Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-05-24


one who bears the name OF South Carolina, and
yourself in particular.
Yours. &c. MARTHA RANDOLPH
Boston, Feb. l6, 1897.
Mrs. Randolph has ten children, and sever
al grand children, living.
+ Col Hayne, of Charleston, is the member
alluded to by Mrs r.
ALEANY, MAY 9.-Horriblc Assassin.
G'ion-0ne of the most horrible instap.
ces of deliberate assassination that we
have ever been called upon to record,
was committed in this vicinity on Mon
day evening. The particulars of this
transaction, as they have been commu-
Eicated to US. are as follows:
Mr.. John Whipple, ofthis city, whilst
writing in back room in the second
story of his dwelling house, on Cherry
Hill, mile below the city, between 9
and 10 o'clock at night, was fred at
through the sash, with a pistol. The
ball passed through and shattered pane
of glass, entered the body OF Mr.. Whip
pie through the blade bone of his left
shoulder, cut one of the principal ar
teIies of the heart, and lodged IN the
right lobe of the lungs; he barely ex-
claimed my God!'' rose and walked
few steps to the head OF the stairs, and
there Tell, and immediately expired.
The murderer approached his victim
by clambering on the roof OF back
stoop, and firing from it diagonalIy
at the distance of ten feet. At the time
OF the shot, young gentleman was
sitting in the room with the deceased;
but in the confusion of the moment no
pursuit could be made; nor were any
measures taken until information was
conveyed to the police of the city. The
steps.of the william are plainly visible
on the roof Of the porch, as is also the
flash Of the powder on the frame Of the
sash.
MIR. Wbipple was 10 the prime of life,
industrious, enterprisng, aud fair in all
bis transactions. He was respected ns
valuable and intelligent citizen He
has been cut off in the midst of his USE
fuiness, leaving a bereayed widow, and
an interesting young son to lament his
untimely fate. Mr. w. returned from
New York on Sunday night, where he
had completed an advantageous con.
tract connected with the Hudson aud
Delaware canal, in the construction of
which be had participated largely and
was at the moment of his death arrang-
ing his papers for departure from this
city yesterday morning.
As il may well be conceived, an affair
so atrocious and so unusual amongst US,
has excited great feeling and indigna,
ton; and no effort will be spared to de-
tect the assassin. The corporation of
the city has offered a reward of $3.50
for that purpose. No cause, except up
on conjuncture, has been assigned for
the commission of this deed. The cir
cumstances under which it was perpe.
trated-in the most populous of the en-
yirons of the city, in a dwelling where
were several individuals, and particular
j. in the face of a person sitting by the
side of the deceased, after clanbering
also WIN tnuCH ulIiCultJ 10 an eleVdtlon
equal with the second story, and all this
early in blight moonlight evening
mark il as one of the boldest, as it is
one of the blacklist, in the annals of
crime.
Two witnesses were under examina-
ton yesterday afternoon before j. %.
Cole, Esq. at the police office, the re
suit of which is not known, only so far
as they disclose nothing definite.
The propriety of convening public
meeting, for the purpose of deSising
the means of detection, has been sug-
guested TO US by several citizens.
| "A taking Cross The American Sentinel OF
9th ait printed st Georgetown. Ky. gives an
arcoun, OF a tame crow, raised in the family OF
Mr. loha Adams OF that town, which ''has
| learned to arteulatc with olearness and distnct-
ness not to be exoelled BY any human being;
altering many sentences, and DOES 10 reply 70
I what is spoken TO him, msnhesting, lsays the
Iednor,l strong evidences Of his having kno@l
edge Of the meaning 81 the language used BY
him