Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-27

first fatal stroke!
A wife confidently reposing in the arms OF her
husband, and bearing the unborn P'ease o, uien
mutual affection, land such learn was the au-
vanced condition Of Mrs, Newey,) with her TWO
little children sleeping at her slde' was scene
fit for angels to come down from heaVe" W iooh
upon-a scene calculated it would seem, TO ex-
c;!s the warmest sympathies of the human heart,
to s,ake the settled purpose, and stay the uPitt-
oil hand If the most hardened and practlsed as
s,ss;n Vet il did not uusettIe your bloody pur-
,'oso NOR ,rrsst your murderous hand. But in
Tho emnhat;c language of the indictment, being
moved and subd9ed by the instisation of the de-
VII, far no other influence could have prompted
10 such an outrage, you broke through all res,
t,,;nt and regardless of the laws, both OF God
asJ man. and reckless of every consequence,
plunged into scene of shocking and complicated
crime. to which no parallel is remembered, and
such as it is believed the pages of judicial history
furnish no record of. The husband and wife,
their two little innocent children and unborn IN.
fant, her father Who lodged in room above ana
lad an inmate Of the house, were all, all Invo'v'
ed in one common ruin, all iDhumanly murdered,
and by YOU. And after having first plundered
it, with the calculating GOODNESS and dctloeration
of demon. yan set fire to the house IN when
they had slept, in imaginary security, and when
but for YOU might have continued the abode OF IN
nocence and peace: with a view no doubt, to Cd
hterate all traces of violence by consuming thelr
manrIed ard lifeless bodies ID the devouring ele-
mept. and thereby to destroy all evidence OF their
having come to their untimely end BY means
uf any human agency.
But did YOU also hope to hide your guilt, from
the all seeing and omnipresent God. to whom
all things are known, and from whom no Sc
crets are hid: Vain and presumptuous hope
the very means resorted TO for safety aud conceal
ment. proved the ready and sure means ct your
detection. :,
The fame YOU lighted to consume their bodies.
served also to attract and light the neishbors to
the scene Of desola,ion. before the bodies OF MI
and Mrs Newey were entirely consumed, the
mortal wounds still visible upon which plainly
indicated thar murderer had been there. though
horrible to relate. the bodies OF all the rest were
burnt to ashes.
The finger Of suspicion directed by the uner-
ring hand Of Providence pointed to you as me
fell destroyer of those for whose blood you Will
soon he required to make atonement WITH your
own; and Notwithstanding your supposed well
laid scheme of concealment and imaginary Sc
curity, you blindly carried about you the daring
evidence of your guilt, unconscious of t!e
dangers that beset you on all sides, and oil the
stroke was about to fall upon and crush you. ~
it ha. always been, and so it ever will be--Soon
err or later the vengeance of heaven never falls to
oyertake the guilty.. Such are the inscrutable
works of Providence, and such the blindness and
folly of poor vain and frail humanity.
| Do me the Justice to believe that have no wish
to insult or unnecessarily wound your feelings
/ No usiappy gan, set here for no such unha!
lowed purpose, and should be unworthy OF the
seat occupy, il were capable of wantonly do
ing so. But painful as the duty is, and deeply
as regret having such duty to perform, must
speak Of things as they are, and earnestly hope
you may be awakened to a just and full sense OF
the enormty of the guilt with which you are un
fortunately overwhelmed and of the necessity
there is for endeavoring to be prepared to meet
the inevitable doom that awaits you. And that
YOU will not suffer yourself TO be drawn into IA
tai delusion, by an ill grounded hope OF pardor,
or of any nterposition in your behalf by the tx
ecutye authority of the state OF which feel IT
my duty to apprise you, that sincerely believe
there is not the remotest probability. -PermIt me
therefore to intreat YOU. to turn your attention
while vet YOU may, to that high and dread tribu
nal, upon which, all you have now to hope ter.
peace and happiness in another world must alone
depend-and earnestly and diligently to employ
what yet remains to you of this transltory life
in humble duplication to the Throne OF grace
for pardon and for forgiveness of your sins-and
may Cod of his infinite mercy incline and guide
your heart TO penltence and prayer, strengthen
and support you in the hour of trial. and suffer
YOU not at the last sad moment for any pains OF
death to TALL from him.
i Your sentence is, that you be taken to the ja
of Frederick county from whence you came, ant
thence to the place of execution, at suchtIme al
shall be duly appointed, and that you lie there
hanged by the neck until you are DEAD.
We have much pleasure in announcing the ar
rival in our town of our venerable countryman
James Maury, Esq. late Consul at Liverpool. at
-ter an absence of nearly half century. Our
qualification is increased from the fact of his hav
Inc spent the early part of his life in this place
and us having returned in good health, and, as
we hone. to spend his remaining days among u.s.
Mr.. f,iaurv, since his return. has every where
been received with tokens Of appreciation of his
long and faithful public services abroad.
fredericksburg Herald
..4necdote-One day last week the Crier OF
suffI cIp Interest