Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-04-28

HORRIBLE SToRY.-The following is re
lated IN one ofourla English papers An
execution of man and his wife, named AL
brecht, condemned to death for murder, re-
Gently took place at Dresden. The facts
connected with the two wretched sufferers
were Of horrible aud extraordinary nature
The age oitne man Aas az, and the woman
81 The latter had been a widow three
times before she married her fourth husband
the individual who now paid the forfeit of his
lie for sharing in her crimes. In the course
of their trial it came out that the female prs-
oner disposed of her first husband by admin.
isterlng dose OF poison; and Of the two
next by strangling them while asleep Her
accomplish III the two latter murders, who
had formerly been her lover, having at length
become suspected by her OF being danger
GUS person, she endeayored TO renew their
former taisons, with view TO get him TO fall
into the snare and murder him Her plan OF
operation was this:-She invited her former
lover to come and assist her in putting an
end to her fourth husband, while she per-
suaded the latter that it was necessary for
their own safety that they should murder
the lover. The poor wretch fell into the
snare so arlfully laid for him, and having
gone TO the place appointed for the meeting,
the woman Albrecht and her husband. fell
upon him and Despatched him with knives,
The two murderers then dragged the body
into the field, but the blood having attracted
attention, they in the night removed it to the
cellar OF their own house. From thence,
fearing that its putricalion would lead to
their detection, they packed it up and were
carrying it to a neighboring village for the
purpose of throwing it into deep ditch,
when they were discovered by the police and
taken into custody 1t is said that this wo-
man. in spite Of her almost repulsive ugliness
and bad character, welded such power over
the other sex, that she could make them do
almost any thing she wished. even to the
commission of the most fragrant crimes
The execution was performed by a cobler,
who follows the profession as an amateur.--
lie raGeipss one hundred dollars. or ahout2 Il
pounds for each execution; and as these al
fairs are not Of unirequent occurrence in Sax
ony, il is believed that this artist has amassed
considerable fortune.
Melancholy Results Of Gambling. A few
days since. a young lawyer, whose name we
will not mention. came to this city from ST.
Mary's county, having ip his possession
sum of money belonging to his father. and
which had come into his hands in the set
Element OF some property entrusted TO his
care. The whole sum he lost a; the gam
bling table. He then applied to various le-
gal gentlemen of his acquaintance, and hav-
ing succeeded in borrowing considerable
amount from them once more madly sought
the place OF his ruin, and once more came
forth wild, haggard and desperate, without
dollar Of the thousands he had so rashly and
wickedly staked He then succeeded in OBJ
tanning sac dollars, and with this paltry sum
fed to Washington Some of those whom
he had so basely deceived and wronged, pur-
sued him; and strange as il may seem, the
infatuated young man was found within the
walls of gambling house, The above facts
ought to be pondered well by young men,
They speak louder thanwords; and they Of
fer solemn warning to all, to avoid that diz-
zy and dangerous vortex from which, when
once engulphed man can scarcely hope TO
escape with property, reputation or peace Of
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