Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-03-21
A REMARKABLE CASE.

hany OF our readers will remembe
the conviction, for robbing the mail, O
Dr. John Braddee, of Uniontown. Penn
sylVania.-cIrcumstan of the robber,
and the conviction were remarkable. He
was sentenced, in l94l, TO ten years con
nhement in the Western Penitentlary oil
Fensylvanla. But did not live to serve
out his term, having died on Friday last
IN ms cell IN the Penitentiary.
NN'@ p>s>~b>N~s IaurnAl oivas III, cI
loving account OF his case Nat. Courier,
Shortly after his incarceration, he CON
celyed the idea Of his Liberation, by simn.
iating a decline Of health. For this pur
pose, he would prick his gums with the
avis which were supplied 10 him in the
vocation ne had chosen. that of shoema-
ker, and, having saturated his towel with
oiood, was always prepared for the stated
visit OF physician or chaplain, with this
evidence of dangerous hemmorraage of
me lungs, to which he was always careful
to add, difficult and painful respiration.
His physician was able, sometimes to
engage the suffering doctor in conyersa
ton, IN which he would become stuff.
GENTLY animated to forget his painful
breathing, but, on the Instant that he
would srecollect himself, the difficulty
would return. These practices, it is be.
lleved, brought on the disease which ter
minated his life, and he died at last Of n
pulmonary affection.
Until two weeks before his death his
disease had not assumed a formidable
type, but then, he began to sink rapidly.
Up % this period he had steadily and We
hemently asse ted his Innocence Of the
cFlms.s lmpu q to him, but so soon as he
became convinced that his recovery was
impossible, he confessed his guilt and al
though we are rcned by prudential
considerations, from further illusions loI
thls point, we may venture TO add, that
IN his confession he has implicated sever.
al persons who had not been suspected off
participating in his crimes.
1t is worthy of remark also. tina, the
Doctor who had gained an astonishing
reputation as physician determining or
pretending to determine the precise SWIM.
tom 10 any case of disease by an examin.
alton OF the patients urinary DISCHARGES,
felt constrained by approaching death TO
confess that his system was nothing buti
a humbug. His success ia this humbup
is an other evidence of his shrewdness
oil character. He stated that il was his
practice, on making professional visit.
10 which he usually rode on horseback
many miles, to hear the first representa-.
tlon about the state of the patient, and
then he would decline making an exam.
NATION, or prescription, on the plea offs
fatigue or hunger, or 5oth, until he should '
have rested and eaten.
IL never failed, he said, that during the S
n'eryal OIL preparing the meal, and Ioung. Il
Ins ABOUT Tor repoSe, he could gather Ii
rom inmates toerable full history odrc
ne case TO which he ives called, so thai "
yhen ne came to an examination of the
tg"s an resSei, he was generally able
read back pretty full and accurate be
cccount OF the several symptoms which as
stressed his patient. This gave him a A
.emen !ous reputation at once, although ali
IS CURES we're not astonishing. The
asI income he derived from his dupes, oh
we'll known e.. !"
II is known that Braddee's wife, who wi