The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1821-10-24
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From New Orleans papers.
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English Turn, Sent. T.
Arrived this afternoon, brig CiaJissa Ann,
Capt. Green, Sc days from Greenock. Car.
go, Goals and dry goods.
Capt. Green states, hat his vessel was rob
bed Of goods to a large amount, (probaby
$50 ooo) by small p,sa'icsi schooner, off
Cape Antonio, Angus, % The schooner
was manned with ~ ori4 Spapiards, well
armed with muskets, cutiasses, sc. They
took the fig, most Of the Captain and sea-
mems clio hing, watches, &c.--in short, eve y
article ot value they could lay their hands
upon. Captain C. adds that the conduct Of
the pira,ss was outrageous in the extreme.
threatening them with death in case of sc
cretion Of articles enqlired for. A few hours
before, the schoonec had robbed the Englisb
brg Neptune, Captain Kelly. from Jama,ca,
bound 10 ST. Jahn's IN. B y of oil Their
clothes, and S S 900 in specie.
September 8.
Arrived this forenoon, ship O, leans, Smell,
from PniIadelphia, with cargo of dry good,,
sc. Was boarded IF hbaco, on tho l9th Of
August, and detained ;wo days by piralic,'
corvette, mounting - guns, and fobb.d al
goods 10 Tie amC uu, rt probably 10000.
Horrid Murder A Cofonei's inquest was
held ~ Bond street, F y. at the house OF
Mr.. John Hamilton, on Friday night, between
9 and 10 o'clock, by Lambert Thomas, Esq.
over the body OF Miss Ann Hamilton, aged
about ! ) years. The ve,d'cv OF the jp,y was,
that she came 10 her death by pistol ball
shot at her by Joseph Thompson, FIST mate
Of the hermaphr odite big Leopard, the ball
entering her bead behind the right ear, and
penetrating into the BRAIN
hs far as the circumstances of this dis.
tressing ah,ir have come TO our knowledge,
il appears that the islher OF the y,uug iady,
about seven O'Clock ia the evening, came
home-he passed through the psrior 10
which Thompson and the young lady were
sitting. A short time afterwards, while the
father and mother were above stairs, they
heard their daughter cry out, Z" My Old
Thompson is gulng - shoot me !" Alai 'ped
al the expression, they were III the act VI d..
scending the stairs, wheo the repo,t OF a pls.
tol was heard--and the mother, who came
down FIRST, received her daughter IN her arms
al the bottom. Sne was iound sho, in the
head as stated IN The verdict above, and 10
stantly expired. Before the tathef could
pass by his wife aud dsughier, Thompson
had raised another pistol to his own (TEomp.
son's) head, and discharged IL. He instanty
fell OF the hIor, but from the after report OF
the surgeon who extracted the ball from his
head we learn that tho deed was not follow.
ed by the mortal consequences intended
Thompson was soon placed in the watch
house, and on Saturday morning eommittcd
to gaol.
The cause which led to the commission Of
this dreadful act we understand " be briefly
this: Thompson, who boarded in the house,
had evineed an affection for the young lady,
which was not, It is said, recip-ocr,ed on her
par, aod under the supposition that she wa,
more iavorably disposed twIrds another, he
determined to destroy both her lie and hi
1wn-Siocc The murder he hs. man,eioed sn
obstinate silence on ell Quesliop, pu. TO him.