Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-04-13
MURDER AND IT'S PUNisHMENT.

MURDER AND ITS PUNISHMENT.
The following curious story is copied
from an old manuscript in The posses
sion of respectable family IN YORK
shire.
Josiah White, an ancient religious
man, in r, scres, County Of IiPperary,
info med r ober, Dudiy, about the year
1854. tia, he frequently attended the
as.zes for the said county, held in
Clon,nell. at one of which, about fifty
wears before, an old uian, a banker IN
that town, gave him the following re'a-
ton:
That. 10 the latter end of the year
l64l. a nuelber of children were play
ing ID the banks of the river SUR, near
Golden. in the said county. when a man.
of thai neigborkood game up to the
children. ali Of whom he well knew to
be born Of parents towards whom he
and his family were in deep hatred on
account of religious or local fends,-
and with q pike threw several OF them
into the river. which was SO deep there,
that new were Immediately drowned.
One of the children. girl abe0t eleven
years Of age, rsu off, through the fields
by the river side and got to Cioomeli,
thirteen miles from the place; and as
there was lying at Waterford vessel
from America, taking IN servants and
passengers, ansgens of the captain find
ing he child uuprovided for, took her
and many others IN equal indigsnce'
and they embarked for America as IN
denied servants for seven years and the
captain sold her time to planter, a sin.
gle yeung man Il think OF Marylsnd.)
The rectitude of her behaviour during
those seven years, her amiabie disposi-
ton and the comeliDess of her person.
90 attracted her master's affection, that,
when she WAS free be proposed to mar
ry her, which she at length acceded to,
and they lived together in great conju.
gal felicity for several years, until they
had six children, about which time she
de- lined in health and spirits, & deep
melancholy overspread her mind. so as
to distress her husband TO a great de-
gree. He observed her particularly,
when she thought him asleep at night,
to sigh deeply, as if something very
weighty affected her. At length he
pressed her close to tell him what af-
fscted her, as he was sure the great
change he observed in her person, spi-
rits and manners, must proceed from a
cause he was stranger too, and as his
happiness was 50 intimately connected
with hers, he urged her to disc lose the
cause of this change. After much Sue
licitstion she informed him of what she
saw. when girl, 10 lreland and that
sea ce day or night had passed, for
twelve months past, bot she felt pres
sure 90 ner mrnd, as IT she heard II dls-
tinctiy said Thou must 60 to Ireland.
anu bring the murderer Of the children
to ius,ice.' This, at times, she believed
TO % divine intima'ion, yet, reasoning
about il, she thought the effectlng
thereof, by her impossible and eonse-
queutly he Apr shens'on Of its being
divine requiring must be only deiu"
sion. Thus was she tossed, she said, IN
mind about the matter; at one tine be.
1ieving it her duty, and at other seasons
only imagination. which so affected
her that she bought IL must soon end
in her dissolution
Her husband affectionstely sympa.
thised with her in these exercising con
tiicts apd after solid consideration OF
the matter, warmly encouraged her to
fulfil, what, be had no doubt, was d.
vine requiring, aud he would contribute
all % his power to enable her to fulfil
this reasonable du.y. az he thought 1t;
and added that their Governors broth
or was then Lord Lieu'ebant Of Ire.
land he thought itasuiiable time then:
aud he would go to him and get letters
of recommendation to ireland, that
would enable her to bring this man to
justice, whose nane she acknowledged
she did not know; but she told her hus-
band his person was so stamped upon
her memory that she was sure che
should know him among thous-
ands of others Her kind husband
prepared every thing necessary for the
voyage, procured the Governors and
other letters, and SO encouraged her
by ME sy apathy sing tenderness, that
she recovered her former health and
spirits in few weeks, and embarked
In o vessel bouad for Dublin, accom-
panied by two discreet persons, man
aud maid servant, sent by her husband.
with every requisite accommodation,
and arrived safe al their intended port.
Soon afterwards she went to the castle
of Dublin, to wait upon and deliver the
letters she brought the Lord Leu
tensu', wherein she was warmly re-
com aended by his brother as discreet