The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-09

nations. and shortly after they met a respecta-
BILE citizen, attired 10 Texan hunters costume,
cap, red flannel shirt, tin horn, rifle, &c. He
ino sired il they had seen two Young men with
whom he had been hunting, and by some means
had lost trace of. On receiving an answer IN
the neg gative, he left them.
As soon as he got out Of sight, the peddlers
firmly convinced that he was chief OF one OF
the gangs of robbers, left the road and struck
into the woods. They had not gone far before
they came upon another rough looking custo-
mer, one of the companions OF the hunter they
had previously met. Taking him for robber,
and fearing that he would shoot them if they
attempted to retreat, they Immediately drew
their revolvers and commenced firing at him.
The hunter retreated, and endeavored to ex
plain, but they would listen to nothing, and
kept shooting away. He blew his horn for his
companion, who came up just in time to hear
bail whistle close by his ear. The hunters,
finding remonstrance useless, and being excel
lent shots, brought the peddlers down the FIRST
fire. The matter was then explained, and the
hunters conveyed them to q house where their
wounds were dressed.
A Terrible Crime Criminals Conricted.
The Maysville Ky Eagle of the Goth ulti-
mo, has an account of the conviction of four
murderers, who killed man and his wife.
Our readers will remember the horrid mur-
ders committed in the latter end of February
last on the persons of Justice Brewer and his
wife, in Greenup county. These deeds were
perpetrated by band of desperadoes four in
number. three of them named Clarke and one
named Hood. They blacked their faces, and
far in the night proceeded to the premises Of
their victims. Going into the poultry house,
they set the hens to sgualling, by which trick
MIR. and Mrs. Brewer were enticed out of the
house. Mrs. B. went out first i'll her light
gown, to protect her chickens from the faDgs,
as she doubtless thought, of wild beasts of
prey, little dreaming that they were prowling
in human form, and that herself and husband
were the objects of their bloody hunt. MIR. b..
followed Immediately, and both were set upon
and beaten to death with heavy clubs-he be-
ing killed outright, and she left for dead.
thought she fingered insensible and speechess
till next morning. Their poor little children,
five in number, the eldest but eleven years old,
unconscious of the horrid tragedy by which
they were plunged into the miseries and sorrows
of ofOrphanage, slept undisturbed till morning.
when missing their parents, they wandered to
the houses of the neighbors in search of them
This awakened suspicion and alarm, and soon
the people of the country round about were
reused. The first party arriving at the house
ound the PROSTATE bodies where the assasslns
left them-the husband dead and stiff, the wife
only exhibiting signs OF life by an involuntary
contraction of her lower limbs. At eleven
O'clock that morning her sufferiDgs ended with
her life.
Autecedent circumstances furnished ground
of suspicion that John Collins, near neigh
Dor of Brewer, was the instigator, if not the
actor, of the tragedy. A chain of circum-
stances, slight indeed in their origin but cor
roborated and strengthened until they amount
ed to proofs clear and conclusive, fixed the
eye and the hand of justice on Collins and his
accomplIces.
To make brief story of the evidence. Col
lins, purely out of malice, had induced the
three Carks and Hood, by threats and bribes,
to undertake the murder. One of the Clarks
was son-in-law of Collins. Two of the
Clarks were brothers, the third cousin, and
Hood, we believe, relative. One Of the
Clarks and Hood are lads about seventeen
years of age. These four were the parties ac-
| tually engaged in the murder-the malignant
| but cowardly Collins, the planner of the wick.
| ed conspiracy, purposely remaining at home,
| because he foresaw he would be charged with
| the murder. A part of the scheme, designed
| to provide for Cellins's security, was that the
young men should leave their hats with Col
| Inns, which would make il necessary for them
to return to his house. and by this they would
be able to testify that Collins was at home on
the night of the murder. The plot did not pro-
| badly contemplate that suspicion would light
! on the young men.
| Collins and his four accomplices were indict-
ed and he and Turner Clarke, the one who
welded the murderous club, were tried before
| the Greenup Circuit Court last week. These
| two were convicted of murder, and sentenced
| to be hung on the 25th of June next. There
was not time TO try the other three before the
term of the Court expired, and they will re-
main in Jail, roned and guarded, till the next
term.
The circumstances establishing the conspi-
racy between Collins and the four young men,
were so convincing that we understand each
of them, except Collins, separately made full
confession, even before the trial.
| A narrative of the evidence in this case
| would furnish chapter of circumstantal evi-
dence perhaps as marvellous, but at the same
time clear and conclusiye,as ever was detailed.
| The very plot of the conspirators, designed to
| hide Their crime, served 10 develop their guilt.
Ii was a fine illustration of tnat remarkable
passage where Shakespeare makes Hamlet con-
| graduate himself on the contrlvance OF the
| play, by which he expected TO expose the SOC
cult guilt of the King, in one scene OF 1t:
That guilty creatures sitting at play
Have, by the very cunning of the scene,
Been struck so to the soul, that presently
They have oclaimed their malefactons;
For murder, though ii have no tongue will speak
With most miraculous organ"
Keep the Henrt as Light as YOu Can.
We have always enough TO bear,
We have always something to do,
We have never to ask for care
| When we have the world to get through
But what, though Adversely test
The courage and vigor of man,
They get throug Oh misfortune the best
| Who keep the heart light as they can.
/ ,Io Loo
| Our energy s sure to be gone;
We must wreste with care, or we'll find
Two loads are less easy than one
| To sit in disconsolate mood
| Is poor and proftless plan;
| The true heart is never subdued,
II we keep it as light as We can.
There's nothing that Sorrow can yield,
Excepting harvest OF pain;
Far better to seek Fortunes field,