| Show THE JUST OF V AN item appeared in our telegraphic dispatches not long since respecting the shooting of a bon son in law benjamin H EE lindsay by his father in law captain william H hayward heayward HH ayward for seduction at chester a vi village on vix mond and petersburg railroad virginia it a ap p pears that lindsay had been at richmond and on his return called at his bis father in laws where the girl who had been seduced had been delivered of a male child about an conr before hayward invited him up stairs with the remark that there was a young man up there who desired to see him he led him into the youn gladys gladya room where she was in bed and a physician was sitting in a chair beside her hayward led lindsay up to the bedside and turning down the sheet showed him the child at the same time remarking let me introduce you to your son kon the victim of Y your sour villainy 11 lindsay seemed overwhelmed with guilt and despair he sat himself down on the bed looked at the child and the mother but sald bald not a word hayward sternly demanded are you the father of this thia child lindsay said if she says so areck I 1 reckon I 1 lam iam am hayward then turned to his daughter and asked my daughter I 1 ask you in the presence of this man inan is he the father of the child she replied he is 19 11 hayward then faced lindsay and inquired if he had anything in of his hia crime to say f lindsay rejoined quite choll coolly ya 1 I must have time to consider and hayward told him 1 I will give you time he waited about three minutes lindsay still kept his hia chair and hayward was standing near the head of the bed the doctor retained his seat hayward repeated have you anything tos tog hoggay to say gay and upon lindsay saying that he had not and that he supposed the child was his drew from his hia right p pantaloons guta yuta loons pocket a four pistol and deliberately fired at lindaay who still retained his position upon the bedside the first two shots missed him the third hit him in the tho thigh 1 the fourth in the abdomen when lind say fell back upon the bed begging that he should be troubled no more as he had got his death wound he was arter afterwards ter wards carried by the doctor and his brother in law luto into another room he expressed great penitence for his crime said he knew he was going to die and did not blame Hay haygari wari warl for what ho he had done he died the next nest morning it appeared at the examination that lind baya saya intimacy with the girl he had seduced had commenced previous to his mairl mairi marriage age with her sister he confessed to having taken plans to prevent discovery I 1 but they had bad miscarried he stated that after his marriage to her sister he had taken no liberties with her he told one of his friends who called upon him after he was shot that there was one portion of the bible which is true and that was where it says the way of the transgressor Is hard bard the comm Commonwealth commonwealths 8 attorney colonel ambers though on the side of the prosecution after listening to the evidence addressed the presiding magistrate and recommended that the prisoner be discharged at once he said there was no jury which could be em panelled panel led on gods earth white or black savage or civilized which would find the accused guilty ot murder the feelings of a father rise up in every mans bosom against the commission of such foul crimes he did not think this was a case in which either the public morals or public safety t required the accused to be set on 71 SQ should be discharged then it would warn men of libidinous appetites that when they do these deeds they do them not only at the risk I 1 of an avenging father but of an aven avenging ging public also the magistrate discharged the prison er |
