Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-16
From tie Balt,m0e Chronicle, May IS.
HORRIBLE DEPRAVITY

Ohio Shipley of Baltimore county, % miles
from the city Of Baltimore, on going to the
spring about S weeks since, found one of his
children, three years old, dead in the spring,
the water in which, was not more than three or
four inches deep; suspicion resting upon no
particular person, il was supposed to have been
an accident : The spring was afterwards COW
cred with boards, sufficient room only being
left to dip out the water. About two weeks af-
forwards, another child named Jemima, about 6
years old, was found dead in the spring, from
which the boards had been removed; the face
OF the child was in the water, and had upon il
marks of violence. Suspicion then attached to
a black girl, who had nursed the children, but
not sufficient to enable them TO extort comics.
sion from the negro, In consequence OF her age,
which was only ten years. MIR. Shipley, how
ever. determined upon sending the black girl
20 his fathers, from whence he had got her,
and mentioned the circumstances. The negro
girl had not been at her masters more than two
weeks, before black child was found dead,
having been suffocaied; she afterwards request
ed another negro child to lay her head upon
block, and taking an axe, said she would shew
her how they killed chickens; the child became
alarmed, and ran from her. AT night she was
discovered in room in which some of the la
dies of the house usually slept, and was turned
out; in about an hour afterwards, she was dis
covered getting in at the window, and being
asked what she wanled, she said, that she had
come to tell them, that il was she who had kill
ed Jemima, the child Of Mr. Shipley, mention
ed above and on being questioned, acknow
lodged that she had also killed the negro girl
and related the particulars Of the murder Of Je
NINA, as follows
She was with the child in the garden, and
struck her-the child returned the blow, she
(tae negro) then took a handful Of sand, and
stuffed it into her mouth, and took her to the
spring, where she Immersed her face in the wa
ter, until she supposed she was dead; she then
left!her, and went towards the house; but, hear
ing the child cry, to make use Of her own
words, "she went back and finished H."
The above narration we have had from a
source that entities it to full credit, and we Go
not remember eve: to have heard Of transac
tion in which at so early an age, such shocking
depravity has been displayed
We learn that person employed as 9 run
ner in the United States Bank, was detected
las, week in defrauding tina, institution to the
amount Of two thousand dollars. HIS mea-
sures were taken so badly, that the money was
in Two ore thousand dollar notes OF MIR Girard's
issuing. Those he had passed; they were soon
discovered at the counter of one of the city
banks. where they were 5rough, to,be changed
or deposited by persons who had received them
without suspicion of the manner in which they
had been obtained. The account given by the
defauter, of his manner Of obtaining the mo-
ney, was that he found it upon the floor Of he
Banking Hall. We learn that the unhappy
man is now in prison, to await his trial. The
crime Of defrauding the United States Bank is
felony by special statute. U. S. Gazette.