Washington telegraph., 1850-04-03
CONFESSION OF PEARSON OF raE MuR.

R.
DER OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN AT WILL
MINGToN, MAssAcHusETTs.-Pe states.
that on the night Of the 10th of April,
1849. having previously formed the deter
mination of putting away his wife, he
proceeded to Wilmington by new and
different route from what he usually took,
in order, first, that he might not be recog-
nized by the villagers, who were famil-
lar with him; and, secondly, that the peo-
pie Oh the usual railroad route might not
see hiss. He approached his house by
the way that has already been traced and
identified by those tell-tale boots he wore
There he saw his wife and father sitting
together; one of his children upon the
trundle- bed and the other lying in the
bed that the mother was to occupy. He
skulked around the house until his aged
father took his leave, and then watched
until his wife wearied with the cares and
labors of the day, retired to rest by the
side of her sleeping innocent. He then
raised the rear window, through which
he entered the abode which was soon to
be the scene of blood.
As he entered the room, his wife awoke
He spoke 20 her i'll his ordinary way, and
said he had come out to stop with her for
the last time, leaving her to suppose that
a before contempiateds separation had been
agreed to by him. He undressed himself
and lay down beside her, first secreting
the knife, with which he had come armed
for the deed of blood, in convenient spot
near the head of the bed What trans
pired for a season we may not repeat.
neither is it necessary that we should do
so for full understanding of the dread
details we are about to give.
Pearson states that, after lying together
for about an hour, an alteration ensued
between himself and wife of a somewhat
violent characrer. when he caugh; her
by the throat with one hand, and reaching
over seized his knife with the other, and
stabbed her furiously in the neck. She
struggled fearfully, and during her death
agonies fell off the bed, his grasp yet
upon her. The unconscious innocent,
who lay in the bed, was awakened by
the fall and began to cry through fright.
The now infuriated murderer seized the
babe, as he had before the mother, and
by succession of stabbs killed it. The
other child, yet asleep, was taken from
its low bed, aud laid where the mothers
life blood had just been poured our, and
there killed Pearson states it was not
his intention at first to murder the twins,
but he had not calculated upon their wax
ing to become witnesses against him as
to the death of their mother.
After his horrid purpose was accom-
pished, he remained quietly sitting upon
the bed for short time. He then care
fully wiped away all stains of blood from
his hands, face, wrists, and feet, and rose
to prepare a cover for the deed. He ar
ranged everything in the room as they
were found-the pillows under his wlte's
head, the fatal knife in her hand, the
bottle of laudanum, the letters, &c, upon
the table when morning revealed the
crime to the light of day. In making
final disposition of the body of his wife,
his hands became stained, 5ut in his per-
turbation he did not notice it. He then
blew out the light and groped his way to
the back entrance. He felt his way out
of the house, which accounts for the stain
of bloody hands upon the sides of the
doors.
The murder wandered about till morn
ing dawned, when he took the first train
of cars for Boston. at the Wohurn water
ing place, on the Lowell road.
Pearson hao already made arrange
men.s to proved an alibi, by making it
appear from circumstances and from posi-
tive evidence that he had passed the night
of the murder in Providence.
We give the foregoing as the actual
truth in the case, which will be verified
| by Pearson when the solemn situation in
which he is placed is more strongly real
lied by him.-Boston MaaI, March7.