Huson told Wln'tney that he would come again and kill him. The old man (Whitney) t"ixe<l a bayonet on a rake handle, determined to dispatch the robber, should he ever try it again. Whitney's wife warned Huson to keep away, but paying no attention to the warning, he soon after tried to break in ; when about half way through the windov.', Whitnev, true to his threat, stabbed him just below the breast-bone, making a wound about one and a half inches deep. Huson, notwithstanding, made good his entrance and beat Whitney until he thought him dead. Huson and his assistants then mounted and rode away.- At first the family believed \\'iiitney dead, but after a while they ^vere successful in restoring him and he soon

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i^ot well. When I sa^- him the day after the beatins, he was d-eadfully bruised. Huson's wound proved much more serious than he had at first supposed, for it bled internally ; and when within twenty rods of our house, exclaimed '• I am a dead man," and fell from his horse a corpse. His comrades appHed to some tories living in the neighborhood, who took the body and buried it about eighteen inches deep, under an apple tree in Veil's orchard on the east side of the road. The next day they dug another grave behind tlie hill in the woods, south-east of William Smith's house, a very out of the way place. The better to conceal the grave, they cut down a tree -- making it fall directly over the spot. Five months afterwards, it became generally known that Pluson was buried there ; whereupon the neighbors disinterred the remains, and crowds of people carne, some from a'gre.it distance, to see the remains of one who had been such a terror and scourge to the whole country round.