Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-11-15
AN ABANDONED VILLAIN.


AtoRe,o'e]ocls to-day Jones and Thomp-
son (assuued namos) were hung for muir
aering and attempting to rob VIM. 3. Tho
mas, exchange broker Of this city. They
rode from the jail to the gallows, each idgi-
ven in buggy by one of the sheriff. %
the county, smoking their segars with great
calmness, I'LL the moment before their caqa
were pufon over their eyes,when they shook
hands with each other and without any APP
parent trepidation were swung into eternity.
- Thompson was without any genius OF
his own, and has been the mere execution
or of The daring .villany of Jones and 9TH
.ers. Jones has made a donation of his
confession TO Mrs. Oldham widow Of the
late jailor. According 10 this, it seems he
was born in England, of good family,
and was a merchant in London, where he
failed for .throel hundred aid fifty thousand
pounds sterling. showing assets for one
hundred and ninety two. H ~
Here, be says, he deposited 100000
without the knowledge of his creditors, in
the hands of rich banker, brought his
wife and three children daughters whom
he educated welD to New York, where
they married respectfully and still live. At
this place his wife died; after which he
returned to london and claimed of his
banker, the $4,000; who after repeated
applications, persisted in denying all know.
ledge Of tho matter. He presently met
him at some distance from the metropolis
and. stabbed him to the heart; the blood
gushed from his bosom, and he dropped
out Of his carriage a corpse. After this,
Jones went to the sea board, engaged in the
naval service, excited the crew to munity,
murdered every soul on board who refused
to Join his party,except the captains wife, with
whom he lived six or eight months,and after
wards murdered her. He took the ship and
crow to Africa, took on board three hundred
slaves, and steered for the West Indies,
twenty five or thirty of whom died soon
after leaving the African coast; and being
pursued by a British man of war, to es-
cape being detected they drowned all the
others. 49,. Enc .ft ta. ~
.Jenes.@anded at Charleston, South Caro-.
Ina, murdered some man for his money,
was thrown into jail, whore he lay thirteen
months. y, Hewen from thence to New.
Orleaps; put up at the bost hotel in the city
discovered some gentleman in the same
house who had $1,000, murdered and rob.
bed him in one of its passages, and remain.
ed unsupported in the same Place for seve.
raj days. He then took a steamboat and
went to st. Louis; on his passage made
acquaintance of Thompson, in connection
with whom he murdered and robbed man
.at st. Louis, of $4,000. Came to Louis.
vile, watched VIM. s. Thomas for eight
or ten days, entered his house on 5th street
near Main, in the most public part of the
city, at 8, O'clock in the morning, murdered
him, but were intercepted in their intended
robbery by Thomas's servant bursting op.
en- tho door, at the moment they were ri
fling his drawers of their contents.
Jones was about forty-fve years Of age
six feet high; straight and slender, well ed
'ucated, and uncommonly prepossessing in
his manners. He was an infidel declin.
ed all intercourse with our clergy, (mos,
of whom called on him. or even naming
the subject in. his presence. So that he
who has probably graced, by his presence
some of the first circles in London, and
certainly possessing an intellect uncommon.
aly brilliant by misdirection of his gifted
powers, persisted in a strange land-igno.
miniously persisted under the gallows.-
Koof,,rL,, Tom, n, ,s,re0Hh