The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-02-17
Shocking Affair at Sacramento.

Seduction attempted Murder - Marriage
81 the Seducer, and death of the .Seducer.
An unsual excitement was created yester.
day by an occurance at the Station House, in
which man by the name of J. @. Adams re-.
ceived dangerous wound from a pistol while
in the hands of lady whose daughter he is
charged with having abducted and ruined.
The circumstances OF the case are briefly
stated. About two months since the mother
with her daughter left Philadelphia 10 Join her
husband in this country. Adams, who had
known the family at home, travelled most if
not all the way TO San Francisco with them
arriving on the Monumental City several weeks
since. On the lsthnus and during the pas.
sage up he succeeded in making an Impression
upon the girl, who is but seventeen wears of
age, and week ago induced her to leove with
HIM tor this city, where they have stopped Of
the Sutter Hotel and the Queen CITY, register.
ed as man and wife.
The mother, who came up on Wednesday,
discovered their whereabouts yesterday, went
TO the Queen City ami encountered her daug gh-
ter. The incidents of the meeting we've such
as would naturally transpire between q fond
parent and her child, separated under such
their affiction avoided them. but was taken in
custody by the police. At three o'clock, the
mother, woman. of unusual intelIect and
strength of purpose, proceeded 10 the Station
House, anc having obtained an entrance. on
the request to speak a few words with the
prisoner, found him sitting in the ante-room in
company with an officer. Approaching him,
she asked If he intended to marry her daugh.
ter, and receiving an unsatisfactory response.
drew pistol and discharged il, the ball en-.
tering bis right side near the tenth rib and lodg
ing probably in the abdomen.
She was prevented from repeating the shot
by the interference of the Police and left the
scene. Indignation against him who had driy-
en- a mother to such desperate revenge reach
ed high pitch, but no further demonstration
was made, the man being considered danger.
ously wounded. He was soon after conveyed
on litter to the Orleans Hotel and medical
aid rendered.
Adams is said to have lived in the country
since lS49. He is also reported to be mar.
ried man with several children. We are in.
formed that the father of the girl left California
TO bring out his family not two months ago,
and passed his wife and daughter on the way.
The mother was Induced to the desparate
act from the knowledge that there was no law
here to redress the wrongs inflicted upon her
only and dearly loved child.-fSacrament
Transcript, 18th inst.
From the Sacramento Union we extract the
following:
iHE END OF THE SEDUcER.-Married, at the
Orleans House, last evening, at 9 o'clock
by Justice J. B. Mitchell, John Quincy Ali.
ans to Miss Emily Bond. Mr. Adams eSpired
immediately after the ceremony was perform
ed. He was informed early in the evening thar
he could not survive, and was requested to
make all the reparation in his power. which
he not only consented TO do, but seemed eor-
nestiy desirous OF at once marrying the girl
whom he had so grievously wronged.
Ihe mother was present, and gave her con.
sent to the marriage. The groom had scarce
ly clasped his bride to his bosom, ere his spirit
winged its flight from earth. The attending
physician states that the intense mental excite.
,neht under which he was laboring, hasteAed
his death-that if his mind had remained calm.
he would probably have survived until morn.
ing.
Judge Robinson, who has from the first
manifested deep interest and heartfelt sympa-
thy for the afflicted mother, readily obtained
The consent of the daughter to wed her seducer.
,ne former declaring that she would forgive
MIN all, II this ceremony could be perfected.
SERIOUS REScoNrRE.-We learn from the
Georgetown, Is. C.) Republican, that serious
and perhaps fatal rencontre occurred on the
9th instant, at or near the residence of Mr..
Isaac p. Taylor, about twenty miles above
that town, between a Mr.. Cooper McCutchen
and Mr.. John w. Sturgess-ihe latter receiy-
ing several cuts from knife in the arm aud
body, some of which are of the most danger
Gus character. The causesof the difficulty be-
tween the parties the Republican had NOT
learned, but says that Mr.. McCu,chen had been
arrested and lodged in the Williamsburg jail, /
and that MIR. Sturgeaa was laying in most
critical situation. -
Z LeHG ISLAND Tine proprsety In snrcested Of
converting the whole of Long Island into a State
as now has population nj 2fi SAT, having nearly
doubled aimee lSs0, and now tumbers more than