MURDER WILL OUT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2745, 10 January 1882, Page 2

MURDER WILL OUT.

! vTwo, murderers, have e^e 4 -. ali; TjejJcriSc* ' TKb, .machine, .when [applied to. the victims ; a5; they stood ,on a, Jiigb platform before. the crowd,,oporated ip a most unequal .manner upon the.two men;;: The one who was first ddpp to death before the eyes -of bis f eon;rpdp, suffered torments for .several seconds, whereas the other,, when his turn came, perished almost immediately.. It : is difficult^’ howeyrir,' to fed - mUch*’sympathy with eithriF of these sidering the special baseness.'or thoir crime,and the ’strong presumption whic| there was . for .a long,.tiinpVthat Ahby would escape punishment^' altogether. The circumstances : ot , Abe. hmrqer aye very peculiar, and illustrate in r a striking way the old maxim concerning the do*’ teetion of murderers. A young English* man had been living on the island for years, on terms; of friendship jwith th» Spaniards now executed.- He had confided to them the fact’ of his having; re? ceived a. largo sum of > money, arid they found - J«i; easy while walking hear a wfflrifefy'.'td'thVoiv 'chalk dust in bis eyes apd Aill him with tht# daggers^ ’’ They theritook his keys and made jilietriselves the possessors of {KiPmone^ turned, and, .: lr picking*:; Up; his dead body, cast it hastily into, an old tomb that had, not been used for years. Nothing 'mote »|ib heard ~bf'the i |ffair till a few dliys afterwards a funeral party .arriving at ,the, cemetery ( o<)in,j polled to wait sberie ti’uie f6r a riecc’sii«i?y document to bury their dead. While wandering about the plario, one of these persons noticed that the o!d..V£ult had lately been' disturbed. ’ The ’murderers* I had brogeg , jthe, stone covering i tomb in hurriedly replacing it, aria tl’ras a discovery of the whole affair was most unexpectedly brought about.