The Arkansas advocate., 1830-12-29
SENTENCE OF IT KNhpp


 tence of death, which was proro,,,,,,,.,, by Mir. Justice Putnam. The following extracts are published in the Salem Csa7 zette of Tuesday:
 It is not to aggravate your suflierings that we address you: for your present "fetehedness excites feelings oi coni- passion and not of indignation. But we hope that by presenting to your view some of the horrible circumstan- ces which have attended the crime for which you are to suffer, we may lead you to sincere contrition and repen- tance.
 The aged sufferer was a near rela- tive of your wife. She was nurtured at his house, and loved and cherished by nm as child.
 You were admitted to partake of his hospitallty-you availed yourself of the opportunities to visit at the house of the deceased, to prepare the way for the entrance of your hired assassin to the bed chamber of the victim.
 You were for months deliberately occupied m devising the ways and means of his death. Horrible to think while you were eating his bread. at his own table, you were plotting againsthis life. '.s
 The execution of this awful eonspi- faey spread dismay, anxiety and dis. trust through the country.
 Week after week passed awa,-and left the dreadful deed yelled in myste- ry. At length discovery was made by means almost as extraordinary as was the crime.
 Ii such events had been Set forth ina work ot fiction, they would have been considered as too absurd and unnatural for public endurance. The story would have been treated as a libel upon man. Who would have imagined that young men-weil educated men-haviGg res pectable connexions and means of lIy- ag-eould have been found in our enl. i ttllgaatted society ready to join in such |, fearful eonspiracyt
 Who would have imagined that the clue to the discovery should have been gwen by one wholly unknown 10 the au- thor and procurer of the murder, and that he himself should have put it into the hands of the friends of the deceas. ed.
 Who that considers these things will fail to discover an overriding Proyi- denee, which baffies all human devices and contrlyances to conceal great and deadly crimes.
 This murder was done with the great est secrecy-in the hour of night. by the hands of the assassin alone. who escaped from the house without disco very.
 The knowledge of the crime was con- fined to the breast of the conspirators. But they could not keep it there. It would come out. And what was done In secret and darkness, is now, by the eonspirators themselves, made manifest to the world.
 One of these miserable men has De- rished by his own hand. The arm of Justice has overtaken another, who has suffered an ignominious death; and the same penalty is about to be required of you, who were the abandoned author. contrlyer, and procurer of the deed of death.
 The wicked and profigate will note well the awful events. They will they must, see misery, disgrace, igno- niny and death, following in quick re- tributIon for the most secret crimes.o
 The same paper contains ssliteral and exact copies of the papers, left by Richard Crowninshield, jr. in his cell, at the time he hanged himself, on the ] ll55ttElloff 5ttEll off last June. They are both short. One is addressed to his father, from s' an undutilui son, that had disregarded his ehaste moral precepts." He re. quested that his father would see him decently buried, and protect him from the dissecting knife. We copy the whole of the letter to his brother George, as we find it printed in the G a. zette:
 SALEM, June 18th, 1880.
 DEAR BRornER-May God and your innocence guide you safe through this Trial. Had I taken your advice, ] would still enjoy life, liberty, and clear conscience. But l have not, and per ceiye my case to be hopeless, therefore have come to the determination to de- prive them of the pleasure of beholding ne publicly executed, as after I am