Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-04-14

neighbors-the monster had nearly sc.
parated the young lady's head from heI
shoulders-four other wounds were in
flictsd upon her body; one on either
side Of the breast, one or each OF her
sides, Just below the ribs, either OF
which it is said would have proved
mortal; but not content with the cruel
ty already inflicted, he gave her seve-
raj other stabs in different parts oil the
BODY. Our informant adds, that lad
who was examined before the jury OF
inquest, proved that on the day on
which the murder was committed, he
was riding in a gig along the road,
where he overlook man on foot an
swering the description ofthe one given
by the little girl, of the murderer of
her sister, who asked leave to ride with
him a short distance; that he took him
up, and after riding short distance he
got out, when the lad turned round and
discovered the young lady, who was
subsequently murdered, and her little
sister rising hillsa short distance in
the rear; that the man who had been
riding with him sat down by the road
side, & he drove off. 1t was therefore
supposed in the neighborhood that he
must have been the perpetrator of this
foul deed. Our informant adds, that a
man answering the same description,
had committed some infamous acts in
the peighbourhood of the route of the
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, where
he was at work and had eloped the day
before which circumstance seems 10
affix the suspicion upon him still more
strongly. So great was the excitement
in the neighbourhood that $500 were
raised in about 90 minutes, and offered
as reward for the arrest and convic-
ton Of the murderer, and many persons
had gone in pursuit. 1t was therefore
expected he would be taken and brought
to punishment.
Our informant saw the body and was
summoned on the inquest, but was ex-
cused on account of his being travel
Ter and solicitous to reach his home.
The murdered young lady was inferred
on Saturday.
We have-often had our feelings har-
rowed in reading or listening to cir
cumstances in which murders were de-
veloped, but in the whole catalogue we
do not know of any one, wills has tax
ed our feelings more than the one we
have just detailed.
The murder Of the unfortunate Ba-
ker by Desha was attended by circum-
stances of the most horrid character;
but in enormity it will not bear COM
parison with the one above. The youth,
the sex and innocence of the subject of
the present soul-rending affair, should
all have plead like angels tongues to
have preserved her from the violence
of the heartless wretch, who in the abb
sence of every thing like the common
incentives to murder, has, as it were
without the semblance of motive, graz
titled his hellish thirst forhuman blood
The heart shoulders at its contempla-
ton even at this remote distance-but
it is useless to moralize about those
whose feelings have been blunted by
the progressive alterations from the
great moral outlines of yirtuous con-
duct.
AT late hour last night, and after
the foregoing was put in type, in Sc
cond interview with the gentleman
from whom we received the horrible
facts stated, we further learned, that
ring, the endearing emblem fplighted
love, had been borne off by, the lustful
murderer. Our informant heard it sta.
ted by the agouized father of the de-
ceased, that a matrimonial engage
ment was on the eve of consummation.
Amidst all the appalling effects Of
ruthless and blood-stained villaihy, he
declares, as regards features, he never
beheld more symmetry and beauty.
We regret to add, the life of the
child is despaired of-the consequence
ofits so long wandering in the woods
without sustenance.