The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-09-06
Misses "a En- q u 8.
A MURDERER's ARREST.
From the 70. Picayune.

.,,be murder OF hrs vile. Ihe particulars we
,,syed at too late an hour on the previous eve
-, 10 give them in tul'. Ihev were yesterday
.,red OUT to us a technical phrase, by news
'sooNexico Texas, &c. Ihey are OF an extra
o.lmY character md Inasmuch as they snow
"A athe 0mn iscient eye Is ever on me murderer
81 by point to moral on which His well 10 re-
N;r.
freeman is about forty eight years OF age; bus
.,n,enance bespeaks shrewdness and intelligence.
,,li, al.o plainly tells us Of mind narrowed up
with feelings Of intense agony and bitter, biting
rnorse He was raised IN Edseheid, South Car
alma, and was married at the early age of twenty
one or wenty.tv yeors. His wife he had known
tm early infancy they went to school together,
and together participated in the village sports.
Their union seemed TO be such a one az would
,mro pprpctual happiness-undying love. The
,os, saws.
'on hoooy they the bappiest Of their kind
w ym n' ,anIe stars unite and in one fate
r; b,orts th,ir fortunes 81 their beings blend :"
y po,,osr thoupb early association. and similarity
n or,.,p and ngcs, would seem to have combined to
q rode, llrTgceman nd his wife blisseul and hap
\ nj, GeGngs, appnrcntiv at war with nature, rose
and made them miserable. After having lived
g o.e,her for some twentv.two wears, and after
hcn, given to the world eleven children, the
nrriaca vow. mutually taken. was broken, and
h,Dor,ics who pledged themselves to live and
nv, ,,ra,hor in sickness and in health. ,brouph.
na and evil fortune became scvered-disunited
rpomon. il ,nneors became the scottish slave of
synperance. and. as n necessary consequence,
+ SJ to DISCHARGE the duties incumbent on every
rbpnd-on evcrv father. The mother, (Mrs
7Npman.> as mothers ever do, chung TO her chill
\ h, and used her everv excr,;oo TO SUNNY them
Win those necessarcs, and that education and pro.
stcu which it was tho duty oil father to pro
VA,
a ywman would sometimes come and take from
Sule the Youngest members of the firmly; and
Mis- wouH seem to have been done more with n
n view Orbarrowlng the mothers feelings, thnn from
by pn'ernai affection which he felt for his chill
rn
On one occasion he took off The two younger
ddren and placed them nj The honse of sister
& Ibis. Their mother, feeling socitous for their
Edare sent one Of her sons, young man seven
4 zen years old After them, who brought them back
their mother. They had not long left when
nemon returned to his slater and found Them
&mehs mind dethroned by rum, and his soul
fsdOy an unfounded Jealousy, Cor THIS cursed
passion, too, preyed on him) he hastily seized his
4 lie, swearing that he would take the lite OF his
E7n son. He londed his piece with two balls,
Hned alter his children with the determination
ETspIIng their blood but failed to over,ake them.
Having so failed, and having determined TO do a
foul and bloody deed, he went to The house OF his
\ 'Ie, whom he found engaged at her domestic
Hlles he levelled his rifle at her, and ere she had
me to say, GOOD have mercy on me-" he lodged
4 he fatal bullets in her body. She lived but few
hours afterwards.
This, as we said on Thursday, was on the tenth
Jme, 1887. lie fed. The authorities of the
The state Of Alabama. He was sent back and
npisoucd in the district Jail of Edgefed. From
J" lie managed TO escape before the time for his
wal came on. and made his way through Tonnes
'ee and Mississippi to this city. Here being an
acvve mtchauic he worked for considerable time
X WIN Mr. Sewell, the builder. and in the coustruc