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before a justice court, aud the evidence being so strong against him,
he was bound over to the higher court to be holden at Exeter.
Evans, seeing his critical situation, made a partial confession, but
f    his statements, in detail, were base falsehoods. He acknowledged

he knew where she was, but said she had been carried away by a
man living in Kingston or vicinity. The Sheriff soon found these
statements to be false, but he was more fully convinced that Evans
knew all about the whereabouts of the girl, and he determined to
resort to stratagem to induce him to make a true confession. He
accordingly made Evans to understand that he would save him
harmless if he would tell the truth where the girl could be found.
With this assurance, on Thursday, about midnight, six days after
her disappearance, he told the Sheriff he would go with him and
show where the girl was. Through this dark forest, at midnight,
they silently pursued their way, over rocks and decayed logs,
through swamps and glades, and there, in the recess of this deep
wood, beneath the roots of an upturned tree, this worse than crim-
inal pointed to a pile of dried leaves, and coolly said “ there she is ”.
a-    The Sheriff gently moved away the leaves and by the dim light

of his lantern were revealed the mutilated remains of Georgi-
anna Lovering, who came to her end by deeds too revolting in
character to be recorded and too inhuman to be committed by any
person born and brought up beneath the shades of the granite hills
of New-Hampshire.

For this foul and bloody deed, worse than murder, Evans has
been convicted and sentenced to be hung, within the walls of the
State’s Prison, the third Tuesday in February, 1874. If Evans
lives, there is no doubt but the sentence will be executed.

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