Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-11-02

GERS on the lookout for the perpetrator
of the crime.
In half an hour, officer Whisener ar
rested Fassit at the house of his brother,
Col. Fassit in Sixth Street, opposite
Washington square.
lie was brought before Recorder Vaux
at 2 O'Clock, when F. w. HubbelI and
A. w. Meredith, esqs. appeared as COM
sui Tor the prisoner, and Attorney Gem
eral Johnson for the Commonwealth.
After a long hearing, in which the
rest could be made under the act Of Con-
gress, without an affidavit taken in New
Haven, &C., the Recorder decided that
the provision OF the act Of Congress re-
ferIed only to cases where the arrest was
made on All Executive requstion. BUT
that any one could be arrested as fusi.
live from justice. on the oath of per-
son knowing the facts: and that such fu-
gative could be held until requsition
was made in due fern. He also refus-
ed TO take bail, as the crime was killing,
and that such killing WAS n,ur.er; and
| it was Tor the jury in New Haven to say
what degree OF murder the prisoner was
guilty of. Fassit was then committed.
A habeas corpus was sued out mme-
dlately, before Judge King. at his pri-
vate residence, and the Judge admitted
the prisoner to bail in s. 900.
We cannot close this narrative with.
out expressing our astonshment at the
course of Judge King. Five thousand
dollars, then is the price rich mans
son mnst pay for killing fellow being!
Had the prisoner been a poor iriendless
stranger, we doubt if bis Honor would
have violated every principle of law and
justice, every rule of his Honor's court.
every precedent set by the courts. to
give such prisoner chance to escape.
The wealth OF the prisoners family would
think no more of S., 600 than FIVE cents
In order to protect their son from punish.
ment. After the law has had its course,
we will speak again on this subject
We give the following account of the
murder, in the words of the New Haven
Herald:
Some young rowdies Of the advancing
classes were paying their respects to the
freshmen in course of induction prohibit
ted by the rules Of the Institution. which
tutar Dwight, with others, attempted to
suppress. In the performance of this
duty he seized young man named Lew
lis Fassit. Of Philadcl pha, and was in
the act OF drawing him 20 the light, in
order TO recognise him, when Fassit drew
knife or dirk CT some kind, and gave
him three Successive stabs near the
groin, aud almost penetrating the femo-
raj artery, which would have been in
stantly fatal. A fever ensued, which
soon terminated in death.
'5r Dwight (adds the Heraid) was
son o! MIR j. Dwight, Of New Haven,
late of Richmond Virginia. aud a grand
son of The late president Dwight fife
was only twentv-one years If age, and
graduated at Yale College in the class of
1910. He was a gentleman Of ane prom
se and his loss will make serious void
IN the social and literary circles 10 which
he was attached.
'Fassit, the young man, who now
stands guilty Of perpetratihg the highest
crime known to our laws, has left the
city and will probably escape. We un-
derstand however, that measures have
been instituted for his apprehension, and
that a requisition will be made to the
Governor Of Pennsylvania for his surren.
der to he hands of Justice