The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-11-01

Poiiet.-A man OF decent appearance
Failed 1T The Office yesterday afterno,n. IN
lodge complaint, or asecrtain ba,, h..
should proceed, against desperate ofT.n-
der, whose namr, for prudentI.l enrnnses
Is MOI ifis momtnt given, and for wb,,tn
anu his roadIntors the police bayr h,cn
some tine seeking. He had swinll.d ,br
complainant aud two of his friends on, or
something more than 81 ,0oo lis plan Was
III Tue hrst instance, To procure a r,sp,cta-
Ole Introduction To- the complainant. and
then with "A display Ut coi ed checks and
drafts on Philadelphia, to the amount
'"f + or $1,000, to obtain the advance desi-
red
singular circumstance disclosed hy the
'ui;un In an intimate of his Was that. Ia.
Was one of the robbers Of tbt, southern
mail two or three years siiee, aud WAS tri-
cd condemned, and apparently executed
ny hanging but by a stratagem previously
concerted with surgeon, was restored to
TIE and animation. The surgeon, he saws,
supplied hun with "A strong tube, which he
forced down h,s throat, 81 that the neck
bone could not he broken as he swung Of :;
and that then, on the application of reslora.
yves Nter he was cut down, he recovered I!
VINE his account seems improbable in it.
Sell, we may remember, if We choose, the
case N Taylor many years since, restored
To NE, as Is SAID, after being hanged, and
the folly and gratuitous information of this
fellows acknowledgement, if the fact were
Aot SO. W l. american.
-narder.-There IS ever something hich
SHOCKS us slyremely in tho crime of Muir
der. Ii Is at all times abhorrent to our ma
tire but when we see, as we occasionally
do, tellow-heing led by course of craft
n stratagem into ncyetricable tolls, and adj
vantage tllen taken by his ruIlian foe of his
powerless state or, as in the instance be-
fore us, " murdered in the unsuspecling
moments Of Sleep" our sympathies follow
him through : L step Of his fate, < every
feeling of the soul is reused To Indignation
and adherence. Such was the case
presented yesterday morning before the
Police.
Capt Clark, of the Northern District
Watch, brought in, among the rest of his
prisoners, Tor examination by the Ma
glstratcs, one jeremiah Rhind, who bad
been takeu mp during the night prcyi-
Gus, on an alarm of" Mludcr," at The house
of the tatter,in De ancey near Lcwis-sttcct.
The circumstances appear To be these {:
RhInd hai, whether Justly or falsely we
pretend not to say,c0ntracted n jealousy of
the unfortunate victim of his vengeance in
regard 10 his wife. On the night which
preceded the catastrophe, having some
where inllen in with NnJiey, he invited
and pressed him home to his ho,ise where
he regdled him till the full how Of bedtime
IN all the seeming warmth Of friendship.
findley was then retiring, but Il. insisted
that he should still remain, and finally that
he should stay all night and sleep uih him,
and lhat his wife sould take another bed.
Fmdley, nhappily, was weak enough t.
yield 10 his persuasion, and went To bed
with BIN. Rhind rose in tie night, when
he tnand findiey sound asleep, fell on him
wltha heavy pair of tongs, beating him
mostly about the head, and, as would
-e'm from the Coroner's report of the
m,nglcd STATEN which it appeared on the
Inquest, the left temple particularly was
completely stove in, and the bone demo
lished, nor did he dcsst till hi: death must
have been totally effected. ID.