Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-05-16


The Boston Post says hat the Council IN The l7h
met. unanimously ed that the sentence Of DANIEL
Fl. PEARSON, who killed his wife and two children.
should be carried into effect, aud Friday, July 26,
fixed for the execution. which will take place in
the jail yard at East Cambridge.
This criminal some weeks since, made the following
confession. His crime certainly of the most
horrid character.
CONFESSION OF PEARSON OF THE MURDER HIS
WIFE AND CHILDREN, AT WILMINGTON, MAss.-Pesr-
son sinles that on the night of the 10Th of pril
lS49, having previously formed the determination OF
putting away his wife. he proceeded To Wilmington
by and different route from what he usually
took in order. first that lie might not be recognized
by the villagers, who familiar with him and,
secondly that The people on the usual railroad route
migt not see him. He approached bis house by the
way that has already been traced and identified by
those te-iale boots he There he snw his wife
and father sitting together; of his children upon
trundle bed and The other lying in the bed that the
mother was TO occupy. He skuked around the house
until after his aged father took his leave. and then
watched until the wife, wearied with the cares and
abos Of the day, retired 10 rest by the side OF her
sleeping innocent He then raised the window,
through which he entered the abode which was
to be the of blood.
As he entered the room his wife nwoke. He spoke
to her in his ordinary why. and said he had come out
10 STOP Der the Time, leaving Her 10 sup
pose that before contemplated separation had been
agreed tn by him. He undressed himself and lay
down beside her first secreing the knife with which
he had armed for the deed of blood in a conve-
nient spot, the head of the bed What trans
pired for season we may not repeat. neither is II
necessary that should do for full understa nd
ing of the dread details are about to give.
Pearson states that after lying together about an
hour alteration ensued between himself and wife.
of somewbat violent cha racicr, when he caught her
by the throat with hand and reaching over seized
his knife with the other, and stabbed her furousiy 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 cry through fright
The Infatuated murderer seized the babe as he
had befre seized the mother, and by succession oil
stabs killed it. The other child, yet asleep, Ia
ken from its low bed and laid where the mothers life
blood had just been poured out. and there killed.
Pearson saies that 1t not his intention at first &c
murder the twins. but he bad not calculated upon
thcir waking, to become witnesses against him rs to
the death of their mother.
After his horrId purpose accomplished, he re-
manned quietly sitting upon the bed for short time
He then carefully wiped away all stains of blood from
his hands, face wrists aud feet, and arose TO pre-
pare for the deed. He arranged everything
in the room as lhey were found-ihe pillows under
his wifes head the fatal knife in her hand the bottle
of laudanum, the letters, &C., upon the table, pre-
cisey they were found when morning revealed the
crime To the light of day. In making final dispo
siton of the body Of his wife, his hands becam.
stained, but in his perturbation he did not notice it
He then blew out tue light and CROPPED his way 10 thu
back entrance. He felt his way out of the house
which accounts for the stains Of the bloody hands up
on the sides of the doors
TIE murderer wandered about till morning dawned
when he took the first irun Of cars for Boston, at thu
Woburn watering place. the Lowell road.
Pearson had already made arrangements to prove al
abb by making it appear from circumstances and b,
positive evidence that he passed the night of the
der in Providence.
We give the foregoing as the nctua truth in tn
case which will be verified BY Pearson when the sol
emn situation in which he is placed is more strong
realized by him.-BostOn Mail, March T.
The Boston Bee says facts have come to the o
the Attorney General which will tend to interfere viii
that executive clemency which Pearson was recon
mended by the jury who tried him. These facts ar
that lie had, previous to committing the murder, en-
gagged to marry a female with whom he had been 70
sumo time intimate; that this female wrote the moi
found upon the table when the bodies discovered
and further that Pearson either before immedatel
after the murder, wrote to friend in Providence
giving him minute description of the dress he wore
that through this means if his friends would assis
him, an abb might be proved. TIE female whom b
had engaged TO marry present in the court roor
on Friday, during Chief Justice Shaws charge to til
Jury.