Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-08-31
THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1854


duty was to honestly execute the law
and not TO dispute about its justice
For himself he said, sustlined by e
pure conscience, be vas quite willing
to incur the hazard hinted at by The
{ prisoner. After a careful and lumi
+ nous summing up, the jury, With
very slight dellberation. returned 3
verdict of guiIty!'
As the words passed the lips o
the foreman Of tho jury, a piercing
shrek ran throug b the court II
proceeded from atall figure in black,
who, with closely drawn veil, had SAT
motiouless urlug the trial, just be-
fore the dock. 1t was the prisoner s
mother. Tie next instant she rose,
and throwing back her veil, wildly
exclaimed: .,EIe is iuno-
cent, tell yei ] alone
Mother! motherl for the love OF
Heaven be silent shouted the pris0-
Der With frantic vehemence, aud
stretching himself over the front Of
the dock as if to grasp and restrain
her.
Innocent, I tell you continued
the woman. ii alone am the
guilty person 1t Fas ] alone that
Perpetrated tie DEE 4d! He knew it
not, suspected it nc t, iii it was too
late. Here she added, drawing
sheet Of paper from her bosom
mere is my confession, with each
circumstance detailed.
As she waved it over her head, it
was snatched by her son, and, swift
as Lightning, torn in shrowds. She
is mad! Heed her not - believe her
not!' He at t BID sal be time shouted
at the top of hi 5 powerful voice: She
is dlstractod-- n;i d Nov, my lord,
your sentence! ComeI
TIE tumult ilnIl excitement. in the
court no langlEsge which ! can en-
Ploy. would coEyey IN adequate i'm
preston OF. rs soon as calm was
partially restored, lirs- Bourbon was
taken iato. custody; the prisoner was
removed; and the court adjourned.
Of course, without passing sentence.
It was even as bis mother said!--
Subsequent Investigation, aided by
her confessions, amply proved that
the fearful crime was concei we'd and
perpetrated by her alone, in the
frantic hope Of securing for her idoli-
zed son the hand and fortune Of Miss
Armitage She had often been pres
ent with him in his laboratory, and
.hus become acquainted with the u
;es to which certain agents could be
put. She had purloinea 4 the key Of
he recess, and he. unfortunately too
ate to preven the preparation of
he crime, had, by mere accident, dis
covered the abstraction Of the poi
son. His subsequent declarations
lad been made for tie determined
purpose Of saving his mothers life
~ the sacrifice Of his own.
The wretched woman was not re-
:
served to fall before the justice Of her
country The baad Of God smete
ler ere the Sc afold was prepared for
Ger. She was smitten wish frenzy,
md died raving in tie metropolitan
Lunatic. Asyl um. Alfred Bourdoa,
lfter lengthdned imprisonment, vas
iberated. I'D called Gu me, by sp-
continent, a fcs days previous to
eaying this country for ever; aud /
placed in his hands d small pocket
Bibio, Oh the ny leaf Of which was
written one Nord-'' E7EeFf7 His
lin eye Lighted up with something
IF its old fire as be glanced at the
characters; he then closed the book,
olaced it in his bosom. and waving
ne a mute Ear4well--I saw he durst
lot trust L himself to sneak hastily
departed. ! never saw him moro!