Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-04-27
From The knickerbo,ker.
MURDERS MIRACULOUS ORGAN.n

"Murder," says Shakespeare, ss,hough i,
hath no tongue. yet speaks with most mi
raculous organ" Among the numerous
accounts of homcides which have made
so prominent feature in the newspapers
OF the Union, in the last twelve months, we
can call to mind scarcely one, which it was
intended by the perpetrator TO conceal, that
has not, by means oftentmes the most tr;-
vial, been laid open TO the eyes of the world
most striking instance was that 0 { the
murder IN New Jersey. After the deed was
done,and no human eve had seen it: when
the ody of the victim was buried beneath
the Aoor, and even an explanation Of its
anticipated decay prepared for, the pertur-
bed spirit OF the murderer beheld in every
man an accuser, and in every eye wit
ness. Blood had been spilled, and the
damnlng dye "woud not tout" So he mus,
needs purchase two rabbits, and go round
with them in his hand 70 his acouaintances
complaining that they had bed upon his
person, and Oh his floor, and offering them
Tor sale; and in the 'black and dark night"
he dared not go near his own dwelling
alone, but offered artizans extrovagant
terms 10 sit up with him all night, for she
could not sleep" Conscience was in this
case the miraculous organ''that ultimately
p!uchcd out Of the heart this awful mys-
terry. SO too of a recentmurder in Virgil
MIA. 1t occurred on Friday night; all day
on Saturday the body remained; and the
wretched prisoner says he endured all the
agonies of hell during the day. He drank
deep, to keep down the feelings that agila-
ted his bosom. He dare not flee, for fear
OF the pursuers; he was afraid to look his
fellow men in the face. lest his guilt should
stand burned in characters Of fire upon his
forehead. At light he cssayed to remove
the body, but the apprehension that he was
watched, prevented him so moving a few
things out of the house, he set it on fire,
thinking thus to destroy all evidence of the
murder. But after the last rafter had fall
len in, and the dying embcrs had begun to
pale, there, in the midst o. the fire, Law un-
burned the headless trunk Of his victim!-
He next bethought him Of carrying away
the body; but after he had raked it from
the ashes, It was so HOT that he was com
PEELED 10 leave to cool, before he could re-
move IL. The day was dawning, and his
work was not yet mplishedi He then
dragged the corpse up beside a rail fence,
where 1t lay about twenty steps from the
road all day,a frigh;fu wreck Of mortality;
the arms burned off, the legs calcined TO a
cinder, and only small portion ofthe head
cIinging to the trunk! CAT night he took
the body and buried it in potatoe hole; but
still the fear that it would be discovered,
tormented him sore, and he again took 1t up
and carried IN his arms about two miles
through the dark old forest, and buried it
in hollow tree. In the course Of Monday,
he again went to the spot where the body
was Inferred, terrified lest the dogs,ln rang
ing the woods, should discover his crime.
But there was upon him an EYE from
whose glance he not hide {; and his own
conscience haunted him with it's terrible
thunderings!"