Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-06-17
THE SALEM M URDER a.,

'eiiectualiy responsible for his actons-s;l.I
THE SALEM M URDER,-.4gui.,
1t IS stated in the Salem Gazetts ,b..a
whole number OF persons in jail in that tor ,a'
charged with the murder of MIR White .;,s'
er as principals or accessories, is seren v;u-
hlchara GroNninshield, jr.. George Crov1 W.
tnsh'eld, Daniel Chase, Benjamin Selm..
Joseph j. KNAPP, jr John Francis Knsna'
ana John Carr X. Palmer. Palmer, like ftp K.
others' is young man of good personal az
peafance; prepessessing manners. and r.
eoou eaueation. He was a prisoner two wear.
III 'ae Ahomaston State Prison, and had r..
many years before been the intimate a.soe;. ~.
OF the Crowninshelds.
The last Belfast (Maine) journal state,
,na' raimers parents reside in that town. O,
hls examination 10 Maine, it appssred by hi,
CONCESSIONS mat he wrote the letter to Knapp.
tiaat ne was IN Salem on tie Sd Of April. th,s,
days before, and again on the 9th. three dsu
after the murder-th that he saw the CroYn;..
shield both times; that on the second Of A
prl, proposition was made to him Inv one 90
the Crownlnsbieids TO assist in the mv,dar Of
capt. WHITE, and share with them third az
the l,ooO which he was informed .Josenh
Knapp offered to the person who would eer-
nit ths deed-that he refused to engage. and
next evening left Salem-feturned on ths
9th' inc Gay OF the funeral, and saw tbs
inshieids-that he saw at their shop
ha'cnet winch he supposed was used in tha
s,ufher' and Ind the same away--that tho
Crowninshields told him the dappers ws,a
melted.-Palmer denied all personal knowi.
edge of the murder, but said he could disclose
other important facts.
one OF the incidents related by knapp. il
his confession, says the Gazette, is woirtbyd
notice, as an inGca hon of the remarkahL.
cold nloodedness with which the asses pw.
SUED his "dreadinl trade" AT the interview
"aich Knapp had with him in the centre Of
the Hall, he informed K. t at he had seen i
stated IN the newspapers, that IS stabs were
found IN the body, but that he did not giys
more than four or five. Knapp replied, that
perhaps ne was little agitated, and could
not remember exactly. The assassin said
''No' for after he had done, for the old man,
| certain he was dead''
The knapps are the same young men wh.
lew weeks ago pretended to have been at
tackled by highwaymen, on the road. nes,
"ehham Fond, an account of which was
published in the newspapers. j. ]. K &C,
kno"iedges that the whole was a fabrication.
very lew people, in this quarter, believed
| the story as was intinated in this paper al
the time
Deep .46iietsen-From private letter, il
appears that both Of the Kaapps were willing
10 screen the nselves from legal punishment
oy becoming witnesses for the government,
ana that committee waited on the father
OF them, to know which should be accepted.
tho thoughts sfsealing the doom of one Of
his own children, was more thar nature
could,snpport, and the feelings of father for
a season conquered those of the man. Point
ing to the chamber in which the wife of hs
| Oldest son lay, he said, sen account of that
young creature, save my Oldest The seens
is described as agonizing beyond human en-
The wife of ]. J. Knapp. jr., now but a.
bout 20 years old lis one of the most beautiful
ana accomplished ladies in Salem, aad her
enure Devotion to her husband had beeoms
proverbial IN that town. She has not vet bseA
pei mitted to visit him in his prison Her
grief and mental agony are beyond desenp
tion, ana she moHrns as those without hope,s
hithongh not permitted to visit her husband,
she insisted on going to the jail, where she
was carried In carriage; but she was una.
ole 10 lock up when she got there. Knapp
"ent 10 tne window of the prison to see her,
ana it is said he did not discover anv erirs.
ordinary emotion.
itis lamentable in the highest degree. that
me tate of two such beings should be 40 iath
mately and SO inseparably united. Yet 90 il
is; an innocent and virtuous. Young. and
amiabls female, made to sdsrn her sex. 10
'9 with guilty wretch. whose erinss
iencer HIM an outlaw from. = ~ favor and pro.
'S'''0o OF Society -tPrSs s:s Journal,
!, sAo'oer Of Young Hs,ringsl tn the siA Of
uareh, the inhabitants of the island of Ulay,
ArSieshire, alter day Of heavy rain, vera
surprised to find numbers of small herriprs
strewed over the fields, perfectly fresh, and
SEINE OF them exhibiting signs oil Sim.
iar instances Of showers of small fish are well
Solution long since agreed On
Dy the learned rs, that they have been taken
from the surface of the sea, where they hap.
pehsd at The time to be swarming. by water
spout ana carried over the land, where, on
she breaking ofthe column, they descended
IN what the writer calls ''the down pour Of
rain.n
IRAYELLINe.-A gentleman left Cams
bridge, on the Chesapeake Bay, 20 mica
below Baltimore, at half past nine O'Clock on
Wednesday morning, and arrived in Phila.
deiphia' at hah past five on Thursday, hsv~
ing travelled gao miles in twenty I'VE hssst
aad haif--PkI Gss,