The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-18

I in the cart with melancholy look breaking and
chewing fmall fwtch which he held in his hand,
and oeeafonally rubbing his clothes. The witnefs
followed the cart, told where he was going, and
chat he had Ion his way. The priloner replied.
gusis you have" but faid more. The prifoner
ieemed take but te notice of the road. and when
he had been feveral times fpoken to, and made
anfwer, the witnefs afked him when he would move,
he faid, when he was fixed" Witnsfs flill follow
ed him. After fome time, the priioner got of the
cart and walked into the woods; at the fame tim.
waving his hand, he fad, the road turns out yon-
The wi,nes found the road the place the pri
foner pointed to.
Mr. ellis teitified, that hortly before the muir
der he overlook the prifoner about break of day
on the road towards town, without his hat and his
clothes in much dforder. Prifoner aid ne was GO
ing to town about iome bunels, but turned back OIL
feeling his filters ION before him on the road-The
wtneis believed the proner friendly in his fami.
~. and thought he appeared rather melancholy than
iniane.
Mr. Carpenter teeied thar he & the prifoner mar
ried hlters that the prfoner foneeimes poafed little
IN MS family, but abuied them The prfoners
nsther had once reqaefted the wi,nes to talk to him
on religious lubjects, which he did. The prifoner
tsd but little except that #" he was too great nner
to except mercy"
Col. Lowther tetified that he had known the PR
foner eight nine years. He always feen,ed fond
of his fanilynever noticed him in dependence ex-
cePt once, when he arreaed for debt. Witnels
then went his bail This bulinefs was uniettled-and
on Sunday before the murder happened, he heard the
priiener would loon move He went with brother
who was MS fecurty, hunt him, to try to fecure
themlelves. They found him with his mother and o.
theirs. When they ipoke about the bufnels, the mo-
Their called them afide, and begged they would no.
lpeak to him about bufnefs, for he was crazy, and
It would make him worie When they talked TO him.
he hung his head and faid nothing
| Mr.. Lin1y teiicd, tina, he had heard the priCner
when alone, converting if in company with feveral
perions. For three weeks before the murder w,nefs
worked with the priloner. He feened melancholy
and did not work, attend to his buGneis--Fis
wife was uneay, apPrehenive that he wouldd him
telf ione injury. The day Maxwell faw him with
| tn" Cart The was very uneaiy, and about to go
alter him. He appeared very fond of his children,
and kind to his wife--The ,eitimony of the prifcn-
er HERE clofed.
Mrs. Lazer was fworn for the prifnner, but exa-
mined Ivy the proi-cutor. She e!tifed that hs lived
near neighbor the prfoner, but had not feen him
tor Tome time before the murder, except once eight
days before the murder ihe Popped his yard fence
| and talked to him. He feemed fe-ious but talked
rational; converted about moving and faid he would
move in boat only his wife afraid. Witnefs
had heard before this, that the priioner was crazy
| The Jailor OF EIarrfon, where tie pr;loner was
hrit confined, telided, that he lometinies appeared
to be crazy, but whenever his brother came in he
RATIONAL Tie eat hearty & appeared 20 be i'm his
reaion, though at times melancholy.
One Cunningham, who food indicted for grand
larceny, and was confined in the diGria Jail when
the Proner fri lodged there tetified, that the
hrit evening the prfoner confined in the Jail with
him, he heard him exclaim TO himfelf, What a
wretch am to kill 70 many innocent =" and the
next day made ufe of Gmilar expeditions That on
the 3oth April Ian, the prifoner faid to the wit
neis, Cunningham, you know was not in my fen.
ies when came, but am willing to die for the
charge. If had my family as they were this time
af year, ten thoufand mountains Of gold fou,d not
part u.s."
Mr.. Jackfon, in his addrefs to the Jury, after ha
wing deprecatei the prejudice which exifed againR
the priioner, commended that If he guilty. of Kill
ling his wife & children, it muif have been in parox
iimIof phrenzy; and TBS ground ai9nr he reed the
priioners defence. He into lengthy diicuiion
or the ten,ony, and attempted to denonfrate from
it, that the prfoner was infane at the commifon of
the act.
The Profecu,or, in reply contended that the teffi-
mony only went TO prove che prifoper melancholy
and 'his melancholy accounted for by its apoeariny
from his converiaton with col Isckfon and other
circumstances, particularly the WILL that he had pre-
termined to commit the murder.
The jury were out about an hour, and returned
with verdict, Guilty Of murder in the firt decree"
When this verdict announced to the prifoner he
heard it without the nighteA emorion or change of
countenanee, and manifeed the fame cupid indrner.
ence, that hath marked his conduct, ever fnce his
confinement.
He fentenced to be executed the soth of Tune.