Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-21
TO THE PUBLIC.

n AM young man, and have just entered into
Il period of life which is to establish that cha
racter upon which will depend my future happi-
ness, responsibility, aud interest Ii 1t be OF
bemished nature, my prospects for future use
fitness and comfort viii be everastingly blasted.
If on the contrary, ii shall be preserved pure and
spotless my dearest pleasure will have been pro-
moted, and shall have accomplished that which
has constituted my most untiring study. Justice
10 myself, as well as to family to which am
tendery endeared requires that should give to
the public q statement ofthe affair which occur
red on Saturday, ndnotice, in becoming man.
ner the person who was Instrumental in prose-
cutting it.
arrived In Alexandria on Sunday morning,
18th instant, on my return from New York, viii
Their had been to visit my parents, and to pro-
cure stock for my business III louisville, KY,
where reside. On Saturday morning, the 18th
instant my wife and self were starting for Bla-
densburg, when we were arrested and dragged
before magistrate, to undergo, like felons, an
examination under suspicion OF having robbed
the Philadelphia Bank on the 18th Instant. John
Runney, an officer in'the employ OF the Corpo-
ration, Wood Corder) appeared as my accuser;
whether to crafty feelings of maiignancy, or
lured by the fond hope ofsecuring to himselfthe
reward ofthe Bank, | cannot tell If the one,
my conscience tells me have never merited his
malice: if the other, the result did not justify his
hopes The Justice required him to swear to
what he intended to say; but, shrinking, as If
thunderstruck, from this unexpected demand, he
hesitated and declared it would place him in an
lawful predicamentn as all he knew of the
matter had been obtained from Others and that
they must necessarily, be implicated. This did
not satisfy the Justice, and he was obliged to
take an oath, and detail all that led to his suspi-
cions. He stated that the keeper ola public house
had told him his daughter had seen me with a
great deal of money, and thatno doubt rested
upon his mind as TO my guilt as had Just re-
turned from Philadelphia. But, upon summon
ing and questioning his informant, he declared
positively that he never made any such commu-
nicatlon to Rumney!!. | was instantly acquit-
ted, and it afforded me pleasure to hear the Jus
tce declare to the congregated crowd, that
" there was not the least shadow of u founda-
ton for the accusation.o
Before leave this person. il will be necessary
to state that, while searching the house of my
mother-in-law, where reside during my stay in
Alexandria he was not only abusive to the In
mates, but destroyed, in the most dagrant man
ner, the trunks and furniture, by breaking into
them with an axe
Edward Burchel a County Constable, and
perhaps colleague Of Rumney's, merits, by his
scandalous behaviour to my wife. against whom
no process had been issued, notice IN this COM
nunication. He dragged her to the othce IN the
most Insulting manner, and, not -SauSned Win
this, used the most insulting language to her
ankle regardless of decency as of her feelings. !,
This is a high and solemn charge, and we'll
calculated to have damned myself and family's
responsibility forever, and never could have
oeen conceived in any other mind than such as
ms who has evinced so much zeal in the prose
eunon. That this individual may be held up as
Ant OBJECT of public detestation, and that the
puohc may know and see who has been my per-
seoutor IN this affair, is my object in making
sns communication
MY warmest thanks are due to several gen.
,sSa ior their kind attentions to myself and
c;a,i, ueling this trying circumstance, and espe-
s r,any 20 Doctor Wheelwright who evinced the
s'ea'esl sohcitude for our comfort.
a,., FRANCIS b. JONES.