The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-09-26
AN ABANDONED WILLIAM.

Hmm, me Correspondent Of the Ky. Conmon'0eg'"'
N''' Louisville, Sept. j.
At one o'clock to. day, Jones and inonlP aud
tossumed names) were hung for numbering anu
N,temnting to rob VIM. S. Thomas, e%cianeo
broker. of this city. They rode from the a.' ~
,ho caIlows. each driven in buggy ny one VI
,he sherfIs of This county, smoking 'heir c!Snis
with great calnness till the moment peloio , I'
cans were pulled over their eyes ,I noy
stock hands with each other ana, WITHOUT any
e'iooM ,ronidotion. were swung into eternity
rThon,nson was without any genius OF MS oWn'
,d hns heen the mere eXecutoner OF tle curing
yllnnv of Jones and others. Jones iius 'ih"'e u
donation of his confession TO Mrs Oidhan' WHO"
of the late lailcr. According to TINS, II seetlls he
,yas horn in England, of good family, and was
n,erchant in London, where he failed tor three
hundred and fifty thousand pounds Sterling
shaving assets for one hundred and ninety one.
Here. he says, he deposited fifty thousand
mounds, without the knowledge OF hs creditors
insthe hands OF rich bankers brought las W'Ie
and three children daughters, whom he educated
yyelN TO New York, where they married respcc-
tably, and still live At this place his WIfe die";
infer which he returned to London and claimed
of his banker the fifty thousand pounds Wno'
after repeated applications, persisted III denying
all knowledge Of the matter. Ee presently met
him nt some distance from the metropolis, ana
s,nbbcS him to the heart the blood gushed from
his bosom and he dropped ont of his carriage
corpse After this, Jones went TO the seaboard,
onparcd in the naval service, excited the crew 10
mutiny murdered every soul on board VINO re-
fused to Join his party, except the captains vile,
with whom he lived six or eight months, ana al
forwards murdered her. He then took the ship
cnd crew TO Africa, took OH board three hundred
slaves. and stcercd for the West lndes twenty
five or thirty Of the slaves died soon after leaving
the African coast and, being pursued by Brit
sh man of war, to escape detection, they drown
ed all The others. Jones landed at Charleston,
South Carolina, murdered some man for ms
money, was thrown in Jail, where he lay thirteen
months. He went from thence to New Orleans,
put I'D at the best hotel in the city, discovered
some gentleman who had $4,000, murdered and
robbed him in one OF its pass9ges, and renamed
unsuspccted in the same place for several days
He then took steamboat and went to st LOUIS;
on his passage got acquainted with Thompson
inSconnecon with whom he murdered ana rob-
he'd man at ST. Louis Of $4,000. Came to
Louisville. watched William s. Thomas for eight
or ten DAYS entered his house on Fifth street, near
Main, in the most public part of the city, at nine
o'clock in the morning. murdered him, but were
foled in their intended robbery by Thomas's
servant, who burst open the door at the moment
they were rfng his drawers of their contents:
Jones was about forty or fifty years old, SIX tee
high straight and slender, well educated, and
uncommonly prepossessing in his manners. lie
was an infdc: declined all intercourse with our
clergy, (most of whom called ON him,) or even
naming the subject of religion in his presence
SO that he who has probably graced by his pres
cnce some of the first circles in London, and GER
tainIy possessed an intellect uncommonly bril-:
liant by risdirection of his gifted powers, per-
ished in strange land-ignominiousy pershed
on the gaows. Yours, M.