The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-08

another Tragedy in NeU YOrE.-Early on the |
morning of Saturday, June 2Sth, the town of Will !
liamsburg, environ Of NewYork, was thrown |
into excitement in consequence Of a man named |
Laurence RELY having murdered his wife, Ann
Rely, and his mother-in-law, Mary Golden, and
severely lit was feared mortality wounding Eliza
| beth Conroy, young woman, then for time liv-
| ing in the house of Patrick Golden, the unfortu-
nate husband and father of the two murdered
| women.
| Laurence Rely is young Irishman, and has
been about ten years in this country. About four
years ago he married Ann Golden, against her
fathers will For long time the parties did not
speak with each other, but lattery there had been
some sort Of reconciliation, and all Of them
living together in Patrick Golden's house.
This double, perhaps triple murder, caused the
stronger feeling in Williamsburg and NewYork
city, because there no plea of intoxication to
offer in apology for it. The unfortunate murderer
was quite sober. Calm. determined, ineradcable
jealousy, caused this Laurence RELY to murder his
wife and her mother, by iniicting on them mortal
wounds with knife, and then to calmly offer him
self for punishment. Nothing is known, has
been stated to sanction the belief that there was
any justice in the jealousy. When he surrendered
! HIMSELF Immediately after the committal of the
. murder he was cool and sensible. He was imme-
dately put in Of the Williamsburg cells while
a coroners inquest held the bodies of his
, victims, and the evidence of Elizabeth Conroy
, was taken in her sick room. The Coroners YER
dict in both cases identified Laurence Rely as the
murderer.
81 We now give the conclusion of the NewYork
n Herald's report Of this horrible affair
n The cells in Williamsburg not being deemed a
safe place to keep the prisoner he was removed to
a the County Jail in Brooklyn Before he was taken
out of the cells our reporter visited him, in compa
ny with several other persons. The prisoner sal
D. in his CELL apparently quite calm and unconcerned
n He looked undismayed, and, it would seem, re
Q garded his fate in such manner if he had been
10 preparing for it for some time On being ques
toned by the reporter, the following conversation
= took place:
4 The Onversatton-Reporter-M RELY ar,
you not sorry for what you have done?
Prisoner-No My wife has betrayed me sh
re has shown that fidelity to another which she SHOULD
as have shown to me.
,e Reporter-But why should you have killed he
,s mother
So Prisoner-Ah! she has been my ruin she ha
vi been the abettor Of my wife in all her bad acts
t. | killed them both because had reason to do sc
and am glad of it. bought the knife in New
q York for the purpose, and have applied it as
Intended Intended Then, quickly starting he asked
Reporter-She was not dead about fifteen mir
d. utes ago.
to Prsoner-Thank God am glad. did n,
nd intend to injure her she did harm nj
b. would have touched the old man, (meaning h
n. father in,law) had he been there God forgive
=, if have killed her.
.. Here the prisoner became thoughtful, and Il
III conversation ceased. On being removed, for Il
purpose of conveying him to Brooklyn, he sale
There is no use for you to handcutf me +; do n
wish to leave you; am revenged, and only wi,
ia | to die. There will be no necessity to try me by
jury; it will only be putting the State to expens
l have committed the murder, and want to die
h. soon as possible.
-, The Scene of tho Murdsr-Appearance of t.
House.-During the whole day and evening, d
street opposite the house in which the murder to-
as place was thronged with people, and the most mt
ancholy air was visible every countenant
ny Hundreds were still around the door about
Mr. o'clock last night, and it would seem, by the
,ha lence which uniformly prevailed, that they h
'"0 been fascinated to the spot. The interior Of t
hs house presented most awful and heart-rend
in spectacle. The whole flight of stairs wins dy
in with the hearts blood of the murdered and
.om | the floor where Mrs. Golden fell pool of the D,
m, pie gore to be seen. The dismal appearance
everything around was sufficient to make the he
shudder, and the whole presented an aw
wo picture Of human wickedness and reckless barb
nth ity, such as it is to be hoped will but seldom
'en- witnessed among civilized people. Elizab'
tn Conroy, who stabbed under the left brea
,e,e was not expected to survive last night.
ugh NEwYoRK, June q
ugh In the Webb and Willis case the three JUDI
h il OF the Superior Court unanimously decided 4
Id the Coddington letters must be given up to
Warner This is probably the conclusion of I
ann branch OF the case, Webb will hardly app
hen from the decision just made with such unanim
not humor says, however, that libel SUITS claim
den heavy damages, are to be commenced apai
Webb by both Willis and the Coddingtons.
On Thursday night, Charles Curtis, living
orc Washington street, while insane, stabbed him
win in the left breast and, while officer was 90
with for surgeon, he escaped from the house
and leaped into the North river. He was rescr
not however, and is now doing well.