The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-04-25
SHOCKING MURDER!

A gentleman of this city. tsays the Baltj-
more Alorning ChronicIe,1 who has just
returned from Philadelphia, has given MS
the following details of ! murder committed
| about mile and half from Charlestuwn,
in Cecil county.
young lady,o on Monday last left her
tali'tr's house. IN company with her little
sister, about four years of age, to visit her
grand father, distant about mile from the
residence of her father.
Both were missing until the Friday fol-
loving, when the melancholy catastrophe
which had bcfall.n her was made known
by her little sister,who had wandered IN the
woods from the fatal period of he's sisters
murder until then.
The account which abe gave TO the per
son whose house she prosidentAlly reachr d
was, -" thata big ugly man had met her
sister and self while on their way 10 TIN r
grand fathers, and after dragging her sister
/ into the woods, murdered her" The body
was Immediately sought for and found BY
the netghbors-the monster bad nearly Sc
parated the young lady's head from her
shoulders-4 other wounds were inflicted
upon her body, one on each side OF the
breast, one on each of her sides, lust below
have proved mortal but not content With
the cruelty already inflicted, he gave her
several other slabs IN different parts of the
| body. Our informant adds, that lad who
was examined before the lny of inquest,
| proved that on the day on which the muir
! der VAS committed he was riding in IA zig
aung the road, where he overlook man
ON foot answering the description of the
ore given by the Iul'e gil of the murderer
of her lister, who asked leave 70 ride with
hlma short distance; that he took him up.
! and a.trr riding Il short distance he got cut,
when the lad turned round and discovered
the young lady, who was subsequently
murdered, and her little sister rising hill
IA shor, distance in the rear, that the man
who had been riding with him sat down by
the road side, and he drove IF 1t was
therefore supposed in the ncighborhood
| that hr must have been the perpetrator of
this iou. deed. Or information adds, that
| a man answering the "a ee description had
committed some Infamous acts in the
| nelghhorhoud of the route Of the Delaware
and Chesapeake Canal, where he MAS at
work aud had elopcd thr da, before which
circumstances seems to aGiy the suspicion
upon him still more strongly. SO great was
! the excitement in the uelShboIAood that
$500 were raised In aboAt 30 inmates, and
offered rs a reward for the arrest and con
Yiction ufthe murderer, and many persons
had gene in pursuit. II was therefore ex-
pcctcd he would be taken ard brought to
punishment.
Oar inEorman; saw the body and was
summoned ON the inquest, but WascXcuscd
on account Of his being traveller aud soil
cl,ous In reach his home. The murdered
| young lady was iaterred ON Saturday.
We have often had our ,,plinG. narrowed
IN readi i or listening To circumstances in
which murders were Developed, bat IN the
whole catalogue we do not know of any
one which has taxed our feelings more than
tic one we have Just related
! The murder of the minrtuDatc Baker by
Dcsha was attended by circumstances Of
| the moat hoirid character bat in cnormity
/ / viii not bear comparison with the one
! above. The youth, the sex and innocence
Of the subject ~ the present soul rendng
affair, should all have plead like angels
| tongues ~ have preserved her from the
/ yialeHce Of the heartlcss wretch, who in the
absence of every thing lihc the common
/ incentives to murder, has, as it were without
the semblnnce of motive, gratltied his
heIish thirst for human blood. The heart
shudders at It's contemplation, eyen at this
remote distance--but it is useless to mo
raliZe about those whose feelings have been
hunted by the progressive aher ations from
the great mnia! outlines of yirtuous con-
duet.
! AT n late hour last night, and after the
foregoing was put III type, in a second in
tcrtlew with the gentleman from whom
we received the horrible facts stated, we
further learned, that a ring, the endesring
emblem Of plighted love. had been borne
off By the lustful murderer. Our informant
heard il stated by Il Q aSonlzed father of the
deceased, that a matrimonial engagement
was on the eve Of cunsummaiion.
Amidst all the appalling effects of ruth
less and blood. stained vIiainy, he declares,
as regards features, hr never beheld more
symmetry and beauty.
We regret 10 add, the life ofthe child is
despaired of-the consequence of it's SO
long wandering in The woods without sus
tenance.
BALTIMORE, April l3.-Since our &C
count, Ut the murder Of the young lady IN
the mig hhourhood Of G harIestown, Cecil
County, Md. appeared in print, we have
had an Interview Win NJ, Elrnouson 'on g