Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-10-11


thai the prison was then tn,re. About
4 week after his arrival wbiie sitting t. has
room ahcu. g ORG o'clock in the even g
prisoner c, rae 70 hin vi h 4 rS. OF paper
IN his hand AMI with stare Cf wildness or
j l.r'Or--erqured Ter Lieuteuant now & p
tain CuylcT, oSscrv g that he had s me
ting ut Importance to communicate t.
MIN. Briug INTO mel that Ii ut. Cuyler
was not within, he said he would omau i
ricste it 10 the witness, and procec led as
follows -" a great murder hi Teen
oonr,i .tcd-he was KIN wing TO it--s,.iti il
was tn rurSicr OF Miss Hamilton UP the
North Rive sit the tine the murd, WIS
commtted, be was up the livor--wAs one
vi party OF lrishmcn who had left Phil
ale'phia FOX Albany Or Iroy-sa Il witness
could End the whole history in paper
'7hiCh he then handed witness -NViness
then Intercepted hin--he started, and said
that the President and Heads Of Depart
rnents would be rpurdercd-that thsre was
party forming 70 murder them--that
thomas n. Emmet was one TO be murder
sd-and wont on in ,his unin telligible man
ner Til witness ordered him out of the
ROBINSON after which 1t. Cuyler came
IN, and he and wi ness examined the pa
pers-witness then sent word to Mr.. liam
iiton, Gather Of the deceased) who within
or 10 days arrived there-wi' ness then
examined the prisoner, who stated that III
lett Philadelphia after the lSt of July, with
number OF Irishnen to 20 10 Albany,
Waterford or Troy to get Workout fin,,-
ing none they stole boat and descended
th@rrer t. Athens-tNcy subs stcd b. go
ing ashore aud plumber ng OCCASIONALLY rs
they went down the fiyer--.ba they went
NJ the creek at Athens and lande,i--that
be and two othe s Of the party went 20
thunder : sapthino ~ lc >t1,.,.
went another way--that while in the vii
lage OF Athens, they came across the young
lady near rner OF the street-that they
seized hsr-1raggel her along aud Jound
her mouth, aud tor fe r she might return
800 s0on, thsy c Moulded to murder her
that they stru K her over the n ad, with
sticks, clG1s and & nss. and thought one of
them stabbed her fter they had killed
her, they consulted what to do wi IA her
some enc OF them stepped up and stamped
hishcel Just under her breast and arm,
which stopped her struggling-they then
dragged her to the bridge, pulled ND a
PLANK and chucked her throagh-then
proceeded down the river in their boat to
the Jersey shore, near New-York, where
they Separated, some going TO Philade-
pllja, some to New-Vork and one Ia New
Jersey. Witness ;hsn asked him f h was
one who committed The murd r? At this
he started and then went over the same
story ct the heads department, including
Thomas 4. Emmet IS before he had done.
OF this the witness apprise;i Mr.. Hamil
ton. who had him (the priaencr) taken to
the brilewcI 1T New-VCrk, where he re-
meined about week, ami tnen was re-
turned 10 witness by the police officers
the prisoner was for some time under the
command or witness, who never discovered
any evidence otinsanty in the pTisoneT,ex-
cept what he manifested iii thc above re-
lation.
RaiHA B. Cnyler, testified, that about the
last OF November, 1914, he took the COM
mand OF Fort Ganscvoort-that having
directed the prisoner to shovel away some
snow, ne desired TO communicate ssme-
thing to him which the witness would not
then hear, but ordered the prisoner to
woFk-shoItly after Ut appears from Mr..
WIliams's notes with which he has polite
iy furnished me) the prisoner told witness
that he was born in lreland--ca to
Philadelphia where he got among bad cha
ractsrs and lived by p'unde,ing- he
Came on with number more 10 New
York. VIII re they stole boat and proceed
ed up the river, as has been before stated
that being landed at Athens they met
Miss Hamilton in the street, and had to
TO with her, Gas the expression was) and
IAt-pN F-CC lNi III tic IItGu--ttS IfleV were GO
ing off they observed that she was not vet
dead, but setting up-when one of them
wcut back and stamped his foot in her
side and threw her into the brook-Tho-
mas Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, General
Lincoln and G neral Dearborn we're with
t1em Us he said) they then proceeded
down the ri1er in their boat TO Ncw-York,
and then he the pr s,ner enlisted. Witness
knew the prisoner for some tine-rever
discovered any marks Of insanity EXCEPT
when converting upon this subiect-The
reader will observe, that this relation DIFF
fers trcin The others in the following parti-
cuari on'y. it does not state that they
found the lady at the corner of the streets
NOR that they took up 4 plank in the
briisc il ORDER to put her into the creek :;
nor that they bound her mouth with a
handkerchief; nor that they lefe their boat
ON the Jersey shore bat states that they
stole their boat at New Yori, instead of
'Eroy, rs stated in the other confession, and |
nitro ures the names Of Mcssrs. Jefferson, |
NJ olson, &c. IS accom- pliCcs.
An attempt was then made on the d rt of !
the people 70 prove that Cavcnah was in |
Attic the evening the murder was psrpe- |
.ratod /; but this could not be provcd-nor |
could il be proved that he was UP the river
about that time, except by che witness, an |
ion keeper IN Hudson, who testified posi- |
lively that the pr snncr came to his house |
The same night about eleven o'clock, staid |
but few moments, ard did not sit down, |
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