The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-11-08
MURDER AT ST. LOUIS.

MURDER AT 81. LOuIS.
Ths papers Of St. Loois are filled VIII
accounts Of lamentable affair that occur
red ID that city on the nigh. Of the xS''
inst. The circumstances attending TN
tragedy arc briefly as follows: Tws
Frenchmen arrived at the City Hotel OF
Sunday forenoon, 2Sth inst, registering
themselves A. Gonzslvs de Montesquiost
and Raymond de Montesqaiose. They
represented themselves a. brothers, the
elder Count; each occupied his own bugg,
and both had their guns and other apparat
Us for hunting. The room they occupied
at the City Hotel had it, entrance from
back piazza, a number ofo,her rooms being
similarly situated. Tho piazza in shape
resembled somewha. the letter J, room No
81 corresponding in situation with the lett
side Of the top Of the letter and A with the
extreme Of the curve; the former being
occupied by Messrs. Barnum, nephew o.
the proprietor Of the Hotel. and Macomber'
the Steward; the latter by Mossrs- Albert
Jones. II. NJ. Henderson and Capt. Wm
Hubbell. About IL o'clk as Barnum was
preparing to retire he was startled by a
loud knocking on the window. turning TO-
wards it he perceived two men, the French
men above named, one being armed with .
gun. He Immediately shouted murder,
but almost simultaneously with the cry
received the contents Of the gun in his side
and back; portion Of the charge also
wourding Macomber in the wrist. The
cry Of murder and report ofthe gun alarmed
the inmates of No. Al when Jones sprung
to the door and opened it. No sooner had
It opened than one Of the men standing in
front of57 fred at him, the contents Of the
gun passing through bis body and wo''nd'ng
Mr.. Henderson in the forehead and Capt.
Hubbell in the wrist. Jones fell, with the
exclamation that no was shot, and almost
expired. He was carriage
maker and an estimable young man.
The Frenchmen Immediately sought their
room but we're soon afterwards arrested and
to Jail. The perpetrators Of this
outrage are aged about twenty-six and
wen,y-eight years, claiming TO be Of a
.amily Of some distinction in France, but
to fee their country from oppo-
.ition to,hc Republican Government. The
elder Of The two admits himself guilty Of the
murder, and the younger states his brother
several times recently, to have displayed
ymptoms Of insanity. The only reason
Irged by the elder Cor his conduct-heing
'n,irc strangers in the ci,y-wns, that
,owerfu! feeling, which he could not resist,
ook possession Of him, and told him he
must kill two men. While laboring under
his feeling he seized donbie.barreled gun
md rushed from the room, his brother toll
owing for the purpose Of preventing him
LONG injury, but before bis interference
;ould be exercised the fatal act was con-
The populace were so incensed at this
loublc murder that in their excitement they
made several frui,less efforts to get the per.
,etrators from the Jail and hang them with
tut trial. The prisoners had 10 be convey
ID, in consequence, to Jefferson Barracks.
We presume the result Of investigation will
be, to prove the wretched man insane AT
The time Of the committal Of the deed. II
is melancholy occurrence, but we rejoice
hat the mob did not add another victim to
those sent speedily as causelessly before
their Maker.