Show J y who killed coffmn coffin ia I 1 on saturday february 1873 eli T caffin was murdered alilin and in the evening his body was hung bung under dera a bridge on turkey Creek about of atlantic the whole case js Is familiar to lo our readers commins coffins wife had ly died and it is supposed that her death was caused from exposure and starvation commin coffin wasi worth several thousand dollars but was miserly and in tion ho he had bad three children two girls and ono one boy the youngest being eleven years of age at the time of his murder he w was ason abou on ball bail to appear for trial on orl th the e charge or of being accessory to his cifes guenth the circumstances or of hh his deab death led many maly to believe that his brother inlaw in law of chicago who came out to assist I 1 in ti prosecuting tid tin g boffin aud to look iok after arter the children and their int interests erets together with the tile incensed citizens of the locality joca yoca lity were the perpetrators of the murder the business of the commin collin estate has not been entirely settled yet jet the property was left in a complicated shape mr lyman VV right a merchant residing at lewis and a brother ln in law lav to the murdered man is the administrator this much we onner ofner that the uninformed reader may mily understand the following thrilling story thursday even oven evening in g bec december ember 3 1 1874 1574 at ai TO 10 mr wright was klone rione in his store room at lowi low i JA 0 reinig of the firm of childs ReInI reinig gaud gand and james jamea gilmore a W well weli e 11 known farmer had just gone out mr wright had fastened the back door securely and had just blow blew out the lamp in the back part of the store room passed to the cellar and let the old oid savage bavage dog which coffin owned during life ilfe out of the cellar into the store room and went to the front part of the storeroom store room to blow out the hanging lamp just as aa ho be turned around and set the small smail hand lamp which he had in his hand on the counter be observed a man coming from the back part of the store toward the stove the man walked walked but his footsteps made no noise mr wright v 1 bohde wondered re d where the man mam c came m e fro from 1 ml as he thought all the men had gone out the man came to the stove and noiselessly seated himself mr wright left the small lamp on the counter and walked to the stove where the man rose from the chair and said row how mow are you mr wright mr wright took the mau man by the hand and ie recognized cognized 1 him as being eli T conn conf commin coffin liff with the same clothes on that li he wore on the day that he was hurried out of the world mr wright assured our special reporter that when he wright took coffin by tile tiie hand a thrill III lii passed through his whole e body sueh such As as he be had never felt he be dore fore it was like taking hold of a galvanic anid Auld battery the angel coffin seated sealed himself on tho same bame chair that he just fecu ped pled I 1 annd amid iid lid mr wright rested him seif self seif in adother abb bbb other chair six feet distant the old dog jumped up upon on coffins lap and commin coffin pushed him away he had no time to fool with dogs he ile had bad another mission to per perform forna mr bir wright asked who killed you I 1 coffin replied til ill was shot ahot in the stairway ot henry house by a stranger D K carter the debusk boys and jesse smith were there they bucked and gagged me and left me in the lower part of mr rogers bogers house until night carter put the newspapers over my head at night they hauled me in my wagon and hung me under the bridge 14 M wright asked the spirit the object of his visit now he replied as follows whitney still has fifteen hundreds dollars that he be borrowed of me andone audone and aud one hundred and twenty dollars that I 1 left on depo deio deposit sit ait I 1 dont ilont ivanh want whitney to pay any or of that to carter nor to emma but I 1 want it to be divided between the boy and faud the other girl mr wright says that at this juncture lie he felt feit so sure that it was commin coffin that he longed for somebody else to tol come in and be convinced also and wearing hearing a noise in front jike like some one walking on the sidewalk lie he turned his head bead and looked towards the front door and when he be turned his head back to its forme lormer position the ghost apparition pann pahn tiou tion angel or whatever you may call it was gone after his visitor had bad gone mr wright lighted all the lamps in the store and looked the establishment through from cellar to garret but hut could find nobody he ed then blew out the lights and started home when about halfway half way home mr wright informed our reporter that fear Overda overcame md him and his hair assumed a perpendicular attitude as it were on reaching home he told his wife his experience and tried to go to sleep but he sleep any that night mr wright is well known in this country he lle I 1 ii not a believer in ghosts spiritualism or anything of that kind but he authorizes us to say that he did have just such an interview with commin coffan as above narrated and he would make oath to it if it were the last act of his ilfe lire he asks ask nobody to believe him but rays says ys he knows that what lie lle says is true heis hels he is not a nervous or u ahie abie 1 le rn man a n but since he lle had the above b 0 angelic elic eile interview he does not leel leei like the same being he talks of the matter a great deal we W e make no comments the public have the story and can form own conclusions and frame their own explanation s atlantic legram telegram Ib |