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Show SOUTH PARK. 159 along so gracefully and rapidly towards the Exposition building and to Jewell Park, a mile or so beyond. "That car passes over historic ground," said a pioneer. " After leaving the city, and e're Broadway is crossed, it rumbles over the graves of the miserable of the olden time. " Out where the road makes the grand turn and nearly doubles back upon itself, was the 'Rogues' Burying Ground,' in the early days when men ' died with their boots on' in large numbers. To the right and to the left of the road those little mounds, now nearly extinct, are the graves of the villians, the murderers, the robbers, the garroters and the cattle thieves of the days of '60 and '61. " The mound to the left, as you pass out, is where rests Reynolds, the wife murderer-he who tortured his victim and then killed her for the love'of murder. Near by, and lying parallel to Reynolds', is S , the cattle thief, who was cut short in his career by the vigilants. Across the road yonder is Teaper, the highwayman-he who robbed his victim on a lonely road in the mountains, then lashed him to his horse and turned the brute loose to tear his sides in shreds through the tangled woods. After 'Teaper come two long rows of victims of the revolver and the halter. In fact, none lay there, barring the old proprietor, but those who died with their boots on. "In the early days there were three or more places on the outskirts of the city where were buried the dead. Besides the old well at the race track, wherein bodies were sometimes tumbled, there was the Catholic burying ground, the Peoples' burying ground, the Jews' burying ground, and the 'Rogues'.' This latter, over which we have just been looking, was a private burying place, and belonged |