The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-10-21

discovery Of The tody.-On Friday weel
Mr.. Samuel Adams, a highly respectable
printer, residing at / Elizabeth street, q
the firm Of Scatchefd & Adams, Of No
50 Cold street, suddenly and uysteriously
disappeared. lie was a man Of reeulai
habits. He was advertised, but nothins
has been heard Of him.
Tie facts, as far as We can gather, arr
these
Mr.. Colt is the author Of an able worn
j upon bookkeeping, and The brother Of tht
Inventor Of Colts celebrated FIRE arms
He hired room on the second noor O
the granite building corner Of Chambers
street and Broadway. The room is the
second room from Broadway, aud the win
dows facing Chambers street.
On the Night of Friday, the 18th INST,
The gentleman occupying tie adjoining
room heard, with others, noise as if Of
some person falling, and fancied some per.
SONS were fencing with foils, and one Of
them had fallen. We parties waited, cx-
pccing 10 hear a laugh, but from that
moment a most profound and deaihlike ST.
lence followed--Surprsod at the circum-
sauce, the gentleman knocked several
t.Iqes at Colts door, but no answer was
gwen.
On The following morning, large box
was observed by many Of the inmates OF
HE granite building standing in Tie entry.
Some IT, the upper part OF the building
thought at first that it was for them as
il was about the length 10 contain two fall
sized bus'. Observing, however, tina. ii
was directed TO ST. Louis via New Or
leans, TREY saw that il was going from the
bildiag, not that it had come to it. OH.
#er persons in the binding who knew that
Colt had only aiken the rooms for saort
time 'bou9hi ho was removing. The box
was removed between half past and 10
4. VI. on Saturday, the 18th.
/ :ao gentleman who heard the noise
spoken d, thought no more Of it, until he
saw tie advertisement Of Mr.. Adams dis
appearance. On mentioning ii to another
/ person, a female said that Mr.. Colt was
indebted 70 MIR. Adams. THE sum we
understood to be $500, and for printing this
identical work on bookkeeping.) The con-
conviction fash upon the mind Of this gen
,lcman that Mr.. Adams was murdered on
/ the night ia question, and he proceeded to
acquaiut tho mayor Of the facts. Upon
/ searching Golt's room, glass was found
shatlered--a Ratchet, the handle of which
vas newly scraped with broken glass
the end of the handle Of the axe was cover
ed over wilh ink.
The wall was also spotted with ink, as
We conceive, 10 conceal or obiterate the
marks of blood. A portion of the floor Of
the room has heen sawn away by the Off
GERS and carried to the Mayors Office
! Ga tile examination Of Colt, he said he
made box to hold his trunk, out Of a
large box which he had to hold his sta
,jouary. THIS statement; he probably
made TO account for the use he had for
tools, which he borrowed from some per-
son in the building. He says that the box
not answering, he threw the wood out Of
The window into the street.
In consequence of the discovery Of these
.ac,s the Mayor advertised for the carman
who lad curr;ed Inc box, and whom Mr.
Goufrey. Superintendent OF Hacks, discov.
cred on Saturday night, He was taken
before tie Mavor, where he stated that
Mr.. Colt had employed and paid him 70
carry a box from MS room corner of
Broadway aud Chambers street, to the
ship Kalamazoo, lying al the foot Of Maid
en- Lane, on The morning of the 18th inst,
and tina, he had delivered it there accord
ingIy.
Ia consequence Of this, the Mayor or
dered officers A. II. C. Smith and Wal
dron on board the vessel, and the hatehes
which h@1 been closed, to be opened, and
on Saturday afternoon, about one o'clock,
the bax wa found aud brought on decE
On opening it, the body of Mr.. Adams,
with only his shirt on, was found therein,
packed round tightly with salt, and an avn
iag wrapped round the whole, and then
The box nailed ~. 1t was conveyed to
the dead house in the Park, and the Coro.
ner called 10 hold the inquest. Justice
Taylor, Of the Upper Police (who with
the Mayor and officers above named, have
been indeiatigable in reierreting cut the
authors Of this horrid murder discovered
the woman kept by Colt, and in her pos
session, found the watch of Mr.. Adams.
Thus this affair Of blood is revealed
ana the guilty author known, and justice
about TO be satisfied. San.
Travelling by Electro Mugnetism.-A
distance Of 81 miles has been travelled on
the common road, in Bath chair, by
electromagnetic power, III one hour and a
half. The applcr comes over daily from
St. Adams 20 the Bank Of England, in the
said chair in half an hour, at the expense
OF sixpcnce.
A FIRST Nate.--We reported few days
since the arrival at Mayaguez Of the brig
Silshee, whose captain (Morrif died when
Is days out. The Newburyport Herald
Informs Us that the brig was naylgated into
Mayaguez by the captains wiie.--BoSton
Daily Advertiser.
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