Litchfield enquirer., 1834-12-04

man of the woods IS put klnu Od IOTAeu' straddling animal, very little superior to what | we cal! the lower animals, and in many res- poets far below them.
 From the Baltimore Anaevican, of Saturday.
 The Eote Murders-Up to last night. when this paragraph was written, there were no &C., counts of the arrest of any of the mnrderers concerned in the hOrrid transaction on the line of the Washington Rail road, of which the particulars were given in yesterdays A n1Prican. Tn the account of this bloody transaction, we stated yesterday that of the three super intpudrnts whose lives had been wanton'y sacrificed, Mr. Gallon was one. Th's state mept was made on the testimony of person whu saw dead body and thought he recog nised it as that of Mr. C. It appears, howrv- or. thai he was mistaken in its identity, MT. Gallon having called on us personally yester- day, for the purpose of correcting the error. He states that he succeeded in making hls escape from Mr. Watson's shanty, when tt was attacked by the ruffians. and as ne ran ne was fired at by one 0t then with horse P's- tol, the discharge of which killed ms dog al his side. He had on neither shoes nor stock ings, and having run several miles before ne recovered from his alarm, hts feet ana legs
 
 A fact which we have derived from another source, an eve itness of the deed, will show the peculiarly hal denrd and ferOcious charac- ter of the mnrderers-Aiter |Mr. Messer was dragged from the shanty, they called to hlm to go on his knees and say his prayers for that he had but a minute tO live-and while in that attitude they deliberately fired Four Bullets into his body!
 A letter from a respectable gentleman resi- ding near the scene of outrage, received yes terdav evening. says: II omitted to mention yesterday, that in addition 10 the tw" Super intendents that were murdered, was one that received charge of shot in his body, which, will not prove serious ln us conse- quences. His nan1e is WeIsh.' The same letter states that all the desks and trunks in Mir. Watson's shanty were broken open, and ri0ed oftheir eontents-clothing, watches and other articles.
 Ertensiue Robbery aud Singular Recovery. About six weeks since, Mr. Whittmeyar. boarding house keeper, 1O7 Washington st., lost gold watch and 45O dollars in gold pie ces, from chest in his bed room. The keys of the chest were kept under his pillow, from which they were taken by the thief. who after opening the chest, replaced the keys under his pillow. Mir. w. had no idea who was the thief, and he had considered the mo- ney forever lost, until yesterday, when Mary Anne Dumurcpur, a young German glrl, (who was living in Mir. W.'s house at the iime "i the robbery, and W ho left there ten days after wards.l went to his house to bid his family farewell. previous to her departure for New Orleans, for which place she had taken pas sage and was to have sailed this day. They had never suspected her of the robbery, and received her with the greatest kindness, and she made tine children several httIe presents. She went up into Mrs. WIS bed room t." take off her bonnet. and incautiously left her purse on the bed, and went down stairs {" see Mrs. WIS sister. Immediately afterwards, Mrs. w. went up fo her he'd r"on,, and seeing the purse lying on the bed, the recoIect'Dn of the stolen money flashed npon her mind; she opened the purse, poured out its contents on the bed, and saw among them several gold pieces which she recognized, from the marks upon them, as having belonged tO her hus- band. She called her husband, who idenii- fled the money, and immediately charged the girl with the robbery. She was was so aston ished at the discovery made by them. that she confessed her guilt, and was ta- ken by Mr. w. to the Police Office. Here she stated that she had expended two hnnd- red dollars of the money in the purchase ot and had left the watch at store in Chatham street to be repaired. It was found there, and S25O of the stolen money was found in her trunk and purse. It IS worthy of remark, that at the time she stole the mo- ney, there was nearly S20OO in paper and silver, besides the $45O in gold. in the chest, not one cent of which was touched; the gold only being taken. She was fully committed.
 W. Y. Iranscript.
 Myslerious.-O Sunday last the skeleton of man, who had apparently been dead for weeks, perhaps months. was found m me bushes on the southern border of the city. The flesh was almost entirely gone from oft the bones, and his clothes also, which had the appearance ofhaving been once genteel, were so far decayed as to crumble to pieces on handling. His coat was apparently h'ue strait body, and his hat white. with hole near tho band, about the" size of bullet hole. There were two (L.ondon inadel pistols lying by the skeleton, one of them loaded ana the other not, and a red belt, in which the pistols were probably carried, also a small powder flask, and a'box of percussi"n caps. A trunk key was found asn0ng the fragments ct the wearing apparel, but no papers, n"r any th'ns else than what we have narrated above, by which ,o conjecture his name. or the cause of his death. We are told by our informant, who examined the remains, that the skull ex- hbted no marks ofhaving been shattered or broken by a ball. as the hole in the hat would seem 10 indicate. As yet all IS 'nexPllcaole