50 - CHAMPAIGN AND CHAPTER VII. EARLY POPULATION. I will at this paint break the thread of these scattered fragmentary sketches and return to the subject of the early population of the place. The forty-five families that have been enumerated embraced Within their numbers many young persons of both sexes, and frequent intermarriages occurred. And confining myself to the years between 1811 and.1820, I will mime a few in the best order I can from memory. George Hunter intermarried with Ruth Fitch, now Mrs. Blanchard. James Robinson intermarried with a Miss Swing, sister to Mrs. Alex. Doke. Asel Sweet with Miss Gard, daughter of Job Gard. Allen M. Poll, afterward. an editor of a paper, with Rebecca Fithian, daughter of George Fithian. John Glenn with a Miss Cooper of Kentucky. William Neil with Miss Swing, also a sister of Mrs. Doke. Amos J. Varnall with a Miss Swing, sister to above. Hugh Gibbs with Elizabeth Fitch, daughter of Nathan Fitch, and to Mrs. Blanchard. Peter R. Colwell with Lavina Fitch, sister to above. John Goddard with Mary Hull, father and mother of Doctor Goddard. David Vance, Sheriff, &c., with Miss. Wilson. James Paxton with Miss Luce, sister of Col. D. Luce. George Moore with N. Miss Luce, sister to above. Samuel Miller with Elizabeth Dunlap, daughter of Rev. James Dunlap. Mrs. Miller. survives. Col. William Ward, Jr. with Miss Hughs; daughter of Rev. James Hughes. Mrs. Ward survives. William Chatfield with Elizabeth Hull, niece of Mrs. Goddard. Doctor William Fithian, now of Illinois, with a Miss Spain, and after her decease, with Miss Berry; daughter of Judge Berry. LOGAN COUNTIES - 51 John A. Ward with Eleanor McBeth, daughter of Judge McBeth, one of our first Representatives in the State Legislature. Benjamin Holden with Lucinda Pennington. Matthias McComsey with Phehe Logan. Joseph S. Carter with Miss Fisher, daughter of Madox Fisher, of Springfield. John Downey with a Miss Parkison. John McCord with Sara h Kenton in 1811, and John G. Parkison with Matilda Kenton, both daughters of General Simon Kenton. John Hamilton came here about 1814, and soon after intermarried with Miss Atchison, sister of Mrs. J. H. Patrick. Doctor Evan Banes with Miss Ward, daughter of Col. William Ward, Senior. John G. Ford with _______ _______ Thomas Ford with a. Miss McGill, daughter of James McGill. James Scotton with a Miss McGill, sister to above. Jacob Lyons with Miss Robison. Col. Douglas Luce with Miss Taylor, (laughter of Alexander Taylor. Daniel Sweet with Miss Thompson. John Helmick with Miss Rosey-grant. William Patrick with Rachel Kirkpatrick. I will close this list here; and introduce the name of Calvin Fletcher, who came here a poor boy in 1817, without any means; worked his way as best he could until by perseverance in study, qualified himself for the bar; married a Miss Hill, sister of Col. Joseph Hill, and soon after, without even money sufficient to take himself and wife comfortably, waved to Indianapolis, where he applied himself assiduously to business, and at his death in 1866, by reason of the intimate relationships and early associations of the writer of this with MA, Fletcher, his family telegraphed him the sad intelligence, requesting, his attendance at the funeral; which invitation he promptly accented, and when at the residence of his early friend, he learned the fact from those who knew, that his estate approximated to near one million of dollars. It may also be stated that in addition to the foregoing list of early pioneers a very large number of enterprising young men came to Urbana and located themselves its merchants, mechanics, tree. 52 - CHAMPAIGN AND will name a few, Hezekiah Wells, Thomas Wells and William McDonald (who is well known, and came here at an early day, connected himself in a mercantile interest, and became afterwards a public man, he representing this county in the Legislature in after years.) William Neil, late of Columbus, commenced business here as a merchant, in a small frame near the stove store of John Helmick, He was likewise the Cashier of the old Urbana Bank. J. Birdwhistle, about the beginning of the War of 1812, opened a hotel in the corner building lately torn down by Kauffman and Netison on corner of fractional lot No. 2, and will here note that Joseph Low, father of Albert and others, continued the same business after Birdwhistle, in the same house ; John and Uriah Tabor manufactured hats on the hill west of the square on West Main Street, near the present residence of E. Kimber. Price had a shoe shop, location not now recollected. Henry Weaver, a previous old settler of Mad River township, came to Urbana with his small family about 1813, built the small room now standing on the east end of Mr. Ganmer's present residence on lot No. 160 Scioto Street and occupied it as his family residence, in which he also had a shoe-bench and worked at shoe-making, connecting with it a stall for the sale of apples. This was the beginning to the vast amount of wealth which he has acquired and is now enjoying in the eighty-fourth year of his life. George Bell, who came here at an early day erected a small nail cutting establishment on lot No. 160, North Main Street, near the present location of P. R. Bennett's jewelry shop. Francis Dubois opened a kind of tavern stand in a double log house on the corner of in-lot No. 24 near the First M. E. Church building. The Gwynnes located here within the years indicated in these sketches, and opened what war then a large dry goods store in a red one-story frame building on lot No. 154, being the lot now occupied and owned by Mr. L. Weaver ; William Downs was also one of the early settlers here, and carried on blacksmithing. John Hurd Was one of the oldest settlers, and learned the trade of blacksmithing with Alex. Doke, and carried on the business afterward to some considerable extent. John Wallace and Elisha C. Berry came here at a very early day as carpenters, and when Reynolds and Ward had determined to establish a factory, they were employed to erect the large building now occupied by Mr. Fox, and in the process of its erection Mr. Wallace met with in accident that came near proving fatal; he was employed about LOGAN COUNTIES - 53 the hip in the roof on the south side, when the scaffolding gave: way and precipitated him to the ground, making a cripple of him ever after. Mr. Wallace being a very worthy man with considerable culture, was elected Sheriff, and held other important public trusts up to the time of his emigration west, years afterward. About the end, and at the conclusion of the war, many accessions were made to the population from New Jersey, Kentucky and other places, but as there are some other subjects before that time that need attention, I will have to bring this to a point, by remarking that this historical dotting of business men and business places might be greatly extended in locating tailor, shoemaker, cabinet wheelwright, carpenter, chair, saddler, potter and other mechanical shops ; adding to the list other mercantile interests not already noticed. 54 - CHAMPAIGN AND CHAPTER VIII. MILITARY OPERATIONS IN WAR OF 1812. The war of 1812, and its relationship with the population of Urbana may here claim a passing notice. Urbana was a frontier town upon the southern border of an almost unbroken wilderness, without any public highways north of it, except a very short distance in that direction. Its location naturally made it an objective point as a base for army operain and as such, it infused a good degree of business, hustle and animation among its citizens. His Excellency Return Jonathan Meigs, Governor of Ohio, made it a strategic point, in concocting measures bearing upon the then exposed condition of the frontier settlements. He here held councils with Indian tribes as already intimated, and from his room. in what would now be called the Doolittle House, issued .and sent forth his proclamations as Commander-in-Chief. And immediately after the declaration of war, on the 18th of June, he desescort,d this place as the rendezvous for the troops of the first campaign of the war. Here it was that, General Hull was ordered to bring his forces, being three regiments, under the respective commands of Colonel Duncan McArthur, Colonel Lewis Cass, and Colonel James Findlay, for the purpose of being here organized with other forces, and they were encamped on the high grounds east of the town, resting their left on what is now named East Water Street, on the lands of Kauffman, Nelson and Berry, extending north through their lands, and the lands lately called the Baldwin property, to.,about East Court Street. They remained here some two'-weeks for the arrival of Col. — Miller's regiment, which had gloriously triumphed under General Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, the previous November. And as a testimonial of the high appreciation Of their valor on that occasion, the citizens of the town united with the troops in making the necessary preparations to receive the gallant Col. Miller and his veteran regiment, with both civic and military demonstrations, in honor LOGAN COUNTIES - 55 of their chivalrous deeds. Two pasts, one each side of the road, about twenty feet high, were planted at what would now be known as the foot of the Baldwin hill, a little south west of the present residence of Mr. Marshall, on Scioto Street, and an arch made of boards was seeured at the top ends Of the .posts, with this inscription in large capital letters, " TIPPECANOE GLORY," on its western facade ; with the national flag floating from a staff fastened to each post that supported it. These preliminaries being all completed, and the time of arrival being at hand, General Hull with his staff, accompanied by a bodyguard, headed by martial music, moved from the camp to the Public Square and halted, to await the approach of the veterans, who were advancing under flags and banners with appropriate music, at quickstep on South Main Street, and at this juncture Col. Miller called a halt, with the additional orders to deploy into line and present arms, as a salute to General Hull, under the star spangled banner which had 'been by the citizens unfurled upon a fifty feet pole in the center of the Public Square.. Whereupon the General and his staff with suwarrows doffed, rode slowly in review along the whole line. Then, after the necessary movement to reform into a line of march, the General, staff and guards formed themselves at the head of the regiment as an escort., and at the command, "To the right wheel ! Forward, march !" they moved slowly with martial music and colors flying, between to about citizens and soldiers, the latter restingtwo weeks left respectively at the posts of the triumphal arch, and the former resting on the Public Square and extending eastward to the military lines, all being under complete civic and military regulations, agreeably to an arranged programme. As these veteran United States troops began to move with precise measured tread upon Scioto street, the civic ovation began to unfold itself, in the strewing of wild June flowers by young Misses and Maidens, with which they had been provided, the waving of handkerchiefs of matrons, and the swinging of hats and caps of the sterner sex, with continued shouts and huzzas. These exciting demonstrations continued without abatement until they reached the lines of the troops as already indicated, when the scene changed into a sublime military display, such as the din of muskets, the rattle of drums, and the shrill 'notes of the bugle, elarionet and fife, 56 - CHAMPAIGN AND until they reached the Arch, and while passing through under it, a park of artillery belched forth its thunders in the camp, as the signal of welcome to the brave boys who had distinguished themselves upon the fields of Tippecanoe. After arriving in the camp they, at the word "Left wheel," displayed to the north-west and halted upon the high grounds now occupied by Griffith Ellis, Mr. Boal and others, in front of the right wing of the troops already encamped, and there pitched tents. Taken as a whole this civic and military demonstration presented a pageant never before I n• since equaled in the new City of Urbana. This re-enforcement completed the organization of General Hull's army, which was soon ordered to open an army road, which was afterwards known as Hull's Trace, through the wilderness, and Move its headquarters from Urbana to Detroit, reaching the latter place somewhere about the 12th July, 1812. The unfortunate sequel in the following month is upon the historic page, and does not for the object of this sketch. require further notices It might however, be noticed that this army erected while on its march, the McArthur and Findlay Block Houses, and detailed a small force for their protection as posts of security for army supplies in transit to the seat of war, and as a covert in case of Indian raids in their vicinity. As these sketches are not intended as a history of the war, but only as connecting links to the early pioneer scenes of other days, I need not continue these extended outlines, but nearly remark, that from the force of circumstances growing out of the fall of Detroit in August 1812, the defeat of Winchester at the River Resin in the early part of the year 1813, and other reverses to the North; Urbana, being as already said a frontier town was made of necessity, a busy objective point. Soon after the events already recited, troops were here concentrated. Governor Shelby of Kentucky for the defense of our exposed frontier settlements, called out and took command in person of seine 5,000 mounted men, and encamped them on the south border of the town, resting his right wing about where the upper pond of the factory now is, extending its left westward through the lands now owned and occupied by Henry Weaver and the heirs of the late John A. Ward to Redmond's mill, and they remained several.daysbefore moving to the front. LOGAN COUNTIES - 57 It may here be also noticed, that Govenor Meigs immediately after the surrender of Detroit, male a requisition and designated Urbana as the place of rendezvous for a large Ohio force under the command of Gen. W. Tupper, and its encampment was on the high grounds north of the Dugan ravine, bordering on what is now known as .Laurel Oak Street. During the sake of Fort Meigs in May 1813, General McArthur, upon request of the Governor, came here and sent out runners throughout all the surrounding country, urging the male inhabitants to immediately his themselves at this point, to inaugurate measures of defense to the exposed frontier settlements, and for the relief of the besieged fort, which resulted in a large mass Meeting from all points south to the Ohio River, and the greater part of them being armed, volunteered to immediately march to the relief of Port Meigs. The late Governor Vance and Simon Kenton, including m other citizens of Urbana were among the number, and took a prominent part in the movement. This force being officered by acclamation and duly organized, immediately moved north, under command of Col. McArthur, with Samuel McColloch as Aid-de-Camp. It should be stated that this force was made up of horsemen and footmen, and with all possible celerity rushed forward some four days march into the wilderness, until they were met by Col. William Oliver, John McAdams, and Cal twin Johnny, a celebrated Indian of that day, who had been sent asspies, with the intelligence that the enemy had abandoned the Beige ; whereupon these forces returned to Urbana, and were honorably discharged. Other and various concentrations were here made throughout the war, which need not now be noticed. Permanent artificer shops were here established, a hospital, commissary and quartermaster departments were here organized, and located as already intimated in these sketches; and Urbana had all the paraphernalia and characteristic appendages of a seat of war, and was to all intents and purposes The Head Quarters of the North Western Army, bating a secondary claim of Franklin ton. From here troops were ordered to the front, and assigned. their posts of duty ; here army supplies concentrated, and by wagons, sleds, pack-horses and other modes of transit, were sent to all points needing them. 58 - CHAMPAIGN AND It has already been intimated that Urbana had assumed the dignity of headquarters to the North Western Army ; that the several departments of military camp and depot of munitions of war, were here located under appropriate agencies. 1. Wm. Jordan managed the Quartermasters department. 2. Alex. Doke had charge of the artificer yard and shops. 3. Zephaniah Lure was issuing commissary. 4. Dr. — Gould, physician and surgeon to the hospital. 5. Jacob Fowler was a general agent and contractor for Government supplies, by virtue of his functions as head of the Quarter-masters department for this point. 6. Major David Gwynne, who exercised the office of a paymaster, had his headquarters here. This was also a recruiting station, the late Josiah G. Talbott, the father of Decatur and Richard C., &c., in his younger days was a Lieutenant in the regular United States service, belonging to a company commanded by his brother, Capt. Richard C. Talbott, and enlisted at this point quite a number of recruits. He married a Miss Forsythe, near the close of the war, and some years after located in business as a hatter, and remained here to the time of his decease. And in this connection one other individual deserves to be noticed, for the valuable services he bestowed during all the war; in aiding the government by advancements of money and means when her treasury was greatly depleted, and waited the return, for such advancements until she was able to refund; he was actuated in his course entirely through patriotism as a private individual, and net as a public functionary; many poor destitute soldiers would have ha to have gone into winter service destitute of blankets and other dispensable articles promotive of comfort, had it not been for the kind interposition of his patriotic soul. John Reynolds was the man whose acts I have attempted to describe. Mr. Reynolds ell deserves this tribute, and aside from those acts, Urbana owe him a debt of gratitude for his devotion to her interests during long life of usefulness; he indeed contributed greatly in building up the interests of both town and county, and his name should be cherished in Urbana as a household souvenir., Governor Vance, at a very early day, as one of those sturdy ath- LOGAN COUNTIES - 59 letic young men that could endure hardships and face danger, organized a volunteer company of riflemen, selected from the surrounding country for several miles, who were like him, fitted for the times. They were mostly old hunters, well skilled in the use of the rifle ; many of them could make a center shot at a target seventy-five yards off. The company being of the material described, elected him Captain, Cu!. Wm. Ward, Jr., Lieutenant, and Isaac Myers, Ensign. They were denominated minute men and rangers, and whenever any imminent danger from Indians was apprehend Ed, Captain Vance would call his company together and move it to the point of danger, and if necessary erect a blockhouse for the settlement. This was done upon several occasions before and during the war. And it may be here noted, that during the war Capt. John McCord and his whole company of Militia were by the Governor ordered to Fort McArthur for one month, to protect it and the government property from depredation. This latter company furnished all its quotas upon regular drafts ; these facts are given to show that Urbana did her pat t in the defence of the country during the war of 1812-15. And the same may be said in reference to the country organizations of the militia. I will name Captain Barret's Company, Captain Kizer's Company, and all others within my knowledge, promptly responded to calls made upon them. I will dismiss these rambling generalities, and say a word in relation to Governor Vance as a neighbor and friend ; he came here at a very early clay with his father, Joseph C. Vance; his opportunities for instructions were limited, yet by dint of close application, attainded to such general knowledge of men and thing, as to afterward qualify him for the most important trusts, and became indeed distinguished in public life, of which I, however, will not attempt further to speak, as his official life has become matter of history. He had all the nobler qualities that adorn the man ; he had a heart to sympathize with the distressed, and relieve the wants of the needy, and all relationships, the fast friend to those who sought his friendship. Although decided in his political opinions, he would always concede merit even to his opponents, if the occasion required it. This trait made him many friends, even among those who differed with him. 60 - CHAMPAIGN AND CHAPTER IX. SIMON KENTON. I will next introduce the name of General Simon Kenton, and say a few things from personal intercourse with him. I need not rehearse the thrilling scenes connected with his early eventful life. History informs us of his early departure from his Virginia home, one hundred years ago with an alias to his name, his adventures with the early pioneers of Kentucky, his associations with Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clarke, and others, his many wild adventures and hair breadth escapes, his capture by the Indians, his relationships with Simon Girty, his running the gauntlet on several occasions, his riding the wild horse without bridle to guide it through dense thickets of under brush. I repeat I need not speak of these scenes as they are all on the historic page. But will speak of him as a citizen of Urbana, as as a neighbor, and a friend. I have already stated in these sketches, that he was the Jailor at my first acquaintance, and as strange as it may now sound, he was a prisoner by legal construction to himself. In his early Kentucky life, he engaged in some land speculations which involved him, and some creditor pursued him with a claim which was unjust as he alleged, end which he was unable to pay. A capias, or full execution, for wart of property, wag levied on his body, and to avoid being locked up in his own prison-house, he availed himself of the prison-bounds, which at that day were between Reynolds street and Ward street north and south, and between the east line of the town and Russell street east and west, according to my present recollection. These bounds, by legislative provision,. afterward embraced the whole county. He was soon released, however, from this constructive imprisonment. These prison reminiscences are here given to expose some of the barbarisms of the law of that day, which put it in the power of a shylock creditor to harass his debtor, even to the incarceration of his body if so unfortunate as to have no property upon which to make a levy. General .Ken-. LOGAN COUNTIES - 61 ton, as a neighbor, was kind and obliging, and as a friend, steadfast ; he was generous, even to a fault, affable and courteous in all his relationships, and for a man without scholastic culture was remarkably chaste in his behavior and conversation. He was unassuming in his whole deportment toward others, never arrogating to himself superiority over those with whom his associations brought him in contact. Although docile and lamb-like in his general intercourse in life, yet, if occasion prompted it, he could doff the lamb, and don the lion. I will give an instance: As has already been stated, the friendly border tribes of Indians had been invited to come into our vicinity for protection, and after they had accepted the offer, some hostile savages had made their way into one of our settlements and committed an atrocious murder, which had created intense excitement throughout the whole country, and the spirit of revenge was aroused, and found its way into an encampment of soldiers in this place, and it soon became known that a conspiracy was about being formed in the camp to move upon the friendly tribes above indicated and massacre the men, women and children, in retaliation for that murder. Some of the citizens of Urbana, with General Kenton at the head, remonstrated with them ; he being chief speaker expostulated with them, giving his superior experience in regard to the Indian character; told them that every circumstance connected wrth the murder clearly removed every vestige of suspicion from the friendly tribes, and told them the act would disgrace them as soldiers ; and would implicate each of them in a charge of willful murder. At this point General Kenton and the citizens ,retired, but soon learned that the hellish purpose was determined upon, and preparations made to move upon the Indian camp. When General Kenton, rifle rn band, accompanied by his few fellow-citizens, again confronted the malcontents, and told them they were not soldiers but cowards, and under a solemn imprecation, with eyes flashing fire, told them that if they went he would go too, and would shoot down the miscreant. who would first attempt to commit the deed, and that if they succeeded, they would have to do it over his dead body. They found with whom they had to deal, and hesitated, and calmed down, and the poor Indians -were saved. 1 will now give an incident to show the spirit of forgiveness t hat he would manifest toward an old enemy. One morning, at 62 - CHAMPAIGN AND the close of the war of 1812, might have been seen on one of our streets a tall, well-built specimen of an Indian, enquiring for the residents of Simon Butler, and soon after, General Kenton might have been seen moving on the same street; the two personages met, eyed each other a moment, and immediately were in each other's most affectionate embrace. It seemed that the Indian had been his adopted brother during his captivity, and as such had formed strong attachments. General Kenton. took his Indian brother home, and kept him some days as his visitor. The writer of this, though very young at his first acquaintance with General Kenton, seemed to secure his confidence, and the General would take pleasure in rehearsing the scenes through which he passed; and as some individuals of this day are trying to disparage him by calling him an Indian horse thief, r will state as nearly as possible General Kenton's own version, and in his own language: "I never in my life captured horses for my own use, but would hand them over to those who had lost horses by Indian thefts, nor did I ever make reprisals upon any but hostile tribes, who were at war against the white settlers." He disavowed taking from friendly Indians horses or other property, then why should he be assailed as a horse thief when he only did such acts as are of -common practice in a state of war ? I can not extend this notice, but will say that tiering the war of 1812, he took an active part whenever the Settlements were menaced with hostile attacks. Although old, he still had the courage to face all dangers. My acquaintance with hint reached through all the years from 1811 to his death in 1836, and taken as a whole, his life was a model in many respects worthy of imitation. He was one of nature's noblemen, and well deserves the eulogy which closes the inscription on the slab at his grave in Oak Dale Cemetery:: "His fellow citizens of the West, will long remember him as the skillful pioneer of early times, the brave soldier, and the honest man.”. LOGAN COUNTIES - 63 CHAPTER X. JOHN HAMILTON. In connecting Urbana with the incidents of the war of 1812, some mention should be made of one of her citizens who came, as has been elsewhere intimated, at a very early day, raised a large family and at one time seemed very prosperous in his affairs, but reverses came, and John Hamilton died in 1868, dependent upon his children for the necessary comforts at the close his life. The writer of this, knowing the facts that Mr. Hamilton, when a young man, had volunteered in the service of his country in the war of 1812, taken a very active part, and been prisoner among the Indians for one year, thought in view of his dependent condition, that the Government, upon proper showing would make special provision for him, and he waited upon Mr. Hamilton a short time before his death, and proposed to prepare a narrative of his service and wild -adventures, coupled with a memorial of the old citizens who knew him, asking Congress to grant, him a special pension for life. He being then in his seventy-sixth year, and being a very modest man rather declined at first, but upon weighing the matter consented. It was drawn up, and through Hon. W m. Lawrence, was introduced in the beginning of the year 1868, and a bill to make such provision passed its second reading in the House, but before it could be finally acted on his death occurred. Since I commenced these sketches, by accident I have found a rough draft of all his statements, which were verified at the time by him, and that will enable me to do him an a of justice, and perpetuate facts that would soon have passed out of knowledge. I shall tint attempt to publish his whole narrative of the events, but will merely condense in as small a compass as possible the substance. He begins by telling that his father about 1793, emigrated to Kentucky from Maryland before he was a year old, that he continued with his father until about 1811, having in the meantime learned the saddlers trade, and went to Winchester, and worked as a jour- 64 - CHAMPAIGN AND neyman with one Robert Griffin until the breaking out of the war of 1812. The entuslasm that animated the young men of that day reached young Hamilton, and under the call of Governor Scott, he volunteered and attached himself to Capt. Brasfield's Company which was attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Lewis, of Jessamine county, which moved on to Georgetown the latter part of June, thence to Newport where they were equipped and ordered to Fort Wayne via Dayton, Piqua, and St. Mary's. From Fort Wayne they were ordered westward in the direction of Tippecanoe, to drive away and destroy the supplies and burn the village of a hostile tribe, which was accomplished, and they returned to the place of their last departure. From Fort Wayne, Colonel Lewis.' Regiment was ordered by General Winchester to march to Defiance on short rations about November 1 ; thence down the Maumee River to Camp, No. 1, 2, and 3. Here they find no flour, and very little meat for about three weeks. He recites the fact, that near this place while on a scout, Logan being in company with Captain Johnny and Comstock, was shot through the body some seventeen miles from camp, and rode in behind the latter and died soon after his arrival in camp. He further says, that about the time they left their camp, a little port was furnished, but that they were still on short n tons. Great afflictions were here endured from fevers and other diseases incident to camp life, and many died. On the 25th of December 1812, they left this encampment, and it commenced snowing. continuing all day, and fell two feet deep. They reached a point on the hank of the river, and pitched their tents with much difficulty in the deep snow, and enjoyed themselves that night in all the sweets of soldier life. The next day they marched in a body to the head of the Rapids, and encamped and remained there a few days. General Winchester ordered Colonel Lewis to detach about six hundred of his regiment, and move them immediately to the river Raisin, to dislodge the British and Indian forces there encamped, and on the 18th of January, 1813, Colonel Lewis commenced the assault and drove them from their quarters into the woods, both belligerents suffering great loss in the skirmish. Colonel Lewis returned and occupied the enemy's position within pickets enclosing a Catholic Church, sufficiently large to contain his forces, when he immediately sent a courier to General Winchester reporting the victory, which induced the General to order LOGAN COUNTIES - 65 another detachment of three hundred to support Col. Lewis, of which Mr. Hamilton was one, and these were commanded by the General himself, who arrived and encamped outside of the pickets. On the morning. of the 22d of January, 1813, the British forces with their Indian allies, were discovered in line of battle; the long roll was sounded, and the American lines were formed, the battle commenced, and was fought with desperation, the enemy having the vantage ground ; at this juncture Major Graves ordered the second detachment to retreat, and it retreated into the woods, when Col. Lewis rode up and requested it to make a stand, that perhaps the force of the enemy might be broken. The request was complied with ; but before many rounds had been fire 1, he exclaimed, "Brother soldiers, we are surrounded ; it is useless to stand any longer; each take care of himself as best he can." Here was the beginning of the troubles of John Hamilton, and in my furl her extracts, I will let him speak for himself, and he says : "I immediately shaped my course southward, and soon discovered I had been singled out by an Indian ; I kept about sixty yards ahead of him—so near that we could eon verse. I was still armed and held him in check, and when I stopped I would tree, he using the canoe precaution. He could use enough English to say with it beckoning hand, "Come here !" I responded "No I" We remained in this position until I could see an opportunity to make another effort to cape. Then I would present; my gun in shooting position as though I. would shoot ; this would drive him again to his tree, when I would spring forward and gain another tree. Spending some time in this way, I discovered I had another pursuer who fired upon me from a western position, and I at once was satisfied I could not dodge two—one north and one west—so I made up my mind to surrender to the first to avoid being instantly killed. I leaned my gun against my covert tree and beckoned to the first, and gave myself up to him ; the other arriving immediately, demanded a division of spoils, which was settled by No. 2 taking my long knife and overcoat, and he left me the prisoner of No. 1, after showing me his power to scalp me, by the flourish of his knife over my head. My captor then took me to the rear of the British lines, where we remained by some camp-fires, it being a very cold day, and while at the fire the sane Indian that got my over-coat and knife made further claim, which was not so easily settled this time. In 66 - CHAMPAIGN AND this controversy between the two, my friend being an Ottawa and theother a Potawatamie they had much difficulty. The Indian No. 2, the Potawatamie, manifested a determination to take my life by actually cocking his gun and presenting it to shoot, when it was again settled by an agreement to take my remaining coat and relinquish all further claim, which was complied .with, and I became the undisputed prisoner of No. 1, the Ottawa. At this point a Canadian Frenchman, who was a camp-suttler, beckoned me one side and said if I had any money or other valuables that I wished saved he would take charge of them, and at the end of my captivity be would be at Detroit and restore them to me; and if I did not I would be rifled of them; not knowing what to do I yielded. I had a small sum of money, and some other valuables, which I handed to him, but never realized any return. I could not find him at Detroit after my release. While we remained at the fire, General Winchester and other prisoners passed by, stripped of their honors and apparel, which was the last I saw of my suffering comrades-in-arms; and at this point I also .discovered the fight was not over, but the defense within the pickets was still continued by Major Matison, under several repeated charges of the British forces, demanding surrender; finally, after consultation, he agreed to surrender on the terms that the British would treat all as prisoners of war, protect them from their savage allies, and remove our wounded to Amherstburg to he properly cared for ; but the history of the sequel must supply this part of may narrative. On the evening of the battle, I as a prisoner with the Indians retired to Stony Creek, about four miles eastward ; there I was informed by an interpreter that I Would not be sold or exchanged, but must go with my adopted father, who was the natural father of my captor, to his wigwam, where we arrived after .about nine days' walk in about a northwestern direction, and with whom I remained up to the 1st day of January, 1814. In brevity, I would say I lived with them nearly one year, and endured all the privations and hardships of. savage life. And this is saying a great deal in my case, as all the warriors were absent preparing for the intended siege of Fort Meigs, which eft the old men, women and children, including myself, without the supply generally provided by hunters, and we were reduced almost to LOGAN COUNTIES - 67 starvation much of the time I was with them. I became so reduced that many times I was almost too weak to walk, by reason of short supplies. My condition really was worse than that of my friends, as I may call them, for they resorted to horse flesh, and even to dog meat, which I could not eat. I do not design to spin out this narrative, or I could present many diversified incidents, that might be considered very interesting." At this point Mr. Hamilton made some statements which were merely intended as episodes, not intending to add them to this narrative, which I will, however, from memory, try to give in his own language, and it was about to this effect: "The family belonging to our wigwam at a time when starvation stared I hem in the face was very agreeably surprised one day, when my old adopted father drew forth from a secret place he had a small sack, and required his whole family then in camp to form &circle around him, myself among them, when he began by opening ,his sack to distribute in equal quantities to each a small measure full of parched corn, and as small as this relief may seem, it was received by us all with great thankfulness, and seemed to appease our hunger. We appreciated it as a feast of fat things. " This old Indian Patriarch had traits of moral character that would adorn our best civilized and christianized communities ; he was strictly impartial in distributing favors and in dispensing justice to those around him, and was in all respects unquestionably an honest man. His moral sense was of a higher order: he could not tolerate in others any willful obliquity in the shape of deception or prevarication, as I can very readily testify; on one occasion, I had attempted to hold back a tact which I knew affected one of his natural children that he was about to punish for some disobedience, and as soon as he became satisfied of the guilt of the culprit and my prevarication, he procured a hickory and applied it upon both of us in equal measure of stripes. This was characteristic of that man of nature's mould." Here his written narrative is resumed: "Some time in the latter part of November, 1813, the commanding officers at Detroit sent a deputation to our little Indian town, offering terms of peace to the Ottawa Nation or tribe, on condition that they would bring . into Detroit their prisoners and horses, which they had captured, and that if these terms were not accepted and complied with in a 68 - CHAMPAIGN AND reasonable time measures would be adopted to compel a compliance. "A council was shortly afterward called and convened, and the terms proposed were accepted, and complied with, and I was delivered at Detroit on the first day of January, 1814, to the commanding officer of the Fort, and there I met with other prisoners and we were all provided for." Here Mr. Hamilton's captivity ended, and in the continuation of his narrative, he says he found himself three hundred miles from home in toe middle of a cold northern winter, thinly clad, and without .money. He was here furnished with an order for rations to Urbana, to which place he cane remained a few days with friends and then left for Winchester, Kentucky; where he arrived without any further government aid about the middle of February, 1814, after an absence of nearly twenty months. He further says, he remained at Winchester a few days, arranged his lit tle affairs and returned to Urbana and made it his home. Mr. Hamilton's exemplary and religious life is well known to this community, and here this narrative ends. LOGAN COUNTIES - 69 CHAPTER XI. ADDITIONAL PIONEER SETTLERS. As so much has been said in regard to the Indians in connection with early pioneer life, during the war of 1819, it might in continuation be noted, that soon after the war, our border tribes, the Shawnees, Wyandotte and some other ream ant tribes, made Urbana a great trading point. In the early Spring, after their hunting season, they might be seen with their squaws and pappooses every few days coming in on North Main Street in large numbers in single file, riding ponies laden with the various pelts—deerskins, both dressed and raw, hear and wolf skins, moccasins highly ornamented with little beads and porcupine quills; with some fifties maple sugar cakes and other marketable commodities, all of which they would barter to our merchants for such articles of merchandise as they needed for the summer season, or that .would 'please their fancy. And in the fall months the same scenes would be presented in bringing in other commodities, such as cranberries, and such other articles as they h al to dispose of, to barter for powder-and lead, preparatory for their hunting season; blankets, handkerchiefs, &c., would also be purchased as necessaries for the approaching winter. It was then a common practice to encamp near town, and as Indians as a general rule were very fond of whisky, they would some times give trouble, and ‘would have to be watched closely. Restraints, from selling or giving them whisky or other intoxicating liquors, were at that day provided by law, and had to be enforced against those who kept them for sale. In that way the Indians could he kept from overindulgence, and by that means the citizens were secured from drunken depredations from them. There might many more pioneer scenes be presented in relation to Urbana and Champaign county, but it is difficult to weave them into the narrative of events in the order in which they occurred, and I will leave them for other pens. The same general remarks that I have delineated in these sketches, in regard to the disposi- 70 - CHAMPAIGN AND tion to aid each other, may be applied to the old settlers of this whole community ; the same wild adventures are also equally applicable, and older settlers than myself will be more competent to portray them. I will, however, here state that some other old settlers' names should be mentioned in connection with early pioneer life in Urbana. Thomas Pearce, father of Harvey, as I am informed, before Urbana was located, built and occupied a log cabin on what is now known as market space, and opened a field north of Scioto Street, and cultivated it for some years. The following additional names may be noted as very early settlers in this town: William Bridge, James McGill, James Hulse, Folsom Ford, Joseph Gordon, William Mellon, Samuel Gibbs, Hugh Gibbs, Benjamin Sweet, Martin Hitt, A. R. Colwell, William McColloch, William Parkison, Curtis M. Thompson, George Moore, Alexander Allen, and others. At this point it may be noted that Harvey Pearce and Jacob Harris Patrick are believed to be the oldest male settlers now here who were born in Urbana, both of whom are over sixty years old. Through the kind assistance of Col. Douglas Luce, who has been in Urbana from 1807 to this time, I am enabled to present the following list of old settlers of the township of Urbana. It is to be regretted that it will be impossible to extend to them individually anything more than the mere names, which will divest them of much interest, as each one of them might be made the subject of interesting pioneer experience. It may be here noted that as other persons who live in the other townships of the county are engaged in presenting the names of old. settlers in them, it will supercede the necessity of my extending them beyond the limits of Urbana township: Samuel Powell, Abraham Powell, John Fitzpatrick, Joseph Knox, James Largent, John Wiley, Joseph Pence, Jacob Pence, William Rhodes, John Thomas, Joseph Ford, Ezekiel Thomas, John Trewitt, George .Sanders, Jessie Johnson, Benjamin Nichols, William Cummings, John White, Robert Noe, Robert Barr, Alexander McBeth, Isaac Shoekey, Major Thomas Moore, Thomas M. Pendleton, Elisha Tabor, Bennett Tabor, Tabian Eagle, Job Clevenger, James Dallas, John Winn, S. T. Hedges, Jonas Hedges, Rev. James Dunlap, John Pearce, John Dawson, Charles Stuart, Christopher Kenaga, Minney Voorhees, Jacob Arney, John G. and Robert Caldwell, Richard D. George, — Wise, (near the pond bearing his name.) LOGAN COUNTIES - 71 Thomas Donlin, Isaac Turman, William McRoberts, — Logan, Andrew Richards and Thomas Watt. Many of the above settled in Urbana Township as early as 1801, and all of them before 1820. These fragmentary and desultory sketches have almost entirely been grouped together from memory, and if some errors as to exact dates, and even as to matters of fact, should have crept into them, they must be imputed to that common frailty that is inseparable from humanity. It is believed, however, that as a whole, the statements are all substantially warranted by the facts and circumstances from which they are delineated.' Many things perhaps might have been omitted, and supplied to advantage by others that have been left out. This would be true if the Pioneer Association depended upon the pen of only one individual. But as I understand it, the object is to solicit contributions detailing pioneer life from many writers, and throw them together in such order as to make one collection of facts and incidents in relation to the whole subject-matter ; the versatility thus united contributing matters of interest to all classes of readers. I need not therefore continue these sketches, but leave to more proficient pens the task of filling out omissions, and will in that view make this summary remark; that in the sixty-six years, since my first acquaintance with 'Ohio, great changes have taken place. She had then been recently carved out of a wilderness of limitless extent, called the North Western Territory; and still more recently merged into an infant State Government, containing nine counties, with less population than is now contained in one of our present towns. It was then a wilderness, with here and there a small settlement, with a few scattered cabins, surrounded by new openings or clearings, without roads or other conveniences. At a few points small towns were laid off, and a few rustic cabins built ; such was Ohio in 1802. Seventy years later, and she presents the panorama, now unfurled to our View, and which needs no pen painting sketch, as it is all before us. What a contrast ! And pursuing the thought, let us bring it home, and apply it to Urbana and Champaign county, in 1802, when all the territory from Hamilton county north, to the Michigan territory line, was a vast, unorganized wilderness, abounding with wild game, and the hunting grounds of the Indians interspersed here and there with small cabins, surrounded with clearings 'of white adventurers. In 1803, Butler, Warren, Montgomery and Green counties were organized. In 1805 Cham- 72 - CHAMPAIGN AND paign county was formed, embracing the territory north from Green county including what are now Clark, Champaign, Logan, Hardin, &c., and the same year Urbana was located as the seat of justice. But extending it six years forward to 1811, we find Urbana as heretofore described containing forty-five rustic log cabin family residences, surrounded with a. few hardy adventure's, widely scattered upon wild lands, erecting cabins and opening up clearings, and throwing around them brush or pole fences to ward off stock running at large, as a beginning point to farms without any of the facilities of travel or transit. Such was the picture then : What do we behold now ? This same Champaign county, subdivided into new organizations containing populous towns, and all over dotted with large cultivated farms, upon which fine family residences and commodious barns stand out in bold relief, all over its original limits; and rustic Urbana, advanced from its rude beginning, without any improvements upon her streets, to a second class city, with well graded and ballasted streets, bordered on each side with substantial pavements, end side walks, and being behind no town of her population in railroad facilities; being in telegraphic connection with all the outside world ; and in the Midst of a county fully developed in an agricultural point of view ; with a net-work of free pikes in all directions, leading to her marts of trade, and traffrc, as an in' land commercial center; such is Urbana in 1872, under her present extended area, claiming a population of 5,000 inhabitants, with her public buildings, churches, school edifices, superb business emporiums, palatial family residences, and surrounded as already indicated, by highly cultivated farms, teeming with the products of • the soil, in return for the toil and indomitable industry of her first-class citizen farmers. And now, finally, dear Doctor, I will close these sketches, prepared by a nervous hand with a pencil, and which were full of blurs. erasures, .and interlineations abounding in orthographical and other errors, resulting from hasty preparation, by the single remark, that they could not have been presented as they are, had not my grand-daughter, Miss Minnie M., kindly tendered her services in transcribing, correcting and revising them to my acceptance. Therefore if they have any merit in their present dress, she is entitled to her share of the awards. This deserved tribute she delicately declines, and asks to be excused from copying, and for that reason this closing paragraph appears in my own hand writing. WILLIAM PATRICK January 22, 1872 LOGAN COUNTIES - 73 HULL'S TRACE. The following facts in regard to Hull's Trace, I obtained from Several pioneers that were here and saw Hull when he passed through with his army. I will give the names of some of my informants: Judge Vance, of Urbana, John Enoch, Wm. Henry, and Henry McPherson. It was in the year 1812 he took up his line of march from Urbana. Their route was very near the present road from Urbana to West Liberty, a few roils east until they reached King's Creek. About two mities beyond this they crossed the present road and continued on the west until they arrival at Maca-cheek, crossing that stream at Capt. Black's old farm. Coming to Mad River, they crossed it about five rods west of the present bridge at West Liberty. Passing through Main street, they continued on the road leading from the latter . place to Zanesfield until they reached the far- now owned by Charles Hildebrand. Here they turned a little to the left, taking up a valley near his farm. Arriving at McKees Creek, they crossed it very near where the present Railroad bridge is; thence to Blue Jacket, crossing it about one mile west of Bellefontaine on the farm now owned by . Henry Good. They continued their line of march on or near the present road from Bellefontaine to Huntsville. They halted some timeat Judge McPherson's farm, now the county infirmary, passing through what is now Cherokee, on Main street, to an Indian village called Solomon's Town, where they encamped on the farm now owned by David Wallace. The trace is yet plain to be seen in many places. Judge Vance informs me there is no timber grow-. ing in the track in Many places in Champaign county. I forgot to say they encamped at West Liberty. James Black informs me he saw Gen. Hull's son fall into Mad River near where Mr. Glover's Mill now stands, he being so drunk he could not sit on his horse. 7 74 - CHAMPAIGN AND PHENOMENAL. There has been, as the reader will see elsewhere, two dreadful tornadoes in these counties ; one at Bellefontaine, the other at Urbana. In addition to these phenomena this country was visited by several earthquakes. These shocks were distinctly Mt in Champaign and Logan counties. They were in the winter of 1811-12. See Patrick's and my accounts of tornadoes elsewhere in this volume. On the 7th day of February, 1812, at an hour when men were generally wrapt in the most profound slumbers, this country, generally, was visited by another shock of an earthquake. It was of greater severity and longer duration than any previous one yet. It occurred about forty-five minutes after three o'clock in the morning. The motion was from the south-west. A dim light was seen above the horizon in that direction, a short time previous. The air, at the time, was clear and very cold, but soon became hazy. Two more shocks were felt during the day. Many of the inhabitants, at this time, fled from their houses in great consternation. The cattle of the fields and the fowls manifested alarm. The usual noise, as of distant thunder, preceded these last convulsions. The shock was so severe as to crack some of the houses at Troy, in Miami county. The last shock seemed to vibrate east and west. This shock was felt with equal severity in almost every part of Ohio. Travelers along the Mississippi river at that time were awfully alarmed. Many islands, containing several hundred acres, sunk and suddenly disappeared. The banks of the river fell into the water. The ground cracked open in an alarming manner. Along the river, as low down as New Orleans, forty shocks were felt, from the 16th to., the 20th. At Savannah, on the 16th, the shock was preceded by a noise resembling the motion of the waves of the sea. The ground heaved upward. The people were affected with giddiness and nausea. LOGAN COUNTIES - 75 TORNADO AT BELLEFONTAINE. Tornado at Bellefontaine, June 24,1826, as related to me by those who witnessed it: About one o'clock, there was a dark mass of clouds seen looming up in the west and seemed to increase in volume and in terrific grandeur amass approached the town. The mass of black clouds now intermingled with others of a lighter hue of a vapory appearance, all dashing, rolling and foaming like a vast boiling cauldron, accompanied by thunder and lightning, presenting a scene to the spectator at once most grand, sublime and appalling. A tew minutes before its approach there seemed to be a death-like stillness, not a breath of air to move the pendant leaves on the trees. It seemed as if the storm king, as he rode in awful majesty on the infuriated clouds had stopped to take his breath in order to gather strength to continue his work of destruction. Man and beast stood and gazed in awful suspense, awaiting to all appearance, inevitable destruction. This suspense was but for a moment; soon the terrible calamity was upon them, sweeping everything as with the besom of destruction, that lay in its path. Fortunately this country was then new and almost an unbroken forest, consequently no one was killed. It passed a little north of the public square, however within the present limits of the town, struck Mr. Houtz's, two story brick dwelling, throwing it to the ground, and a log even to-house, carrying it off even to the mud sills; it picked up a boulder that was imbedded in the ground, weighing about three hundred pounds, carrying it some distance from where it lay. Mr. Carter, who was there at that time, informs me it stripped the bark off a walnut tree from top to bottom, leaving it standing; it carried a calf from one lot and dropped it into another. Mrs. Carter says she saw a goose entirely stripped of its feathers. Passing through thetownits course lay in the direction of the Rush-creek Lake, passing over the little sheet of water, carrying water, fish and all out on dry land. The fish were picked up the next day a great distance from the Lake; even birds were killed and stripped 76 - CHAMPAIGN AND of their feathers. The writer of this followed. the track of this storm for nearly thirty miles. Its course was from the south-west to the north-east, passing through a dense forest. I don't think it varied from a straight course in the whole distance. Its force seemed to have been about the same. It did not raise and fall like the one that passed through Urbana some years after. Last summer the writer visited the track of this storm where it crossed the Scioto near where Rushereek empties into that stream in Marion county, where the primitive forest stands as it left it. There as elsewhere it is about one-half mile in width. In the out-skirts of the track there are a few primitive trees standing shorn of their tops looking like monumental witnesses of the surrounding desolation. But for five hundred yards in the center of the track there is not one primitive tree standing, they have fallen like the grass before a scythe. If such a storm should pass over Bellefontaine now, there would be nothing left of it. LOGAN COUNTIES - 77 THE LOST CHILD. About two miles directly west of Lewistown, in Logan county, on the farm now owned by Manasses Huber, was the scene of this melancholy event. Abraham Hopkins (son of Harrison and Christiana Hopkins,) about five years old, was lost November 13, 1837. "Heaven to all men hides the book of fate, And blindness to the future has kindly given." How cosily this little fellow slept in the arms of his mother the night before this sad event. The father and mother likewise slept sweetly, unconscious of the sad calamity that was then at their very dour. They got up in the morning, ate their breakfast as cheerfully and with as great a relish as they ever did ; the father goes singing to his daily toil, while the mother attends to the ordinary duties of her house, cheered by the innocent prattle of her happy boy. Everything passed off pleasantly till about 2 o'clock, when Mrs. Hopkins started with her little son to visit a neighbor, about a half mile distant—a Mr. Rogers. She had to pass by a new house, now being built by Charles Cherry, an uncle to the boy. When they got there, they stopped for a few moments. The little boy wished to remain with his uncle ; he did so, and the Mother passed on to Mr. Rogers'. The little fellow got tired playing about the house, and said he would go after his mother, and started. There was a narrow strip of timber between the new house and Rogers', and nothing but a dim path through it. Mr. Cherry Cautioned the boy not to get lost. It seems he soon lost the dim path, for he hollowed back to his uncle, saying, "I can go it now; I have found the path." These were the last words he was ever heard to say, and the last that was ever seen of him. Mrs. Hopkins having done her errand, returned to the new house where Mr. Cherry was still at work, and inquired for her boy ; and what was her surprise, when she was told he had followed her and not been seen since ! Immediate search was made by the frantic mother and father, and Mr. Cherry. They immediately went to Mr. Rogers' 78 - CHAMPAIGN AND and to another neighbor living but a short distance from him, but no tidings could be had of him. It was a pleasant day, and he was barefooted. They could see the tracks of his bare feet in the dust in a path that led through a field to the house. It seems he had gone to the house, and not finding his mother there (for she, find-big the family absent had gone to another house) he attempted to return to his uncle at the new house, where his mother had left him. Soon the alarm was spread far and near, and people collected from all parts of the country. There were at times over a thousand people hunting him. They continued their search for three weeks. Every foot of ground for three miles from the house was searched, even the Miami river was dragged for miles ; but all in vain—not a track could be seen in the yielding alluvial soil of the neighborhood nothing, save the imprint of his little feet in the dust of the path in the field above-mentioned ; not a shred of his clothing was to be seen anywhere, and to this day his history is a profound and melancholy mystery. It is, however, the opinion of Mr. Cherry, the uncle of the child, that he was stolen by the Indians. He says there was an Indian who, for many years, had been in the habit of trapping in the neighborhood, and suddenly disappeared, and has never been seen there since. There was a deputation of citizens sent out where the Indian lived, and accused him of the crime, but he resolutely denied it. Mr. Hopkins has been singularly unfortunate with his family ; one son died in the army, and another was crushed by the cars, near Champaign City, Illinois, where he now resides. ANDREW HELLMAN ALIAS ADAM HORN: HIS LIFE, CHARACTER AND CRIMES. His birth—Travels in Europe—Arrival in this country—His opinion of women—Good character—His courtship and marriage—Jealousy—Charged with attempting to poison his wife--Sudden death of his two-children—Charged with poisoning them—Murders his wife —Is committed to prison—Breaks jail and eludes pursuit—Evidence on his trial for the murder of his second wife--Conviction. In all the list of crimes recorded in the annals of the law, none has ever existed, which, in all its terrible features, displayed a mote ruthless disregard of the laws of instinct, or so utterly vice lated and set at defiance the common bond of human nature, as the bloody acts of Andrew Hellman, alias Adam Horn I The dreadful enormity of them must not be concealed, for they serve as a warning, and show us to what a length our bad passions may lead us, if suffered to Master us. From the most authentic sources we have collected the following particulars of Horn's life, which may be relied upon as correct : Andrew Hellman, alias Adam Horn, was horn on the 24th of June, in the year 1792, at the ancient town of Worms, on the river Rhine, renowned as the place where the German Diet assembled in the year 1521 before which Luther was summoned to answer to. the charge of heresy, and is a portion of the Hessian State of Hesse Darmstadt. He is, therefore, a Hessian by birth, and the son of 80 - CHAMPAIGN AND Hessian parents. We have before us a certificate, signed by a priest, and dated at the town of Worms, in the year 1792, giving the names of his parents, and certifying to the day of his birth and baptism under the name of Andrew Hellman ; there can, therefore, he no doubt as to this being his true name. His parents gave him a good education, and at the age of sixteen he was bound an apprentice to a tailor at Wisupenheim, in Petersheim county, Germany, where he remained until be became of age, when a desire M roam induced him to start off with only his thimble and his scissors in his pocket, with the aid of white, according to his Own representation, he worked his way through all the German States, as well as various other parts of Europe, returning again to Wisupenheim in the fall of 1816, after an absence of nearly three years. He could not long content himself there, however, and hearing of the golden harvest that was to be reaped in America, and having a desire to see a country that he had heard so much of, he took passage for Baltimore, where he arrived in the year 1817, being then about twenty-five years of age. As far us can be learned after his arrival, he worked for a merchant tailor of that city, for nearly three years, when he started for Washington, and passing through the ancient city of Georgetown, son found himself in Loudon county, Virginia. It may be proper here to remark that during his stay in Baltimore, he so conducted himself as to secure many friends. He was then a young man of good personal appearance, sober, steady, and -industrious, well-behaved, and mild in his demeanor, and withal intelligent and well-informed. He seemed, however, to have imbibed a lasting dislike to the whole female race, looking upon them as mere slaves to man, whilst he considered man, in the fullest sense of the term,' as the "lord of creation." Woman, according to his opinion was only created as a convenience for the other sex, to serve in the capacity of a hewer of wood and drawer of water; to cook his victuals, darn his stockings, never to speak but when spoken to. and to crouch in servile fear whilst in his presence. He regarded the scriptural phrase applied to the sex, as a "helpmeet tor man," in its literal sense, whilst he would deny her an social privileges and rights. That this is still his opinion may be aptly illustrated by a conversation held with Win a few days ago, since his conviction, by a gentleman. who was starting for Ohio, who asked had any message to send to-his son LOGAN COUNTIES - 81 Henry. He replied, "Yes, tell Henry if he should ever marry, to marry a religious- woman." The gentleman reptiied that he thought he ought also to advise him to embrace religion himself, as it was as necessary on the part of the man as the woman, in order to secure permanent happiness. "No! no! no!" passionately exclaimed the old reprobate. "Woman must know how to hold her. tongue and obey. She has nothing to do with man." He arrived in London county, Virginia, in the fill of the year 1820, and stopped at the farmhouse of Mr. George M. Abel, situated about four miles from Hillsborough, and about seven miles from Harper's Ferry. Mr. Abel was am old and highly respected German farmer, who had emigrated to this country a number of years previous ; and had reared around him as large family of sons and daughters. The old gentleman took a liking to Hellman, and unfortunately, as the sequel will prove, allowed him to stop or board with him, and being a good workman, he soon succeeded in having plenty of work to do from the farmers of the surrounding country. He remained through the winter, and in the spring of 1821 started for Baltimore. He, however, remained in Baltimore for but a few months, and in July again returned to his old quarters at Mr. Abel's, where he had so effectually succeeded in concealing his opinion of the sex, or had perhaps been lulled from its expression by the scenes of happiness, contentment, and equality that prevailed among the different sexes of the household of the respected old Loudon farmer, that he was allowed to engage the affections of one of his daughters. Mary Abel was at this time in the twentieth year of her age, a blithe, buxom, and light-hearted country girl, with rosy cheek and sparkling eye, totally unacquainted with the deceitfulness of the world, and looking to the future to be a counterpart of the past, which had truly been to her one continued round of innocent pleasure and happiness. With a kind and affectionate disposition, and a thorough and practical knowledge of all the varied duties of housewifery, she was just such a one as would be calculated, if united to a kind and affectionate husband, to pass through the chequered scenes of life with the sweets of contentment, and but few of the bitters of discord. But such was not her lot. Deceived by his professions of love and promises of unceasing constancy, and with the approval of her father and family, in the month of De 82 - CHAMPAIGN AND member, 1821, she became the wife of Henry Hellman; They continued for two years in the family of Mr. Abel, during only a portion of which time the presence of relations and friends was sufficient to restrain the fiendishness of his disposition. After the lapse of a few months he appeared to he gradually losing all affection for her, though for the first sixteen months, with the exception of this apparent indifference, everything passed off quietly. On the 8th of August, 1822, Louisa Hellman, their first daughter, was born, which, however, he looked on es a serious misfortune, and, had they not been under the parental roof, sad would doubtless have been the poor mother's fate. In the month of April, 1823, ati ,out sixteen months after marriage an unfounded and violent jealousy took possession of his very soul, and all the pent-up ferociousness of his disposition towards her sex broke forth with renewed violence. He accused her of infidelity of the basest kind, and on the. 7th of the ensuing September, when Henry Hellman, their second child, who is now living in Ohio, was born, he wholly. disowned it, and denounced its mother a9 a harlot. From this moment all hopes of peace or happiness were banished, but like poor Malinda Horn, she clung to him, and prayed to God to convert and reform him, hoping that his eyes would be ultimately opened to reason and common sense. But, alas! it was all in vain. In return for every attention and kindness she received nothing but threats and imprecations. Instead of the endearing name of wife, she was always called "my woman," and his ideas of the degrading duties and dishonorable station of women fully applied to her, He had, however, never used any personal violence, and she consequently felt bound for the sake of her children, not to desert him. In the spring of 1824, he rented a small place in Loudon, about a mile from her father's, where they lived for nearly eight years, during which time, in June, 1827, John Hellman, a third child was born, at which time he openly declared that if she ever had au-other he would kill her. This, however, was their last child. On one occasion, whilst living on this place, he left her, in a fit of passion, and went to Baltimore, leaving wife and children almost destitute, where he remained about three months, and returned with promises of reformation. In the mean time, her father, having several sons grown around LOGAN COUNTIES - 83 him, began to cast about for some mode of giving them all a start in the world, and finally sold a portion of his farm, and bought a section of land for each of them in different counties of Ohio. John Abel and George Abel went to Stark county, Ohio, and Helman received for his wife a section of land in Carroll county, though he refused to live on the section of ground belonging to his wile, apparently through ill feeling towards. her. When he left Loudon county he disposed of property to the amount of at least $3,000. How he had accumulated so much in the short space of tea years, when he had come there penniless, was, and still is regarded as a mystery. Although possessed of a close and miserly disposition, denying his famitiy nearly all the comforts of life, with the exception of food, of which he could not deprive them without suffering himself, it seemed impossibtie, from the fruits of his needle, so large an amount could have been accumulated. The five years he passed over in Carroll county, we pars over in silence, with the exception of the remark that the lot of the poor wife during the whole of this time, was one of continual unhappiness, whilst the children also regarded him with fear and trembling, particularly poor Henry, whom he wholly disowned. This treatment on the part of her brutal husband of course entwined her heart more closely to that of Henry, who was then in his twelfth year, and the knowledge of this increased his growing enmity towards her and him. When he left Carroll county he was In possession of two fine farms, whrch he sold for a large amount. They were located within half a mile of the now thriving city of Carrollton. His removal to Logan county was hailed by his wife with joy and delight, for there resided her two brothers, Gen. John Abel and Mr. George Abel, who had emigrated thither some eight years previously, and were now surrounded by large and happy families. As good fortune would have it, he bought a fine farm, the dwelling of which was within a hundred yards of Gen. Abel's, and but a short distance from her brother George ; and now poor Mary expected and did occasionally meet a countenance that beamed on her with affection and kindness. She could there, When an opportunity afforded, seated at the hospitable hearth of one, of her brothers, go over the scenes enjoyment and happiness that they had passed together in old Loudon, and the memo- 84 - CHAMPAIGN AND ry of her good- and kind-hearted father and mother, who were long. since departed, would often call a tear to the eye of the afflicted mother. They arrived in Login manly in the spring of 1836, at which time the three children had arrived at an age when they became useful about the farm. Louisa was in her fourteenth year, Henry, was thirteen, and John was about nine years of age. They were three fine intelligent children, Such as a man should have been proud of, still they appeared to have no share in their father's affections. Money and property was the god be worshiped, and although in reality he was far better off than many of his surrounding neighbors, still he kept his family dressed in the meanest manner, so much sn that they were cow pet led to remain at home on all occasions. The children were, however, knit into the very heart of the mother, and she looked on them with all the fond hope with which a mother usually regards her offspring. About a year after their arrival in Logan, Mrs. Hellman on one occasion had poured out a. howl of milk with the intention of drinking it, but before she get it to her lips she found that the top of it Was completely covered with a quantity of white powder; which had at that moment been cast Upon it. Immediately suspecting it to be poison, and having no mode of testing it, she threw it out, and undoubtedly, from subsequent events, thus preserved her life. . There was no one at the time in the house but her husband, and he denied all knowledge of it. She was under the impression at the tune that he had attempted to poison her, and it is generally believed that such was the case. For the year following this event he apparently became more Morose and sullen, but his family had become used to it, and expected nothing better. In the month of April, 1836, all three of the children were suddenly taken sick, and lay in great suffering for about forty-eight hours, when Louisa, the eldest, aged seventeen years, and John, the youngest, aged twelve years, died and were both buried in one grave, leaving the mother inconsolable for her lost.. Her whole attention, however, was still required for poor Henry, who lay several days in great suffering, but he finally recovered. This was a sad stroke to the heart of the already -grief-stricken mother, which was doubly heavy on her from the Arm belief she entertained that their death had resulted from- poi.-; LOGAN COUNTIES - 85 ton, and that that poison bad been, administered to them by the hand of their father—by that hand which should have brushed away from their path every thorn that could harm them. The belief is now general throughout the county that their blood is also on the head of Andrew Hellman, but whether true or false remains to be decided between him and his God. It would. seem, if the charge be correct, to have been a miraculous intervention of Providence that poor Henry, the child of Misfortune, the one alone above all others that his father disliked and ill-treated, was the one that outlived the effects of the deadly potion. Happy would he doubtless now be could be disown such a fa ther, .and forever- obliterate from memory his existence. He is, however, now loved and respected by all who are acquainted with him, having fully inherited all the good qualities of his. unfortunate mother, and fully proving the saying that a bad man may he the father of a worthy son. Just entering on manhood, he bids fait to reclaim, by a just and honorable life, a name that has been tarnished by the most detestable acts of crime and guilt. It may be stated here, in justice to Hellman, that, since his conviction of the murder of Melinda Horn, he has been questioned with regard to the death of his children, and though be did not deny the murder of his first wife, he positively asserts that he had no hand in their death. He, ho -ever, will find it difficult to satisfy those who witnessed the heart-rending scene, and his utter callousness as to the result, that he is not also their murderer--that the blood of his innocent offspring does not rest on his head, equally with that of the unborn child of the second victim. The bodies, we learn, were not examined, to discover the cause of death, the suspicion as to their being poisoned having been kept a secret in the breasts of the members of the family, for the sake of the poor mother, whose hard lot might have been embittered in case they should have been unable to sustain the charge. As bad as they then thought him to be, they could hardly believe him to be guilty of such a crime, but experience has since taught them that he was capable of anything, let it be ever so heinous and criminal, and not even a denial under the solemnity of a confession can now clear him of the charge. The two children, as has already been stated, died in the month of April, 1839, and on the 26th of September; 1839, five months after the poor mother met her terrible fate. The intervening time 86 - CHAMPAIGN AND had been passed in fear and trembling; and she watched over and guarded her only remaining child with tenfold care and anxiety. She feared that the blow which she thought had been aimed mainly at the head of the disowned Henry, was still reserved for him, and she therefore followed him with the argus eyes of a mother, when evil or danger threatens ; she watched his departure, and longed for his return when absent at his daily labor, and folded him to her heart as its only solace under the heavy weight of sorrow and affliction she had been catiled on to endure. Henry loved his mother equally well, and did much to ease her heart of its heavy burden. On the 26th of September, hearing that her brother George was unwell, she gladly embraced the opportunity of sending Henry to assist his uncle on the work of the farm for a few days, knowing that there at least he would be out of harm's way. It was the first time that he had ever been absent from her, and when she bade him farewell, and admonished him to take care of himsetif, little did she think that it was the last time she ever would see him—that ere the ensuing dawn of day she would herself be lying a mangled and mutilated corpse. Such was the melancholy fact, as the sequel proved. The events of that night and the two succeeding days are wrapped in impenetrable darkness, no witness being left but God and the murderer that can fully describe them, but such a scene as we are left to imagine, we will endeavor to narrate. On Saturday morning, the 28th of September, 1839, Mrs. Rachel Abel, the wife of Mr. George Abel, came to the house to see her sister-in-tiaw, and so soon as she entered the door she was surprised to see Hellman lying in bed in the front room, with his head, face and clothing covered with blood. With an exclamation of wonder she asked him what was the matter. He replied, affecting to be scarcely able to speak from weakness and loss of blood, that two nights previous, at a late hour, a loud rap had summoned him to the doom ; on opening it, two robbers had entered, one a large, dark man, (meaning a negro) and a small white man, when he had immediately been leveled to the floor with a heavy club. How he had got into bed he said he could not tell, but that he had been lying there suffering ever since, unable to get out. On hearing this story, and from his bloody appearnee, and apparent raintness, not doubting it, Mrs. Abel exclaimed, "Where in the name LOGAN COUNTIES - 87 of God is your wife?" to which he replied, "I do not know, go and see." On pushing open the back room door, a scene of blood met her view that would be impossible fully to describe. In the center of the room lay the mangled corpse of the poor wife, with her blood drenching the floor, whilst the ceiling, walls, and furniture were also heavily sprinkled with the streams which had evidently gushed from the numerous wounds she had received in the dreadful struggle. Mrs. Abel immediately left the house, and proceeded wish all dispatch to the house of Gen. Abel, which was but a short distance off, and on relating to him the story of Hellman and the condition of his sister, he immediately pronounced her to have been murdered by her husband. Charging her as well as his own wife and family, not to go to the house again, until some of the neighbors had entered, he proceeded to make the fact known, and in a short time a large number had assembled. In answer to their inquiries Hellman told the same story, and with a faint voice and apparent anguish, pointed to the bloody and apparently mutilated condition of his head, still laying prostrate in his own bed. The condition of the house also bore evidence of having been ransacked by robbers, every thing having been emptied out of the drawers and chests and thrown in confusion on the floor. His story being credited by the neighbors, lre was asked where he had left his money, and on looking at the designated place it was found to be gone. A small amount of money, $16 60, belonging to Henry, which had been deposited in the heft of his chest, had also been abstracted. The reader can doubtless imagine the scene, and the commiseration of the neighbors for the unfortunate victims of the midnight assassin. At this moment Gen. Abel entered, and shortly after him a coroner and a physician. Twelve men were immediately selected as a jury of inquest to examine into the cause of the death of Mrs. Hellman. The jury being sworn, and having entered on their duty, Gen. Abel openly. charged Andrew Hellman with being her murderer. The jury were struck with astonishment as they looked at Hellman, lying prostrate in his bed, and demanded of the accuser what evidence he had to substantiate such a charge. The afflicted brother in reply stated that he unfortunately had no evidence, but desired that the physician in attendance would examine Hellman's wounds. The examination was accordingly made, 88 - CHAMPAIGN AND and the result was that not a scratch, a cut, or a bruise could be found on any part of his person.- Not only morally but practically was it thus established, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that "her blood was on his head." He had evidently taken up a quantity of her blood and thrown it on his head and shoulders, in order to give credence to his story, which act alone served as It positive evidence of his guilt. On a search being made of the premises, his axe was found, leaning against the bar post, about fifty yards from the house, reeking with blood, and hair sufficient sticking to it to identity it as that of the deceased—his knife, covered with blood, was found concealed on the hearth of the chimney—his tailor socks were found in the cellar, covered with blood—and the shirt he had on, as well as his arm, was saturated with blood up to the elbow. There was, therefore, nothing wanting to identify him, fully and conclusively, as the murderer, and he was forthwith committed for trial ; and the remains of his victim, having laid two days exposed before discovery, were, on the evening of the same day followed to the grave by a. large concourse of friends and relatives, and deposited by the side of her two children, whom she had sorrowed over but five months previous. From the condition of the body, as well as other marks in the room, there remained no doubt that the murder had been committed in the most cold-blooded, premeditated and malicious manner. The body was lying on the floor, but from the fact that a large quantity of blood was found in the center of the bed, it is supposed she was laying asleep at the time of the attack, wholly on-conscious of any impending evil. The stains on the pillow indicated that she had partially risen up after the first blow, and had been again knocked back on the bed. The soles of her feet were saturated with blood, which led to the belief that she had managed to get out of bed, and had stood erect in her own blood on the floor before she was finally despatched. Six distinct cuts, apparently inflicted with the handle of an axe, were discovered on her head. The hands and arms were dreadfully bruised, as if she had in the same manner as his second victim, endeavored thus to ward off the blows aimed at her head, whilst the little finger of the left hand, and the fore finger of the right hand were both broken. A large gash, laying open the flesh to the bone, was visible on the right thigh, apparently inflicted with an axe, and across the whole length of the abdomen there extended a heavy bruise, in the shape LOGAN COUNTIES - 89 of the letter X, in the center of which was a large mark of bruised blood, at least six inches square. An attempt had been made with the axe to sever the head from the body, and three separate gashes passing nearly through the neck, the edge of the blade entering the floor, appeared to have been the finishing stroke of the bloody deed. The fact of his having hewn up and dissected the body of Malinda Horn, can no longer therefore be considered a matter of wonder. It was only the second act of the bloody drama, and well did he understand his part. The man who had passed, without being conscience-stricken, through such a scene of blood as we have just described, was doubtless capable for any emergency, and he probably disposed of his second subject with the same ease of mind that a butcher would quarter a calf. After he had been some time in prison he confessed he had hidden his money himself, and that it was in a tin cup behind two bricks on the breast of the chimney. A search was there made, and money to the amount of .$176 24 in gold, silver, and bank notes was found, with promissory notes to the amount of $838, making in all $1014 24. There were also in the cup two certificates for sections of land in Mercer county, Ohio. The money belonging to his son Henry, which had been taken out of the chest, was found stuck into a crack on the jamb of the chimney. His acknowledgement of the concealment of the money was of course looked on as a full confession of guilt. He of course obtained possession of it, and it is thought found some means of transmitting it to a friend in Baltimore, from whose hands he afterwards again obtained possession of it. His farm in Starke county, having three dwellings on it and considered to be a very valuable piece of property, he deeded to his son Henry during his confinement, which is in fact the only worthy act with regard to the man that has yet come under our notice. A few months after his arrest a true bill was found against him by the Grand Jury of Starke county, and he was brought out for arraignment before the Court of Common Pleas, and there made known his determination, as he had right to do, to be tried before the Supreme Court. At length the term of the Supreme Court commenced, and two days before the close of its session, his case was called up for trial. Having secured eminent counsel, they urged on the court that the case would occupy more time than that 8 90 - CHAMPAIGN AND allowed. for the close of the term, and finally succeeded in having it postponed to the next term, which, meeting but once a year,: caused a corresponding delay in the trial. He was accordingly remanded back to the jail in Bellefontaine, Logan county, Ohio, which was a large log building, from whence on the 13th of November, 1840, after being confined nearly fourteen months, he made his escape. It had been the custom to keep him confined in the cells only during the night in cold weather, allowing him to occupy an upper room during the day, depending almost entirely for his security on the heavy iron hobbles that were kept attached to his legs. The means whereby he escaped, have been the subject of much controversy, and several persons. have been implicated as accomplices, either before or after the fact. Since his arrest he has positively denied having any assistance, and states that, having got the hobble off of one foot, he .started off in that condition, carrying them in his hand. On the night of his escape he had been left up stairs later than usual, and there being no fastenings of any consequence on the door, he walked off. He was immediately pursued and tracked to the house of a man named Conrad Harpole, near East Liberty, in Logan county, in the neighborhood of which, a horse, belonging to one of his attorneys, was found running loose, and it was ascertained that he had there purchased a horse, saddle and bridle, and pursued his journey. He was then traced to Carrollton in Carroll county, where he had formerly lived, passing through in open day. He was here spoken to by an old acquaintance, but made no reply. Some of his pursuers actually arrived in Baltimore before he did, and although the most diligent search was made for him, assisted by High-Constable Mitchell, no further trace could be found of him. They, however, were under the opinion that he was concealed in the city, and finally gave up all hope of detecting him. The next thing that was heard of him was in York, Pennsylvania, where on the 28th of September;. 1841, about ten months after his escape, he appeared before John A. Wilson, Esq., a Justice of the Peace, and executed a deed for 640 acres of land in Mercer county, in favor of Charles Anthony, Esq., one of his attorneys. We have heard it positively stated, though we cannot vouch for its correctness, that in the fall of 1841, which is about the time the deed just mentioned was executed at York, he was a resident of Baltimore, and kept a small tailor shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, LOGAN COUNTIES - 91 near Hamburg Street, where he was inhaled out. If so, he then passed by another name, and had not yet assumed the name of Adam Horn. He made his appearance in Baltimore county in the neighborhood of the scene of the last murder early in the year 1842, and commenced boarding at the house of Wm. Poist, in the month of May. On the ensuing 17th day of August, 1842, he was married to Malinda Hinkle. The horrible particulars of his second wife's murder, we present our readers in the succinct and satisfactory account of it that we glean from the evidence, produced upon the trial. Horn was arraigned before the Baltimore county Court, and the case carne up before Judges Magruder and Purviance, on the 20th of November, 1843. The awful barbarity of the man's crime, and the hardened indifference he exhibited in regard to it, created a thrilling excitement in the public mind, and at an early hour a crowd had assembled on the pavement east of the Court-house, in the area above, and all along the lane. Shortly before the hour, the van drove up below, and was instantly surrounded with an eager throng, anxious to catch a glimpse of the prisoner. The prisoner was taken out, and, after a considerable struggle with the crowd, brought into the court room. In five minutes thereafter, the whole space allotted to spectators was crammed to every corner. Two days were occupied in empanelling a jury, which finally consisted of the following gentlemen, citizens of Baltimore county, exclusive of the city: John B. H. Fulton, Foreman ;Alexander J. Kennard, Stephen Tracy, Melcher Fowble, Hanson Rutter, Wm. Butler, Benjamin Wheeler, senior, Abraham Elliot, Samuel Price, Henry Leaf, Samuel S. Palmer, James Wolfington. J. N. Steele, Esq., Prosecuting Attorney for Baltimore county Court, opened the case in a lucid and effective manner. He spoke to the following purport: “I shall in the prosecution of this case expect to show to you, that the prisoner, in the early part of the year 1842, came to reside. in Baltimore county, under the name of Adam Horn ; but that his real name is Andrew Hellman ; that a short time thereafter in the course of the ensuing summer, he settled in the country, purchased some land, bought a store, and worked at his trade as a tailor.; he became acquainted with the deceased, and in August, 1842, married her; that some time thereafter their domestic life was disturbed by frequent bickerings and' angry dissensions; that Horn 92 - CHAMPAIGN AND was dissatisfied, saying to his neighbors that she was too young for him, that she loved other men better than himself. I shall show you that this prisoner is a man of deep-seated malignancy of character, of passionate and violent temper ; and though we know some facts in relation to their habits of life, we know not what private feuds and what severity of treatment the deceased may have been too often exposed to. I shall show you that upon one occasion she had gone to church, contrary to his desire, and that upon her return, he threw her clothes out of the window, and put her violently out of the house, in consequence of which conduct she remained absent several clays. I shall show to you that some time before that event he had looked upon her and spoken of her, evidently to find some cause to he rid of her ; and after she was gone, he applied to her the most opprobrious epithets, peculiarly degrading to the character of a woman and of a wife, and openly threatened that if she returned to his house he would shoot her. Nor was this a temporary feeling raging in his heart at one time more violently than at another ; not an outbreak of temper for the moment, but as I shall be able to show you, a malignant, deep-settled and insatiate hatred. Thus they continued to live together until the 22d of March last ; on the evening of that day, she was seen the last time alive—that evening at sunset, and these two thus unhappily paired, dwelt in the solitude of this house alone; not another human soul lived within those walls ; these two alone on that night were in sole companionship, moved by feelings which the event can alone explain. " There was deep snow on the ground that night ; there was also a tremendous tempest ; it was the worst night remembered during the winter ; the wind blew a hurricane, and the snow was banked up in the roads, and at every eminence which offered resistance to the wind, in a manner which rendered it almost impossible to move; and on that night he was in the house with his deceased wife ; the next morning he was seen to go up the road ; he passed the house of Mr. Poist, his nearest neighbor, with whom he had been intimate since he first went into the county, but said nothing to him about the absence of his wife; but went on to the house of -a German acquaintance ( who has since committed suicide ), and said to him, as I expect to show—the counsel for the defence admitting his testimony as given at the jail—that his wife had left him two hours before day ; that they had had no quarrel, LOGAN COUNTIES - 93 yet she had gone out on such a night, in the condition she was in ; he told this German that she had taken $50 in money from a corner of the store in which she had seen him count it; but I Shall show you, gentlemen of the jury, that he told another person that she took the money from a trunk up stairs ; and still another person ghat she took it from a chest in the back room, thus stamping the fabrication with its true character of falsehood. The snow that had fallen remained upon the ground some ten days; at the expiration of which period; I shall show you that Horn went to the house of Mrs. Gittinger, and requested her to engage for him a housekeeper ; that matters continued thus until Sunday, the 16th of April, when Catharine Hinkle, a sister of the des ceased, hearing of the absence of Mrs. Horn, went to the house of the prisoner ; that although they had previously to that time been on the most friendly terms, Horn, without refusing to speak to her, spoke with manifest reluctance, seemed confused, colored in conversation, and otherwise betrayed uneasiness and guilt; that on being first questioned by Catharine, he said his wife had left the house, on the evening referred to, about bed-time; but afterwards, before she went away, apparently recollecting the contradiction that would exist, he told her that Malinda had gone away about two hours before day. I shall then show you, gentlemen, that Catharine went off with the determination to see Justice Bushey, satisfied that there was something wrong, but first called at the house of Mrs. Gittinger, who was, however, absent ; 'Mrs. Gittinger's little daughter only was there, and to her Catharine imparted her suspicions, said she was going to Justice Bushey's, and would have Horn's house searched forthwith. On that day the little girl stated this conversation to her mother ; and, gentlemen, I shall show you that at. that time, Horn himself was at Gittinger's, in an adjoining room, with some neighbors who had come to visit a sick person; that the statement of the little girl to her mother was distinctly overheard in that room, and immediately thereafter Horn got up from his chair and left the house. I shall show you that at that time he had on his usual Sunday dress, and that he was seen soon afterwards, in the evening, in his ordinary working clothes, although there was no apparent cause for the .change.. On the following day, Monday, he fled —and with so much precipitancy of flight, that he had left his store, containing $400 or $500 worth of goods, without a single person to take 94 - CHAMPAIGN AND care of it; and deserted his farm, and indeed so precipitately absconded that the doors of the house had been left unfastened, and his shoes left out upon the floor, he was next seen in the office of the Clerk of Baltimore County Court, on Monday, where he got out a deed of his property, and next heard of in Philadelphia., where, according to his own statement, he arrived on the following ( Tuesday ) morning. Thus, on the slightest intimation that active measures would be taken to discover the whereabout of the deceased, overheard in the conversation of the child with her mother, we find this man —a man of thrift, and careful in his business—a man of even miserly habits, tnus hurrying away from his home, leaving all his property exposed. I shall further show to you, gentlemen, that when the prisoner was arrested in Philadelphia, he admitted that he was from Baltimore county, and that his name was Horn ; that when passing along the street, in custody of the officer, he was asked his trade, and he replied shoemaker, his real business being that of a tailor ; he was seen to throw something away soon afterwards, which was picked up by another officer, and proved to be a tailor's thimble, the latter saying: Did you see him throw this thimble away ? ' the prisoner offering no denial ; at the officer's house to which he was first taken, he threw away a pair of scissors ; he also assured the officers he had no deed, but whelk further search was proposed, he either produced, or there were found upon him, two deeds, one conveying the property from another party to himself, and the other drawn in Philadelphia, conveying it from himself to John Storech, the German who has since committed suicide. "I Shall further show you, gentlemen, that by what may be regarded as remarkable interposition of Providence, on the morning following the Sunday on which he had fled, some young men, while shooting in the neighborhood, came on Hot n's. place, and crossing a small glitter or gully in the orchard, their attention was attracted by a hole newly dug in it, and close by a circular place, a little sunk, into which they thrust a stick, and soon found it resisted by a substance of a nature which caused it to rebound ; that without further examination these young men went to a person named Poist, whom they informed that they had discovered something strange in the galley, and they thought it was probably Manacle. Horn. Accompanied by Poist, they returned to the spot, dug up the earth, and there found LOGAN COUNTIES - 95 the body—no gentlemen, not the body--but the headless, limbless, mutilated trunk, sewed up in a coffee-bag. "In this remote place, they also found a spade near by, standing against a tree, which a witness identified by a particular mark as belonging to the prisoner. On the coffee-bag was seen the name of Adam Horn, and it will be identified by Mr. Caughy, a merchant of this city, as one in which he sold a quantity of coffee to Horn, nine or ten months before. In this connection we shall prove to have been found Horn's spade, and Horn's coffee-bag, but it does not stop here ; they went to the house to pursue their investigations, and there in a back room upstairs, they found another bag containing the legs and arms of a human being, corresponding with the trunk ; thus in the very house occupied by the prisoner and his wife, were found these mangled remains; contained toe, in a bag soiled with a quantity of mud, exactly resembling that in the hole of the gully from which they are supposed to have been taken ; mud upon the several limbs also corresponding with it the clothes of the prisoner also found scattered about the house, soiled in the same way, and his shoes even when found, wet and moist, and muddy, in every -particular indicating the recent visit of the wearer to that place ; still further, by way of tracing him to the very grave of these mutilated remains, his footprint, exactly corresponding with the shoe, is discovered by the gully. But, unfortunately for the prisoner, we do not stop here ; I shall produce evidence to convince you beyond all doubt that this body and these limbs so discovered were the body and limbs of Malinda Horn. I shall show you that there was no other woman missing from that place and neighborhood, and I need not say to you that A woman is not like a piece of furniture that can be destroyed without the knowledge of persons pat of the household. I shall prove to you, gentlemen, that the body and limbs were the size of those of the deceased; that they were large, she being a la k.; woman; that Malinda Horn at the time of her disappearance was known to be pregnant; that the body discovered proved to be in this state.; that a small portion of the hair sticking to the back of the neck was of the color Of the hair of the deceased ; that a peculiarity ha the form of the deceased was the width of her breasts apart ; that the same peculiarity was perceptible in the body that has been found ; that the deceased was seen daily in household duties by her acquaintances, barefoot, and I shall produce testimony to prove 96 - CHAMPAIGN AND positively that the feet found in the prisoner's house are the feet of Malinda Horn ; a peculiarity in the thumb of one hand, which had been bent by a felon, also affords :positive proof by which the dismembered arms have. been identified as those of Malinda Horn. From this evidence, I 'say there can be no question of the identity of the body. Yet is there another fact, a startling, a marvelous one ; I do not know that I shall have occasion to resort to it, but I shall mention it now; should I, however, find it necessary to introduce it, what I now say you will beat liberty to discard. I am not familiar, gentlemen; with the wonder-working powers of nature as exhibited in the human form, but in what I am about to assert it would seem. that Providence has indeed followed this terrible murder with evidence from the unborn. I have alluded to the state in which the unfortunate woman deceased, and I ought now to add that a post mortem examination was conducted some time thereafter, by a distinguished surgeon of this city ; that in the coarse of the operation the womb was removed, and preserved by that gentleman, and remarkable as it may seem, I learn that the infant, yet four months wanting of the hour of parturition, is indeed, in every feature, a Jae simile o;:* Adam Horn! "In addition to what I have stated, and the awful picture presented to your view, we have a striking fact to be considered; the mangled trunk has been found with every limb rudely torn from its place ; the limbs have been found, legs and arms, huddled together in horrible confusion, but the head has never to this hour been ; there can be no doubt that it has been concealed or destroyed to prevent its identification, and its very absence is proof that it was the head of Melinda Horn. I shall further show to you, gentlemen, that the body discovered, proved to be that of a person suddenly deceased, in high and perfect health ; and I shill show in connection with this fact, that the deceased, when last seen, was in that state—perfectly well. I shall be able to show to you, that great violence had been committed on this her mangled body; that a large bruise was found extending its effects deep into the muscles on the breast and shoulder ; that there was an-*other of four or five inches diameter upon her back, as if inflicted by some large instrument, and by a most violent blow ; and further, that one hand and wrist exhibits almost a continuous bruise, as if Mashed in apparently fruitless efforts to prevent the dreadful injuries which followed. LOGAN COUNTIES- 97 " Still further must I proceed with the disgusting, revolting spectacle ; and show you that in the perpetration of the murder, the after circumstances were only part of the original plan ; to sever the limbs, to cut off the head, and to salt down tbe trunk and limbs, was all necessary to be done, because he could not dispose of them by burial ; the snow was on the ground, and to do so would expose him to certain detection ; and I shall show you that on the floor of an up stairs back room, there is a stain occupying a space about the size of a human body with extended legs; this stain is moist, and at certain times presents on the surface a white incrustation, as having been produced by a quantity of salt ; the murder is believed to have been committed on the 22d of March, and the body was found on the 17th of April, and when found, though it had been buried in a damp hole in the ground, in moisture and mud, yet it was in a state of preservation evidently from the effects of the salt; it was again buried, and when exhumed three or four weeks after for the post mortem examination, it was still .found but slightly decomposed. I must call your attention to the time at which the body could have been disposed of by burial, after the disappearance of the snow, as agreeing with that when the prisoner called on Mrs. Gittinger to provide him a housekeeper until the mangled remains were gone." EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES Wm. Poist, sworn.—Knows the prisoner at the bar very well ; known him since May 1842; came to witness's house to board ; boarded with him 'till the Middle of August, and then got married ; witness was his groomsman ; two weeks afterwards they went to house-keeping; took a house about three 'hundred yards from witness's house ; it is situated about twenty-two miles from Baltimore, on the Hanover and Reisterstown road ; Horn's house is this side of witness's house ; Gittinger's house is about one hundred and fifty yards this side of Horn's ; Storech's house is about three hundred yards beyond that of witness ; the " gate house " is between witness's house and Storech's; when Horn went to housekeeping, he kept a store and worked at his trade as a tailor ; recollected the time when Malinda Horn disappeared ; on morning of 23d saw Horn go by his house ; said to a wagoner in there that he wondered where Horn was going so early ; he said he supposed he was going to church ; witness said no, that was not 98 - CHAMPAIGN AND the way he went to church ; he was not a Catholic; but pretended to be a Lutheran ; soon after, Frank Gittinger dame in and said, "Horn's wife NM gone again last night ;" witness said, last night was too bad a night for any one to go out ; it was a very stormy, ugly night ; there had been a heavy snow on the ground about ten days. On good Friday the people had been talking a good deal about the matter, and I went down the road to the fence between Horn's place and mine, and saw a spade standing against a tree.; thought "My God, what has he been doing with this spade?" could not see Any peach trees that had been planted ; walked round the spade, at a few feet distance ; recognized it as one that he had seen at Horn's house ; it had a paper on as the outside one of a bundle; it VMS about four or five steps from the place where the body was found ; is positive that it was the same spade that he had seen before at Horn's house. On Easter Monday about 9 o'clock, saw Jacob Myers, Henry Wringer, John Storech, and Isaac Stansbury, go by his house with guns, down the road ; between 10 and 11 o'clock, while witness was up ing his field, the men came back again ; asked them what game ; they said, " Oh, we found plenty of game down there," and allowed they thought they had found Horn's wife ; agreed to go along, and went around to avoid Horn's house, so that he should not see them ; went down to the place, and pushed a stick down and found that rt rose up again when pressed; witness then threw 'the dirt away with a spade, and found a coffee-bag, which he proposed to slit open ; there was something in it ; some of them thought perhaps it was a hog buried there, and did not want to open the bag for fear they would be laughed at ; witness cut the bag a little, and saw the breast of a woman ; they then concluded to go to Horn's house first ; went up to Horn's house and knocked, but nobody answered; Nase said the back door was open ; pushed it with a stick ; waited till more people came ; none would go in until witness went ; went into the entry and then the store, and found all right ; went into a sleeping room back and found a bed which looked as if it had been tumbled ; finally one of the party went to the back room up stairs, and there saw the arms and legs sticking out of a bag; he called to witness, who was on the stairs, to see them ; all went up and looked at them ; then went down to the place where the body was, and lifted it out ; witness then cut LOGAN COUNTIES - 99 it open, and there was the trunk of the body, without head, arms, or legs ; examined it and found marks of violence on the breast and the shoulder ; turned the body over and found another wound on the back; then went and brought down the legs and arms, and found they corresponded with the body; then sent for some women, and Mrs. Gittinger cane; asked her if she knew Mrs. Horn was enciente; she said she was ; thought that body was in the same Condition ; the mud of the gully was a kind of slimy mud, not exactly yellow, not black ; that upon the limbs was of the same kind ; the hole from which they supposed the limbs were taken seemed to have been quite fresh opened ; as if opened the night before; the same kind of mud was upon the clothes ; the field was a clover-field and orchard ; the soil upon the surface in the field and surrounding country is of a different kind and color from the gully mud. In the house found Horn's clothing and shoes—same kind of mud on them ; the shoes were moist and muddy ; found part in back room, part in front; shoes under the counter ; a bucket of water, discolored with the same sort of mud, was found in the entry; a basin of the same muddy water, as if hands had been washed in it, was found in the store; [the bags and clothes spoken of produced ; that in which the limbs were found is marked " A. Horn," with certain private marks ; the waistcoat exhibited, marked with mud d witness saw Horn wearing it on the Sunday night before he left ; [a piece of striped linsey produced, found between the bed and sacking, worn by Mrs. Horn as an apron, considerably stained with blood;] witness found the piece of linsey himself ; saw nothing of Horn on the Monday ; through his house and ground ; he was not there; knew Malinda Horn ; the body found was about the size of that of deceased, as near as witness could judge; searched for the heal all about ; tore up a fence, thinking it might be in the post holes; dug all about the garden and other places ; the hand was marked with a heavy bruise, as if it had defended a blow off ; knows of no other woman having disappeared from the neighborhood about that time ; found dried apples and peaches up stairs in back room of the front building ; several bushels ;there was a pile of plaster in the back room up stairs, where the limbs were found ; they were close to the pile ; there was a mark on the floor, as if the body had been laid down there ; supposed it had been cut up there ; this room was at the head of the back stairs ; this stain was about the size of a human being, and a