Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-06-23

brought back TO Frankfort.
/" 4th. The voice of the assassin made
strong impression on Mrs. Sharp, who
had risen from bed and stood in an ad-
| joining room, but lew feet from tho
scene where her husband was stabbed.
She was confident, and said SO at the
time, that she would recognize the
voice if she ever heard it again. She
wentto the Jail TO hear the prisoner speak !;
she did recognize his as the voice OF the
assassin, positively; she could not be
mistaken.
5lh. Mrs. Sharp caught a view OF
the assassin as he stood moment oppo-
site TO the partly open door of the room
in which she was. His size, figure and
cloak correspond with those of the pri-
soner.
9Th. The assassin, speaking 10 Col.
Sharp, called himself your friend John
II. CoyIngton.' 1t was proved by seve-
raj witnesses that the assassin was in the
habit, through inadvertence, OF calling
Col. Sharp's friend John w Covington,
John II. Covington. There is no per-
son of the latter name.
Nth. That after his return home, he
said he had done his business at Frank :
fort, to his straightforward done it an.
thenticaiiy.
18th. rha, to one of his neig hbors,
he said triumphantly, that he had brough,
home Gag, red flag-the sign of war
and vic,ory-and he had gained the VIC
tory, &c.-Then, that he had thoughts
OF turning christian: Tor he began TO
believe in God more than he used to
do-he found there was a God, who
would give vengeance to whom It was
due, SC.
"There we're many other circums,an-
ces proved, tending to confirm and
strengthen these more prominent facts
among the rest, tha. the prisoner had at.
tempted to suborn witness, Captain
Lowe to swear to tissue OF fasehoods
had drawn up and secretly conveyed to
the witness through the prisoners wife,
no less than six sheets of manuscript, for
the witness 10 commit to memory and
repeat as his testimony. Among other
things, the witness, who had never seen
MIR Darby, was to swear that Darby had
tried to bribe him to swear against Beau
champ, and that Capt. Kelly had made
similar attempts upon him.
The evidence produced on the part
of the prisoner did not appear to have
much force to repel that against him.
He proved satisfactorily that he was in
the county Of Simpson from the 10th to
the 18Th of October, thus rebutting SEINE
evidence introduced by the common
wealth, conducting to show that he was
in Frankfor, about the llth October
about which time, there was a knocking
at the door Of Col. Sharp in the night;
whence it might be inferred, some other
sought entrance there with hostile in
tent.
"Tha, some tracks found 10 the morn
ing after the murder, leading to and
from the house, supposed TO be those OF
the assassin, were not made with his
shoes. That Mrs. Sharp saw person
at the window, who ran away on her APP
proach, directly after the murder, and
whom she did not believe to be Beau
champ or the assassin.-That he had
business at the Registers Office, which
might have induced him to come to
Frankfort, &c. &c.
The cause was argued, on the one
side with much ability and impressive
eloquence on the other with great in.
genuily and pathos.
"The Jury retired at five o'clock, on
Friday evening, and having remained
out about an hour, returned with ver-
dict Of Guilty. 1t is said they had no
doubt or hesitation, as to the verdict they
ought to render.
Up. S. Beauchamp now confesses the
murder"
Many rumors are a1oat as to Beau.
champs confessions. Few of them, we
believe are entitled to confidence 1t is
certain, however, tibet he has confessed
the crime; that he gave directions where
the knife, with which it was executed,
might be found; aud that on inquiry, it
was ascertsined, tina, a knife precisely
answering his description had been found
a, the spot where he said he had con.
cealed it. II is small old fashioned
butcher knife. ground sharp on tho back
as we'll as edge an inch or two from the
point. 1t was found in lot occupied
BY Mr.. Wade, where Beauchamp had
buried lt.-He slledged also, that he had
concealed the corner of the handkerchief
near the same spot, and could find it.
On Sunday night last, he was taken out
OF jall and went with a number OF persons