The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-13

"Where is it -
Here"
Show il to me.'
"Will you promise me that you will save
me afterwards!
| Yes"
Well, then-look-"
And the confding sailor leaned upon his
knapsack which he had loosened, and
which lay beside him, and this trembling
hand commenced with pain to unbuckle the
straps.
Stop"-cried the girl
And she levelled a blow at his head with
sickle, which split the skull. lie gave
one groan--bis arms stiffed he fell with his
face upon his knapsack. The girl then
took his watch, his money, and his clothes.
She washed the blood from her feet in a
neighboriug pond, and then went TO the
field to cut bundle of grass, and returned
to the house. On entering, she threw down
upon a chest all that she had taken from
the sailor, adding, " found the body of a
Blue, and here is what he had about him" I"
She was warmly congratulated upon her
good luck, and there the matter rested.
D"t oh VIC CNcHiHS VI tiIc sdtnc od1 tIc
body of the Blue was found and recognized
by the family, and shortly afterwards sew
eral circumstances betrayed the young girl,
and the whole was discovered. The de-
ceased, was one of those young people who
recruit .heir opinion with their uniform,
and change their cockade to suit the party
in power Forcibly enrolled for the port of
Brest, he had set out with his companions,
and had come just in season TO be at the
fight in Auray, without the possibility of
choosing sides. This position, fully com
pretended by the pcasautry, as it was that
of many other natives of the district, caused
the case of the sailor TO be greatly commits
scrated, and rendered the more odous her
who had assassinated him. There was be-
sides in the circumstances, of the murder, a
basencss of villany which created the utmost
disgust. The man had not been killed for
the sake of killing, but for the sake of rob-
berry and that circumstance excited the
horror ofthe multitude, always so scrupulous
in that regard.
In such case, the money stains hands
worse then blood, and hence there was n
general outcry against the girl. As is US
Ially the case in all generous reactions, in
which the spirit of party yields for "A mo-
nent to the voice Of equity, the Indignation
against the girl was excessive and unlimited.
For tho want of justice from the proper
the people determined to admin
ster justice themselves the girl was dis
:arded from all Christian society, and every
me avoided her as if she had had the plague.
,H l..
armcr wished for her services any longer,
I'D no landlord would lease her even the
mallest cabin She had no other shelter
han the porch of the church. Wherever
he passed along, people hastily withdrew Il
'om her path, and at the public fountain, t
henever she appeared, the women hastily c
ok up their ptshers and exclaimed, "makc t.
om for the murderess ~ h
That was the name which had been given o
the girl. In order to fix the seal Of pub Ii
. rcprobation, n song had been written, o
which the death of the young sailor was Il
counted, with all its frightful circumstances p
ID wherever the girl went, she heard re- C
atcd that song of vengeance. Hers was n
common punishment, limited to time L
ID place-it went beyond all limits-it h
rmed part of the public customs. She
INT forth like Cain, with the fatal mark on
II brow, in the midst of men, who rs so
any living pillories, sung to her crime, Y
lille they cursed her. In vain did she I,
elk to fly her parish-wherever a breeze 7
uId blow, wherever the voice of shep- o
rd could reach, the awful chorus rcsoun- "a
One day (and Mary herself told it) she
1T in field, far away from Auray, sweet II
tie boy, five or six years old, gathering -
olets. She walked towards him, and sat i,
'wn beside him. For her, poor, forsaken $
retch, who for many year had not touch Fl
the hand of human being, it was an "
expressiole pleasure to caress the child. !,
he took him on her knees, and played =
ith him long time, rs n mother with her f
,rling, singing to linn little infant songs. n
'hen she had finished, the little boy said, n
i know prettler song than yours, sister Y
father taught it to me"-and he sung
Good Christian people, listen to the =
rimos: Mary Marker killed seaman with !,
blow of sicklc-a seaman who bcsought =
er for mercy in the language of her own !,
arish, and who was poor conscript of the ..
strict" 9
The unhappy woman screamed in mad +,
sss, and letting the little boy roll from her ,
ms, she sprung up and fled with her ut II
ost speed. .
The shame and punishment were too 9
uch for her. The murderess sunk beneath !;
aud became raving maniac.
"A Singular Ndrdfire. A child, named /
arlo Francingo, arrived in Malta twenty c
ur years ago, the being about three years |