Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

HORRID NEGRO MIIRDER3.

Another murderous atrocity transpired at St. Louis on the 3rd
instant, in which two, if not three. victims are ineluded in a violent
fate. The scene of the butchery was a negro dwelling on the east
side of Tenth-street, inhabited by oie Johnson, a fres mulatto, and
his wife and mother-in-law. The oecupatisn of the murderer has been
' that of a steam-boat steward, end fur some time past he ha, been off
the river passing his time constantly in this city. Soon he became
gown to the palice as A person of desperate character, and was more
than once in their hands far violent and disorderly conduct. About
dark the neighbours were cumin ined to the hone) by a report of
their murder at his hands, and !mini on entering the door all three
:of the parties lying on the floor—the women quite dead and their
betties covered wi h blood from frightful stabs in the breast,inflicted
by a huge butcher knife. Johnson himself hal a fearful wound in
'the abdomen, serf-inflicted, no doubt, and evidently by the same
weapon he had need in killing his companions. At ten o'clock a
posse of policemen assumed guar l of the•premisss, amid quieted the
excitement existing among the spectators. Johnson was still living
at that hour, in full possession of his faculties and-Wee to speak. He
sullenly refused, however, to tell why he had committed the treble
c-ime which hod just bean• eaacte, and declined to couverse at all
about it It is thought he cannot probably r:Ceeer. We have further
heard that there is no doubt of the fast that Snit's was je ;of his
wife, for lir ceeseeved, as our reporter left the heats, in suastance,
"that his wife was not true to him." A dark story eviden ly lurks
behind this terribie tragedy, -viewing tor the moment this last expres-
sion. and coupling It with the fact that the two marderel females
had him brought beam the Recorder a short tirn s Knee far abusing
thorn. They-lived iecomfartabte circurnst me 3s. It is asserted that
Smith had been drinking before he co nmitt,d the murder, and he
vomited several times while oar reporter was preient.—Aoseeicae.

SEDUCTION, ABORTION, AND DEATH IN

CHICAGO.

Some of the particulars a dark and wickel transaction, which has
recently taken place in tleiere.'tY, have been revealed to us through
the mecum of legal inured; ions which are nor in p•ozrass. It
appears that thiedeath of a Fee og women has been c mead by an at -
tempt mode upon her to produes abortion, and that parties who have
occupied respectable positions is the comemnity a e implicated in the
d •eadfol rime. On Wednesdnee &Lip 52, a yettng.Norweaau woman
whose name was given as Repair .Peterson, bat which it is said was
P.egnat Lawson, was brought tie this city from some place in the
country, (probaWy Bureau County:,) about 12) miles distant. What
tier condi:ion was when she-arrived here does not-as yet aop ar, but
not far from the data referred to &le wast 'ken to a boarding-house,
on, State-street, la very ill hea'th„ xv.:ere the person who came with
her desired to here her taken care of not 1 she got better, On the
same day, the woman who attended her diecovered'that she W 3; in a
vary dange-ons condition, and th 3 woman of tie house sent for
C roner Hanson, (suppoeing
_himiito be the health officer), and
desired him to look to, the case.. Mr. Hanson- tekl her to get a
physician* Dr. Bevans was then LINA for, and on visiting the women
discovered at once that abortion had :been produced. The woman, with
great apparent candour, stated to ttes doctor that she had lived with a
roan named Temp'e, in Chillicothe, Bereau C mnty ; that by him she
had I ecome enciente ; that he proposed to, her the destruction of their
intercourse by procuring abortion ; thatar first she reiased, bat finally
eoasentei, and was brcught to Chicago for that purpose; that th
operation was pereormodupon her byre-. Swansey, (of.sems place in
Bares County), tater which she was token to the her.se in State-
street, as satted above. She rem head thece several days, nobody
visiting her exmpt Dr. Bryan, who w.se eudeavouring to save her life-
On Thursday night last she Wei removed f.em that hoes-, to the Ball's
Head Tavern, where she died on the following Friday marling. The
coroner was then informed of the fazt,. and he proceede I at once to
the 'Yale where the bodY lay, and whore preparation' for the burial
were then onidting. Temple was arrested, and is now in jdil. We
understand that Dr. Swrsasey has also been arreatel, and is probably
by this time .fa the city.e-Chicago Times.