The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-06-16
Erom lhe Daily News.
The Execution of Arthur Spring,
THE MURDERER OF ELLEN LYNCH AND
HoNoRA SHAW.

/ Tleu INTO eueCU on ITlUay lasI, upon AT
thur Spring. sr, murderer of Ellen Lynch
and Honora Shaw, in the yard of the
county prison, in Philadelphia, in pres
ence of large concourse Of persons.
SPRINGS LIFE AND CONFESSION.
Onth 6th and 9th of the present month,
Spring gave to the Rev. Messrs. Street,
and kensil, who were in attendance upon
him, narrative of his life and what he
wished to be understood to be his dying
declaration in regard to the murders i'm
puted to him. In it he states that his
iather was a Presbyterian and his moth
er Catholic; that he came to this coun-
try at an early age, and worked at labor
ing for some time; he then started store
in Market street, a confectionery in which
for period he did remarkably well, but
he finally lost considerable on perishable
fruit which he bought. Though he was
married in Ireland, he married soon after
his arrival in this country Miss Marga-
ret Carr, by whom he had six children.
After alluding to his rcyerses offortune.
and to his removal to New York, he de-
tails particularly the account of his arrest
and conviction in New York for robbing
man named Dillon, of which he protes-
ted his innocence. It happens that his
son Arthur was charged with theft in that
city, also, of which the father said he was
innocent, for the robbery was committed
by the man alleged to be robbed. He
then goes on to reiterate the same story
as told by him on other occasions. We
give this in his own words as copied from
the ArguS.
"On the night of the murder | went
to my bed at 7 o'clock. When | went
up stairs the boy followed me. had my
coat off. Are you going to bed ? said
he. | took my handkerchief from my
pocket, and he tied it about my head
So went to bed, and he went down stairs;
and after he went down stairs the little
girl came into my room. [ looked and |
heard the door open, and thought it
was the boy come back again. She went
out, and the boy came back in about five
minutes, and said he had been delivering
some books for Mary Ann Mcguire. He
asked me for the liquor, which he put up
in the bottle in the evening. l told him
it was where he left it. So | said don't
deliver the liquor tonight lie said, 4
am going there anyhow This was after
he had delivered the books. Ipromised
her Mrs. Shaw [ would take it to her,
said he. I promised it to her last night,
when l was on her lap He reached
there about eight o'clock, and she receiv-
ei him and took him into John ". Car
rolls room. She said she had young
man and 4 young woman up stairs and
my boy stood in the front room until a
bout five minutes past eight, when they
weRt away. Then he and Mrs. Shaw
had drink together, so he started and
said be would 90 and see where father
was, and said, L viii be back again, and
at half-past eight he reached where the
boys were, and there he remained playing
dominoes until quarter to ten o'clock,
and then he came back to Maguire's, and
stopped in the bar-room until II o'clock,
and then he told Mcguire, father is in
bed =
SO Mcguire closed up at 10 o'clock
He then started down to Mrs Shaw's, and
Mrs. Shaw was a crying, and told him
she had liked to set the house on fire, and
Mrs. Lynch had come down stairs and
followed and pulled her off the settee,
and said you are going to set the house
on fire. Mrs Lynch put the fire out
This was the time the neighbors thought
the murder was committed So my son
and Mrs. Shaw went to work and finished
the bottle. He then went for the money in
the trunk. Mrs. Lynch heard him at
the trunk, and followed him down stairs.
lie then left and ran out and came home
and came up stairs to me, and told me
what he had done, as above stated. HeI
asked me for my pockct-book. said,
'Have YOU not one of your own? He
said mime is too large" [ asked him
what he wanted with it, and said that he
could find it in my pantaloons' pocket
There was nothing said about the money
then.
The boy left the room, and | did not
see him or know where he was until NOR
ming. When got up in the morning,
there were three new shirts on the table
He told me to put on a new shirt, for
the shirt is broke and bloody from the
fight with Carroll" ] said, "No, my
shirts are clean enough :" bat he insisted
on it, and | took off my two shirts and fol-
ded them up, and put them under the ia
bic. In the morning | was called, about
I o'clock, to breakfast. ! then asked my
boy, " Where did you get those shirts!-
He said he got the money that was in that
trunk. | asked him how muchl He
said he did not know. / told him / would
be suspected. "No," says he, "I can
prove you was In bed"
The boy was very uneasy, so after
breakfast | went into the bar-room, and
played dominoes with Tom Maguire.-
My son went out; | did not know where
he went. 1t was raining hard. Some
time after he came back, wet from the
rain. John Mcguire said to him, ''this
is bad day to be out" He seemed to
be uneasy, and in about halt hour the Of
icers came and asked for a man by the