American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-21

able argument was made by MesSTs. Kendall
and Radcliffe, and the Court ruled that the
plea entered by the accused was sufficiently
sustained by the record, and ordered the pri-
soner to be discharged.
The VAN Ness Extraordinary
Excitement al .4rtbun! The Rochester Adver-
tiser has the following in relation to the ex-
element created at Auburn in consequence of
the arrest of the murderer Of the Van Ness IA
mily:
The excitement in Auburn and vicinity is
said to be unprecedented. AS the negro made
his appearance in the streets, IN charge of ten
constables, the crowd made rush for him, but
were prevented from getting him by the Off
GERS putting spurs to their horses. The Dis
trict Attorney then directed them to make
their way to the scene of the murder, for the
purpose of having Mr.. Van Arsdale, who lies
in a very precarious state, to identify the ne
rro An immense crowd followed him, and
on arriving at the house, while the officers and
negro were in the house, a motion was made
to the throng out doors by one of the most
substantial men Of Auburn, that the wretch be
taken from the hands of the officers, and strung
up on the first tree! This motion was second
ed by deacon of the church, and carried by a
deafening 'AYE!! from the crowd.
At this point, one of the Justices came to
the door and made a speech to them; telling
them that the probability was that there were
others who had instigated the negro to commit
the horrld deed, and justice demanded that he
should have an examination. The crowd
promised that they would not modest him, but
when he made his appearance, notwithstand-
ing he was surrounded by men with their arms
! IL lool,oJ &c tba ovoitohla
tually jumped upon him. He was finally put
into a covered wagon and drove for Auburn
Two individuals had started for the village
in advance of the wagon, at full speed, and at
tracted the attention of the crowd to the Court
House, for the purpose of getting the negro in
to the side door of the Jail unmolested. The
ruSe succeeded; but no sooner did the crowd
discover the deception, than they rushed with
such force to the jail, that the fence surround
ing it was completely carried away.
The details of the murder are revolving in
the extreme, but we nevertheless give the
greater portion of the testimony before the
Coroner's Jury.
MIR. Van Arsdale and Miss Holmes both re-
cognized the murderer. The negro admits the
murder, and says that he stabbed Mrs. Van
| Nest out doors, and then went to the door and
stabbed Mr. Van Nest as he was opening the
door.
From his account it seems probable, though
there is some confusion about his subsequent
steps, that he next encountered old Mrs Wy
kof in the entry way and stabbed her, and in
doing so, either from his own knife, or from
one in the hand of Mrs Wykof, he received a
severe cut upon his hand which nearly disabled
him. He then proceeded to the stairs, where
Van Arsdale was coming down, and had the
encounter with him.
| Mrs. Wykoff died about two O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon, and MIR. Van ATsdale is in a
precarious situation. The excitement has been
without parallel, The wonder is that the citi-
zens have been able in their exasperated state
of feeling, to refrain from applying Lynch law
to this fiend.
We give Mr.. Van Arsdale's deposition, TAX
en- Saturday afternoon:
Cornelius Van Arsdale, of Fleming afore-
said, having been duly sworn, deposes and
says-That in the prospect of approaching
death the colored man now shown me is the
same individual who stabbed me on Thursday
night last, at the house of the late John G.
Van Nest, in Fleming aforesaid, about half past
nine in the evening, have no doubt of his
being the same man; he has now on the same
cap and coat that he then wore-I think he
stabbed me with large butcher knife. ! saw
1
it in his hand; was standing at the stop of the
stairs at the time received the stab the negro
was standing on the stairs at the time; it is
from the wound received from him at that
time that | now lie here on my bed. ] con-
slider my situation very critical-the Doctor
also informs me so-he stabbed me only once.
SINGULAR AFFAIR AT FREDERICK, MD, We
find the following article in the Frederick
News of Tuesday:
A Bill Found Our town during the past
week has been in state of more than usual
excitement from the action of the Grand Jury
now in session. This body has found bill, as
| it is understood, against one of the most re-
spectacle, influential and highly esteemed ply
sicans of Frederick for manning, and there is
some talk also of presentment for poisoning
Jas we hear!) The thing is now no longer
secret and therefore we feel the less delicacy
in speaking of it, as we do with perfect con-
viction oil our own mind of the entire, full
and complete innocence of the estimable gen.
tleman against whom the charge is brought
The presentment, it is said, is made on the tes-
tlmony of one lately high in office, no less than
an Ex-Governor Of the State. The Jury, We