Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-10-14
AN ABANDONED WILLIAM.

AN ABANDONED WILLIAM.
Pa. sAs censspeadsses Il shs ~. C..ssvsaiA-
LssissiHe Sept. ].
At o'clock today Joses and Tnompsoo las
suned names) wess hung for numbering and At
tempting to rob WIN. 3. Thomas, exchange broker
Of this city. They rode from the jail to the gal
lows, each driven in . buggy by one Of the sher-
ifs ofthe county, smoking their cigars with great
camness, till tho moment before their caps were
with each other, and without any apparent trepi-
dation, were swung into eternity. Thompson
was without any genius Of his own, and has been
the mere cxccutioner Of the viliainy Of Jones and
others. Jones has made donation confession to
Mrs. Oldham, widow Of the late jailor. Accord
good family, and vas . merchant in London,
where he failed for three hundred thousand
pounds sterling showing assets for one hundred
and ninety-one.
Here, 10 Gays, he deposited fifty thousand
pounds, without the knowledge Of bis creditors, in
three chldren, daughters, whom he educated
wsID to New York, where they married rcspec-
tably, and still live. At this place his wife died,
after which he returned to London and claimed
Of bis banker the fifty thousand pounds, who al
ter repeated applications, persisted in denying all
knowledge OF the 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 seaboard,
engaged in the naval service, excited the crew to
m utiny, murdered every soul on board who refu-
sed to join his party, except the captains wife,
| with whom he lived six or eight months, and az
Forwards murdered her. He then took the ship
and crew TO Africa, took on board three hundred
slaves, and stecred for the West Indies, twenty
five or thirty Of whom died soon after leaving the
African coast and being pursued by a British
/ rlntnc
all the others. Jones landed at Charleston, s. C..
murderer = man for his money, was thrown in
| j III, where he lay thirteen months.
] He went from thence, TO New Orleans, put up
at the best hotel in the city, discovered some
gentleman boarding IN the same house who had
/ $1,000, murdered and robbed him in Of its
passages, remaiDed unexpected in the same
place for several days. He hen Dok a steamboat
and went to st. Louis: on Ms passage made ac-
quaintance with Thompson, in connexion with
whom nc murdered aud robbed man at st. Louis
Of $4,000. Came to Louisville, watched Will.
iam s. Thomas for eight or ten days, entered his
house Fifth street, near Main, in the most pub
lie part Of this city, at O'Clock in the NOR ming
murdered him, but were intercepted in their in
tended robbery by Thom1s's servant bursting open
the door at the moment they were rifing his draw
, c-s If their contents.
Jones was about fortv-five or fifty years old
six feet high, straight and slender, well educated
and uncommonly prcposscssing in his manners
lie was an inf lei; declined all intercourse will
our clergy, (mosf Of whom called ON him) or evcl
i, n aiming the subject Of Religion in his presence
n So that he who his probably graccd, by his pres
cnce, some Of the first circles in London, andpOs
=, scssing an intellect uncommony brilliant, by
q. misdirccton Of his gifted powers, persisted in
- strange land-ignoDiniously persisted under IN
n gaows. Yours, NJ
:. A BIs Beoop AND CuaIous FAcr-Th
- n. Job h,e ham in
}. at Washington City for some eight years
has at length come of with brood Of ten mil
IONS Of young ones! This beats all the Bi
Pumpkins and Mammoth Radishes that the I'm
vers,l Yankee Nation has produced. An
!. ,=ha. is curious fact, is that tho same Cd He:
,r was setting all the while upon Gold and Silp'
N Egg, and yet brought TREASURY SHIS-PLAsrER
We leave the explanation Of this singular PIN
NJ norncnon to tho scientific world-[Columb
at Register.
Poor Positive Had you been within Il
purlieus Of our editorial sanctum yestreen, go
reader at a distance, your optics might peradve
:, turc have been RECALLED with a sight Of the rare
- specimen VI the genuine African that shows q
white Of its eyes any where between Possam
.. quodiy and Lake Borgnc.
'Good morning, mass Editor"
"Good epening, Sam
"' 0Ha-ha-a-a! You catch me dcre."
=" "Weil, Sam-what do yoa wish this ev
~ ingg''
~ "Whv, We see, mass Editor, in desc damp G
-, days, nigger wants little firc-and papers IS f
nx rate kindlin' stuff-and l wants Jess a dozen
~ SIGH number for dat purpose"
~ Swell, Sam, there's heap Of exchanges; h
nd yourself"
Eyes mass'-tanky: but is you got time
10" pick me out some wild dc Presidents Message
emf"
'cn "Whv them. Sam!n
'"e "Case dem lights de fire best. Dat Ness
de real Loco Foco stuff, up to de hub! Ha-,
'co IA. Dem be de lghters"'
CTS There is no such thing as resisting an ar
ment like this. We incontinently selected
IT, number Of the desired kind and if Sam d.
burn up his premises, VIC shall be glad.---Ib
'"s STATISTICS OF COLoRED PERSONS IN Phi
-, DELruIA.-ln a recent publication from the Nj
so Reform Society OF Colored Persons, 1t is sta
that their number in the city and county is at
twenty five thousand-thc real estate ownet
the them on which they pay taxes is valued at e
hundred and fifty thousand dollars-:hat I
,st- have fifteen churches, and tbrty-four clergy
'okc ofdiffc rent sects-twenty-onc schools-seven'
Sunday schools, with one hundred and twenty