Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-06-03
From the Salem Messenger, May 2.
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1t has just fallen TO our lot to record the confess
sion OF a murder, committed, will appear, by a
husband upon weak and unofIending wife, in a
time OF illness TIME when it is natural TO sup
pose that the tender feelings would have been so-
tened in her favor The name ofthe unfortunate
man Is William Sayre, shoemaker, who saysihat,
while living in Callowhill, between second and
third streets, in Philadelphia on the night of Tie
l4ih OF October, 1910, his wife having been about
hve weeks in state of i'll health that required at
tendence and broke his rest after assisting her into
bed, checked her with his hand upon her neck 10
death child Of theirs FIVE years old, was tie
only other person In tie house No one suspected
but what she died natural death
Sayre continued TO reside in Philadelphia for
more than year, when he enlisted into the arm
In which he continued upwards of four years Al
ter leaving the army he pursued his trade OCCASION
| ally travelling from village TO another in the
state OF New York and Canada, till within few
months, ever worried with his foul crime, he came
10 his brothers. at NIulica Hill, in Gloucesi er
county, N. }. Abont ten days prey iously 20 his
making the confession he 10 another brother
house IN this county. Remaining there few days
but finding no where any peace TO his troubled
Breast he left there with determination of DESTROY
ing his own life, but, rs if" whosceyer sheddetb
mans blood, By man shall his blood be she'd" he
wandered along for twenty miles, through this
own and over QuIntn's bridge, when he accosted
man, stranger to him, 10 whom he confessed tie
horrid deed.
This man took him before Stacy Lloyd, Esq
VINO, alter receiving the confession, committed him
to prison. Such is the confession and relation we
nave gathered from the prisoner, who appears OF
saneHnd, and, for an illiterae person. of good un-
derstanding neatly and well dressed for one of
his age and occupation. being 45 years old pos
sesses countenance inclining to agreeableness :;
put disconsolate, and of small Aature
He says that he had not thought of such thing
i've minutes before he committed the awful crime
mat 1t has ever been source of great trouble 10
HIM never out OF his mind, except when drown
ed by liquor, that life has long been buthen to
him that he has been guilty of any other
crimes against the laws ofthe land converses with
candor, that establishes credit for what he saws
Ills brothers, one farmer and the other shoenia-
ker are men OF fair character; and mentioning 10
him the stain that his confession would bring on them
he burst into tears, and said be hoped it might not
be thrown up to them. II we doubt any thing he
says, 1t is that Of the confession and VIC hope for
the honor of his relations-for that of our sex and
race, that there may yet be proof that the deceased
whose maiden name, we learn by the prisoner, was
Rebecca brown, died a natural DEATH
A great revolution Of opinion has taken place in
Great Britain, the subject Of the Quarantine
Laws; and Bill is before Parliament for their re-
peal MS llelSuIc IS founded on tne generally
ceiyed opinions that yellow fever is not contagious
and that the secret of prevention lies in cleanliness
DR.. NJ Lean, an eminent physician, whose studies
and personal inquiries have been almost entirely
directed to the subject of contsgon has lately de-
livered lecture at Liverpool on contagion and the
Quarantine Laws. This lecture has been published,
and Its reasoning, combined with nearly the unani-
nous opinion of the European and American facul-
~, has Produced the new measures which are in
contemplation The Boston Medical Inteigencer
has the following remarks on DR.. NJ Lean lee
ture:
Every thing that wehave heard, more and more
satisfies us that be is right in his opinion that the
received doctrine respecting contagion is altogether
erroneous; and that the entire system ofquarantne
with its enormous cost and highly injurious conse-
quences to trade ought to be wholly abandoned---
Sooner Of later the whole system will fall before
DR.. M Leans wel-drected battery"
HARPRR's FERRY, May 25. |
We are sorry to learn, that but little more than
hoD Of the stock Of the Harper's Ferry turnpike |
is subscribed for. How to account for this uDex- |
pected result, we know not. Free Press