The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

.FIORRIBLE MURDER IN AMERICA.

Saturday morning, at about a quarter past 5 o'clock,
a shocking tragedy occurred here at the Sea View House,
Nevasink, N. J. Albert S. Moses, at the time desig-
nated temporary barkeeper, was beard crying murder as
he was running in his night clothes from the hall of the
third floor of the mainlbuilding, and on the approach of
those attracted by the cry he retreated to his room and
his bed, some 20 feet from the stairway. He was found
in his bed with his throat cut and bleeding profusely.
The matting on the passage floor was literally covered
with blood to the stairway. Upon inquiry the dying
man said that James P. Donnelly, the bookkeeper of
the house, had killed him ; that during the night they
bad been gambling ; that deceased bad won some 55
dollars of Donnelly, and that the assassination was the
result of a desperate resolution on the part of Donnelly
to recover the money. There being no physician atthe Sea
View House, a messenger was sent over to the neighbour-
ing hotel, Mr. Thompson's, in search of one. One of
the guests referred the messenger at once to Dr. Con-
nery, or as he is more generally known Coroner Connery
of New York, who with all possible dispatch repaired to
the scene of the homicide. First, as surgeon, ho sewed
up and dressed the wound in the throat of the unfortu-
nate man ; next, in the capacity of coroner, he proceeded
to organise a coroner's jury, and an ante mortal, exami-
nation into the facts. connected with the inevitable death

of the wounded man ; next, as a magistrate, the coroner
proceded to recure the prisoner in custody in the house
and to give the required notices to the appropriate local
autho.ities over the subject. We understand from
careful inquiries among the guests and attaches of the
Sea View House that Moses, when asked by one
of the persons attracted to his room by his cries
and groans of the circumstances of this blo dy affair,
replied that the first intimation he had of the
presence of his murderer was the fatal blow at his
throat, which startled him in pain and terror from his
sleep ; that he instantly sprang up in his be I and said
(for it was daylight) that Donnelly was the man, that
Donnelly fled, and that his victim pursued him down the
passage, crying murder. It further appears that the 50
or 55 dollars which deceased, during the night, had won
of somebody at cards, was not the money of Donnelly,
' but the money of the house or of a guest or guests of the
.house, of which, as beekeeper, he was the custodian. It
is said that a portion of the money thus supposed to have
been abstracted from the safe belonged to an absent
Spanish gentleman, whose return was expected to-day,
and the theory of the case upon this startling point is
thus made out—that Donnelly had appropriated the
funds from the safe fur gambling, that he had lost enough
to disclose his dishonesty she he fail to restore the money
before the regular hour of droceeding to business in the
morning ; that, accordingly, he stole into the room of
Moses, who had fallen asleep, and that Donnelly was
searching for his money about the bed when Moses
made a stir, when, from the desperate excitement of the
moment Donnelly stabbed him in the neck—that there-
upon, frightened with the instant conviction of his
terrible crime, he instantly fled to make such efforts to
cover it up as the exigency of the case would allow.
Perhaps had Moses deposited the money between the
beds he occupied his life would not have paid the forfeit,
but he had taken the precaution to put the money
between the matresses of a bed in an adjoining room,
not occupied by any one, but having a communicating
door with his own room. Unahle to find the money,
the presumption is that Donnelly's mind was wrought
up to a state of frenzy, and hence the murder. The de-
ceased, as he lay upon his bed the last of his blood slowly
oozing from the wound in his throat, told a friend present
where to find the money: It was accordingly pro-
duced and found to consist of three parcels in a hand-
kerchief—one parcel 35 dole. in gold and 26 dole. in bank
bills, another parcel of about 12 dole, in small change
(bar money), and the third parcel a roll of small bills,
the whole amounting to nearly 93 dole. The coolness
and s( If-possession of the dying man in his his last agonies
were very remarkable. He persisted to the last that
Dannelly had killed him, and ordered him to be kept off.
He called for water, hut it passed ous
of the gash in his
throat, the jugular and the oasophagus having been se-
vered, and the trachea opened by the stab. Ou examin-
ing the water-closet of the back yard, a lot of torn bark
bills were fished up from the sink, the whole amounting
to 160 dole. Donnelly is '25 to 28 years of age, a small
man, pale, and very excitable and impulsive. The cir-
cumstantial evidence against him is very ugly.—New
York herald, Aug. 8.

FATAL GIG ACCIDENT IN THE NEW ROAD.—OOIIO-
- INQUEST.—On Saturday evening an inquest was
held at Stepney, respecting the death of Mr. Samuel
Cordell, aged 34 years. On Thursday afternoon
last be
was proceeding along the New Road, St. Pancr,aa, iewas
gib, when he came in collision with an omnibruisi.sednup
he
thrown on to the carriage way,
was found to have received a couacuudsswio linelol n ' the brain.
Verdict—" Accidental death."
TAKING THE VElL.—Yeshterday at the Roman catho-
p es'ence of Bishop Briggs,
lie chapel in thio town,
inottheei pr riests, four young ladies
of Beverley, and a. z'
solemnly vowed ne.l*(mger.:l:,?.l)lll3ey, the prime commandment
.. 1 se--viz., to "increase
given to our first pare, is species. According to a re.
and multiply" the hum:, .
gto have cur-
up which nuns must give
cent statement as to the pre., these
girls
will
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whichm ore than
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up before the veil is taken, ,
ountin
rendered all their property, am
1,0001. to Romanist institutions, of .
in this way, from age to age, becomu 1,.-nmerisely rich,
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