Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-08-21

was boarder in the house of her mother, where
she also had resided up to the moment she left the
house on the morning Of her mysterious disappear,
anco and destruction. He is the last person who
saw her there on that fatal day. He says, "she
came up stars and knocked at my door," He
opened il, and found her dressed for a walk.
She said she going TO see Mrs. Downing.
He said very well he would "come for her in the
epening." The statement in on another paper is
that, he said "Very well, Mary, will look out for
yen in the evening" If either be correct here is
positive engagement to meet her TO whom he was
affianced, and which was not likely to be broken
under such circumstances without any reasonable
cause.
He says that "from I o'clock, A. NJ. until I, p.
NJ. he was at his brothers, went with him to the
Dey st. Bazaar. He then walked up Broadway,
and thence TO Bickfords in James street. until O.
clock-fhen penf TO Fulton street and dined a,
an eating house; went home about 3, and laid
down until six, p. NJ. when he walked to the Bat.
terry"
The question may be hero asked: Why did he
pass his own boarding house (kept by Mary's mo-
,her) to dine at an eating house. in Fulton street,
but block from her own residence And again,
an important question may he suggested: From
to 6, when he alleges he was at the house, was he
seen by the mother or any Of the family Or was
he there without his usual intercourse with them
for il must have been about their usual tea time.
AT he says he walked to the Battery, and re-.
turning, on reaching Ann street, (Which is but a
few doors from his boarding house, he saw the
storm gathering, and walked to Bckford's in James
street "a distance, perhaps, half mile,) and
staid there until o'clock and returned and retired
for the night
The two hours Of this awful thunder storm are
important and his whereabouts should be most SAT-
isfacorly ascer.ained, and so should every hour Of
that melancholy day. he kne,o ,pheye she had
gone, of which ercn her mother ,oas Ignorant
He had promised 10 NEE, her in the evening
he went to the Battery at the very time he should
have taken the contrary direction to fulfil his on.
gagement with her who had confided herself to him.
and q, Ann street he turns of for Bickforjs, when
ia the same space Of time he could have nearly
reached her, and thus shown q reasonable soci.
tude for her.
In the searches he made for her, il does not ap.
pear that he held any eonsuhations with her mo.
Mer or friends, as 10 the places they nigh, deem
proper to be searched.
After searching for her a, Harlem, Williamsburg
and Hoboken, without success, he was afterwsrds
Uniformed by Mr.. Lurher, Of No. 80 Chambers
street that Mary had been found at Hoboken
and an inquest tUas 10 be held" but HE DIN 40
TO HoBoKEH on ATTEND rnE inquest. A Mr.
! Crommelin went And can il be that he was 81
lost to oil feelings of humanity-of affection fol
her who was his betotbed--of regard for the aii C
/ tions of her aged widowed mother-tha, he coult
remain, and not rush 10 the spot and call down The
vengeance Of Heaven upon the seducer and mur
deIer. 1t requires more explanation than has ye
been given.
Is there not in the above suggestions sufTicien
! ground for examining this witness again and call
ing upon him 10 sublan,ste his statements Hi
conduct, according to his account was TO say the
least very extraordinary from frs, to last, and re
quires explanation.