George
Conway seemed to have been waylaid by some unknown person, and murdered
on his return from the court-house.
"It was impossible to divine the perpetrator of the crime, or form any
idea of his motive. Upon the person of the murdered man a large sum of
money, which he had received that day, was discovered. He had not been
waylaid, thus, by one designing to rob him; and his peaceful and
amiable character excluded the hypothesis that he had aroused such
enmity as could have led to the bloody deed. The whole affair was a
profound mystery--no clue could be discovered to the perpetrator, or
the motive of the crime--and the body was borne to "Five Forks," where
it was laid in state to await burial on the next day.
"Judge Conway, it was said, had nearly lost his reason at this sudden
and terrible blow. He had loved his brother with extraordinary
affection; and the event struck him like a thunderbolt. His stupor of
grief was succeeded by rage. He fell into one of his paroxysms. With
flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and mouth foaming with a species of fury,
he mounted his horse, went at full speed to the court-house, made
inquiries of everybody who had seen his brother, asked with whom he had
last been seen, and left no stone unturned to ferret out the author of
the crime.
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