A STRANGE STORY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 110, 17 March 1870, Page 7

A STRANGE STORY.

Another proof, of the old adage " murder will out" is given, by the Trenton" Sentinel." :— It is forty years, ago, or more, since the dead body of"ar stranger was found in the woods, near- the Stonybrook bridge,, about one mile to the east of Pennington, a village in. New J«ersey county. We were a child then, and resided near said village,E!.ndrem.-emiber irbe circumstance well. It was an incident to make a lasting impression in, a -quiet rural neighbourhood. Years later, when we boys used to go irt to swim^ in. that locality, b>y reference to the circumstances, for- boyhood, as well aa. age, is superstitious. Nobody beHev.es iiu ghpsts, and yet almost everybody is afraid of them ! The body was found in> a sitting posture against a beech tree. The face dis- *■ tprted, the eyes protruding, as. though

the dead man had died m agony. His I hat lay a few feet from him. His dress betokened one in comfotable circumstances. He was a stranger, and no one ever remembered to have seen him* There was no money upon the corpse. The body, without special examination, was buried, we forget where. There were no wounds upon it, and 'no evidence of violence. At that day, "puplic scrutiny was not so acute in reference to the mysterious deed, ana" no verdict of supposed murder was recorded. And now cornea the strange elucidation of the case. A few days since accident placed in our hands a copy of the ''Manchester (England) Examiner." Tn the number we found the dying confession of a man, named Daninel Hulseman, acknowledging to a murder perpetrated forly years ago, in the State of Ne\v Jersey, United Stales of America. The murdered man's name was Jamea Eberhart. The murderer was acquainted with his victim in the old country, and came out about one year before him. Huheman was a tanner, and' worked iv New York. When Eberhart came over he sought out his old acquaintance. He had about £200 in money. On pretence of examining the country and purchasing land, Hulseman started with Eberhart on a tour through New Jersey. He had with him a flask of poisoned brandy, as he resolved to murder hu friend for the money he had. They first stopped at Princeton, and then concluded to walk across the intervening nine miles to Pennington, the weather beinig pleasant, and public travel being greatly circumscribed* When within a mile of the latter placo they stepped over into the woods, under a tree to partake of some victuals they had procured before starting. Hulseman then passed his flask to his companion, who drank liberally* r.nd died within an hour thereafter in fearful agony. Hulseman looked on all the while. He then robbed him. of his money, and set him up against the tree, as before described. There are still old men about Priceton who will remember this avent. It seems almost marvellous that after the. laps© of forty years this affair should havecome to light by a death-bead confess sion, three thousand miles from the place of cunamission. And yet i' 3 ever; so.