The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-04-12
ATROCIOuS MURDER.

A terrible murder was perpetrated in our
streets last evening. All our readers doubt.
less remember the attempt, mentioned some
days since, of Mr.. Henry Cotton Of No. &c
Wesley ST., 10 shoot Mr.. Charles Cofies in
Leonard ST. The pistol then merely snap.
ped, and Cotton was arrested. He was
baiied, and has since been at liberty. A
day or Two after This, the wife of Cotton
mnGe an unsuccessful attempt 10 commi;
suicide BY taking laudanum. This added
strength to the Yumor we had previously
heard, that the assault of Cotton was made
in consequence Of the alleged seduction Of
his wife by Corles.
Last evening a few minutes before 7 o.
clock Mr.. Corlics was seen 10 come out of
his Bowling Saloon under Kreemcr 81 Co.'S
coach establishment in Broadway near
Franklin street, in company with a woman.
He passed down Broadway 10 Leonard ST.,
down which he turned and proceeded low
ards his residence at No. los. He was
there last seen standing still and in CONVEX
sation with woman. A moment or two
after the explosion of a pistol was heard,
and passer BY in Broadway saw a man fall
blu: saw no one near him. On going 10
him, Mr.. Coriies was found to have been
shot. A ball had entered the back of his
head, and on examination is supposed 10
have lodged Just behind his noss. He was
speeches. when found. and so remaincd.-
Portions Of his brain escaped through line
wound, and his recovery was OF course i'm
possible. lie was Immediately taken into
a room in the Carleton House, and attended
by physicians When VIC left he was still
living, but died at little nfier nine.
Officers Immediately went after Mr.. Col
into CUSTODY. He surrendered himself with.
out hesitation and denied al knowledge of
the transaction. Cotton has for a long time
kept a gertecl gambling establishment at
his residence. Corlies is single man and
boarded at No. 105 Leonard st. We have
moi heard Of the apprehension of The woman
with whom be was last seen in company,
nor do we know that her name has been as
cerinined II is surm;sed by many that the
murderer was mon dressed in woInan's
clolhes.-N. Y. Tribune of Tuesday.
Officers are in active pursuit for the NO.
man who came into sir. Colton's boarding
house while the magistrate was there. 1t is
SAID that they have Obtained clue to her
residence.
There is also good reason to believe that
Mrs. Cotton may have becn this woman, and
that she had changed her dress before the
coroner arrived.
The whole matter will undergo an inycs- i
,iga,ion before a coroner's jury this afler-
o;.fo.lr ~. f,oC ot-rt Of
room, where it is probable some fifty wit.
nesses will be called for examination.
Ii is not improper or Improbable to add
that this fatal affair arose from an improper
intimacy between the deceased and Mrs.
Cotton, who is young and attractive wo-
man.
We have heard it said, however, that the
first advances were not made by the decea-
sed, and that lie did t;know Mrs. Cotton |
TO be a married woman until some lime az |
ter the relations between them had been Of
the most intimate character.-N. Y. Spec. !
tator, same dale.
The Mr.. Corlies who was shot By Cotton |
was native Of Orange county, in this Stale,
and was about % or 20 years of age, and
we suspect from the accounts we have seen |
of him in the New York papers, that be had
NOT sustained character altogether unblem-
ished before his late melancholy death. On |
the contrary both he and Cotton seem to
have been professional gamblers and ac-
complished debauchees. The coroner was
holding an inquest on the death Of Corlies |
which was not closed q. our last dates
Bur. Free Press.