Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-01-14

WI5n the secretary reached cincinnati,
he caused the young man, described by the {
informant w., and by him enormously de-
signatcd as a nephew of Mr.. b. TO be brough,
before the mayor of the city when all soon
became satisfied that he knew nothing of the
affair in question. Believing that the right
man was still to be found somewhere, (al-
though it was evident that Mr.. w., who was
now absent from the city, had made mis-
take as regarded this person) tho secretary
pushed on into Indiana, where he understood
Mr.. Is. had taken up his summer residence.
On arriving at his destination, he found Mr.
B. greatly unnamed by tho alarming sick
ness of his family, but lily prepared TO resist
the pointed questioning Of his visitcr. But
owing to this circumstance, Gas he aftcrward
sad, and the complete surprise by which
he was taken by the announcement of GER
tain facts relating to the murder, which he |
supposed was still secret to all but the per-
pre,ralors, young G. and himself, Mr. B. soon
admitted "tliat he knew all about it," and
proceeded to detail at length, all that young
c. had disclosed to him, personally in YER
mont, and aftcrward by letter as before mar
rated. After going through this detail, Mr..
B. informed the Secretary that young c.
whom Mr.. w. had somehow mistaken for
his nephew, had not come to the west, but
was in store in village in the northern
part of Vermont. And it may be as well
here to add, that Mr.. B. who is not person
to deceive or ovct-color, or easily be dupcd
himself, expressed his thorough conviction of
the entire truth of all that young c. had re-
vealcd to him. He kncr, even, that the spot
where the victim was carried could be found,
and that the bones were still there, as c. had
told him in one ofhis letters, (Which, with
the signatures cut out, had been left in New
Orlcans) that he had been to the place, dug
down and found the remains all there-.an
item in the confession which we omitted to
state while on this part of the subject.
The Secretary, having no power to take
Mr.. B. out of the state as witness, now left
him and returned rapidly to Vermont when
a warrant for the arrest ofC. as an access
sorry, was put into the hands of a sheriff, who,
with an assistant, an acquaintance ofC., set
out for the village where the latter was resi-
ding. They reached the place late in the
, night, and put up at the village inn and
having ascertaincd that c. slept in the store
: in which he was employed, the assistant re-
paired to the building and soon succeeded in
f awakening the object of his search, who came
, TO the door when, after the ordinary saluta-
tons on recognition, his first question was
"|Vhdts The ncUs-hds anything broke ont
in Berlin" Having cvadcd this question
or answered it IN a manner that seemed to
, allay the fears of c., the assistant asked him
to 60 over to the tavern to do some business
S when they two proceeded to the room pur-
poscly taken by the sheriff. As soon as
, they were in the room together, the asss-
, tant announced the true business on which
r he and the sheriff had come, when C.. be-
c came greatly agitated, stared wildly, threw
S up his hands with spasmodic trenor, and re-
treating backward, sunk nearly fainting into
I chair in the corner ofthe room.
1t was long time before they could get
HIM into IA situation to speak. But at length
succeeding in calming him down, in some
, measure, they pressed him, for his own safe
. ty, 10 make clean breast of it and divulge
, the whole story. He replied tina, he woulti
1 tell all the facts, but could not give up the
, names of the perpetrators; and he then wen,
D on and related, with little or no variation, the
I same story which he related to Mr. B. and
1 said he could 90 to the spot where the muir
derrd man was buried, giving. a description
4 of the localities, which well agreed with the
one that had been furnished by Mr.. B. foi
the Secretary, before starting for home.
, The sheriff and his assistant then renew.
Y eddy pressed him to give up the names Of the
Z perpetrators, and, after awhile, lac mcntIonct
. the names Of two individuals, who were no
, the persons described to Mr.. b., and whost
5 characters were such as to render it hghl,
improbable that they could have had any
:, connection with the transaction.
=. After this the three soon started for Mont.
= pcier, c. beng in custody of the Officer
u During all the first part Of the journey, ant
indeed, till they had reached llicirlast hating
}, place, at an inn about eight miles from NJ.
c. persisted in his story, adding from tim,
5 to time, as they went on, numerous little par
i iiculars, all of which appeared consisten
IS with what he had before related. But a
: this inn the sheriff took him aside and toll,
G him they now wished to know what the,
Z were to depend on, in regard to his story
that he and his assistant were satisfied tina
t, he (C,) had lied TO them, as far as related t,
d the names he had given, and they wished I,
II know whether his whole story was not like
II wise false
G To this c., at the time made no reply
y But as they were about to resume the Jour
't ney, he called the assistant out of the room,
d told him the ~holc story was one Of his rw
I. making, and 'cas all false
- He was then ques toned as TO his motive
> in telling such tale. And he finally said
- that at that time and place he had given i
:. his story, he did, indeed see two men ertc
). the swamp, with something on their should
II ers, which he took, upon "A moments consid
y STATION, to be log ofligh,-wood, TO be sp
Z up into torches for fishing ; and that, thong
y :, clarified at first, he yet soon perceived tia
" here was nothing wrong about the NATTER
= tBut, on riding along home, he began to sup
pose case, like the one which, for the fir,
> instant, he thought this to be. And, in
!" few days after, wishing to know whether hi
4, friend (the young mechanic before mention
=, ed( could keep "A secret, he limited his know
~ edge of such deed as the above named cir
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