first placed seven pound Pilitzka had four children, the eldest of smoothing-iro- n in a leather satchel, and though she will not weigh 100 ' whom was Sophia Josephine Arniti, who afier tying the satchel to his wrist, fired pounds. Her greatest weight at any SOUTH SECOND OltOESBECK'S at the time of her father's death was a pistol ball through his brain and fell BLOCK, STREET, Th was time of 110 pounds. boy and over into the river. " The clothing is well he was eighteen. 1G5 wcichs first the now twins endowed with superior intelligence. The preserved, and does not seem to have cowardly assassination of her fatlie been long in the water. The paper cuffs pounds, and the girl 125 pounds. made a deep impression upon her, and are intact- - The polish on the iron is All the boys who have grown have oe swore to herself to bring the murJUST HECEIVKD A LARGE AND VARIED STOCK OP marred bv only & few spots of rust. JV. made large men ; the girls arc- of JJAVE derer to justice. r. World. good size, and all tho children .;:; With true feminine shrewdness and exhealthy. Bat five of tho nineteen The Paris Figaro says that the Shah's traordinary powers of dissimulation, she have died. .Mr. Jeffries has ten Biauaged to hive an interview witn Dan baggage contains 200 talismans, four of all of whom are large men, iel Harder, and made him believe that which it describes. brothers, a star One is gold he renown of his bloody and daring of five points, and supposed to have been and within the families of these ten AKO deeds had caused her to fall in love with possessed by the legendary Itustem. It brothers there aro thirty-seve- n pairs him. She was handsome, his vanity is called Merzoum, and has the reputaof twins, making seventy-fou- r twui was excited in a word he accepted her tion of making conspirators immediately to hosts of the say Dothing declaration of love and said he would confess. When the Shah's brother was children, of Mr. Five births. of Jeffries' single some time the treason since, accused could of her. ha She told him that aarry neet her the next evening at the Golden star was shown him, and, terrified and children are married, and, added to Which thej are offering at lower price than any other house in the city. Ox tavern, one rule from Gnesen, where overcome by remorse, be avowed his in- these facts, notwithstanding singular 09 he was about to of course, the absence locks on his accept a place as a ser- iquities. Hii confession was, of silvery A Stoek banLarge vant Rirl. She talked with such appa- attributed t it efficacy. He was talisman is head, he is the grandfather of five rent frankness that Harder did not for a ished. The next impo-tafoment suspect her. He promised to a cube of ameer which fell from heaven chi ldren. Louuville Cou rier. Oct. eet her there at the appointed time in in Mahtmet's time. It is supposed to 18A. ' ALL KIVM.AT and be the disguise of a peddler. He kept his render the Shah invulnerable, is a neck. bis Another about or it ana wears verv at trancisoo i was arrested at oneo and Mayor Ppo;ntnent, in emeralds, and eeniblj remarks that the proposed city 7 ix gensd'armea, whom the girl had little box of gold, set notified of his eoming. Ten days after- blessed by the Prophet. It renders the ordinance depriving Mongolian prio-ner- s Freight added. as they ward he wag of their . que ia tantamount to placed on his trial before Royal family invisible a loug e criminal assizes cf 83-- 1 cue from Chinese barbarism. taking Orders from the country Promptly Filled, y Gnoaen, convict are celibates. Farming n. d Implements. California and Concord Harness and Harness Trimmings. X.cutlier nnd Shoo Ifinrting'M. son-in-la- II. B. CLAWSOX, Superintendent. Z. C. M. I. 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