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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], One hundred dollars reward. (search)
ch was stronger than his fear of death, the old man replied, that convinced as he was of his approaching and, yet he deemed death preferable to dishonor, and that he was ready to meet his fate. Again, and for the third time, his aged frame quivered in the agonies of death, and when he had ceased to struggle they once more released him. Applying powerful stimulants they succeeded in restoring him, when, with a determination worthy of the elder Brutus, he drew forth a knife and attempted, by cutting his own throat, to free himself of his persecutors. By violence they forced his knife from him, when, by a mighty effort, he dashed the fiends aside and plunged into the boiling surf to drown himself. With boat-hooks they fished him up, and, baffled by his unyielding will, they permitted him to go ashore. This is a true statement of this infamous transaction.--Dempsey Kight still lives and plies his humble calling as a fisherman, and that he is one of God's noblemen none will gainsay.