Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-05-15
From The 81. Ldmts Rrpub7sieaa, MAY 1,

From Ns NJ, ApHfs RfptsbftdH, NAV /,
THE TRAGEDY or THE NIGHT
OF THE l7Tn.=~Flro Mouaaaa dollars
reuarl.--For some days past the city All.
tloritiss have been engaged in investigat.
ing some recent Developments connected
with the murder Of Messrs. BaAer aud
Weaver, and The burning Of tho store oil
Msssrg. Collier u Pettls.
A negro man named Edward Fl, ntsfnia.
ff4 f1tttdirr IL tn disclosure. e thu rolI1u11, Il ..cat tons.
it seems, were fnade to Eap:4 by one OF
the parties, that Ennis baint uneasy about
it and yet afraid, b~eearlss Of the excite.
laent, and also Of tho r.iraars, to foil what
he knew, went % fs'fday last TO Butcher,
Il yellow man, " ID resides In Brooklyn, on
the opposite ri o of the river, aud told him
what he kr.ef and asked his advice. Butch.
or reirgea to give any advice. On Sun.
day 80 wen. over again and went to Alton,
Wen Butcher communicated the facts 10
two constables who arrested Ennis. and
after taking his abatement, came here with
the expectation Of catching one of the par.
lies, Warwick but no had lee. before
their arrival
The eifeainytanecJo Of this horrible affair.
US detailed BY Ennis, arc a. follows: About
10 o'clock Oh Saturday night, Ennis went
from the barber shop 70 hie boarding house,
kept by Leah, u free yellow woman, and
Peter Charleyille, a free man, on Third,
between Market and Walnut Streets
Shortly after he lmd gbfe TO bed, n negro
slave aamsd Madison, came to his door,
knocked, and was admitted.
Soon after being admitted, Madison or.
claimed, Cd d--1 the luck, y and on an
inquiry why, he stated !" have done more
murder Tonight than | ever did before aud
have not bee, paid for it = and after 70.
marking That there would be un alarm Of
fro shortly, he stated in substance, TINT he
and three yellow men, viz: James Seward,
alias 5awell, Warriek and Brown, had gone
on that night to Mr.. P,'stuy c%eantiine.roof1,
that the door was unlocked Madison en-.
tered alone, Mr.. Baker was sitting down
with his boots of, reading Il newspaper,
Madison walked up aud presented q bunk
bill to him, and asked him if il was good,
and as Baker turned to look ut the bill, he
struck him over the head with a short bar
of iron, which he had concealed under his
arm the others then came in and they
repeated the blows until he was quite dead
his skull and ono side of the hend~ complete
ly mashed, after searching the body for the
keys, they rolled it up in the bed clothes
and placed II in The bed.
They secured the door and went to work
N the vault to open it. Whilst at this
work, Mr.. Weaver came to The door and
knocked, and called to Jesse (Mr. Baker,
TO let him in. Some dispute ersucd be-
tween Brown and Madison, which should
kill Weaver and it was insisted that Madi-
son should, rs he had killed Baker, but he
refused, saying that he had done bis share
and would Go no more. Brown opened
the door and placed himself behind it, and
as Weaver passed into the ROM, struck
him oysr tho head With the bar Of iron
the second blow he fell and attempting
to rise Brown thrust d sharp iron bar
through his heal. Ennis in his statement,
does not confirm tile report of tho firing of
the pistols, but says, that having heard that
Weaver was shot, he asked Madison about
il, aud he told him that no pistols had been
fred and that they had no weapons but the
bar of iron mentioned. From the state
nlent ii would seem that all Of them had
beaten Weaver.
After sosae further effort at the vault,
finding they could not &c. into it, Madi-
son left Warrick, Sewcll and Brown, re-
NAMED Il short time, theY fred the house
in five different places, came out, locked
the door, and went up the alley north from
the house, and threw the key away. Brown
took with him a gold watch, and a blue
cloth cloak, which he said he had thrown
away for fear Of detection, but did not say
1t seems from the statements that Ennis,
IN the morning following, was in company
with all Of them, and many OF the facts he
rot from others besides Madison. War
lick and SeweIi said but little about it.
Madison had with him on the morning fol-
owing, the bar Of iron with which the deed
vas executed, and Ennis having learned
he office it had performed, took it and
brew it into a prigy in the rear of Leaks
louse. The vault was yesterday searched,
md the bar found. We understand it
proves to be an instrument used in opening
Try goods boxes, a chisel on n end and
on the other, one of the claws partly
agreeing fully with Ennis de-
crlptions.
We subjoin such = description Of the
nurderers as We are in possession of, and
it may be sufficient, if they have not
been apprehended, to lead to their
.ete ton.
Madison is a slave, owned in New Or
cans. He is a stout copper colored man,
Iear s feet high, and about 80 years old,
cry bold and lmpudent in his manner Il
, believed he left here on the Wednesday
the murder, on board the Missouri
Or New Orleans.
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