Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-05-10
TRIAL Or THE THALEs.

From HE Buffalo on. " Journal
IL IS, perhaps scarcely possible in all the var;cmat
h"S OF crime, to find parallel in atrocitv TO the case
oi murder, and the circumstances connected with -
wicn came up before the circuit court held in this viz
iage, last week and which if now fII o., - .'iS VII
cord ~ NV ~ ie-
n man by the name of Israel Thayer and his tbrce
sous Nelson Israel Jr and Isaac, all residents of the
Town OF boston, III this county, were committed to the
JAN IN Tins village, about the Goth of February i,ct
chargea with The murder of one John Love. At tho
session. mere, of the Circuit Court for this district las
week. they seYerally indicted and bronrht tn trio,
before ms Honor Judge WALwoRTH Counsel for
the People, II. Il. Potter, District Attorney a.
smith, and II. Brown, Esqrs; for the prisoners r q
Love, E Griffin, and e. b. Allen, Esars-Isracl II
ana Isaac were indicted together, and were first put 10
lhe oar The facts that came out upon their trial
which occupied the about two days were snbsfan
TALLY these; On the 18th of December last the do
ceased started from the house of Nelson Thaver IN com
Pdy WIN isaac Israel Jr and Nelson Thayer for the
u"eihng OF israel Jr which some short distance
loT the ayowed purpose of cutting up hoos which had
mat day been buchered. Love, being friend and in
umate OF the Players, induced TO 20 for cornpapv
merely and with the expectation Of STAYING all nipbt
ms was The last time Love seen alive His BODY
was afterwards found, the land of Israel Thover and
about thirty rods from his house buried six inchcs dec
"c"I d log' lie had been shot through the head and
MS throat and the side of hrs face deeply wounded as If
with an axe. The finding was on the ord If Fehrna,-
ohowng the disappearance Of Love which was on the
cln "a december. On the 18th or 18th Of December,
~ u'e Witnesses were not positive which day,) the
wnen last SEEN together with his notes. papers, parts of
ms clothing &C. This, the time although it excited
suSPclon escaped legal notice. and on the 9Th of anu-
airy following the Tbayers produced power ofsttornev
10 administer upon the estate of John Love, alleging
ta ne had absConded to escape arrest for crime com
united III Pennsy lvania This instrument was proved
to have been forged
IL was IN evidence, that boy-who living with Is
ael Jr was the DAY of the crime, home 10 his
friends, in the neghborood, TO spend the night and that
the wife of Israel Jr absent visit for the even
ing Her husband called for her between the hours Of
9 and II o'clock, in the evening, and took her home
The sound OF gun was heard on that evening BY va
rous persons in the neghborhood in tho direction of
the house OF Israeli Jr. Love- when last seem had on
great coat and the body when found was coyerd witt;
the same and destitute of shoes and stockings from
winch appeared probable thatl, was shot while stin
by Inc ire preparing for bed. Fhe presence
Wmch some OF the wounds indicated, was proved-at
feast one the Thayers wasseeu to carry one from saw,
MN 10 tue house, to use, he said in cutting nm The
hogs These believe to be the leading facts ;GIoss
upon this trial. during the examination Of more than 40
witnesses on the part Of the people, and thew were 81