The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1821-09-12
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NoyJolk, August %.
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MURDER.
II is stated in an advertisement which VIC
publish TO day, that tho dead body ot man,
sewed up 10 blanket was found hosling 10
Pasquo;a0k tiver near Joshua Sawyer's land
ing (in Camden county, n. C. upon which
murder had been commlted, evidently by
man named Joseph Yeiowly. Tho eircum'
chances Of this aE nr sre not Il h,tlo rensTka-
bic, and serve az another instance of pfovf.
deutial agency in the tevelopement OF this
worst Of crimes, even ibo"gh II be concealed
by all the art and ingenuity which fear OF pun
ishment can lend to the gully Perpeua,or
About the ii ST of this month Joseph Yel-
low!y, alias Captain Yellowly (for he had been
a ship mastery departed from this place IN
canal boat for Plymouth IN. e.. tskIug with
him a man (Tol known by name to any one
In this place, that VIC can learD) asa passen-
ger.-The boat was detained a short time at
River Bcdse, where II was ascertained and
reported TO one of the hands on board OF her,
that this passenger had very large sum of
money about bim.-On the III, the boat
reached Sawycr's landing, where there was
pile OF stones few OF which they look on
board, as they stated, for ballast, although ad-
monished by Mr.. Sawyer, not TO take them,
az he wanted the ~ for a particular purpose.
was one having some peculiarly abpnt it,
which rendered it ema kable, aud easy TO be
inde n,jied by any one who had ever seen il.
A few days after Yciowiy had touched at
the landing, the discovery was made of the
A,s'ing corpse. 1t appeared to have been
stabbed in the throat with large knife di-
rec,Iy across the jugular vein; and upon
further exAn,natiop II was touOd that tho
neck had been broken. From d considerable
rip in the sewing of the blanket, 1t was sup
psed that some heavy weight had been sew
ed up with tho body TO sink IL, and that, the
sewing having given way, the weight Tell out
and permitted tho body to rise a. The surface
of the water. THIS suggestion was soon con.
6rmed by a circumstance which at the same
time disclosed the ou,hor OF the bloody deed
for, on ope ming the blanket stone dropped
ou,--and. strange 10 say the identical stone
we have lust described Ss SO remarkable in its
appearance, which Yellowiy and his people
had taken, among ethers, from Sawyers land
iog Had il been common one, which
might have been picked up any where else
as we'll as at Sawyers landing, II is probable
that suspicion as TO the murderer would have
been silent, aud further inquiry deemed ana.
vailng--thc being susceptible oil immediate
indentity, the Inference Il ON the Circumstance
of us removal, in copnexion with the murdet
became infailiable Nor is 1t less worthy OF
remark, that all the s,oacs which were sew.
ed up in the blanket with tho body, shouid
have ropped through the rip, and been lost,
save this parueular one, which seems TO have
been specially reserved by the same inscru'a'
bic agency which caused il to be detached
from ITS depository at tho landing, to bear wit
ness to this borIij deed Thus can Provi
dence make even the siones to cry out agains,
the guilty murderer !
Itwas further proved, that the day after
Yeiowly passed the landing, ths'e was one
person less 10 the boat with him than was
then on board the preceding day; and that
the missiog person was he who was said to
be a passenger, and who was reported TO have
had large sun oil money about him No
particulars Whatever tesptc citing this person
have transp,red; nor have we heard what be.
came Of tho canal boat and hand,. Ii appears
however that Yellowly, for the apprehension
ol whom warrant was issued, has hed.