New York Daily Tribune

Horrible Cruelty and Death.--The Hartford Ct. Review of the 14th contains a notice of one of the most melancholy deaths we have seen on record for many days. On Tuesday morning, the 3d of January, between 7 and 8 o'clock, a wagon loaded with wood drove up to a store in that city, driven by a man named Viets, from Granby, 18 miles distant. The morning was one of the coldest known for many years, and a lad about 14 years old, named Gillet, who had been living with Viets for some months, had been forced to ride the horse all the way. He was very thinly clad--having on thin cotton trowsers, worn-out stockings, and a short, thin jacket. They started at about one o'clock in the morning, and on arriving at the store Viets ordered the boy to get off. He could not do so, and several bystanders immediately assisted him. It was found that he was unable to stand. He was taken into the store, and both feet were found to be frozen to the knees. A physician was sent for--his limbs, being put into cold water, swelled up to an enormous size, blood started from them in several places, the lad's sufferings were excruciating: and it was decided that his life could be saved only by amputating both limbs at the knee, as mortification had already commenced.--He was sent to his friends, and on Wednesday, his agony being too great for longer endurance, preparations were made for taking off his limbs. It was then found that his whole back, from the shoulders to the hips, was in a state of mortification, having been completely frozen and thawed. Before night he was dead. A legal investigation into the treatment he received from Viets will be had.