Wonderful Tencity of Life.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 154, 22 October 1872, Page 7

Wonderful Tencity of Life.

(Translate I for ’he .1 The following wnadvi’ul ami almost incredible story is told in the imizdh. dii J*UV at>onfc an attempt at mirder at St. Andiol, near the mouth of theKlione :—“ About 10 o'clock, on a n'g’it eatv in Jul”, the rnnl constable of Mm leges ui.s returning from his night patrol on tile roa< balding from Moms to .vloileges, when, withn 5 M yards from the village o: Molleg-'S he lot ced a man stealing straw from a. stick, win. seeing he was discovered, tried to sive iiiasel; by going to tlie other side or the stack. The constable went a r tnr him, and, reeo piisi’g him as a folio-. - villager, sought to arrest linv : hut the thief took him by surprise—groked him do vn, kick d him in the fare til lie hid shinned him, ta«-n seizing a shorn,weighing between 10 and C>) pounds, struck lim repeated blows on the !i a T. Noticing, tii it hj s vi :tini’s I bodv was soil warm, an I wishing to make I sure of his death, lie seize! his .straw-dra.ver, I an iron instrument with two bent prongs, and with this struck him eight or ten bio.vs acr vss the head to finisl ’nun. This time, thinking him dead, ho ■ ok him into ins arms, a id tried to get hm upon his Inck ; 1 but. not succeeding, he nont and fetched :i | largo fag got of wood, laid the constable or it. ' and tried to - draw him along, hut again failed, j He then took the feet of the constable oven jhis shoulders, and with b.s head trailing or i the ground, carried him over twenty ya’ils

and threw him head first down an old well t'-iree or four yards deep, and containing water to the depth of four or live feet. The vict.m was not. dead, and the water reanimated him. In the meantime, the murderer vas picking no abo.it twenty atones, of which three weighed at least 451!). or sJib. each, riieaa he threw down into the well, thinking thereby to effect aIE crash his victim. Happily, though unknown to the murderer, the construction of the well was such as to pro vent the gjpnes hitting the const „b'.e on the ne id, and it was only his body tii'at suffered irom them. Every minute the murderer stopped cu listen if tlu const idle breathed, and them rce ) unvmcw.l his work, but the om - stable said uutl ing, and during tlie intervals ,bold las breath, Finally the assassin, using hi? str.Lw fork, s night to ascertain the po;l----t;wn of what J,e thought was a corpse, and caught the const iblu under the chin. Set ing himstli thus seiz d, with no hope of safety, the poor icllow made a supreme effort, and caused the mart e cr to let go of the implement. Furious, the latter went in search of more stones, but finding none, took his victual s gun, which, fortunately, had gone off in the struggle, and commenced to batter him with the slock. * The constable managed to; get the gnu away from him, commenced to resist, and succeeded in drawing himself up the well ; when the murderer, seeing a young { man approaching, Umk to flight. The con-1 stride managed to drug himself along to a | cottage about fifty yards awav, and called for asdstuice, having aucct eded nearly all r.he; time the terrible drama was being enacted in i Keeping h.s senses. Die accidental siciour! of the constable was the assassin’s own son, • who, it. appears, passed near the well when i the drama commenced, but being frightened 1 bvt’ne muse ran awav. Subsequently forgetting his fear, he ret urned to ascertain the cause of the noise. Ho then saw a man r in- : nin.g awav and another dragging himself p unhiliy along. He let the running, man, in 1 whom he del mv recognise h.s own fa'her, ‘ run, and, at a distinct?, followed the otaerj one. Tiie assassin was arrested on the following dav at Cuviilimi, where he was coolly! engaged selling cattle. The constable is' nearly out of danger, notwithstanding sixty-! two wounds on the head, some of which are ; an inch deep, and a number of other contusions on his body.”