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passed through the brain. Gentlemen, the nature of that
wound was such that he must have been summoned in an in-
stant to eternity, without a moment’s preparation. Gentle-
men, every man, no matter how exalted, how pure, how good,
must have time, however short, to meet his God, We all
must make our peace with him. Mr, Gordon must have died
in half a recond. When the body was found all inquiry as
to his fate of course ended. Two men having been last seen
in his company, where were they? Immediate pursuit wae
made for them. Inquiry showed they were deserters from the
army of the United States, that they had traveled in com-
pany with Mr. Gordon; that they also had stayed with him
lately at a house about six miles from where the body was
found, ‘We, gentlemen, are all in the habit of trusting too
much to external circumstances. Men of genteel appearance
and pleasing manners sometimes win confidence they do not
deserve. Perhaps Mr. Gordon trusted too much to the ap-
pearance and manners of these two men when he consented
to travel in their company. At that house the prisoner, Wor-
rell, had been seen to load a piatol. On the next morning all
three had been seen together on the road. They were last
seen with Gordon at a hollow in the edge of a prairie, in a
place most convenient for the purpose of a crime. We expect
to show that the horse they led was identified by peculiar
marks. That this murder was committed on a Friday; that
these two men stopped that night at St. Charles, and the next
night at St. Louis) That horse, led by them, was the one Mr.
Gordon had been riding, and was with them at St. Charles.
They crossed the Missouri river there on the ice, They were
afterwards traced to Vincennes, Ind. At that place, the
prisoner, Worrell, sold Gordon’s horse. There these men,
whose names are Worrell and Bruff, parted. This prisoner
went to Delaware; Bruff to Georgia. Bruff was arrested in
Georgia; Worrell was taken at Dover, in Delaware. Worrell
was found in possession of Gordon’s watch and saddlebags.
He not only did not deny, but actually admitted them to
have been Gordon’s. On his arrest there he was brought
back. I will not speak of their respective statements. I will

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