Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-02-11
unnaralleled murder.


o'clock, the District OF Richmond was
the scene Of the most intense excitement,
caused by the finding of what Is supposed
aged II years, son of Aaron Lehman, a
German Jew pedlar, who resides at No.
497 N. Seventh street, near Franklin,
Penn District, The boy has been mis-
sing since the 9th of january upon which
occasion his father had sent him out to
dispose of lot of jewelry, valued at some
$500 From that period up to Friday
evening, all traces Of his whereabouts
have been unknown, The North Amer
lean says:
About a. o'clock, on Friday afternoon
some little girls, who were playing near
the coal wharf No. Id, just above the
iron works of Messrs. l. +. Morris, dis
covered frozen in the ice in the flats or the
rive, at that point, three sacks close to-
rether. These children informed four
young men who were chopping wood on
shore, and they cut out the bags with
their axes. They partially opened the
sacks, when portions of human remains
became visible.
The suspicion atonce flashed upon their
minds, in consequence of recent rumored
apprehensions as to the fate of the mis-
sing pedlar boy, Jacob Lehman, that his
body had been, brought to light. Hun
dreds of spectators soon collected, and
all arrived at the same conclusion.
A messenger was despatched to Ken
sington for DIR. Goldsmith, the coroner,
aud by the time that functionary reached
the scene, not less than fifteen hundred
persons were assembled. There was the
greatest excitement, and an universal
feeling of horror prevailed.
The sacks were removed to the hotel
of Captain George McCullen on Rich
mond street, near Huntingdon, where a
jury Of inquest was empanneled,
Upon examining the sacks, most
bloody and horrible spectacle was pre-
sented. The sight, indeed, was appalling.
The stoutest nerves could not view it
without a shudder, and the bare thought
Of it caused the warm blood to run cold,
and the heart to sicken.
In one sack was head, and legs and
feet; in another thrOax, arms and
hands, with the viscera of the chest and
in the third, the lower portion of the
trunk, and the hips and thighs, with the
viscera of the abdominal region. The
portions of the body in the different sacks
we're, with part of the clothing of the
deceased, fixed and tied together, so as to
occupy the least space.
The head had been severed from the
trunk, the body hewn in twain, the legs
chopped off at the knees, and the feet
partly cut from the legs, at the ankles,
so that they might be bent upwards
There has also been an attempt to cut
the thora1 in two lengthwise. On the
top of the head were two frtghtful wounds,
fracturing the skull. The nose was
likewise broken, and the eyes blacken-
ed.
On putting the mutilated parts of the
body together, and laying the whole out
in the c0roner's ice box, they formed a
perfect corpse Of youth about seven
teen years old-thc exact age of the
lad, Leahman. The hair was like
his. The body, furthermore, correspond
ed to his in size, height, and general ap-
pearance. The clothing, too, was Of the
same description as his, Indeed, no
doubt whatever remained that the corpse
was that OF young Lehman.
The clothing was cut and torn into
fragments, and all the buttons were re-
moved from the great coat Around the
pieces of the body, both inside and out,
side Of the sacks, were geese wings and
feathers, In each sack was heavy pa
wing stone.
The coroner went into thorough and
rigid investigation Of the foul homicide,
carefully conducting the proceedings in
order to serve the ends of justice in the
best manner,
There has never been a parallel to this
monstrous homicide in the annals of crime
in Philadelphia. teven exceeds in afro
city the murder of the Bartlic family in
Roxborough.
CuR1ous EAST INDIAN LAW RELATIVE TO
MARnrAGE.-There is an absurd and un.