Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1808-03-04
She then said

| Oh ! Ned it you are going to kill me,
take care IF the children. Immediately
on her telling me to take care OF the chill.
| drcn. l turned the hiatt OF the whip and
CAV. her the fatal blow.
After finding her dead I picked her
up IN nv arms aud carried her t" the rye
shoc4 S'al with heryn MY arms all NIGHT;
The children at the same time in the house
| all aight BY themselves. About s+s*.
break, On Monday morning, whnh wa
the tenth, Ito rk her on my back aud cav
ried her TO the house, made my three
Erh';Arsn get. up from the bed and kiss
No., II UAeSGrae time making them be.
have she was asleep--some shorttlme at
ter | laid her 10 the bed that the children
had risen trom, and went to bed to her
with the Youngest, like a fool to pray,
expec eng to have her brought to life@
After some time, finding pravins in
vain, took shoe makersknite and put
IT in 5es cold hand Cher hand being shu.
mi 6egers staff } / forced the handle
III the knife int her hand where it stuck
tas,-Ithen took her hard ia nv hand,
endea> orins , o make her cut my threat,
but recAlecting the words she mention
ell ust previous t my killing her, On !
Ned if vUu kill me take care Of my chill
drrn. I then desisted-Oh! what a hor-
rid situation [ was theI in! | would
have given the whole wsrid if my wife
had brcn alive. | then drank more whis-
kew and sent my eldest son (the three
children all this time present) to a neigh.
bours house tor a coal Of FIRE, on his re-
turn I kindlrd a FIRE in th- FIRE place, and
took the two eldest children to the barn
and shut them up (the youngest remain,
ing with me l Immediately returned
to the house, and put a quantity ct wood
on the fre-took her out Of the bed and
dashed her into the Ere, at the same tlme
swearing I, would burn the Devil and
send her into the elements with heils FIRE
fry. ! then threw my shaving horse,
cradle, end u quantity Of wood into the
Ere oH her. which madT d are So Large,
thA,I at that time called, helrs furc.-
Kept turning her about until the Aesh
was burnt all off ber4ones. then went
to the barn to look for the children, aud
on my return to, the house found the
head not burnt so much as her other
D rtS-went out Of the house anil brought
IN some more wood ; threw the wood
on the FIRE to get her burnt as quick as I
pessihlY could. After finding the bones
NOT all burnt up, took the AK and pound
ed them and put them in the FIRE again.
I being thus engaged in this most
dreadful act, forso: the children if the
barn until next morning, which was the
i.th Of August, when 1 went to the far
CALI end Of the BAN, l found them
the'r eating green Peaches,-asked
II IN where they slePt, the eldest boy
toti zoe on the hay loft-I asked them
how they got~up,-he told me his mann
my, VAS with them and lifted them up,
and he then showed me where they had
hahn. Itook them to the house. When
they came 10 the house they asked me FOR
thsismother-I told tbs m she went out
of the window last night, and after Civ
ing them soWething to car, took them to
the ba,n and shut them up agAin-I re-
turned to the house>apd began to smash
the residue of the bones After I was
done smashing the bones, rearried out
the greater part of the ashes and threw
them on the ground. 49,
remained on the place in a melancho-'
" state, some times working and 4, o,
Their times drinking, until the seven
teenth dav of August, when | was taken
and brought to prison.
Ioften had a mind to kill myself while
eon6nedin prison, for ! thought muir
der would not. Ge-The night after l re-
ceived sentence Of Death by the court, l
made three attempts to take my life, one
way in particular. had three sewing
needles, broke,of the points and swal-
lowed them, expecting they would de:
s.rov me- thought nv wife appeared
to nae three times while in prison land
spoke to me, one time in particular she