Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-10-06
NEw.YoRK,S Sept. 25

.I. NEw-foRK, Sept 20. Horrible mwder Of Mr. Adams, the P1infer-ArTest of the murderer aud discOuery of the body!-On Friday week, Mir. Samuel Adams highly respectable prn- ter, residing at II Elizabeth street. of the firm of Scathard x Adams, of No. 59 Gould street, sudden | ly and mysteriously disappeared. He was man of regular habits He was advertised; but nothing had | been heard of him.
 The facts, can gather them, are these:- | Mr. Colt is the author of able work upon book keeping and brother of the inventor of Colts cele | brated fl re arms. He hired room the second floor of the granite building, corner of Chambers-s. | and Broadway The room is the second room from | Broadway, and the windows face Chambers st. On the night of Friday, the l7th inst, the gentle man occupying the adjoining room, heard, with oth- CTS, noise as of some person failing, and fancied sone persons were fencing with fos, and one had | fallen. The parties waited, expecting to hear a laugh, but from that moment most profound and deathke silence followed. Surprised at the "ircum- stance the gentleman knocked everal times Colts | door, but no answer was given.
 On the following morning a large box obsery- ed b, many n the inmates of the granite building, standing in the entry. Some the upper part of the filling thought at first that it for them, it was about the length to contain two full sized busts Observing, however, that 1t directed 10 St. Lou
 is, via New Orleans, they that it was going from | the building, not that it had come to it. Other per sons in the building, who knew that Colt had only ta- ken tie roams for short time, thought he remo- | wing. The box was removed between half past and ten in the morning, on Saturday, the 18th. | The gentleman who heard the noise spoken of, thought of it, until he the advertisement l of Mir. Adams's disappearance. On mentioning it to | another person, female said that Mir. Colt n- debted to Mir. Adams. Crhe sum we understood to be two hundred dollars, for printing this identical work on hook keepmg) The conviction flashed up- | on the mind of this gentleman that Mir. Adams was murdered on the night a question: and he proceeded to acquant the mayor of the facts. Upon searching Colts room, glass was found shattered-a hatchet, l the handle of which had been newly scraped with l broken gass-the end of the handle of the axe was covered with ink
 The wall was also spotted with ink, as we con- ceive, to conceal obliterae the marks of blood.
 A portion of the floor of the room has been sawn away by the officers, and carried to the mayors of l flee. On the examination of Colt, he said he made box to hold his trunk, out of large box which he had to hold his stationary, This statement he prob ably made to acconnt for the he had for tools, | which le borrowed from persons in the build ing. 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 facts the mayor advertised for the who had carried the box, and whom MT. Gouirey superintendent ofhacks, discovered on Saturday nlght He taken before | the mayor, where he stated that Mir, Colt had em- ployed and paid him to carry box from his room, corner of Broadway and Chambers streets, to the ship Kalamazoo, lying at the foot of Maiden Lane, the morning of the 18th inst, and that he had de- | livered it there accordingly | In consequence this, the mayor ordered officers | A, NJ, 0. Smith and Wadron on board the vesse, , and the matches, which had been cosed to be open ed and Sunday afternoon, about one o'clock, the box was found, and brought on deck. On nopening it., the body of MT. Adams, with only his shirt on, was found therein, packed round tightly with salt, and awning wrapped round the whole, and then the box nailed up. It was conveyed to the dead house in the Park, and the coroner called to hold an inquest. Jus tice Taylor, of the upper police, who with the may or, and officers above named, have been indeatigabe in ferretng out the authors of this borrd murder, discovered the woman kept by Colt, and in her pos. session found the watch of Mir. Adams.
 Thus, the affair of blood is revealed, and the gull ty author known, and justice about to be satisfed. | [Sun.