New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-19

letter. II the second edition OF the New haven
Palladium of Saturday, is dated
MIpoLEroyyS, Friday night u O'Clock.
DEAR >!KS-The testimony IN the case OF the
| State against Lucan Hall Bsthuel Roberts and
VIM. H. Bell, closed this evening, and the Court ad-
Journed TO tomorrow morning al O'Clock, for ar
! sunent.
After tie adjournment OF the Court this evening,
Hail. by the advice OF his counsel, sent for Charles
Tyler. Esq 10 Visit hini his CELL and ne has just
returned from the Jail.
Hall has made TO him full confession, (which
Will not be known TO the public until tomorrow.
Saturday morningl IN presence of his counsel, and
Nh McCurdv. he says that he alone is guilty OF
the murder Of Mrs. Bacon and OF course that 10.
berts and Bell are innocent, of which fact am per-
tectlv satisfied
Hall informed hIr. Tyler where the money is de-
posted and OF the manner in which the murder was
committed.
He states that he entered the house of the de-
ceased, and went 10 the desk where ne found thr
money, before Mrs. Bacon discovered him. As soon
as she entered the room where he was, he knocked
her down with chair and beat her 10 deatt,. lie
then took large butcher knife and stabbed her sew
era tmes-she making desperate struggles 10 save
her life before hc succeeded IN knocking her down
upon the floor.
He further states that he had it in contemplation
for some weeks before the murder TO rob the house
he thinks he was not over i've or ten minutes do
inc the deed. The murder was committed about III
O'clock A. Nl.--her death shrieks were fearful. 1t
will prove 10 be one OF the most cruel and lnhuman
murders that was ever committed.
Hall is dreadfully agitated and scems bowed
down to the earth with anguish and remorse.-
He says he expects to suffer the penalty OF the
law, and hopes for no mercy.
The correspondent of the New Haven Courier
furnishes the following account of the closing
scenes of the trial after the Court assembled on
Saturday morning:
Mr.. TYLER stated that he had just returned
from Merden, and had found the money which was
stolen. in the verv places where Hall SAID it was,
and that he entirely satisfied with the statement
which Hall had made, and OF the innocence OF Bell
and Roberts.
Judge Williams then rose and charged the Jury,
informing them that after the disclosures which had
lust been made, ii was not necessary tor him to re-
capitulate the testimony which had been given in
that a great responsibility had been removed from
the jury and the Court himself and Judge Storrsj
were satisfied that ii Hall was guilty, Bell and Ro-
berts were not for that Hall would never have cho-
sen them as his associates 1t was true, circum-
stances were strong very strong against them; the
fact of the cane which found in the house, sup
posed to have been carried there by Roberts, was
against them bbt still the Court were OF opinion
that the TESTIMONY did not connect the three prison
ers together nsthas day. He then told the Jury
they could retir9an render their verdict.
The Jury reted, and in about minutes returned
with verdict d :" Not guilty" against Bell and
Roberts, and vsrdict Of" GUILTY" against Hall,
He was then desired to rise, and was asked ii he
had any thing tqsay why sentence Of death should
not be pronounced upon him. He SAID he had
nothing 10 say 81
Judge Waals, after alluding to the prayers Of
those which hsdaaily ascended upon the opening
of the Courtto Cod that he would not permit the
innocent to SUITES norle the guilty escape; that
those prayers asssssaeled the OF the Almighty
and been a5sssst saia be would recommend the
prisoner Id ffss fa s;ssf~ast to the saviour, whoso
laws he had violated and after recommending the
prisoner 10 mercy, sentenced HIM TO DE taken 10 ts
lail, ana from thence to the place OF execution, and
between the hours of 10 and o'clock on the 2Oth OF
June next, be hanged by the neck until ne was
dead