Ogden Herald | 1881-12-30 | Page 4 | "a Man as Was Wronged."

A MAN AS WAS WRONGED without caffe remorse or nt if it had ha I been a p pleasant cassan t day d ay and if we all been out of sorts with our luck wo should have had a word of welcome for the stranger as he lie entered our camp that wretched afternoon As it was fifty Y of us saw him loav chinese trail ii at it dead maos elbow and walk into our camp and never a man ninn roses up to salute him tho the stranger seemed to expect just such a reception thatis that is ho he seem scent a bit surprised lie passed down the street we had named road to riches turned to left at the long pine tree and without looking around him he lie S staked taked offa claim and began bevan a to erect a shanty bad man im cd growled judge as ho he partly closed one eye and gave the stranger the tle benefit of the squint int bin bill bounced bounce out of some camp forst for ealin ste alln added the big chap from kentucky tell you lies got a hangdog look put in the man inan known tl ai ohio bill every livery man mail iu in iho the camp was down on the arc fresh h arrival and that with ordinarily wo we were a jolly set and a stranger corning coming among imong us inc words of cheer but t this I I is a afternoon ft cr noon il the i d devil evi I was to pay apay the three mules belonging to camp had stra strayed I ed off and been g gobbled ob bythe by the indians and on t the lie hecla of this discovery came the announcement that we had only salt enough to last two days while the sur sugar was entirely gone so so we wore cross grained and out of sorts and it was lucky for the stran stranger r that he lie gave us no cause to pick a quarrel the next da day y was bright and fair and if it been for judge some of us would have gone over and excused our manners and asked tho the stranger to chip jn in and become neighborly but tho the judge said hes iles a bad un ho lie is I kin tell if it bythe by the way his head is set on oil his body fust thin thing we know knoy a committee itice will come along here and able him up fur robbery or mur cr 11 tivo two weeks had passed and while some of us its had given the stranger a it curt good moning cosning no one had struck hands with him or entered his bis shanty to smoke a friendly pipe then a climax came the six of us occupying one shanty were working in in common and our ag of dust was buried in a comer corner of the fireplace one morning hiis bag was missing and you can call imagine that there was will a first clas clam row in no time there was a hole bolo where some one had dug under tho stones and carried oft our treasure treasur cand and whom acre were we to suspect we had faith in in each other and we could not suspect act outsiders because none of them I knew new NN ducro burbag our bag was concealed and because se this was the first case cas c of stealing ever known on bets betsy y jane hill yes we were mad and in the excitement cit ement of the first discover wo we came very near nair having afree a free fight it increased our auger to discover that we could not reasonably suspect any one and that fact made every oue one of us its try the harder to pick up a clue at length judge sprang to his feet with the tion by the bones of kidd but I know the thief who is lie that hangdog hang liang dog sheep stealing acaling stan stranger gerl hang me if I dream of hid his coming in here last night nigh to borrow a shovel and it was 11 his is I digging under the stones which started that dream ho he lias has held aloof fram us and proof enough th eliat it he lie came here for na gogl purpose it was a straw to catch at we had lost in a knightall nigh night tall all we had gained by months of hard bard work and wo we stop to reason it was decided to lay the charge at the strangers door and if ho be could prove his innocence no cence e so much the better for him the news that tha the white house as we callej called our shanty had been robbed spread like wildfire and as we started for the str strangers angeros claim our crowd numbered a full hundred ho ila was outside at work and aa its he lie saw us coming lie was startled the angry murmurs and black looks must have frightened him you will vill ny ray that an innocent man would have stayed and braved the storm As the crowd swooped down on this man hi lin started off at a run halt halt haiti dr or well shoot eli a score of men hes the thief stop him himl stop him roared the judge five or six shots were fired almost 03 a one and the fu fugitive etive tumbled forward on oil the rocks three bullets entered his back and as the foremost raen inen bent over him and an d turned his white scared soared face to o heaven lie gasped out you have murdered me ine G gad for forgive ve your you kocto ow to bearch him himl eaid said the judge as its lie carco came up anda and a half a dozen dozai hands made quick work of it Ilc sting on oil hia his breast and made fast to his lus neck by a ribbon was a package wrapped in oilskin there was a lutter flutter of excitement as the judge rudely snapped the string il and held the package in his hand it was our dust no we formed in circles around the judge 53 he be sat on a rock and opened the package and in less than a minute there were white faces among us what were the contents A photograph of a fair faced mid dle aged gomill woman an and on the card was written asia mary r died june ath 1857 that was the dead lead mana mans wife there was second photograph photograph that of a baho babe about a i year 01 aldand and jhb judge read aloud in ill a gremb fin ling vote voice our harry died april that was not all on oil a card were locks of their hair there was a gold ring once worn by the wife a faded ribbon which her fingers had touched and a it bit of plaid like tho dress the b baby a b wore when photographed R iles e of what of a fond wife and beautiful child of joy and happiness ofa lovo love and a it fa fathers theris griedl and we were looking down upon these things and feeling our hearts sy shelling elling up tip and our eyes growing misty when up comes our good fol for nothing half witted cook A with Y ith the bag of dust in his hand in repairing the fireplace ho lie had had moved tho the bag and in the excitement over its supposed lowham lo what little wit he lie had was frightened artay avay art ay for the moment the hole under the stones biad been made by some small animal in search of ot food and in our haste we vc had accused aid a id murdered an innocent man mail it came to us in full force forc as we stood there and mon sighed and wiped tild their eyes and wi walked ailed am away ay with trembling steps the judge felt that lie r was as most to blame he was wits looked apon aa as a hard wicked man mail but those relics of tho the dead broke him up heliat ho sat there and r wept pt like a child and in a voice hard hardly ay addible for his great eni ution I he lie moaned q forgive me for foi this awful deeda with sorrow with tenderness with hearts like eh children ilden we ave dug a grave and put tho poor bod body r 1110 into i t iland his own hands the judge u dge planted and en engraved raved thereon here ilem lies a man mam as vas wron wronged g