Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-05-13

nient. ms was the last time Love
seen alive. His body was afterwards found on the
land OF Israel Thayer, and about thirty rods from
his house. buried six inches deep, near a log. He
had been shot through the head and his throat and
the side OF his face deeply wounded, If with an
axe. The finding was the 23d of February fol-
lowing the disappearance Of Love, which
the 18th OF December On the 18th or 18th of
December for the witnesses were not positive
which day,) the Thayers were in possession of the
horse which Love rode when last seen to-
gether with his notes, papers, parts of his
clothing, &c This, at the time, although it eN-
cited suspicion, escaped legal notice; and on the
Sth ofJanuary following, the Thayers produced
power of attorney administer upon the estate Of
John Love, alleging that he had absconded to es-
cape arrest for crime committed in Pennsyl-
vania. This instrument was proved to have been
forged.
Ii was in evidence, that a boy who was living
with Israel, Jr. was on the day of the crime sent
home to his friends, in the neghborhood, to spend
the nights and that the wife OF Israel, Jr. absent
ON visit for the evening Her husband called for
her between the hours of and IL O'Clock in the
evening, and took her home The sound of gun
was heard, on that evening, by various persons III
the neghboThood, about in the direction OF the house
oil israeli Jr. Love, when last seen, had great
coats and the body when found was covered with the
| same, and destitute of shoes and stockings, from
which 1t appeared probable that he was shot while
sitting by the fire, preparing for bed. The presence
OF an axe, which some of the wounds indicated
was proved ; ut least one oflhe Thayers was seen
carry one from mill to the house, 10 USE as he
SAID, In cutting up the hogs These we believe 10
be the leading facts disclosed upon this trial. during
tie examination OF more than forty witnesses, on
| the part OF the peoples and they were so connected
| by a chain OF minute and explicit circumstances
that the jury, on the evening of Friday, after alb
sence OF about half hour, returned to the court
with averdict of guilty, against both the prisoners
On the following day, Nelson Thayer, who stood
indicted separately for the crime, was put to
the bar. He like his brothers, plead 90 not guilty.
| and after patient investigation, which continued
from Saturday Morning until near midnight, the iu-
ny after short absence delivered 10 the court their
verdict Of guilty.
Since thelast trial closed, the culprts have made
a full confession Of their crime, in which they say
they were all three concerned Their confessions
agree that Love shot through the window,
while sitting at the fire, by Isaac that he was still
| sitting in his chair when Nelson despatched him
with an axe. The body was removed from the
| house by Israel Jr. and Nelson, who subsequently,
| buried II where il was found. They all deny that
either their father any other person was privy to
| the deed, o. had any conneXion with them in the
plan or execution of it.
| On Saturday evening, at the close of Nelson 5
| trial, he was remanded TO prison, where his two
condemned brothers already were, and Yesterday
morning they were all three brought 10 the bar
where sentence ofdeatiI passed upon them in a
solemn and impressive manner, by the court They
are 10 be publicly executed in this village on the
i1th day Of Jne next, between the hours of twelve
and tyvo o'clock.
No evidence was found against the father as an
accouplice, but he is still detained in prison as an
accessory after the fact