Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-12-21

isn,ios 10 eomuit The murder. and n handing
the poison 10 him tina, ne might pass u 10 MRS
Crosbis, he WAS unable 10 Suggest egen pau
slble reason. His coneealnen' softhe erime'
tho, for many years, wlthoa hissuggsting any
inaucemen, to disclose it y so late a PERIOD
gave to his entire evidences color ~ iaoried-
ton. He wa at best an iTdormcri aho mere
fore, az the Judge observed, upon MS SINCE
and uncnrroborated statement the prso"'i
could not De found guilty. A policeman was
produced, who swore that Brown, on oeihg a.
rested, declared iha, HaR'on had as much TO
do with the matter as he had his h""e~e''
was not such an acknowledgement as would
convict. Il was also proved that Brow" neo
from The village some tine AFTER the murder;
hut. on investigation, it was discovered u a
the prizes, Of the parish, had. upon me groano
Of his prohiga,e life, and from hi, 81 picio"
that he had committed the assassina'ion, oroer
ed him 10 leave his district. Thus his abs" ono
ing was accounted for. Had the case closed
here, Brown would have escaped; but al ieng'h
q witness, Of a very extraordinary aspect, "h"
awakened universal attention ny the strange
ness Of her coun enance aud figure, appeared -
A female dwarf, about farce feet in height, a.
though 10 years of age, deforned in every
limb, with a head almost large as The enti'e
residue of her squat and distorted body, and a
countenance stamped with the expression OF
broad idioey. was lifted TO the liable. She was
obviously san innocent" and an effort was
made to exclude her evidence, on the allega'
ton that she could have no idea OF future
state. However there CLEANED through the
darkness by which her intellect was in'eiopeo
a .ufTic lent ray to show 'ha' she had some no.
ton of place Of pupi ISL me- a., and she nuttrr-
ed the word hell" with a stare OF horror
which made way for her a,tes,a'ion.
Her aspect was in itself hideous enough, with
out any &C cesspry, 10 excite painful sensation
in every one who beheld her; but when she stat
ed that Mrs. Crosbie was her mother, and II
was NANTES, that the idiot child was come 20
brand its barbarous p.ren,, the interest which
she exci:ed was as distressing as 1t was uni'er-
sal She swore that her mother had seven
children. and hat on the night o. CrosbIe's
death They all slept in their mothers room; anc
she farther deposed, tina, Brown had on that
very nigh' lain with her drtrs'abie mother. In
the chamber where her family were all assem-.
bled, and while her husband ives stretched colo
and dead in the room b meath, the murderess
had received her confederate in ASSASSINATION,
who remained locked in her guilty embraces
surrounded bv he offspring OF his abominabie
~ wan OUSf'seu w 'bt N'u"SN' W.
the prisoner, tina, ou, If tie seven children only
one was produced. I, was answered. that hey
were all, with the exception Of the last WITNESS
and her brother. confirmed idiots, who were al
most incapable of ar,ic"la ion, but that he b'o'
Their should he produced This was according.
" done. A boy, Who he'd been struck with q
visit aion nearly as calam'ous as his sister, and
was rickeuy and drcrepid, gave the same &C
coun, as the former witness. and proved the
aduI:erous intercourse to have taken place i'm.
mediately after the as" sss'naiion. Ibis poor
creature mentioned that Brown and his mother
went off ioge, her, and that he and The res OF
the family being all left utterly destitute. were
taken in, from compassion, TO the houses OF the
nrighhors, where thry had been since chariIa-
bly, sus' aimed. As he lef, the table, most pain'
ful exhibition took place. His mother had
b-en dead fnr considerable time. He was ig-
Moran, Of this fact; and although he had bfen
abandoned by her, and he had every motive 10
hold her memory in detesta' ion, while he vas
going down, nf,rr his examination, he suddenly
paused, and turning 20 the COUNCIL for the
crown, with an eye j. which, in the midst OF
vacancy, an Instructive aft c'ion was sill sppa-
rent. h- i,quired, in = voice of infanine plain :
,i,ene,s Where is my NANNY! where is nv
mammy?" 1, is olmost superf1uo"s to state
,ha the prisoner was con,ic!rd. H- was i'm
mrdia,ely Sentenced, and Ia cireu,ns'arrr Of
rare occurrence in Irelsnd) hi execution caus-
d genrr, Satisfaction MT ng the people.