The Olsburg Gazette from Olsburg, Kansas • 7

THE CEIME OF A FIEND HANGED, BUT IS ALIVE EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM EASTMAN. Popolir Ldxt r'e I Cillfo-1 I Pzeoratoa The Santa Fe Route laity excursions to California Ir, tourist steeping cars are deservedly popular. Car are ot newest pattera and very comfortable, having every necessary convenience. These excursions are accompanied by Pullman conductors and porters, aud are patronized by many of tha best people. Low rate tickets.

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T. Santa Fa Kansas City, Mo. era to nUl nsmlc' fc fore iastltutin an lnrti-atloa. At daybreak William Gcss, C. Vt.

Thurstcn c-d Gecr3 R. Scbar entered the hense by a rear deer, which they found unlocked. There vras no Gonad but the piteous whining cf a littla dog which was tied to Qe le of th kitchen table. There were no signs of disorder on the first floor, and the mea ascended to tiie secend story. Upon the floor, his head resting on a straw pillow, was the body of Thompson.

There was a blocdy wound In his right temple. His hand still clutched a 32-caliber, old-style revolver, the ona Thompson had used while watchman at the Cameron colliery. It was pressed close to his face, and two of it3 five chambers were empty. The old man's face was covered with blood, and ha presented a horrible sight. Upon the bed lay the corpse of Mrs.

Campbell covered by a quilt. She hal been shot In almost the same spot as Thompson. Her features were horribly distorted and covered with blood. Thg men hurried downstairs and spread tha news. A more careful examination of the premises was then made.

The room adjoining the one in which the bodies were found war. bespattered with blood, and there were evidences of a desperate struggle. To all appearances. Thompson had murdered tha woman there and then carried the body into the next room and placed it on the bed, creating the impression at first that she had been killed while she day. We were njt long in finding out the kind cf a caap our ha'f-breed toss wcs.

"We had been at work oa'y two djyi wtea WT.saa got Crunk and allowed! soss cf ths to wander aray, When I heard the ranchman open up on Wilson, I expected to see the latter shoot the fellow without further talk, but he managed to control himself, and that eight when we vent into our hut on the feedins grounds, he told ma what an effort it had cost bim to keep from killing the ranchman, and declared that if that sort of thing occurred again there would be a funeral on that ranch, and that he would attend personally to the little preliminary matter cf supplying the corpse for the occasion. "A few days afterward a party of prospectors passed that way, and, unknown to me, Wilson procured from: them a bottle of whisky and proceeded to take frequent generous doses of the liquor, which speedily aroused everything mean in his nature. He becama reckless and allowed the cattle under his charge to roam at will, and tha result was that some of them strayed away, a fact that the boss was not Ions In finding out, and when he did find out his rage knew no bounds. "When I saw him ride rapidly across the feeding grounds toward WUson, and saw him gesticulating wildly with his heavy whip, I realised at once that the hour for tha promlaed funerai was close at hand. I saw him ralBe hid whip as if to strike Wilson, and at tha same Instant a pistol shot rang out, a little puff of smoke rose above the boss' saddle, and tha ranchman fell.

He was as dead as a door nail when two of tha other herders and myself reached him. THIS MURDER WAS CAnr.FUl.LY PLANNED. A reaasylTe-Ia Woman Lcred to Iler Dlh Little gupectln Iler Fate, bh Returned to Iler Ared Lover 11 UellUtt Design Coolly EsteaUd. For flendlshness cf design and cool, deliberate execution the double crime of John Thompson of Irish Valley, near Bhamokin, who a few days ago slew his housekeeper, Mrs. Abraham Campbell, and ten hours later committed suicide with the same weapon that he used to' murder the woman, Is one of the most extraordinary in tha history of Pennsylvania.

Considering the age of the murderer aad the fact that to "Insure immunity from molestation, while committing the dcd, ha first sent away the occupant of the adjoining house with a message containing Information of his victim's death, It is a decidedly unique tragedy. Pleading for a reconciliation, Thompson lured, the woman back to his lonely home at Irish valley, and, jealous because she was to return to the husband from whom she had been divorced, he shot her to death. One can see, perhaps, how a hardened criminal could concoct such a foul plot and so basely execute it, but it is difficult to understand how a man who had reached his allotted three score years and ten, and should have been making peace with his God, could so successfully play such a villainous part. Thompson wa3 71 years of age. Mrs.

Campbell was 60. For nine years she had been housekeeper for Thompson. Their home was half of a double house about six miles northwest of Shamokln, on the main road leading to and near the village of Valley. It is a most uninviting place an unpalnted, unplastered, dilapidated appearing old building. It wa3 scantily furnished.

Thompson and hi3 housekeeper of ter quarreled and had frequently separated. Since last August, wten Thompson-was injured at Cameron colliery, tor twenty-one years. he had been employed as a watchman their bickerings had become When Thompson returned to the colliery it was to take an Inferior job In the breaker Instead of that of watchman. This was a source 'of much discord. Early In July, after a bitter quarrel, Campbell told Thompson she was going to Uniontown to be housekeeper for another man.

Thompson begged her to stay with him, but she said she was tired of living in the country, and took her de parture. 'Thompson frequently endeavored to 'have her return. She spurned entreaties, and told him she was happy where she was. The discovery that she was in reality preparing to return to her former husband made Thompson jealous. Some people profess to believe that his diabolical plotting began then and there; that subsequent events were directed by him with but one object in view the commission of the awful crime of recent date.

If sucTi was Thompson's purpose as he persisted In hi3 efforts to get Mrs. Campbell to return to him, he must have gloated fiendishly, gleefully when she yiolded to his entreaties and accompanied him to his Little did she think of the terrible fate that awaited her as she picked berries with Thompson on the mountain next day and sat chatting with him In the evening after sunset in front of the house. If murder was In Thompson's heart then; -as many believe, he waited, no the day was not propitious for the carrying out of his terrible designs. If he had asked George R. Sober, who occupied 'the adjoining house as an ice cream factory and his parents a short distance to drive his (Thompson's) horse to Daniel Shade's store in Shamokln on Sunday, suspicion would have been aroused at once.

Thompson waited un- THE HOME OP JOHN THOMPSON. tirMonday. Then he offered Sober 50 cents to drive his horse to town. "I don't want your money. I'll do it as a favor," said Sober.

"It's a mighty big favor," responded Thompson. As Sober was about to depart Thompson handed him a letter, asking Sober to driver it to Mrs. William Moody, in turn was to be asked to deliver It to Mrs. Isaac Tharpe. On his way to town Sober did not see Mrs.

Moody and for that reason did not deliver the letter until he returned in the evoning. When the letter was opened it was found to contain the following grew- sotne message: "Christy Arnold Tharpe: Your moth er died this morning before 4 o'clock." There was no dato nor name at tached to this startling message. Convinced that the woman's death had been caused In some unusual manner, Mr. Tharpe, accompanied by young Sober, Frank Claueer and John Per- jing, wont to Thompson's home about midnight. The stillness of death, which hovered over the plaoe, Impusued them with the fact that sometbif terrible Vad occurred, and, fearing tiiat it jnight be unsafe to enter at 'Jxt ftl" aYmenitlel cf la Arliorl Duel to tka Death oa thm Plains Followed fcy the IlacfUil; of the Sorriior'e l'ruitr by Frieoda of tit MnrJered Wan.

A unique and picturesque character is Mr. William Eastman, at one time a resident of New York, but the greater portion of his life has been soent on frontier. He i3 a man apparently years of age, tall and muscular, with a weatherbeaten face and grizzly-gray beard. He wears an entire suit of buckskin, and from the collar of the coat hang three tufts of long, wiry hair that loon, like portions cf a horse's mane or tail, but which are the scalp-locka of Indians trophlea of the yalo? and bravery of the man whose coat hey adorn. Mr.

Eastman is one of the few men who has experienced the utilisation of being hanged and lire to describe his feelings, and it was for the purpose of getting an account of his experience that an Interview with him was sought, while he was in San-aek, 0., a short time ajo. In response to a question, Mr. Eastman said: "I was twice made captive by Indiana, but managed to escape, the second time, however, receiving wounds that came near making an angel of me, and the scars of which I Ehall carry to my grave. But when I look nt the topknots that ornament the collar of my coat I always feel a sense of grim satisfaction in the thought that, badly THE DUEL ON as the red devils treated me, I quit winner three times when the stakes were human life. The closest call that I ever had, however, was near what 13 known at Skull valley, a small town In Yavapai county, Arizona.

I had been up near where the village of Burnt Ranch is now located, in Crook county, and while there fell in with a man named Robert I liked hlra from the first. He was in trouble, and my heart went out to him. He and I became firm friends, and were close companions for year3. There was only on trouble with him. He used to get the blues once In a while, and when he did he would give himself up absolutely to a week or two of debauchery.

Ha was brave and courageous to a remarkable degree when he was sober; when he was drunk he was aa reckless a dare-devil as ever lived. "One day Wilson and I were In Arl- I7P 1- HANGED SURE ENOUGH. Bona, and met some parties who were in route to Skull valley, and they told as that a ranchman near the latter place wanted to hire some herders. Wilson and I were out of work and hard up, and we decided to apply to tha man for a job to tide us over until something better tuned up. Upon arrival tt the ranchman's place we found him to be a coarse, ignorant and brutal lllow.

I disliked and distrusted Urn from the Instant I saw him, as SMI Wlleoa. We hired out to him. however, and wont a work Mia naxt 1 Sick headache. Food doesn't digest veil, appetite poor, bowels constipated, tongue coated. It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills, easy and safe.

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slept. Thi, apparently, was also tha purpose of Thompson's note to the woman's daughter. However, C. W. Thurston recalled the fact that he had heard pistol shots about 11:30 a.

m. on Monday. It was about 10:30, an hour previous, when Thompson sent Sober away with the note. Taking these facts into consideration, Sober concluded that in order to have a clear field for tha murder Thompson had him drive to Shamokin, and it was evident from the note that before Sober'a return Thompson Intended also fo put himself out of the way. It Is believed that eight or ten hours intervened between the murder and the suicide.

Both bodies were dressed when found. Seized Ml 15,000 Worth ot Gems. The biggest seizure of jewelry ever made by the United States customs Ifr spectors was taken from the trunk ol Mrs. Phyllis E. Dodge, when she land ed from the American liner Paul a few weeks ago.

The value of the gems is $115,000. There wis one necklace of pearls alone which is worth $56,000. The pearls constituting the chain are graduated in size, and one or two are worth nearly $5,000 each, but the chief value lies In the diamond shaped pen dant, in the center of which, with diamonds on four sides, wa3 a pigeon- blood ruby, perfect in cut and of grea size. Besides there is a collarette ol 987 pearls and 160 diamonds worth a black and white pearl ring, a watch set with pearls and a six-sided die set in diamonds, rubies, turquoise, sapphires, emeralds and pearls to the value of $35,000. The duty on this seizure will reach the enormous sum ol $69,000, or 60 per cent of their value.

Strange Freak of a Soninambull.it. A strange freak of a somnambulist is reported from Victoria Barracks Portsmouth, England. About midnight a few days ago a private in the Second Shropshire Light infantry got out of bed in his sleep, loaded a rifle with ball cartridge, and fired It off in a barracks room, full of sleeping soldiers. The bullet lodged In the ceiling and so no body was hurt. The man was at once arrested and an Investigation as tc how he obtained the ammunition wai at once began, with the result that a number of rounds of ball cartridges wero thrown out of the window by men wno were afraid to be found In possession cf them.

It is a punishable offence for these men to have ball cart ridges about them. It is believed that the men gqt the ammunition by secret ing it when at musketry Elephant Jealous of Baby Camel, At the Jardln des Plantes, In Paris the inhabitants were surprised recent ly by the birth of a young camel, and the new arrival naturally attracted much attention from the visitors. A large elephant which used to be the center of attraction exhibited signs of dissatisfaction at the success of his young neighbor, but in spite of his trumpeting was unable to reconquer the fickle crowd. At last the elephant filled his trunk with water and discharged it over the persons standing looking at the baby camel, Forgot Wag a General. One of Funston's men writes that in the latest engagement near San Fernando the general went into battle at the head of his brigade, composed of the Kansas, Montana and Utah troops, When the fight started, however, General Funston forgot that he was in command of a brigade, and, leaving his start, orderly, horse and all, hi Joined the Kansas boys on foot and personally gave them ordera as ha led them to the charge.

Taris Is to have a 350-foot high uiu-krewfl. Ex. THE PLAINS. The instant the shot was fired WUson put spurs to his horse and was off like the wind. "I noticed that after the some of the herders gave me looks that indicated thai the act of my partner had prejudiced them against me.

Tha matter didn't worry me particularly, and I gave it no further thought after I reached my hut that night. I was then the only occupant of the place. I had been in bed probably three or four hours when I was suddenly aroused from sleep by a strong grip on my arms, and found them pinioned and a revolver pointed at my head. I was unable to understand at first what it all meant, but I soon found out. My assailants were a couple of half-breeds, favorites of the dead boss, and I realized when I recognized them that they proposed to wreak vengeance on me for the act of Wilson.

One of the fellows forced a gag into my moutL and made the strings fast at the baV of my neck. Then they tied my legs together at the knees and ankles and then carried me out and threw me across the back of a horse and con veyed me to a tree about 100 rods from the hut. "Cr.o end of a lariat was then fastened around my neck and the other thrown over a limb, and th8 scoundrels then pulled me up and made the lower end of the lariat fast to the tree. I can remember that I suffered excruciating pains In my neck and back, and my head seemed to be absolutely bursting. Then I began to lose consciousness and experienced a fensation cf floating.

I knew nothing after that until I found myself at the side of a small stream in a thicket, with Wilson bending over me. "Wilson was bathing my face and neck and when I came to a realizing sense of what had happened he told me that when he dashed across the prairie after shooting tha boss he had a presentiment that harm would come to me his act, simply because I was his paiJner. He had, therefore, ridden back to the ranch under cof of darkness and gone to my hut, found It empty, and. while leaving had heard voices in the direction of the tree whera I was strung up. He overheard enough to satisfy hlra as to the condition cf affairs, and ha lay low until the scoundrels left the sccno and ttau bei cut cie down." a bul 4.