The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-11-20

that- we address yUur--ibs your brsssss
wretchedpess sxcifes f6elings Of compass-
ion and not Of indignation. But we hope
that BY presep(ips to your view some OF
the horrib)o circumstances which have
attended the chime for which you are to
suffer, We may lead you to sincere con-
triton and repentance.
The aged sufferer was near relative
to your wife. She was nurtured at his
house, and loved and cherished BY him as
child. !.
You were admitted to partake of his
hosPitality-you availed yourself Of the
opportunities to visit at the house Of the
deceased, to prepare the way for the en-
trance ofGour hired ASSASSIN, to- the bed
| chamber Of the victim. n .l1sr
You were months deliberately occupied
in devising the ways and Amesns Of his
death. Horrible to think while you
were eating his bread, at his own table,
you were plotting against his life.
The execution ofthis awful conspiracy
spread disnay, anxiety & distrust through
the country.
| Week after week passed away--and
lelt the dreadful deed yelled in mystery.
AT length discovery'was made by means
almost as extraordinary AZ was the crime.
If such events had been set forth in a
work Of fiction, they would have been con
sidered as too absurd and unnatural for
public endurance. The story would have
been treated as q libel upon Man,
Who would have imagined that young,
well educated men, having respectable
connexions and means of living, could
have been foend in our cultivated society,
rendy to join in such a fearful conspi, acy
Who would have imagined that the
clue to the discovery should have been
given by one wholly unknown to the au-
thor and procurer Of the murder, and that
he himself should have put Il into the
hands Of the friends of the deceased /!
Who, that considers these things, will
fail to discover an overruling Providence,
which battles all human devices and con-
trivances to conceal great and deadly
crimes f.,a.
This murder was done with the great
est secrecy,--ia the hour of night,--by
the hands of the assassin alone--who es-
capped from the house without discovery.
The knowledgepf the crime was con-
fined to the breast Of tho conspirators.-
But they could not keep it there. 1t
would come out.
And what has done in secret and in
darkness, is now,bv the conspirators them
selves, made manifest to the world.
One Of these miserable men has per-
ished by his own hand. The arm Of just
ice hath overtaken another, who has suE-
fered an ignoninious death, and the same
penalty is about to be required of you,
who were the abandoned author, contriv-
er, and procurer ofthe deed of death.
The wicked and profigate will note
well these events. They will, they must
see the misery, disgrace, isuominy and
death, following in quick retribution for
the most secret crimes.
! While we present these dreadful events
to your consideration, we would earnest
ly hope that you may be able to offer to
throne of grace, broken and contrite
heart. Webeseech you to call to your
aid those pious men, whose duty it is to
teach the consultations Of our holy relig-
ion. Under their direction and the as
sistance ofthe holy spirit, may you by
! prayer and penitence obtain the forgive
ness of the God of mercy for your offenc-
es ; and especially for. the awful crime fol
which you are to suffer. ~
! Our last duty remaips to be performed,
which 10 to pass the sentence of the Law,
for the crime Of which you have been con-
victed, which sentence is, and this Court
doth accordingly adjudge, that you are te
be taken from hence to the prison from
whence you came, from thence to the
place Of Execution, and there be hanged
by the neck until you shall be dead. Ant
may God of his infinite grace have mer-
cy on your soul n
The prisoner was then remanded to the
|jail.
RICHARD CROWNlNSHIELD, JR
: The following are literal and exact cop.