Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-01
THE MURDER NEW YORK.


late murder in New York is from the Evening
Post. The commercial Advertiser states that
the seducer in this case was the female.
Dreadful Murder In Leonard Street.
Last night a most audacious and terrible
murder was committed in the open streets Of
our city. Charles G. Cories who has kept
a bowling saloon at $50 Broadway, under the
manufactory, was killed by a pistol shot, at
few minutes previous to seven o'clock, and
within thirty feet of Broadway, the most tre-
quented of all orr thoroughfares The facts
as far as we have been able to ascertain are as
follows:
About halfpast six o'clock on last evening
as Mr.. Corlies was attending to the duties OF
his establishment, female, with a straw hat
and veil on, came in, with whom Mr. Cores
seated himself. After remaining thus some
minutes, several gentlemen came in to play at
ten pins, and the female got up to 60 out, Mr..
Corles putting on his coat and going with her.
A short period subsequent to this, Mr.. II.
Hodges, one Of the proprietors ofthe Carlton
House, saw Corlies standing few feet below
the door of the Carlton which opens into Leo
nard street, in conversation with woman, aud
went into the bar-room and told Mr. Bates, the
bar-keeper, that Cories was talking to wo-
man outside, and if he went to the BARRIERS
shop he could see HIM. Before, however, Mr..
Bates could get from behind the bar, the report
of pistol was heard, and on Mr.. b. going to
the door, he saw a female who answered the
description given of the person with whom
Corlies was seen talking, walk, past towards
Broadway. servant girl who resides in the
block below the Carlton House, in Leonard
street, and was going to the pump atthe corner
of Leonard and Benson streets, also heard the
report, and Immediately afterwards man
rushed past her towards Elm street, at the
top of his speed. This man was also seen by
a Mr. Cady who was sitting in the rear part of
the bar.room of the Carlton, and who rushed
out on hearing the report Of the pistol.
The report of the pistol, of course, attracted
the attention of all in the neighborhood, and
Mr.. Corlies was found lying on the ground
and taken into the Carlton, in the rear part OF
the bar-room, where he was examined and
found to have been shot by discharge from a
FIVE barrel pistol, which was found lying near
him, with one barrel empty and the other four
loaded The ball had entered the back part
of his head, little to the left, and passed in
an upward direction, lodging, as is supposed, in
the fore part of his brain. Information of this
event was Immediately conveyed to the police
and Justice Matsell, with number OF officers,
was speedily on the spot-the Mayor who had
just taken lodgings at the Carlton House, ha
wing arrived Immediately after the shot hat
been fred. Active measures were immediate
ly adopted to apprehend the perpetrator, if pos
sible, and suspicion falling on j. II. Cotton, wh(
had been held to bail in the sum OF 5000 for
previous attempt to shoot Mr.. Corlies, on Fri
day, the 10Th instant, at the door of his lodging
house, los Leonard street, his Honor the May
or directed Judge Matsell and some of the OF
ticers to proceed to his lodgings, a. "a VeseN
street. and if he was at home to arrest him
Judge Matsell accordingly went, and fount
Mr. Cotton sitting with Mr.. Parsons, the pro
prietor of the house, in the parlor, and havin.
requested private interview with Mr.. Cotton
Parsons went out, and left them together whel
Judge Matsel arrested him, and informed hin
for what. Cotton was perfectly cool and self
possessed, and from attendant circumstances
| he sc ,bo bo,,
at the time the murder was committed.
Immediately after his arrest woman with
veil on and somewhat answering the drscrlp
ton of the one with whom Cories had hcer
seen talking, entered the house in great haste
and was stopped and questioned by the officer
in the hall, whom she told, that she had jus
come from Green street, md had been running
like a race horse. As she appeared 10 he ac
quainted with the inmates of the house sh,
was allowed to pass and she went up stairs All,
subsequently left the house, but was arrestec
in the course of the night but it being showr
to be very evident that she knew nothing o
the circumstances, and was not in any way
connected with the murder, she was released
Justice Matsell after searching the house with
out finding any thing suspicious, had Coltor
conveyed to the Tombs, and placed in one O
the cells
During the time that Justice Matscll wal
absent, Corles was lying where he had beer
first placed, attended by DR.. Iosack and othc
physicians, and his brother Nothing could