Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-08
From, the Freeman's journal.
THE MURDER OF MISS REEVES.

Tn the nIghf OF "wednesday, August Is
fl792, a Murder, attended with peculiar
circumstances Of atrccity, was committed
on the body of Miss ELIZABETH REEVES,
of this city, aged II. The sympathy which
prevailed ,hroughou: the city for the fate oil
e,his unfortunate girl, is still fresh in the re-
collection OF many of the citizens. Gov.
, MiMln issued a proclamation offering re-
ward OF 500 dollars for the discovery Of
She mufderers, but without effect. Eigh-
teen wears had rolled away, without being
able TO discover the perpetrators, 1.-The whole
circumstance was fast cons;gcing to obi
Won, and justice was apparently slumbering
Ill! the last day, when on SUDDEN, light
shines forth on this deed of, darkness. and
clue is probably given whereby TO trace
1t.
Last Saturday Charles Breeze, late a COR
stable III this CITY, was committed to Jail,
after hearing before; the mar>or charged
with suspicion Of the Aforesaid murder, on
the confession of~hs step mother, then at
the point OF death The statement she is
said TO have made on oath is to the follow.
ing import: 1 hat on the night on which
Elizabeth, Reeves WAS murdered, the &C
Gus d came to has fathers house with his
clio hes covered with blood, took off his
shirt, threw ii into wash tub, and washed
the blood off it. That he was for some
time ate rwatds very restless in his slrep,
and would oitea make-frightful rxclama
tons. In the dead OF the night, soon after
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another, heard him groaG, and went mp into
his room antsla ,kra him what was the MAJ
ter, and he answered, that a Young woman
had Just been in che room with lighted
Candle IN her hand that he had his tace
towa' ds her when. she first entered the room,
but-he turned his back TO her as soon as he
saw her. These, and some other occur
rences, had Induced her to suspect the &C.
cused OF the murder, and she could-not die
in peace without divulging what she knew
respecting 1t, The accused asserts his in-
nocence, and says tha, he can prove that h.
was in the state OF Virginia at the time Miss
Reeves was murdered. He afterwards adj
mItted that he was at home at the time, had
read the governors proclamation offering
reward tor the murderer, aud did not SO to
Virginia un'il the year after. An"ther man,
who was with The accused al his fathers on
the night of the murder, and who does not
now live in tbs state, has likewise been ae-
cused, by the same woman, Of being con-
cerned with him in the murder, and we un-
detstand that a STOCK BUCKLE, which was
found IN The band OF the corpse, is marked
with the initials OF that man S name.
The following clrcumotantial account oil
the.mu> de is copied from Dnnlap's Ame-
rican DatA ADVERTISER, and caanot fail 10
be interesting at this moment.
From Dwnp's american Daily AaOer.issr,
SATURDAY, dug. is, 1892.
Thursday morning the corpse of young
woman was found In one Of the docks near
.Ktnsington an inquest sat upon the body,
but we have not yet leasnt their verdict -
Report is, that they brought IN Wiful
Ifurder by perS0nS mkno7Un: OF this,
however, we shall soou be able to lay the
particulars before our readers. In the ,uean
while we cannot refrain from communists
ing such intelligence as has come within the
range oi our enquiry. Her nane is Eliza
beth Recess, about II years of age hand
apprentice 10 msntua maker, and
courted by young tradesman Of this W
entity, to.whom it was reported she was
shortly to be espoused
In the afternoon of Wednesday, after her
work was done, she had requested leave Of
her mistress TO take walk to market, to
purchase some fruit for which purpose
she obtained liberty and a small sum of
money from her mistress who saw no
more cfher until yesterday when, as it
has been traced, a boy, being on the fatal
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