| Show TORTURES OF A WICKED conscience A convict in van biemans Di emans land after quarreling relin 0 with one of the overseers brutally boutall murdered him ile he immediately escaped wIK a few and a gun to the wild solitude foll foli tude of the bush the murderer murder ir ived lived for borao oie ole tl time line like ilke L e a savage savages oz occasionally bakir g his hta appearance armed to fo the teeth at vario varlo various huts i here he peremptorily demanded food the convicts mind ultimately succumbed to the severe mental agony and physical distress to which it was waa exposed and he bec amea dangerous lunatic iuna Juna tic ile he wa was a eventually evert everi tully per to be under the dominion of a terrible hallucination he imagined that he be was constantly bantly being pursued by b the ghastly phantom of his murdered victim he wa was s observed to to rush frantically from tree to tree bush to bush house bouse to bouse house from one part of the tho district to another endeavoring to fly like an animal hunted to death by ferocious b hounds ti from fr in the clutches of some perses constantly in his bis wake and steadily tracking i ng his path the maniac eventually astren sut rendered dered himself into the hands hand of the police alleging that annihilation was preferable to the agony of mind which he suffered in fact although insane he be prayed earnestly earnest Jy for death beath at tle tho hands of f the public executioner iii in order to extricate himself from the spectral image imae ima lmae e that hat was never absent from his mindl |
