Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-09-03

CoMMITMENT OF Mrs. KINNEy-It is stated in
the Boston papers, that Mrs. Kinney was brought
into the Police Court Monday, and arragned
the charge IF murder. MIR p Riley appeared as
her COUNSEL and the Attorney General attended for
the commonwealth. The consideration of the case
was postponed until Monday next and mean
time the prisoner was committed.
All the request OF her counsel, the sheriff gave her
n cu,fe blaacAe tn the style in which her room in
prison should be fitted mp for her comfortable
c0mmodation, and, after liking dinner with Mr..
Adams, she was conducted TO her circumsc rbed
quarters in jail.
In several papers her personal attractions have
been emblazon.d, il she were a second Cleopatra
whose fascinating glance was irresistible TO mortal
man, and could lure the sex tn inevitable perdtion
but the fact is, Mrs. Kinney is simply "A dark ON
pleX'ned, decent looking woman some where be-
tween the latitudes of thirty five and forty In
versation, she is frank, easy and intelligent and the
expression of her cOuntenance, for the time being
uuaffectedly amiable and nothing more. As for the
brilliant flashing Of her eye, might well speak
o. striking light with piece Of India rubber. In
her present severely trying predicament, her con
versation and demeaaor are characterized by the
most scrupulous propriety. Not look, gesture or
accent betokening bravado or fool hardness has
consc ience-stricken weakness or guilt ssing
aversion of glance, the other has been detected
since MIR. Clapp first met hera Thetford.
In relation TO the reports about her dangerous
charms, she yesterday related amusing denoue
mcnt, which occurred on her so called "rapid flight
to Concord
While going from Nashua to Concord, in the
stage two ladies' utter strangers to her,
COW ersaton about the " horrid poison in Bos-
| ton "
Says one" Her name is Kinney, and she is one of
those lifting beauties who know how To attract the
| men, and lead them where she has mind to- When
she was widow, she came up to Lowell and dashed
| about until she got away the Rev. MIR Freeman
| from the daughter of the woman he boarded with
when every body thought he would have married
her, a matter of course, as he had boarded long
time in the family"
"Yes," replied her friend " and the stronge st cir
cumstsnce against her is, that she away the
very next day after her nus band was buricd* But
guess her RIG is mp, and that he is the last hus
| band she will finish"
| While in the stage, Mrs. Kinney listened in ST.
leRce to this charitable colloquy; but, her arrival
at the hotel in Concord she invited one Of her cen
sors into her chamber the other had proceeded on
her journey)-and, aftera little preparatory
| saion, Mrs Kinney asked her if she had no. been
| talking in the stage about the poison case. The
had overheard part OF the conversation and should
| like 20 hear the whole of it, The garrulous guest
comp ed with her request, with embellishments,
and then, after a short uause Mrs Kinney said ia
her" am the Mrs. Kinney you have been talking
about W
The lady was literally dumb founded by this dis.
coverv, and attempted to apologize TO Mrs. Kinney
as well AS she might. Mrs. Kinney, by her genuine
afability Of manners, soon, however, relieved her
from her embarrassment, and acquired her friendly
sympathy.
Mrs. Kinney left Boston eleven DAYS aAer Mr. Kin.
neys funeral and FIVE days after she had been informed
he had died Of poison and that she suspected OF
administering it, Mr.. Kinney subject to fits of low
spirits and he was in very embarrassed circumstances