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ussnEtS DEiligOT
. W. WETZUO • E.
,ORNEY AT LAW.
.4 T T
In Walker's
Office, on Seyenth Firm% Erie, Pi,
HENRY CADW
ly sraa, :robber. and Retail Deafer in, Dry Goods. Groceries,
Cr, kery, Glassware. Carpeting. Ilerthsere, Iron, Steel, Nails,
Bpihhh■. Ace. Emdire Stores State Street, !bur doors; below,
Brown's Hotel, Erie, l'a.
Also—Anvils, Vices. Bellow.. Axle Anna, Springs, an
assortment Of Saddle and Carriage Trimmings.
S. MERVIN SMITH,
ATVORPIRY AT Law and lustiee of the Peace—Odic
sem. of Wright's store, Erie, Ea.
W. H. ENOWLTON & SON.
pg.t.sits in Watches, Clocks, Looking Glasses. Piano Fortes,
lamps, Britannia Ware, Jewelry, and a variety of other looney
Articles, Keystone Buildings, four doors Lelow Brown's Hotel,
'State Street, Brie. Pa. •
J. GOALDIN'G
ktnicaswe Tatum. and Habit Maker.—c4tore. South side of ttia
rogi e square, three door. East of the Eric
S. R. DEWEY,
ts'nowssesso Ilsssti. Dealer in Dry Goods, second door below
Brown's Ciotci, State SIMCt, Erie, Pit..
GEORGE H. CUTLER,
krniiletrr ar LAW, Girard, Erie County, l'a. Collections and
otter buttnete attended to with prowidnetie and db•oatch.
WILSON LAIRD.
key:lien Al Law—Orrice over J. If. W4lllatne exa l t, nge °Mee,
tett door Judge Thontiatonto oenta.
Conte tins nn • other profeevional bin' Reef a LICII fled to 4% i,al'prompt
wits and di pate .
W '8 HOTEL,
re tttttt 1111 C Esote. corner of State sti
r.ne. eastern Western n ndkontbern
B 0131; la A. BA,
Mu), ut and Retail dealer in Groet
• Liquors. Cigars, Napa, Detroit Ale, Hui
['enrol de, Erie, re.
11. B. HAYERST,
$O. 2. RtED HOUSE. Dealer la Dry Coot
Crocerleto, &e.
T. W. MOOR'
untie InCroeericr. Prov Woof , . Wince.
tc., NO 6, Poor People's Row, Sate
W. H. CIiTLE,
Atturnpy & Counseller at Law. (Mice
Buffalo. N. Y.
Collectiogatod commercial bottom's will
At aaaaa DeaLuv, Esq.. Ui
JOSIAH KELLO ,
Forwar.fing ar, Commission ➢ferchant, or.
!)tale• street.
Coal. Salt. Plaster and Whity. rish, constantly for sale.
J. 11. WILLIAMS,
Banker and Exchange Broker. Dealer In Dins Of
Drafts. certificates of Depo.itc. Cold ander/vet coin.
ol'irs,,4 doors Wow Itrown's Motel. Erie, Fn.
IrENJAMIN F.DENNISON.
A77011111R •7 LAW. CJereJlnJ, uhio—Office on B,)per,
In ittwater's Block. Refer to Chief Justice Parker, t
.I.awr lie hoof ; lion. Richard Fletcher; In State st., Bos
tlemaelll. Pork Ins. 1111 st.,PlulaJelphiat R
Esq.. 53 % •II suect, New York. For tedlin
fu to thts office.
111AltSIIALL & VINCENT.
ATTOWNSTO t 1 LAW—Office lip stairs in Tammany Ilan,
north of the Prothonotary's office. Erie.
trit .
Arranger Ann Cur Y/1er.1.011 -AT LA W—fliiire over C. 13
Sore. entrance one door west of State street, on the
Erte,
1. ItOSENZWEIG•& Co.
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Wirscrsrus horn Rise tr. Des‘r rts in Foreign and Domestie Dry
Coeds, ready Itlatle Clotlting,Doots and Shoes. &A., ro e . I, Flem
ing Block. State street, Erie.
C. M. '1'11111AL:3.
Il in Dry COOdr. Dry Groceries. Crockery, Hord
2sn. lir. Chespsa:e.Lrie.
A. H. tiricilcocK.
Itsa.ttt inCroceries and Provl<ioh% of en kinds, Slate at
doors north of the Dinnetetd, Eric.
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tif , it e il JACKSON.
DIALRII in Dry GOOlN„GTOCCrietl,flafthVare. laticena Were, Live.
Iron. Nails, &e., 121. Cheapside, Erie, Pa.
WlTErAiritliffitT. 1
Cietvcr IlfArck Urpholsicr, and Undertaker: corner of State Hun
trerenth'etrcets, Erie. .
KELSO & LOO3IIS,
Conk,. Forwarding, Produce and Cornelison Merchan t dealers
In coarse and fine salt, Coal, Plaster, shingles, 6tc.l'u lic dock,
ern side of the bridge, Erie.
Coats J. lima°,
WALKER & COOK. -
01. flit. Forwarding, Commission and Produce 31eretiantsiSec
and Ware-bouse cut of,the Public B Lin
ridge, e.
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i G. L 003113 zk, Co.
ID 4 44444 in Way:lmA, Jewelry. Silver, German Silve , Plated and
prit.sonia Ware 144.ttlery, Military and fancy Good Itit te street,
nesrly opposite the Eagle Motel, Erie.
ld. Loon IP, , . 11 . /tritely
CARTER Oz. BROTHER: I
WWLPF.CS and Retail dealer. in Drop, Medicine', Pal,
Dye-•WIN Riasr, Ace., No, 6, Reed I rouge. Eric. I
JOEL JOHNSON,
iitmlni in Theologienl, 511scenaneous, Sunday and
t 4 h ool Hooke. Stationary, ace. No. I. Perry Block, Eli
JAMES LYTLE,
nimoust.c!kferehant Tailor, on the public *Vlore, a few (100 "
neat of State Area, Erie,
L. WARREN,
thin, Blind and Door Manurneturer, and dealer In glass, south
rut corner orath and State streets, Eric. . '
to:g:CrAitic,
. •
IVII , LUAtt men knit . Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Ship
Chandlery, Naone.weee, &c. he., No. 5.130nne1l Block. Erie.
O. D. SPAFFORD.
Medical, school Miscellaneous Books slollonary.
"iota sb. four doors below the Public square.
Dealer in I
Ink, Ice.
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• bli:4l - 3, IT:ET.i.IOTT, s.
!caldera Dentist; ()Mee and dwelling in the Beebe Block,; on the
East side of the Public f3ptare, Eric. Teeth 'tinned ion Gold
Plate, from one to an entire sett. Carious teclh filled with pure
t:old, and restored, to health and usefulness. Teeth cleaned
sum instruments and , Detallye so as to leave them of a pellucht
clearness. All work warranted.
MOSES KOCh,
Wuots.sALE Aire R rrait. Dealer In Sriplc and Fancy Dry Goods.
lirocerier, Crockery. Ready Made Clothing, ate., Commercial
iluthlings ncr of French and Fifth streets, Erie.
.
8. DldliEll - 130N,
?vow aim Stitacov--OtTiee nt his residence on Seventh street.
op .rill the Methodist Chard), Die.
B. WRIGHT
WriarasArrt Aso Rrrandealer in Dry Goods, Grocerie,. Hardware.
Crockery. Glass-ware, Iron Nails Leather, Oils, Re., corner Cl
elate street and the public square, opposltethe Epale Hotel, Erie
- JOHN H. BURTON.
MMUS/U.rnger.tadeater in Drugs, Medicines, Aye Binh.
Groceries. ke. N 0.5. Reed Howe, Erie.
ROBERT S. trOiTERe
PIAUI in Ifats,'Caps and Fura of all descriptions. No. to, Park
. Row. Eric, Pa.
PLAIN and figured Dc Lata all wool, and oilier cheap De
Lain, at the store of 8 JACKI3ON.
BLACK V . / Ouch Cloth froto $2 to $8 pot yatii. for 'Moot
e. JACKSOI2
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MACK. Iltatant Green and Cadet mixed Brand Cloths at at
.L) prim for pate at 13. JACKSON.
/''t REEK. Moralny CI YR, Brown. and Ulue French Ma
-1-11 rano. for stale cbtap at the Otore of B. JACKSON.
•
LAVK, Blue, { ' laid,triped and other reoey Cassinnies for
tale by B. JACKBON.
LACK. niun,and *nixed Satinets, Tsmdti, Kentucky Jenne
ke• for sale cheap he. S. JACKSON.
LADIES DRESS GOODS. The ladles will fi nd a good ris
, sortment. French itlerinoes. Cashmeres. De Ulllll4 Chain Ilion
Mohair Lustre. Alspachas of all colors. Gin hams.
Jost opened at OFAIDON & EON.
. 01) navortment of Winter Vesting,. winene very wee. (iir
A.
at Mite morn of 8. JACKSON.
ALA PIWA. an .quantity Black Figures end plain phangnb}e
bilk Warp, ehamelians mohair Imre Ate., for sale by
Erie. S. JACKSON.
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C-914:1 84Iver and Fkuence Lear; cold Silver and Composition
11764; l'apaubc.:l awned
Nov. 1,
CANTER & TIROTEMIL
Gees* ream
150 rounds oritve Geese Fe
ray tuar cub at my sten
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Oct 22,
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'change,
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IWrlght'v
fausond,
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W. W. Loom/
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Waxted.
there wanted, for which
on the comes oproa Ite Gtown'e
G. B. WRIGIIT. •
Vattrg_anit
TO.DAV AND TO-nto*noW.
Don't tell me of to-morrow! ,
Give me the man setto'n say.
That when a good deed 'a to tuitions
Lead.) the deed to-dity. •
We may nil command the penny
If sec lief end never welei
nut repentance to the pauthom
Of the Past, that comes too late!
Don't tell me Of to-morrow!
There Is much to do . to-day
That can never be accomplished.
If we throw the hoots away.
Every moment lute Its duly—
Who the future eon foretell?
Then why put of? till to-morrow .
What to-day can do as well?
Don't tell motto-morrow!
Uwe look upon the put, •
How much that we have left to do
We cannot do at last!
To-day! it lathe only time
. For all •n this hail earths
It tekes an age to linm a life. ,
• A moment gives It birth.
THE DOUBLE TRIAL
A TALL' lin" CIROWASTAN CIAL EVIDENCE.
PART ii.
THE SECOND VICTIM:
At the very nest assizes of ,hire, the law virtu•
ally confessed itself to have murdered poor Eveleen O•-
Neil, for a pr;soner—ono Roderick Madden—wall maia .
his trial, charge: with the wilful murder of Miss Fan
altawe; and not as en accomplice, but as the solo perpe
!rotor.
If Possible, the excitement of the town and country ou
the second trial doubled that we, described as prevailing
lat the for Mer. Neither was it to be wondered at. Hard-.
ly anybody now but indignantly declared Evaleeu to have
been martyred; and the jury who had fOund her guilty
were in some instances even seriously maltreated by the
mobs, and two or three ofthem who had been inhabi
tants of the county town had already found a' change of
residence essential for 'their personal safety. On the
other hand, the public voice juet as loudly proclaimed
the guilt of the'oew prisoner as it did the innocence of
the first. Thousands openly declared
s how anxiously
I.they anticipated the condemnation of the "villain." the
"monster,"silto r`murderous wretch;" for by such - epi
irtheta the present accused was liberally designated. Now,
, the fact was, the virtuous public felt conscious of having
aceelerated, or caused the sacrifice of Evelleen's life by
its outcry against her, in the first instance; and greedily
I,
did it Boit° on the opportunity offered by the apprehen
-I'sion of another (accused on "undeniable circumstantial
jevidence" oldie murder for which she suffered,) to shift
all the odium and burtln'n of thi) affair to his shoulders.
Duly was tho prisoner placed at tho ' bar; the court
111;rhich was crowded to suffocation. us the papers said—
being presided over by a different judge tWan when Eve
doen was tried. r We will briefly describe the accused.—
He uas a man of about thirty-five years 'of ago, very
fasbiouably attired, with a couple ordiarnond'rings spark ,
ling an the fingers of his 'right hand. His stature wa s
rather low, and, his whole figure, alight. but graceful.—
, 'His features_ were handsomely blipped. but somewhat
sallow ; and his eyes %erre peculiarly grey ones. Ile
ilhabitually had a wild, ' , ILA: v. auspicious uir, which ren
dered his countenanet, u z.; thing but pleasant. Ile wore
purge whiskers and moustaches. and they, together, with
the hair of his bead, were coal black. The latter vlas
also of a very remarkable length, hanging down over his
'shoulders in large curled masses. Altogether Ito had
'strikingly the appearance of a foreigner, het lie assorted
'himself to be an Englishman. It was hard to judge of
the truth of this, for ho spoke several languagewith
' l . l re'at fluency and correctness, and appeared to be a well
i
educated man in all respects.
The lullueving was the substance of the evidence sub.
milted to the jury, against the prisoner. After detailing
the murder of Miss Fanshawe, and the trial and condeni
,natiou of Eveleert. the counsel for the prosecution wetit
on to say that the pi isoner at the bar had beens staying..
for several weeks previoureci the commission of the mur
der, at the village inn, near to Miss FunahaWe's men
den. His means of support were altogether unknown;
.ut he dressed gaudily, and lived at an expensive rate.—
hero waino apparent reason for hissejourn at the vii.
ago; and ho pltvay's evaded, or flatly refused to answer,
ay question which the people of the place put, directly
4 indirectly, regarding his previous life 'or calling. A
ew days before the murder was cointnitted, l he made
many curious inquiries about the Abbey and its occu-
ante, and walked to viow.it auroral times. •On ono of
hose occasions he Inct with ono of the funialo aotvania,
nd insinuated Itimaelf into familiar conversation with
er, in tlie course of which lio - inquirod in an apparent•
y careless way, about the mistress of the Abbey; and
articularly as to what part she slept , and whether any
na slept nearher, &c.; and to all V ego !varies, which
he servant at the time considered were put from idle
whisky. he obtained full information. ,Yhti morning
'e'er* the murder, ho paid his bill at the inn, and stated
hat he was going to leave that part of the country. He
ad previously sent off his luggage by coach to London.
wo witnesses proved seeing him loitering in, the eve
.mg of that very day" tier the aide of tile Abbey park.
hrongh the railings of which he kept earnestly peering;
• nd that he started. and seemed much disturbed, on per
airing himself noticed by them. Alter a while they walk
d on. still leaving him near the Parts, slowly sauntering
boat. This was the last time he was'eeen In the neigh
, orhood, and early noxt'morning the murder of Miss
anollawe was discovered, but, in the great exCitement
hich unwed, by a most singular fatality, no person
Weyer seemed to have for a moment thought of the
risouer at t h o bar• and his auspicious conduct• Two
ays only after tho execution of Evoleen, the landlord of
small public house) in tbo country town where she was
ried. came forward and made the following deposition
elite magistrates: Ho said that, about nine o'clock on
ho very morning of the murder. the prisoner Madden
erne to hie house,. end naked for refreehrneit in n pri,
ato roam. Ho- appeared exceediugly exhausted, his
lothes being tort and bloody, his demeanor excited and
:gitated, and his hands and face had several small goih
s upon them. He-(tho landlord) showed Madden Into
private room, and brought him water to wash with.
I ;• , . and. on'asking Madden how it was that a gentle.
an, as he appeared to ho, got into such tistate, received
o reply that ha (Madden) was a commercial traveler •
I hying et an hotel of the town, and that he had been out
1, 11 the previous night in a house of ill-fame. where he
ad quarrelled with some of tho inmates. indin the fight.
I , r general scums. which ensued. he bad been ill-treated
the way in which he then appearOd; thatAillor hod
:en forced down his throat, so its to throw him into an
'nsensible etete until about eight o'clock in the :tinning.
n d m he at. when he then reoovered he was - pit itteti to
i r eve the house Without (Miller molestation.. He said as
had not been robber). he .would take no casseares
I gainat the people wbo bad ill4ueekd bim..cm,laccaual
f the exposure any proceeding would subject him to;
nd l added that the moos of his calling at the deponents.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 213, 1850.
house was, that he was ashamed to go back to; tis hotel
in such a state; for he was well known there, and 'to
many parties In the town, and if his conduct got to the
ears of the firm for whom he travelled, he should 4 dis
missed in consequence; and that, If the landlord would
get his clothes cleaned, mended, &c., and keep the af
fair secret, ha would liberally reward Mtn. He. the de
ponent, fully believed this plausible storY;and in a' five
hours got Madden's apparel cleaned and repaired; and
the latter paid his expenses. and gave him a couple of
guineas for his trouble end kindness, and as he did so.
langbed. and observed that if he got into a similar serape
a
lo
again, he should know to whom to ap p y fur friendly aid.
-Madden then departed. After he w gone, the story of
Miss Fanshawe's murder reached dap ont. but not .for
one moment did he think of Madden in connection with
it; and it was not till after Eveleou O'Neill's execution,
and the universal spread of a belief In her innocence.
that the suspicion arose in his mind that Madden was
the guilty ono. .The grounds for it were. that his (the
deponent's) public -house was not only in the outskirts of
' he town. but on tho direct road to the Abbey; and, con- .
eequentiy. on quitting the • Abbey. Madden would find
his house the first and most convenient of any to call at
and arrange his dross, &e. Joining this assuniptiod to
the extraordinary fact that Madden's hands and taco being
gashed and bloody, as well as his clothes (which he sew
believed to have been done in the death struggle of Miss
Faushowe,) ho felt so morally satisfied that his former
guest was the murderer, that Ito forthwith went to tho
magistiates, and made the aforesaid deposition.
The authorities sore satisfied that the landlord's story
gave sufficient grounds to justify thaw iis apprehending
and examining Madden; but the question was where to
capture him. It was no difficult task to identify him
with the individual who had been sojourning et the vil
lage; though, unfortunately. this afforded no clue to his
present whereabouts. But. lo: oven while the subject
was under cousideration, the identical individual himself
came into court to complain against some blackguard fol
low of the town for assaulting him. The /I:lndium chal
lenged him at once. but Madden positively denied ever
having seen hiim'aud asserted that it was au otter mis-,
take. for he had only been a few days in town, and had
never visited it before. His name. moreover. was not
Madden, hut Harkworth. Nevertheless, on the landlord
making oath that the stranger was the indontical person
who paid him so mysterious a visit on the morning of the
murder, the magistrates . felt themselves justified in plac
ing him in custody, and informed him tbal ho must he
remanded until evidence pas procured on both cities.—
On this Maddifn became quite furious, and naturally do
mended to know on what charge they proposed to appre
hend him? When informed, on a suspicien of having
committed murder, he gave a violent start. turned very
pale, and ejaculated several rapid expressions -of terror,
These damning symptoms were not lost on the magi'. -
Oaten, and without granting any further hearing at the
time, they closely confined him for examination at a fu
ture day.. A few hours elicited the fact that a•stranger,
calling Munich' Roderick Madden. had been staying at,
the village inn; and a host of people who had known him
there atteuded at his re-examinutidn, and identified him.
On this, finding it vain hi deny his identity, ho boldly
confessed that ho was the person wife, under the name
of Roderick Maddgu, had been staying at the village lam
and that he was' also truly the person whom the !audio's]
related to have called at his•.,7B , in the . atate deicritied.
At this part of the protteedin a a ° most important and
darkly suspicious fact:tending to the crimination of the•
accused, was unexpectedly brought forward, by one of the
witnesses from the village recollecting that ho had seen
the very dagger with which Mies Funshawe had been
murdered, in the possession of to present prisoner du-'
ring his stay at the inn. ,To this startling deposition
Madden replied by a contemptuous denial that the dag
ger was his, and that he ever possessed one of any des
cription. Little credit was given to this denial; the host
of tho village in himself stating that ho had some recol
lection of seeing each a weapon in his guest's possession,
'but could not swear to the circumstance. However, the
other villager i•cry substantially described the time and
place where Ito saw it, and was considered a man of un
questionable voracity.
When the accused was called upon to explain huw'he
had spent the time, which elapsed front his leaving the
village inn, ostensibly to go to London, and re-appeining
in the condition described by the landlord of the pablice
house in the county town, ho replied, in a distainful tone,
that ho . should decline saying where or how he had spent
the interval; and while he even readily admitted that the
tale he told the landlord of his attire'being bloody, &c..
front a quarrel in a brothel, was false, yet ho doggedly in
sisted on his entire innocence of Miss Fanshawe's mur
der, adding that he could distinctly prove on alibi, were
it not that he had weighty reasons for declining to die so.
This was all the defence ho choose to make, and he dis
dainfully reinstate say who he was or what he was. The
magistrates eventually committed him for trial.
Tho witnesses to prove tho whole of the above evi
dence were duly called and examined, and, the counsel
for the prosecution failed not tit dwell on every little tittle
which went towards establishing the guilt of 'the. prison
er. Ho recalled each suspicious fact, contending that
Madden's residence int the vitt l ge was ebeionstoe oh.
tain covert ' intelligence concer'ning' Miss Fanshawe's
Abbey, &e., on which the prisoner proceeded to effect
his diabolical design. He observed that the chain of cir
cu stantial evidence was very complete, end some of its
,
lie s supplied in a manner trnly providential. The mo
tive for the deed was at present only known to the prison
er himself: bet it might havoinion revenge, or robbery,
or sortie other object impossible to be guessed at, What
ever it was, very evidently the murderer talas frightened
prematurely away by the approach of the unfortunate
young lady, who, by a most lamentable case of human
fallacy, had, but a few months before, been tried and
condemned in that very court. '
. When called upon for his defence, Midden, who em•
played no counsel, repeated In substance little more than
what ho had alleged before the magistrates, still denying
the dagger to have beep his—still Insistiig, moat stren
uously. and even fiercely, that ho was . innocent of the
murder. He appeared to be quite aware that he had not
the moat remote chance of an acquittal, but spoke un
falteringly. and In turns surveyed both jury. and speCte,
tons, calmly and sternly, while his lip curled in, undid•
sembled scorn and defiance.
The counsel teethe crown very briefly rejoined. allud
ed to the fact of the "desperately wicked prisoner" being
an avowed atheist. and confidently• awaited the coming
verdict, The judge clearly and impartially summed up.
and pointed out that this. like the former trial for the
same offenc e. wee supported by dorcumstatitial ind in
ferential evidencti. The jery i retired. and returned in a
few minutes with la verdict of "Gcturi."
Nobody was either surprieit" or sorry. Not an atom,
of sympathy did thefale of the tinhipPkintin create in
any htuitan breast. Partly. this was doubtless nuributa;
hie to his character and demeariOr.hut still More so `to
the Vindictive feeling which people indulged in towards
him, as beilkthe cause of the legal murder of poet Eve.
loan. • (Indonntedly did he receive his awful sentence;
and when the judge earnestly besenght him to devote
the tittle span of life yet hip, to repentance and seeking
Divine forgiveness, a low. hollow. end llond-filte , lengit
of derision, alsuch as idea, broke fronslia lip/.
,Bide!.
cutely. Weed, did that laug/t sound on every ear,
tremendous were the *Vita It generated in. redeetive
•
bulb%
rr 0 N W.A 11 D .jtl
Soon as placed Jo his cell, he said he bad but one favor
to ask, Which was permision for one friend of tthrtovisit
him' ere Wea'kecntion. The authorities assented.-and,
pen and Paper being given him, he•addressed nitote to n
female residing at a town some twenty miles distant,
urgently remicaiing her immediately to coma to him.
The note he signed, "James May," ,end, he explained
this by saying that, she knew hint by no ether name, aud.
that bitr• belieied she wassuite unmet& of Roderick Mad
den, the condemned beinethh Riffle peril:ldes beifrienii.
The note was sent evil's, to the 014'; w4i ) to r ilid to
be a feshicinahle prostitute, Who', had been ellipse a - few
moths atlhe town. She expressed extreme . surprise' at
the intelligence; and set ow forthwith to 'visit her quon
dam coutpartioh. On meeting, little, emotion was ex
pressed on
,either side; and after a very brief interview ,
in the presence of the turnkey, the woman . departed ,
hut not before Madden had obtained permission for her to
see hint once more at an early hour on' the morning of
the 'execttion. Aceerdingli, at , four A. b1..0f tho ap
pointed sisY. she punctually, applied for admission to his
cell, and was al once conducted thitlisr, where were al
ready assembled the governor, cheplain' and sheriff, all
anxiously begging him to make a confession.
"After she has been, I will," significantly replied he.
To the astonishment of all: the only words which
passed between the pair were— , ,
"Well,,Ehnili," cried Madden, in a cool, easy way. 1
"sou arelalthful to your promise. I've nothing to soy I
to yoti, Wain glad you are come , juat'to bid me fare
well. Wo shall never meet again 'on earth; o i _ml es - to
.}
Heaven end Hell; I Weil,' i n neither." Th bite brisk
ly added—"Come;' Ono last kiss, and good yo." '
• ./Good-bye," said the finitalo. who w ` quite numbs
ed. So saying, she flung harem, round bis neck, and
joined her lips je his in a lung, clinging kiss. This done,
she at once deiarted, without hating exhibited the alight.;,
est tracer-4e feeling. When ahtAIN gone, braddeiveall
ed for pen and paper. saying heirould writehis een- ,
fossiou. They were supplied, and ho began to writ e
rapidly. In a short time he was observed to . cliatigS color,,
while his liancOrembledSery much. This agitation, in
n.couple of m autos, increased to such a degree that the
pen fell from I is nerveless
' green, and helimself would
have sunk on he floor had not those around 'supported
him. fits fee became quite black, and a greenish foam
issued fre'in hi lips; his eyes disunited fearfullyOnd his
frame writhed in agonizing convulsions . Iril I ,Anidat
of this, heivev r. he was able to gasp,with a ilnateort.
"My father led, for I have cheated
.the pilaw, at
last!"
•
- " 1
.... r(f.: -
,
n i
Then his st ggles graduelly subsided; and bo lay' a
revolting Corp e , having died from the effects of poison.
The un fi ais ed confession was found to be es follows:
..lo a few °meats I shall be dead. and I now write
all I wish tds .:. end, whatever my life 'has been. and
whatever my r Means notions are. 611 nieit 'may believe
every word I h•re write to be"the solemn truth.
"I am funoe • nt,of the murder of Miss Fanshowe. I
have nut the =test idea who murdered her. The
night aim was
. taidered I was insurritiles distant; and
a
this I could ha • proved on my trial, but I could not have
done so withon confessing that I was engaged th4t night
In conimhting nothor murder; bat where and on whom
will never be k . own. My hands were cut in tho death
grapple, end y clothes "'neared with blood. As to tho
witnesses who slanted they saw mo lurking about the
Abbey grounds they either wilfully lied, or wore mista
kes by my ils•onbionce to another. The dagger with
which ?ilia" Fa .iliawe was' miardelitd really' who' mina.
although I denied it on My'trial;, being desirous to make
the best of my 4hanco of acquittal. As deposed on, my
trial. I was In he habit of carrying it about me; but I
lost it a week b fore tho murder was committed. 'merit°
the Abbey, and 1 have no doubt the real murderer hod
picked it up, en used it as the instmment of the deed.
"What my r. al name, rank, or country le. who I l am
or what I have eon, I will not toll. ,That secret, and
many other's, p rish with, me.",
(At this plac • the herdsiriting began to waver, and be.
baffle illegible,) consequence of the poison having at
tracted his vital . We subjoin all the fragtnentery or.
lion that could se deciphered.]
"I defy him . . . Lady Helena burned them;
and my mistres— . . . She it was" who visited 'me
in the cell and save mo poison."
Thoroughly - datestable a villain as the suicide avowed
himself to be. t a auttoraies saw too much reason to be
lieve the °Wes:ion. No time was lost in taking moo)
sures for the app ohension of the Woman who had con
veyed ibo poiso to him. for, independently of the suspi
cion attaching t , her as . his accomplice and mistress
very intense cu osity was felt to ascertain in what inge
nions fashion sh. had managed to convoy the poison to
him, for it seem • d almost incredible that ahe Could have
unobsert ed by present, as they stood within
few feet of both, and watched every motion during {he
brief interview.
It was found
immediately aft
elapsed ero she
flee," who reeog
being interrogn
in the crime of
%vas it ho gave
the morning of
planation alto g
She said - that
but it was a red
prisoner some m
carefully to pre
ed it would tio u
the email flat be
that when she k
clung together,
so passed thobo
least difficulty o
had boon arrang
first interview..
In the cell. , On,
with hiateeth. s •
tla until the me
- She declared t
of his real . uame I
• I
that he had ahva,
THE AI
the reedit
Miss Fonshawe
leer
disoof Madden;
of the crime of
English jury.
giving ab in '1
wrap the dded it
first cery !lenity
guilt ofttedr Eve
had receive
human judgat en,
evidence; rid
the queetime Mill
bad inettilicabla
No,fivrer th•
603 , 8 ,1 1 aM. and
eahred. Thejb ,.
rilijoi4ty of the
'tbs Abbey! , '
at alto had decamped from the town
r leaving the prison; and a whole month
•
.?vas apprehended. nt Chester. by an a
nted her (ruin tho "Hue and Cry."
,On
d, she stoutly denied any participation
adden. but freely admitted that she, it
[i nn the poison on their final interview on
Ixecution; and the following was the Ca
-1 o cif the manner of its being conveyed:
he 'did not know the name of the poison,
• '
liquid ? given into her keeping by the
nibs before his arrest. with an injunction
, rve it for him, for some day ho expect.
eful. She continued, that she placed
le containing it under her tongue. and
tined him at parting, while their lips
ey partially opened their mouths, and
I le from one to the other, without the
risk of discovery. This plan, she said,
d by'him, and whispered to her at their
%bout being overheard by the turnkey
l ie - in his mouth, he easily drew the cork
allowed the liquid, and retained the bol
-1 lent when his death convulsion begin:
at she did not know anything.vvhutevor
profession, or connectioni; but said
a Command of cansideiable wealth.
PART Ell. •
YSTERY SOLVED.
as seen, two trials for the murder of
I. ad resulted in the legal murder of Esti
; in the suicide of the' condemned soi
-1 et both of tlie*were peifectly innocent
It Ich they had been found guilty by en
Iha i confession of Madden. instead of
o the real culprit. only smutted to en
the blacker obscenity. - People who had
1
Malntalned the itoidule;nbquestionable
lien, endnextikat of Roderick,Maddati.
Ighttut leastin of the utter fallibility of
Whenresting Mr Merely circumstantial
w. after there bad been s double trial;
was-:only more intricate. mysterious,
than ever'—!•sygo ill) yin Dun?"
of rty:and•foor years swelled tho au* of
fill did that ibillling problem eelordo on
, geti.the juries, the witnesses, and a vast
1 , .
~. : biters were goo to their 'account— ,
1
i was pulled days, end a modern man=
slots tetrad on its ohm' and the whole of the marvellous
circumstances concreted with the "Double Trial" Were
now fast becoming matter of local tradition only. Ji l ting
occasionally related by boary.headed graudsires to o lis
tening circle around the Christnies fire, as a fearful alYa
tory which happened when they were young. and w ich
they now could safely aver never would be cleared ti • on
earth: •
One ewe summer morning in 18—:, the minister dune
of the churches in the county town • received en urgent
*unmans to attend die.deithbed of an old beggar woman
who load arrived theire'n few.disys previously. and wits now
laying in a miserably lodging. lie complied with the
request; and, on seeing her. was astonished by learning
from her own feeble lips that * he was called to become
the repository of mostawful revelations. appeared
to be a woman armed). seventy years of age; one, more
tier, who was emaciated by disease and want, until she
ookod infrito4a a resuselointed. inatniny than anything
...18 - 1104Y coiled in ahe Of filthy rags. and rams
evidently India last stage desistence. Startling. indeed.
wore the very Pint words she uttered.
"More than fort! " said she. I hi
_ to..y roars," said st, lave been a qtild
of Hell! 'I don't want.you to talk to me about my soul's
attention. for that's out of the question; but—"
..oh." interoPted the'Clergyrnau; deeply shocked
implore you say not ao; you have. perhaps only; a
floating minutes to,live,
"I know; and that's why I trial you to he me. •
to write down my dying words:'- •
The substance of those words was as follows: he
said that forty-four yriars bygone, she had lived as la y's
maid
maid with Miss Funshapro , of—Abbey; and that Iridy
having primal times ecoldod and threatened to dischl rge
her for gross neglect of her duties, an awful spirit of t.e
vonge took possession• of her, and she determined to
murder hoe mistress,. • While pondering the matter over.
she *petted to find's 'dagger (that left by Roderick Mad
den) near to the park pilings. About a week aftenvaida„
she inurdred. her mistreat with this very dagger. 4d.
being disturbed by the approaching footsteps of EveleOn,
O'Neill, who had heard the death4druagle. she4turried
to her own chamber, !Caving tho dagger behind he
She had on at the time only a thin night dress. w !ch,
being sprinkled with blood, she hid, and, hastily washing
her hands and faCtr o lit \ it on a clean one. Then, +a
the alarm was given by the butler, she joined the rest
of the family in milling tohe apartment of the murder
ed lady, and was loudest of
.ny in her outcries and lainien
1.
tations. She said that when she saw the turn the affair '
had taken, 'by shifting all susfreeftni from herself to troor _
Evoleen, she no longer felt 'any kelr of 'ildteetlon. the
availed herself of an early opportunity to burn her gory
night-dress. which she easily affected et the kitchen fire
during tho confession of the morning. She actually bad
the harthood to attend the trial of Eveleee aad when;the
sonata for the latter uttered the remarkable expresron
that perhaps the mai murderer was then present, shrfelt
ready to die away, but soon recovered, and afterwards
beheld tho execution of Eveleen without experiencing an
swift of remorse, either for her death or that of the first
victim. From that time forward. she, in her own werds
became and continued emphatically "a child of Hell !'—.
Very soon after Evoleen's execution, ehe married a itol
dier. and accompained him to India. Sulasequently O be
traveled over various parts of the ma, and co mmittedsin
upon sin, avid wicked deed, upon wicked deed beyond the
capability of her mecncri to sum up.' At I:ng,t4 alto felt
an 'westing prompting to drag her worn-out frame toltho
locality other first fearful crime; sand there finding her
se:f nigh unto death. she determined to unburthen 1A.,-
self of a relation of that dood. and, accordingly did so
as related.
Her Confession was read over to her by the clergy an
in tho presonco of tiV4) hastily -summonod neighbor ug
magistratos, and she declared that it was true in ev 'ry
respect. A few minutes afterwards , her soul fled tors
dread a c count.
._._
Reador! not ono word of comment do we presutne
to make On the "strange, eventful history" we have,
however unworthily, relatod. We feel that to append a
"moral," after the approved fablc.book fashion, were to
insult to your intelligence.
EIgn!.AND AND 11 . 11: UNITED SIATE3.—The London il
lustrated News, rails article on the signs and preepects!ef
the new year, compares England and the 'United Stale
in this manner:
•
An empire twenty, thirty, GAY times as extensive and
es rich as ours, has already arisen on the other side! l of
the Attantie, to entice into its bosom the bestblood whfch
remains to us. The young, the hardy the perstOoriitg
of our couutry. and•of all countries of Europe that, groan
under the weight of debts and difficulty, bud a seri:lug 'St
population. and that cannot say as the Now World: does,
that every man I. a Man. welcome for the saki of Ms
manhood to the greet feast of nature. where there is
enough and to spare for the meanest, ere daily hitvited I to
leave the shores of effete Europe, end settle in Atneece.
The grcwth c/the United States is, in fact the do:off:JO.
of Great Britain. All the unhappy circumstauces
are of prejudice to us, aro of benefit to them. With'-Wr,
the mouths that clamor to fed, are causes of decay.+-
With them every additional mouth is an additional pair
of hende, end every additionld pair of hands is an hien+
of power, wealth, find influence., Let us pour out mit
lions into the groat Mississippi, and it will hold and feed
thorn all. were the numbers quadrupled. While in tl+
old country the pauper vegetates and dies, in that new
country ho no longer vegetates but lives - and counts by
thousands his flocks---a Job ha the land of plenty.
Let those who dream of a perpetual Britain think of
these things. The signs of deCay ore around us on av 4
ry side. Events are more powerful than we are, Wi
'must sooner or later, yield our place to the mbst prudeat
the less embarrassed, andalte more vigorous offshoots of
our race, and consent to occupy the easy chair of opt,,
sonitty. Nor is there any thing to regret in this. The(
civilization that is removed is not destroyed; and the goi
nit's dour people can exert drift:, well on the border&
of the Ohio, as on the banks of the Thafills. and rulee,
the world with es much' propriety from the White House"'
as from the palace of tat James. Europe has enjoy: ti
power and has abused it, end the sceptre of the world''
dominion is passing from her grasp. Cieilizution. es of
old. Is following the count° of the sun. andthe doctrines
bf humanity will work themselves out a now Gold, and.
ou a largo scale.
PE[DITi:RiI AND PRINTIIIO.I. T. Buckingham. - Esq..
in hisseries of rominiscenceo. in course nf publication in
the Boston .7ourier. 'Teaks of the importance of the
printer. to the author. as follows:—.'Many who condo:-
snood to illuminate the dark world with the fire of their '
genins, through the columns of a newspaper. little think
of the lot of the printer. who, almost annealed by the
smoke of stamp, sits up till midnight to correct his false
grammar, bad orthography,
end worse punctuation. I
hove seen the arguments lof lawyers. In high repute as
scholars, aerate the printer is thine own handwriting.
many words. sad especielti technical end foreign terms.
abbreviated. millepafied.l and entirely out of place. 1
have seen the sermons ofliminentsdivinea' sent to tht
press without points or Sapitals to designate the division
of sentences: sermons. which if published with the im
perfections of the ntenhaiript. would disgrace the printer's
devil. if he were the author. Suppose they had been so
printed. The printer would have , been treated with
scorn and contempt. re an illiterate blockhead—air a fel
low bitter flied lobe ai; worm:l-sawyer than a Outer. No
body would have believed thatisuch greet and palpable
(outwore owing to the ignotrince °rootlessness of the
math . And *to one but the practical printer , knows
how many home a compositor.' and after him a proof
rerder. Is compelled to speed in reducing -totoadish!,
condition:manuscripts that tbb writerstheruseliba would
be rattled is read"
SIL SO A 3raaa , in Ativanc•.
EtTLAZ.II:kmA BEZZNAII33.
=I
Come out, toy love, come out to-night s
The stars arc brightly shining,
The moon enrobe4 in purest light.
is on the clouds reclining—
Her rad lent beams
Make bright the streams.
To ocean homes declining.
Come out my love.eoine quickly meg'
Te zephyrs now are roving,
I see their fairy Coitus about
The leaflets softlymoving,
They sigh for
Culotte,
To kiss thy brow so loving.
Come out, my love, delay no more.
The sands are swiftly falling,
Soon will the hour he past and o'er, -
Tbe won:tenni cease their calor.-
The upper deep.
Cora pt in sleep.
And darkness earth be palling.
Come out. my love, I see thee now,
Thine cam are brightly heal*,
Beneath the arches of thy brow,
Where thoughts of love are teemillgl
Ohl come with me, .
Eutelie,
To where the shades are dreaming—Lisil. Awe.
woxzonsvre OP TIM LMT WAR
• WITH ZINCIZo4ND.
•(fnn Noah', Sunday Thrift.)
Tho Americans . are probably the most remarkable
people on earth for promptness and girepolation for war
after it exists. A valuable corps of 200;000 men. armed,
and equipped, can bo ready-.for thefield in thirty day* alter
war is declared, and rid it mar be said of ships of wan-.
We will state one fact as illustiative of the position. Pa
ring the war with Eughind.. end while stationed on the
Barbary coast, we were surprised one day. while exploring.
the ruins of Carthage; to see a sharp clipper-built schooner
under full sail. with the American flag floating to a brisk
breeze. doubling Cape Bon. end inking direci s for the bay.
We rode down to tile -fortress of Goliath'. ordered •
launch to be made ready cut found ourselves alongside
the schooner just as she had cut anchor..
"Where are you from. sir?" '
"From Boston," replied the captain, ailment dashing.
looking young fellow.
,-In what passage?"
• "Twenty-throe dit,yaiir."
We began to have our misgivingi. TWenty-thrsa
days. from Boston? We suspected she had been fitted
out at Maatillies to ,cruise is the Mediterranean. It was
the Abeleno. Capt. Wye, of six goes - end 75 men;
magnificent little cnift. Wa went down into the trunk
cabin. •
sin said the captain. I'll convince you that'wo
ajo from Boston. and will show you Boston notion! of all
kinds. froM pumpkins and smoked hearing dawn to wood
on nutmegs." lie soar filed the table with tall the vied
cheer add solid comforts with which the llCstoniarts knew
so well how to furnish a ship. 'And here.' *aid hi' is
the Boston Centiuel. ,rdsj4r Russel's paper.' All doubts .
were now at their on and while we bad been partaking
of fere to which wait fi long been accustomed—homely
fare. but more welCo; on that account—the-captain
said—•
"If you are surprised at our short pirate ao far up:
the Mediterranean, what will you say when I tell you it
is just sixty days since the keel of this vessel was .1114
in Boston; yet hero we are!" We could hardly credit*
"Nay, that's not all sir, continued Capt. Wyer. t Ots
my way here, all Cagliar, 1 captured two large British
vessels filled With valuable cargoes, and ordered them
for this' port. They will be here to-morrow morning."
"What! in a neu'r..l port, in wh - L h ;he British exercise
unlimited influence! They will never permit us to sell
the cargoes."
"Well, air, we cant only try."
Sure enough, next morning early. the city of Tunis.
honortd once by the presence of Scipio Africano, Han
nibal and other distinguished personages knoWn to his
tory. was thrown into the greatest commotion on seeing
two large laden ships entering the port. and stars nod
stripes floating ovor the union jack. It startled the Bri
tish consul and all the corps diptornagne. and we soon
saw the whole bevy on horse back making for the palace.
"I smell stilpl said the captain. ...There is a Storm
brewing, and-we shall have it noon."
In in hour a message arrived by a mameluke that we
wore wanted at the palace. After making our tollett.
Sidi Ambrosio, our chancellor. and Mustaphe, the drn
gonmen, were soon mounted, and off wo paced at a mod•
orate rate for „Bard°. The consular corps were all pro•
sent when we entered the sari. The Bey. reclining as
usual on his largo crimson cushions, was busily engaged
in combining his long black beard with a tortoiseshell
comb, ktudded with brilliants, and looking unusually
grave.
"What does all this mean. consul—two British 'prizes ,
entering Our port, and for what purpose?"
"To sell them. your biglineasil?
"What! against our treacly with England!'!
"Certainly not, if there, is such a prohibition In the
treaty.,'
The British consul. a most excellent man. enrolled the
parchment, to which a seal of wax was-appentled nearly
as largo as une of our western cheeses, and commenced
reading as follows:
"It is "further stipulated and agreed upon. that no En
repeat) power at war with England. shall be permitted to
fit out privateers or other armed vessels to cruise;against
the commerce oFgroat Britain from, or bring prizes in
to. the Tunisian ports." f
Pir," said tho Boy, ••what heti° T O O l l O 00 7 to
that? Ts it not full and conclusive'?
"Entirety act; but it does not appl •to as. We are not
a European power
"That, sir." said the British consul. "'tea were orra•
eon of tbe spirit of this section of our treaty. It was in
tended to apply. and does apply to all Christian pow
'era." -
••Very probably. sir; but we are not aphrietain power:"
The whole court looked *mama. The . Bey raised him
self up from his citations. tdok ahearty pinch of snuff
from a splendid diamond box and gavo us au anxious
and enquiring look. '
"How will you make that appear. eh?" sold the Brit
ish consul.
"Very easily. air." We read the following stetlVA
fri at our treaty with Tr'por_:-1- -
..4 1 1.2 the Unitod States is in ro mariner Cl rief an
governments and I 'Yen: I IS no hostility tower le any J.
nomination, it is hereby understood that. no distostpulos
shall arise between the two powers on any religious pea.
tion."
It was mielesi to urge no point further. We did r ev
in any shape'eona within the purview of that treaty'. so
permission was given to laud the goods; and die shire
and cargoes, consisting of every variety of motebinatn.
were sold in a single day. 'The British consul sent for
a British blockarrni squadron from Malta; but the pee
vsteer slipped out of the bay. ran up the Archipelago. de.
strayed nearly two millions olltritieh preperty.sies abased
around the Mediterranean - two shies of-thelbne and
two frigates. escaped throu ghthe Gulf of pitirap*. and
arrived home safely.
The commerce of any pollver""Trbtthie , -Wyatt,
marital: L t.* utterly destroyed in a week the • United
State.; and all the navy of Groat Britain could not Meek
ade so as to prevent pnvatoers from cies - string. We should
find ihem on the Atlantic, the - Pacific.' In the Indian
ceases, the Beltle and the Moditeinnestui. - nag would
be very when. a
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NUAIBER4I.