New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-20
A Tale Of Horror.

Tale of Horror.
The P0nidiag Miss Clarion, Of March Isl.
contains the following account Of tragedy in shs,
vicinity:
Since the time when the midnight murder Of
DR.. Longgon and family sent thrill OF horror
through this community. no event has created
deeper sorrow and more pervading indignation
than the assassination, on Tuesday last. of Mrs..
Mary Dixon, wife OF John Dixon, and her iufspt
child, at her residence iuthe neghborhood Of VIM.
Bridges, Esq, by Haley, negro man belonging
to Mr. Zacharish Thompson Having been sum.
moned on the Coroner's Jury, we went in person
TO the scene of the horrible tragedy, saw the mu.
tilated BODY Of the murdered woman, the severed
throat Of her infant, and witnessed without re.
greet, the summary and terrible, bat still made.
quate expiation Of his nipple aud atrocious crime
by the monster. The revealing facts are briefly
these:
On Tuesday morning, Ne Dixon, unconscious
Of the awful doom impending over his family
started from homo II queat OF cattle. His little
son, an artess child, few months over two years
old started fondly after him, pursuing him some
distance, unnoticed by the father aud whatsoever.
ed by the mother. AIRS. Dixon soon missed the
boy, went after him, and called him 70 return.
She was then approached by the brutal villain
Haey who a. once offered such ndgnties IS the
virtue aud pride of civilized woman resen.s and
resists, even at the peril OF lite. She repealed the
advances Of the bestal monster, yielding neither
To threats nor disgusting lmpJrtunltles, when he
leed her TO the earth
She asked, at the hands of tho iend, life-lile,
that she might prepare for her solitary remaining
hope-a refuge for her crushed spirit in Heaven!
But the ruilian needed not he spurned the prayer
of the wife injured beyond reparatiOn, and beat
her on the head with pine limbs, and stabbed her
till she died Bruised, mansled, ana denied, lay
the corpse OF this lady, whom husband mad greet
10Th oil a n ~ hOuPa
presenting spectacle too hldeOus, TOO replets
with horrible memories, Tor an unaverted eye. The
infant wAs found about thirty steps from the
mother its throat cut twice, with long deep gashes.
II is probable the little child was the last victim
and that the last aspiration OF her unutterable
agony fell appallingly upon his infant ear, before
the cold knife Of the monster assassin passed over
the throat of the innocent creature.
The attendance of the Coroner was procured on
Wednesday, and the Jury, after patient inyesti'
CATION returned the following verdict
THE said Jurors do upon their oaths say-thH
the said Mary Dixon came to her death from
blows inflicted by certain negro man Save
named Haley the property of Iacharlah Inomp'
sor of Jasper county. that is to say, her sRul was
fractured and also her lower Jaw and cheek bone
on the left side-her neck was dlsocated, and also
her Left shoulder-the little finger was broken on
the right hand-her left car was badly mutllated-
she had also three cuts on her neck, supposed 70
be inflicted by O knife, one OF them entering INTO
the wind pipe another the jugular vein, and the
other small cut on the left side OF the neck.
large cut was also on the lower part OF the breast
bone. A cut was also on her lett arm, and some
scratches and marks q violence on the rlght thlgn
which indicated the purpose OF the said slave ha'
Ia,s Tho ssiA z Ass,sriuii Dixon came to his death
as follOws-by two wounds inflicted by kuite
enc entering the wind pipe the other the carotid
artery on the left side which were inflicted by
the said slave Haley.
When Haley was arrested, his clothes were
stane with blood and the wretch attempted, and
did throw away his knife. After being severely
whipped, he made q confession. His implication
Of the boy Paul, is entirely discredted by the
citizens in the neighborhood various circum'
stances strongly tending TO the excupatlon OF the
| latter. On Thursday about two hundred persons
assembled, including many ladies', The guilt Of
! Haley was too n anilest for doubt and while In.
dignation was at its height, and the blood curdled
at the vivid recollection Of the unexampled afro
city, it was proposed that Haley be burned TO
death. To this proposition there was not single
dirsentient if we except the officers OF the law
who, in compliance with their sworn duty pro
tested against the illegality OF the act. All were
eager for the instant and signal punishment oil the
worse than murderer. Accordingly, he was borne
to tree, chained 90 IL, and surrounded with light
and other wood. IL il worthy of remark that the
slaves present evinoed commendable adherence
Of the crime and tho criminal and assisted With
aacrity in his punishment.