Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-09-06

STRANG'S CONFESSION
Massachusetts, Journal, the ea,ta, =
which has read the published CONT
sionot Strang, says-"It will sunrise :
one, tina, he fully duplicates the vyre,rS
ed Mrs. Whipple in the murder of ~
husband. She first made amorous 80
vances, first proposed elopement. h.,
could not OBTAIN, without the knowIsd~,
Of her husband, sufficient money-,S.
first suggested the idea Of murder. ara
proposed various methods. One ~.
for Slrang to go and work on the Canal
and get some Of the lrishmen 10 hi
MIR. Whipple: another was to take ,
pistol, an are, or a club, and yavlav
him about fifty rods from the bouse:..
mother was, to hire somebody to Kin
him. Letters were written Anonymous.
ly to different persons, Offering a 70.
ward Of $500, the money to be found i
the post-ofice, for the murder of Win.
Pile. These letters were the Joint nro.
duction Of Mrs. Whipple and Strang but
they do not appear to have been sent.
another method proposed and tried. was
by poison. Three times, at Mrs. Win.
pie'srequest, Strang purchased arsenic.
which Mrs. Whipple administered to
her husband, first in bis tea, and after
wards in flower of sulphur, but without
effect in one instance, and with slight ef.'
feet in the other. Mrs. Whippls bad
prepared q third experiment, but no on.
portlnity for it offered. Finally, Mr.,
w. proposed to shoot the object of their
internal Vaccinations through the win.
dow, with one of Mr. Whipple's pistols.
Strang replied, that with a pistol, be
should be as likely to kill any one else
as Mr.. Whipple. She then asked him
what be could shoot with, and be re-
piled, a rifle. A rifle was procured,
Mrs. Whipple furnishing the money, and
examining it in the barn after il was
purchased She also furnished po,cdsy,
and supplying two panes of glass for
otrang to make his experiment. in
firing through glass, and requiring bin
to describe the place ofhis experiment
in order that she might come there,
WHEN she returned from church." Ii
was in consequence of Mrs Whip Plies
doubts, whether the ball would no.
glance" that induced Strspg to institute
his experiments. Finally, Mrs. Whip.
pie put into his hand, the ball with which
the rifle was charged for the murder,
saying, II have taken the last ball he had
left for you to shoot him with" She
provided him with a pair of socks, so
that he might walk without noise, and
rolled up the curtain of the window
where Whipple was setting. Thus in.
stigated, aided, abetted and equipped,
Strang perpetrated the murder. In
conclusion, he expresses penitence and
a religious hope; declares himself plea
sed hat be was not admitted as a wit.
ness against Mrs. WhippIe, and that she
was acquitted. and he exhorts her to
repentance. 1t happened in the attempt
to poison Wbipple with the sulphur, that
after takingit himself, he gave, either
from accident or suspicion, some to bis
Young son, and to Mrs. Whipple. She
did not dare to refuse, but took what
was offered. and then turned and split
from her mouth: but she permitted her
child to lake it; declaring afterward to
Strang, that she preferred that be should
be killed rather than herself detected.