Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-03-31
and pride Of civilized woman resenss and

and pride of civilized woman resents an,
resists even al the peril of life. She repel
led the advances Of the bestial monster
yielding neither TO threats nor disgusting
Fimportunities, when he felled her to the
earth. An aoutrage too abhorren, for men
tom IN outrage that stirs 10 unappeasable
indignation every manly and sympathetic
feeling in the human breast, was then per.
Petrated upon the person of his victim by
the incarnate demon. She asked, at the
hands ofthe fend, life-life, that she might
prepare for her solitary remaining hope
a refuge for her crushed spirit in heaven!
Butthe ruffain needed her not; be spurned
the prayer of the wife injured beyond re.
paration, and beat her on the head with
pine limbs and stabbed her until she died!
- - The infant was found about
thirty steps from the mother, its throat cut
twice with long deep gashes. y =
"When Haley was arrested his clothes
were stained with blood, and the wretch
attempted and did throw away his knife.
After being severely whipped he made the
annexed confession. His implication of
the boy, Paul, is entirely discrediled by
the citizens Of the neighborhood, various
circumstances strongly tending to the ex-
culPation of the latter. On Thursday a.
bouttwe hundred persons were assembled,
including many ladies. The guilt of Ha-
ley was too manifest for doubt; and while
Indignation was at its height, and the blood
curdled at the vivid recollections of the un.
exampled atrecity, it was proposed that
Haley be burned to death. To this propo-
sition there was not single dissenent, if
we except the officers Of the law, who, in
compliance with their sworn duty, protest
ed against the illegality of the act. All
were eager for the instant and signal pun
ishment ofthe worse than murderer. Ac-
cordingly he was borne to tree, chained
to it, and surrounded with light and other
wood. 1t is worthy Of remark that the
slaves present evinced commendab.e abhor-
renee of the crime and the criminal, and
assisted with alacrlty in his punishment.-
We will not dwell upon the horrors Of the
monsters death-scene. But in simple JUS
tice, we would observe, that those who par.
ticipated in burning the negro, in point Of
responsibility and character. would rank
favorably with the same number of citizens
in any community or state" 5
The confession above alluded to we do
not think proper to publish. It contains a
full acknowledgement Of guilt, but falsely
duplicates the ether servant PAUL as. the
murderer of the woman, while he killed the
child. This was evidently with the hope
of release from the stake. The confession
was made and taken down while he stood
tied thereto. In a previous confession he
implicated no one, and il seems he had
long meditated an outrage upon the lady.
He says: =.
"Afier the commission of the act, when
we talked of killing her, she prayed and
begged for her life, saying she was not
to die; and although so much dis
graced, she would never tell on US. This
is oil can tell about it," ..-
The husband, Mr.. Dixon, did not return
homo till night on the day of the murder,
when he found his youngest child an infant
lying in the bed, but his wife and oldest
child were absent. . -