Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-12-10


DER AND SELF DEsTHucTIoN.-We copy the fol
Yysiess assaa~ Tia
Last week, William Everett, Chief Of til,
Edinburg. Scotland police, arrived in Balti
more, with letters of introduction from Capt
| James Leonard, of the New York police force,
to officer Graham, Of our well known Frederick
street firm of indefatigables. The object of Mr.
Everett was to secure the person of James Nc.
Farlaen formerly clerk to Messrs. Mein, wool
merchants Of Jedburg, Scotland from whose
| employ he had absconded on the 25th of August
last, after committing forgeries upon the firm to
| heavy amount, which, with the funds stolen
from them, amounted in the aggregate to about
$1,000. Unable to find the fugitive in New
York, the search was pursued in this city, and
when officer Graham had exhausted his ingenuity
in the pursuit. our readers will admit that Nc
Farlaen's presence in this city was an impossi-
bility. Officer Graham, and his guest of the
Scottish police, next proceeded to Washington,
where a long conference was held with the Brit
ish Minister, and a new, extended plan arranged
to ascertain the whereabouts of the forger. when
telegraphic dispatch was received from Great
Britain, by officer Everett, requesting his re-
turn, as the object of search had been discover
ed in Dublin, Ireland. Instead of coming to
the United States, it appears the guilty man,
after the preparation of his crimes, had fed to
Dublin, and entered upon the most dissolute
course Of life, with his ill-gotten wealth Under
tile assumed name of Webster, he represented
that he was an American, travelling for pleasure,
and, falling in with young woman of prepos-
sessing manners and handsome features, sue
ceeded in affecting her ruin.
After guilty but brief term of intimacy,
characterized by fiendish recklessness upon one
side and fearful fall in female degradation up.
on the other, the unfortunate girl became the in
mate of one Of the numerous dens of perdition
which abound in the Irish Capitol Hither she
was followed by the author of her ruin: in a
fit Of insane passion he discharged pistol at
her youthful heart, and in moment after, her
spirit passed away to encounter the dread here
after. Upon awakening to the actually of the
scene of blood before him, the criminal gazed,
with eyes glaring livid lightning of despair up
on the fair, frail, youthful lifeless form at his
feet, and then with shrek which combined at
once madness and the climax of desperation,
drew forth another pistol and scattered his brains
into thousand fragments. The officers of the
law summoned to the scene of double murder,
took charge Of the suicides effects, and finding
among them the British Company's bank notes
which had been stolen from the Messrs. Mein,
made further inquiries, which soon proved that
he murderer and the suicide was the missing
clerk, for whom such an active search was at
hat time being instituted in Baltimore and
Washington by the Chief of the Edinburg po-
ice, and Mr.. Graham, of the firm of Potec,
Graham & Mckinley, in our city. It only re-
Mains for us to add, that the above is q key to
he mysterious announcement which appeared
'hort time since in New York, Boston and other
'apers, stating that an American by the name
# g Webster committed suicide in house of
ll-fame in Dublin. With the publication allu-
led to above, inquiries were made whether an
american named Webster was among the mis-
ing. Behold the sequel!'